The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-29
TEST news. OF
The RAILROADS i ! D. ID
Future Of the R. f. & p. Proves a
Disputed Question.
/. REPoR D.AFT Err AxTEE FL
chesapeake and Ohio, it is Ru,nored,
is After Control Of the Ohio Cen
ira! Systcm-Other Items
OF Interest.
REPORTED AFTER AXTELL's.LINEs

The reports concerning the future OF
the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Poto-5.
mac Railroad have been as varied as nu-
merous. The latest Of these is the follow
ing. which is taken from the New ORR ORR
! Evening Post of yesterday:
| cit may be stated on very excel
dent authority that the operation
| of, the Richmond, Fredericksburg and 3
! Potomac will be taken over by the
! Pennsylvania and Baltimore and ONO.
Whether those roads will act separately
| or Jointly is not yet settled, but me
Richmond line will hereafter be dom
tinated by these two companies. which
| heretofore have used it as connection
for the South.
| st extends from Richmond to Guam
| tico, Va, eighty miles on the Potomac
river, where it connects with the Penn
sylvania's line to Washing ton 1t is. al
so used by the Atlantic Coast Line ana
| the Seaboard Air Line as part OF their
Washington lines. The success OF the
Seaboard Air Line in securing a charter
i at the recent session of the virginia
i Legislature for parallel line from Rich
| mond to Washington has fbrot Ent the
company's affairs before the public.
There is a possibility that the new
! control Of the property, which may be
! taken as practically established, viii
I make it possible to effect some arrange
! ment by which the possibility OF this
| proposed parallel line will not be I'M
| dertaken.''
| Major Il. T. D. Meyers. president of the
Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac
Railroad, was shown this statement, and
| asked regarding it.
Major Myers answered that he had MOTH
! ing to say, and refused to discuss the
| situation.
J In some quarters the belief exists that the
| proposed Richmond and Washington Air.
| Line will not be built, and that the r..
F. & P. will be an open-door, and that
| the Seaboard will .be able to secure salts.
! factory traf 1ic arrangement.
| A prominent railroad official said:
Railroads are in business to make
money and good showings You can read
| lily see that it would be far more economi-
1 cal to doub,e-track a system than to es-
i tabEsh a competing line. OF course. l
| cannot speak authortatively, butt from
| what I can learn, I think that this is what
| will probably be done. AS to the Penn
| sylyania and and Baltimore and Ohio being
I in control, I do not take it seriously. The
| PENNSYLVANIA, Baltimore and Ohio and
| Chesapeake and Ohio systems are all very
| closely allied. and i think that the r., F.
| & P. will prove an 'open-door' so TO
speak.
1t may be possible that some definite
action will be taken at the meeting of the
Board of Directors of the r., f. & P,
April nth next.
G. & o. IN CoNTRcL7
1t is reported that the Chesapeake and
Ohio has absorbed the Kanawha and
Michigan, a short line which penetrates
the soft coal region of Ohio. and with
1 which 1t connects at Gauley, w. Va The
| little road has been controlled by the
Toledo and Ohio Central. which qua ran
/ tees its bonds, principal and interest,
1 and therefore, it would follow that II
i there has been deal the Chesapeake and
| Ohio will get both roads. Mr.. Deca tur
Axtell, vice-persdent of the Chesapeake
/ and Ohio, is president of the Toledo and
/ Ohio Central and of the .Kanawha and
/ Michigan.
RAILROAD NOTES.
AS a result of action at the last presi-
i dents conference. recent reductions in
i rates on fertilizer to the Southwest have
! been Cancelled.
i If the proposed. Buffalo line OF The Penn
II sylvania is built, it will be necessary tc
4 cross mountain gorge in Mexican Coun-
4 ty, Pa, with a steel viaduct 5000 feet
Ejslong and nearly 500 feet high
4 1t is stated that efforts under way te
I hiring about an advance in. grain "a ties
4 next month will not be successful, and
4 tariffs usually in effect during the sum-
!; mer months will rule during the coming
! season.
8 The Southern Pacifc's proposed relief
I plan for employees Will not be Immediately
]! made operative, owing to<the opposition
4 that has been developed to some Of It's