The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-03-26
Traction Service Over
the Entire State
AN ASSURED THING
Cities Of Cincinnati, CIeveia nd
Toledo, Columbus and Cam
ton to be Connected by
Electric Railways.

a complete traction service over the |
entire state of Ohio Is an assured thing |
of the near future, according to dis
patch from Cleveland to the Enquirer,
which says:
During the week great progress was
made looking toward a great consolida-
tion of the railway interests that will
be of vast interest to Cincinnati, Cleve-
land and Ohio generally. The con-
solidation, among other things, means
a through electric railway service from
Cleveland to Columbus, through SER
vice from Cleveland to Cincinnati, and
from Toledo to Cincinnati. The con-
solidation will necessitate the building
of considerable new railway and the
investment of many millions of dollars
of money in new equipment.
The interests in the combination are:
Southern Ohio Traction company, Wes-
tern Ohio Railway company, Cleve-
land, Elyria and Western Railway COM
pany, Cleveland and Southern Railway
company, the Winters-Clegg syndicate
and the Croxden and Wentz syndicate.
ROUTES IN VIEW.
An electric railway is practically
completed from Cincinnati to Column
bus by way of Hamilton, Middletown,
Dayton. Springfield and London. From
Columbus to Cleveland part of the line
will be division from Columbus to
Delaware, which will be completed this
summer The Cleveland and Southern
Railway company is now building a
line from Berea to Wooster, and a
company is being formed, the leading
spirits of which will be the Pomeroys,
w. II. Lamprecht and M. j. Mandel-
baum, which will build road from
the Cleveland, Elyria and Western
railways terminus at Wellington. to
Mansfield by way of Ashland. All that
will be needed then to complete the
line from Cleveland to Cincinnati will
be the link from Delaware to Mansfield,
and for the construction of this tenta-
tive plans have already been made.
The line from Toledo to Cincinnati will
be by way of Hamilton, Middetown,
Dayton, Troy, Piqua, Sidney, Minister,
ST.. Mary's, New Bremen, Lima and
Findlay. rt',.
The Southern Ohio Traction COM
pany has a line already built to Dayton,
and telegram received by Mr. Mandel-
|
of the last difficulty in the way of Sc
curing the link between Dayton and
Troy. For over a year two different
parties have been trying to build line
from Dayton to Troy, and for some
time it seemed as though there would
be two competing lines between the
cities. Sometime ago construction was
begun by the two interests, one work.
ing from Dayton toward Troy and the
other from Troy toward Dayton.
! CONFERENCE HELD.
Mr.. Mandelbaum last week had a con-
fernce with the parties in interest in
Cincinnati, and an agreement was reach
i ed whereby the two interests were con-
solidated The telegram told that the
matter had been clinched. From Piqua
through Minister a line Is being built
by the Western Ohio Railway company
which company is now completing its
lines from Minister to Lima by way OF
Wapakoneta and st. Mary's. The West
ern Ohio is also securing the right OF
way to Findlay. The line from Piqua
to Troy, including the Piqua City Rail-
way and Lighting company, Is being
operated by the Miami Valley Electric
Railway company.
1t will be the purpose of the syndicate
as soon as the Dayton and Troy line is
completed to absorb the Piqua-Troy
line, either by Offering the present own
er an opportunity to consolidate on a
basis of earnings, or to make traffic ar.
, rangements, or in the event that neither
of these two propositions can be car
, ried through in successful termina'
ton, to parallel in its line with the
: new line.
| At Findlay the line will connec,
| either with the Toledo, Fostoria ant
; Findlay railway, which Is fast ap
, preaching completion, or with the lint
from Findlay to Toledo by way o
Bowling Green, of which all but II
| miles is completed and in operation.
ONLY A YEAR HENCE.
Mr.. M. j. Mandelbaum, speaking o
the plans of the new combination
: says:
"By one year from today through
cars will be runnig from Toledo Il
Cincinnati, and soon after from Cleve
land to Cincinnati. We shall be able t
1 run our cars from Cleveland to Gin
cinnati in II hours. or one hour NOR
running time than the steam railroad
make now. We shall equip the roa,
with sleeping cars having buffet service
We shall probably make up trains oftw
= or three cars. having one through ca
o for Columbus, another for Dayton an
a another for Cincinnati. AS our train
: will leave every hour they will becom
t more popular than the steam roads, a
: a passenger can select time at whic
s he is to arrive at his destination muc
Q more to his satisfaction than he ca
h now by using the steam roads. whic
run only three or four trains da
each way. AS the stops made by OIL
cars will be much shorter than tn
, stops made by steam railroad trains W
: will make a gain of considerable tim
. in that way. There is absolutely n
Y | nuestion as to the feasibility of OIL