Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-22
CHICAGO IO IRE COAST
E. II. Hartman Organizes a
Trunk Line From Chicago to
the Pacific.
To Reach the Coast Via Kansas
City and Beaumont,
Texas.
Hartman Interests Will Now
Have Three Separate Lines
to the West.

New York, May pa new trunk line
between Chicago and San Francisco
is the result of L. II. Harrimans latest
railroad combination. The new line
gives the Hartman interests three
separate and continuous routes to the
Pacific coast Harriman's latest COM
hination includes the Chicago & Alton
TO Kansas City, the Kansas City South
ern TO Beaumont, Texas, and the
Southern Pacific to San Francisco ana
other coast points. This line, over
which thru trains will run between
Chicago and the coast, puts Chicago in
close touch with every important gulf
point.
The Hartman syndicate has control
led the Kansas City Southern since its
organization a few years ago, and this
control has been strengthened recently.
The Chicago & Alton, a distinctively
Hartman road, is the first link in the
new trunk line. 1t connects with the
Kansas City Southern at Kansas
City, where the link begins. AT Beau
mont, Texas, the Kansas City
Southern connects with Harriman's
Southern Pacific system, which extends
to San Francisco and other points on
the Pacific coast
The combination of the three roads
named makes direct and quick line
from Chicago to the Pacific coast, the
advantages of which are augmented by
the ramifications of other lines con-
trolled by the Hartman syndicate. The
recent acquisition by this syndicate of
the Mexican International railroad and
of dominant interest in the Mexican
National railroad will give the new
trunk line an independent entrance into
the City of Mexico. The Union Pacific
and Oregon short line, railroads owned
by Hartman and his associates, con-
stitute direct route between Omaha
and Portland, Oregon and the South
ern Paciflc's coast divisions operate be-
tween Portland, San Francisco and Los
Angeles. The Central Pacific division
of the Southern Pacific system is now
the only line from Ogden to San Fran
cisco, so that Mr.. Hartman can run
his trains from Chicago to the Pacific
coast over not less than three continu-
Gus routes.
The Southern Pacific's Texas and
Louisiana lines touch at every impor-
tant gulf point and connect with the
Morgan steamship line (also part of the
Southern Pacific system). which has
a tri-weekly service between the gul:
and New York city. For an eastern
railroad connection between Chicago
and New York Mr.. Hartman could, for
the time bein, utilize the Baltimore d
Ohio railroad, of which he is a large
stakeholder and an influential director.
Mr.. Harriman's return to New York
from his extended trip to Mexico and
the Pacific coast is expected in about
week. His eastern representatives be-
lieve that important plans will be sub
mitted at the June meeting of the oil
rectors Of the different Hartman
roads.
The Goulds' policy of expansion has
added two more railroads to the Wa
bash system. Syndicates practically
George j. Gould have Sc
cured control of the Ann Arbor lines
and the Columbus. Sandusky & Hook
ing Valley railroad. The Ann Arbof
will give the Wabash an outlet to the
northwest for its new lines in the Pltts-
burg region and will be feeder to the
Wabash system in general.