The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-23
new TRUNK Line.
Hartman Now Has Three Con-
tinuOus Routes
Between Chicago and Pacific
Coast Points.
HE REACHES MEXICO.
Also Has Connection With Nor
gan Steamer Line.
Gould Policy of Expansion is
Making Progress.

New York, May pa new trunk line
between Chicago and San Francisco is
the result of E H. Harrimans latest
railroad combination.
The new line gives the Hartman in
terests three separate and continuous
routes to the Pacific coast.
Harriman's latest combination in
cludes the Chicago & Alton to Kansas
City, the Kansas City Southern to
Beaumont, Tex, and the Southern Pa
ciic to San Francisco and other coast
points.
This line, over which through trains
will run between Chicago and the coast,
puts Chicago in close touch with every
important gulf point
The Hartman syndicate has controll-
ed the Kansas City Southern since its
organization a few years ago. and this
control has been strengthened recently
The Chicago & Alton, a disunctively
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 Beaumont,
Tex, the Kansas City Southern connects
with Harriman's Southern Pacific sys-
tenn which extends to San Francisco
and other points on the Pacific coast.
The cOmbination of the three roads
named makes a direct and quick line
from Chicago to the Pacific coast, the
advantages of which are augmented by
ed by the Hartman syndicate.
The recent acquisition by this syndi-
cate of the Mexican International rail-
road and of a dominant interest in the
Mexican National railroad will give the
new trunk line an independent en-
trance into the City of Mexico.
The Union Pacific and Oregon Short
Line railroads owned by Hartman and
his associates, constitute a direct route
between Omaha and Portland, Oregon,
and the Southern Pacifc's coast divis-
ions operate between Portland, San
Francisco, and Los Angeles.
The Central Pacific division of the
Southern Pacific system is now the
only line from Ogden to San Francisco,
so that Mr.. Hartman can run his trains
from Chicago to the Pacific coast over
not less than three continuous routes.
The Southern Pacifc'S Texas and
Louisiana lines touch at every import
ant gulf point and connect with the
Morgan steamship line (also part of ths
Southern Pacific system), which has a
tri-Weekly service between the gulf and
New York City. For an eastern rail-
road connection between Chicago and
New York, Mr.. Hartman could for the
time being, utilize the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, of which he is large
Stockholder 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 a
week. His eastern representatives be-
lieve that important plans will be sub
mitted at the June meeting of the di-
rectOrS of the different Harrin an roads.
The Goulds' policy of expansion has
added two more railroads to the Wa
bash system. Syndicates practically
representing George J. Gould have Sc
cured control of the Ann Arbor lines
and the Columbus, ,Sandusky and Hook
ing railroad. The Ann Arbor will give
the Wabash an outlet to the northwest
for its new lines in the Pittsburg region
and will be a feeder to the Wabash
system in general