New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-13
FRISCO GETS SEAB0ARD.
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ern Railway common stock advanced is points
and the preferred ?.
The inclusion Of the Seaboard Air Line will
give the Rock Island system, with which that
road Will make direct connection at Birmius-
ham, Ala, direct outlet to the Atlantic at
Baltimore Norfolk. Wilmington. n. c.. Savah-
nah, Fernandina. Jacksonville, and, on the com
pletion of a line now building, at Charleston
The total length of the Seaboard Air Line
system is 2611 miles. which, added to the pres
ent mileage Of the Rock Island system OF which
about 900 miles is under construction, will
give a grand total OF nearly 10000 miles which
is about the combined length OF the three great
roads of the Northern Securities Company no
account being taken in either case of second
track
The seaboard Air Line Railway Company was
organized on April 10. 1900. under the laws Of
Virginia, as successor to the Richmond, Peters
burg and Carolina Railroad Company. and on
July ! of that year Il assumed the operation II
the various roads embraced in the so-caued Sea
board Air Line system, together with the
Georgia and Alabama and the Florida Central
and Peninsular Control Of the three had been
successfully acquired by a syndicate of Rich
mond and Baltimore men. with whom some
New-York bankers were subsequently asso-
ciated The head of the syndicate was John
Shelton williams, who has been president OF the
present Seaboard Air Line since its organlza-
ton. The formation Of the system was opposed
by Thomas F. Ryan. OF this city, the largest
single holder Of the stock Of the Seaboard and
Roanoke Railroad Company, the parent COM
pany of the old Seaboard Air Line, and for three
years there was conducted litigation which
was brought to A close in February, 1901, when'
under the terms of award made by Danel
S. Lamont, as arbitrator Mr.. Ryan disposed OF
Mr.
Williams NIiddendorf- Smith syndicate.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway. exclusive or
its proprietary lines, which aggregate $50 miles
IN length, owns in fee these lines: Richmond TO
Savannah, 502 miles; Wilmington, N c. 10
Atlanta, 437 miles; Savannah to Montgomery
Ala. $50 miles, and Jacksonville to Tampa,
Cedar Keys and Chattahoochee, Fla, $40 miles
The line from Atlanta to Birmingham is nearly
completed. The Seaboard also owns the Balt-
more Steam Packet Company, operating meet
of steamers between Baltimore and Norfolk, and
a one-sixth interest in the acknowledging
ton Company which controls the railway from
Richmond to Washington. The five other
equal interests in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Company are owned by the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad Company. the Baltimore and Ohio the
Pennsylvania, the Chesapeake and Ohio and the
Southern Railway.
The rapid expansion Of the Rock Island sys-
tenn has frequently been described within the
last year. The first move was the acquisition
in the spring of 1902 of the Choctaw. Oklahoma
and Gulf. extending from Memphis westward
into the Panhandle of Texas. A little later the
st. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado Railroad
was purchased. Only a few miles Of this road.
at it's ST. Louis end had been completed but
preparations were Immediately made 70 extend
it to Kansas City. with the object Of giving the
Rock Island entrance into st. Louis from
Kansas City, and after a few months Of contest
the Rock Island secured membership in the
Terminal Railroad Association of St Louis.
which carried with it terminal privileges
In the spring of the present year the Rock
Island secured control of the St. Louis and San
Francisco. which itself has within the last three
years taken over control OF the Kansas City,
Fort Scott and Memphis and the Kansas city,
Memphis and Birmingham, giving 1t a line from
Kansas City TO Birmingham the Chlcago ana
Eastern Illinois, extending from Chicago to
Terre Haute Ind, and to the Ohio River at
Thebes and Joppa, Ill, and the Evansville ana
Terre Haute, extending from Terre Haute to
the Ohio at Evansville, Ind. Only recently, TOO,
it was announced that the Rock Island had
one-haIf interest in four of the short north and
south Texas llnes OF the southern racine COM
The Rock Island system now extends to Min
neaDoIis and St. Paul, on the north Denver on
the west Ell Paso and Fort Worth, Tex,
and Tampa, Fla, on the south, and Norfolk and
other Atlantic terminal points OF the Seaboard
Air Line Railway on the east
Birmingham. Ala. Aug. 1.-The seaboards
branch from Coal City into Birmingham. thir-
tv-nine miles. has been under construct n since
early in the year. and is nearing completion.
Trains will be running into this city not later
than next January. The Seaboard's Georgia
branch from Rocknlart TO Atlanta, forty eight
Ipde 70
pleted in seven or eight months. The distance
between Rockmart and Coal City, eighty-three
miles covered by the Seaboard's east and west
road, is now operated.