Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-04
Now In Position to Dominate
the Railroad Policy of the
Country
HOW THE VICTORY WAS GAINED
War Has Been Wased For Two Years
Between the Rockefeller Gould Inter.
ests and the PennsyIvania-Attacks
OF the Former Were cIcverIy Ensin-
eercd-other Lines Dominated.

Chicago. Dec. 4.--The war which has
ragged between the Rockefeller-Gould
interests and the Pennsylvania for more
tnan two years. and which resulted n
one of the most sensational stock raids
| In history, has ended. Announcement
of a semi official character is mad 2
that the Rockefellers have won the vic
| tory. and Will be found TO be in full
control of the Pennsylvania railroad.
The retirement OF President Cassatt Of
that company is freely predicted, as is
the speedy entry of the Wabash into
Philadelphia and New York.
The Roclefellers within a brief pc
riod have become the greatest railroad
owners in the world and now are prac-
tieally in a position to dominate the
railroad policy of the country. 1t IS
now known that the Rockefelle.s
brought the Goulds into their alliance
in 1891, and for years have worked
with them. The Pennsylvania inter
ests undoubtedly were unaware of this
alliance when President Cassatt or
dered his men to cut down more than
81 100000 worth of Western Union tel
egraph poles and wires In a single
night.
The recent great slump in Pennsyl
vania stock was brought about by Il
Rockefeller attack, which was so clev-
erly engineered that when the mar
ket was right the Rockefellers gainei
control of the property. The New York
rl1 n with n yfo
of using it as club over the Penn
,sylyania should the attempt to get the
after property prove a failure. It r
estimated that the Rockefeller Gould
combination now owns or controls
total of 100000 miles in the United
States. and the ownership is so dis 4
tributed territorially that the combi-
nation is in a position to dominate rail-
road affairs.
The Rockefellers alone are now said
to control the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul, the Missouri. Kansas and
Texas, the New York Central and the
Pennsylvania. They are partners with
the Goulds and its allied lines. the
Wheeling and Lake Erie, Western
Maryland. West Virginia Central and
the Pittsburg extensions.
With the Goulds they also control
the western and southwestern system,
made up as follows: Missouri Pacific,
ST. Louis. Iron Mountain and Southern,
Great Northern. Texas Pacific and one
half of the Galveston. Houston and
Northern.
by securing control OF the New
York Central the Rookefeilers are in
control OF the following lines: Lake
Shore, Boston and Albany. West Shore.
Michigan Central. Nickel Plate. Big
Four. Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and
Pfttsburg, Lake Erie and Western,
Cincinnati Northern. Indiana, Illinois
and Iowa, Detroit, Toledo and Mil
waukee.
In controlling the Lake Shore they
also control one half interest in the
Philadelphia and Reading. the Central
railroad of New Jersey and the Hook
ing Valley, the other half of which Is
secured by gaining control Of the Penn
sylvania.
Furthermore, they have secured
half Interest in the Chesapeake and
Ohio and in the Norfolk and Western.
The Rockefellers control of the
Pennsylvania also means control OF the
following lines: Baltimore and Ohio,
United Railroads of New Jersey. Phil
adelphia, Baltimore and Washington,
Northern Central, Buffalo and Allie
gheny, West Jersey and seashore.
The acquisition of the United States
Steel corporation by the Rockefellers
also seems q certainty.