The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-19
ucTy + 4OUSAND MAY GO OUT.
,,AD POOL WILB' PUT THEM
hA'D .CT or POSITIONS.

..l ling. District and General
'i''' Agents May All BE Dis
-Agreements Among the
s Roads Expected to Bring
About-scaIpers and Com
,s Likely to he a Thing of
the pn't
AN. 1S-The Chronicle to-
IA ay:
-nll OF the recent consultations
ITS among the owners of the
INK railways east of Chicago, the
.-ensporation system between the
mi river and the Atlantic sea-
No. 10 be reorganized, involving the
folor.ns changes;
.Th. abandonment of the city ticket
If all of the roads in the syndicate
c...4go. New York, Philadelphia, Bos-
Ton Il ulalo bdl'iiiiole' dSiliiis 'on'
n.,.hnEg. Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit.
,-,.,nl luolis. Peoria and st. Louis and
's' ~ 81. Lsutution of joint offices in each
@rssI discharge of all city, general, trav-
ain, tnd district freight and passenger
.-,,1 and solicitors of the Eastern roads
n III iarts of the United States, Canada
s.5 rllrope This will effect nearly $1,000
men,
oTss abolition of all forms of commits
si,,. 4eretofore paid for the sale of tickets
ore, lhese roads. This will affect the
ocom4 Of 10000 agents and eliminate
scaras-
oTba establishment in Chicago and New
York bf joint auditing agencies that will
amor lon 10 each road an agreed per-
ceray of the total competitive business.
Many VIII De Discharged.
eTb4 discharge of all superfluous assist
ants ID the heads of departments of indi-
yJu,g roads Later the heads of these
dsplrA Aments may be abolished and the
work lone by clerks, who will report 10
The jotnt agencies.
oTbk establishment in New York of
h9rdl of control made up of persons rep
yorgIn and Hartman properties, the rul-
nrs df mis- board on all questions to be
TIA abandonment of a number of
hrougl fast passenger trains put in serV-
&c duliUg the past few years S the re
ut oil sharp competition.
THE establishment of common schedules
or Dass& n8er trains between Chicago and
SeW YorES and between all of the principal
sminalst of the combination roads in the
aHllory beast of this city and st. Louis
The ABANDONMENT of all fast freight
.alng aBd\ the fixing of common time for
lose trarks between competitive termi-
ais
RailrdNads in the Agreement.
"FouownE are the roads now in the |
New York Central, Penn
'lyania. BoEton and Albany, Boston and |
ane Fitch burg, New York. New Haven |
nd Hartforh, Erie Lehigh Valley, Lack
wanna. WeAt Shore, New York, Ohio and |
'estetu ONE, Watertown and Ogdens-
Hg tr Shore. Michigan Central, |
ickel Pata. Baltimore and Ohio, Wa
ash, F4 F,our, Chesapeake and Ohio,
axe E nd Western, Monon. and all
lNiar IS of these systems.
'Wha details for the future man
'tine- 0e ROADS IN the Eastern cOiH-
na,io been perfected the leaders
The a .a idaton movement will turn
elr atla3ti1n to the territory west of
licago aud attempt to bottle up the Chi
go-St I.0l is-Rocky mountain country
like r.nuar. The combining proceed
6 ma nd ultimately to the Pacific
asst
The ri imam Vanderbilt syndicate
yns al rolls the Illinois Central, I'm
u Pa, Southwestern, Oregon Short
inc an ansas City, Pittsburg and
ulf. 10 aA big competitors of these
stems A with the combining move
ent, al and ready to go into what
III mai stable rates and reduce ex-
'nses raj small, independent roads
the " 20 and Northwest territory are
be pul sed.
The IA "a Of Congress 10 legalize pool
g is civ IS the cause of the consolida-
IN. as dwners are determined to pool
the pu ase of every railroad in the
unry 4 ecessary to obtain that end