The age-herald., 1900-01-19
COMBINATION OF
 BIG TRUNK LINES If Formed Fifty Thousand Men
 Will be Affected. THE EASTERN ROADS IN IT When All Details for Future Manage ment Are Perfected the Commit
 tee Will Turn Its Attention
 to Western Companies
THE EASTERN ROADS IN IT

Chicago. January 1s-The Chronicle to- morrow will say:
 As result of the recent combinations and agreement between the great trunk rail- ways east of Chicago the entire transporta- tio system between the Mississippi river and the Atlantic is to be overhauled. involving the following changes: Abandoning the city ticket office of the roads in the sym dicate dn Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo. Baltimore, Washington, Pbttsburg, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis(, Peoria and St. Louis, and the substitution of joint offices in each city. The discharge of all city, general, travel | ing and district freight and passenger agents and solicitors of the eastern roads in all parts of the United States Canada and Europe. This will affect nearly 5O0OO men.
 The abolition of all forms of commission | heretofore paid for the sale of tickets over these rads. This will affect the inomes of ten thousand agents and eliminate the scalpers.
 The establishment in Chicago and New York, of joint auditing agencies that will apportion to each road an agreed percent age of the total competitive business.
 The discharge of all superfuous assist ants to the heads of departments of the individual roads.
 The establishment in New York of board of control made up of persons rep resenting the Vanderbilt, Morgan and Har- riman properties, the rulings of this board on all questions to be final.
 The abandonment of a number of through fa ct In durnU the past few years as the result of such sharp competition.
 The establishment of common schedule for passenger trains between Chicago and New York and between all of the princi- pal terminals of the common roads in the territory east of this city and St. Louis.
 The abandonment of all freight trains and the fixing of common time for these trains between terminals.
 List of the Reads
 Following are the roads now in the com bine:
 New York Central; Pennsylvania, Bos- ton and Albany, Boston and Maine, Fitch burg, New York, New Haven and Hart ford. Erie, Lehigh Valley, Lackawanna, West Shore, New York, Ontario and Western, Rome, Watertown and Ogdens- burg, Lake Shore. Michigan Central, Nickel Plate Baltimore and Ohio, Wabash, Big Four, Chesapeake and Ohio, Lake Erie and Western, Monon and all auxiliary lines of the systems
 When all details for the future manage ment of the roads in the eastern combine have been perfected the leaders in the combination movement will turn their at fention to the territory west of Chicago and attempt to bottle up the Chicag ago-St Louis-Rocky mountain country in like manner. The combining process may ex- tend ultimately to the Pacific coast
 The Harriman-VanderbiJt syndicate owns and controls the Illinois Central, Union Pacific, Northwestern, Oregon Short Line and Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf All the big competitors of these systems are in with the combining movement, and stand ready to go into any deal that will main- tain stable rates and reduce expenses Sev- eral small independent roads in the west and northwest territory are to be pur- chased The failure of congress to legalize pooling is given the cause of the com binat3on, as the owners are determined to pool if the purchase of every railroad in the country is necessary to obtain that end.