The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-12-02
OLD SOUTH PENN AGAIN
Rockefeller Says Road Must Be CompIet.
ed Between Pittsburg and Phila.
FACTS. BEARING ON CONTROVERSY.
Says the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Must Either Build or Get Out Of the Way
OF Those Willing and Able to Build.

The railroad which Andrew
Carnegie threatened to build
three years ago and to prevent
construction of which j. P. Nor.
gan organized the 81, 100000 900
United States Steel Corporation,
is to be built for the Gould Rock
efeller-C Carnegie alliance, unless
President Cassatt, of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, resigns and
turns the management of that
system over to the Standard Oil
interests.
This is the ultimatum that
John D. Rockefeller has laid
down.
Attorney.General Carson has
been notified that he must force
the Pennsylvania to declare itself
at once iu regard to it's plans for
building the old railroad planned
twenty years ago IRON Pittsburg
to Philadelphia, through the
southern tier ofcounties including
Franklin, Bedford, Fulton and
Cum berland. This is the route
Mr.. Carnegie intended to follow.
The Pennsylvania Company
has for years blocked the build
ing of this line through pretense
of intention to build it, and by ac-
tual ownership of the right of
way for much of the distance.
Under the laws of Pennsylva.
mia no company can delay the
construction of railroad that is
needed If any other company is
willing and able to build the road.
The Pennsylvania has been able
to block the road in the past be-
cause nobody except Mr.. Carne-
gle ever came forward with DO.
na.fide offer to build. He was
drowned out with a deluge of wa.
tered stock which he shrewdly
turned into cash long ago Now,
by strange turn of circumstan-
ces, Mr.. Carnegie is lending the
influence of that very same cash
to defeat his old enemy, the Penn
sylvania, which he swore three
years ago, he would never for.
give tor what he termed unfair
treatment of the Carnegie com
pany.
1t is the realization of these
facts that has made the stock of
the Pennsylvania Company go
down to such low figures in the
, market the last few weeks.
| MUST BUILD OR GET OUT.
Acting on the statement made
!. to him by the Rockefeller-Gould
Carnegie interests, the Attor-
3 ney General has written to the
Pennsylvania company informal
i. ly that it must give him an an
. swer soon or he will serve formal
notice on the company to build
0 the road or get out of the way for
J. others.
AS the retirement of President
8 Cassatt and the surrender Of the
8 Pennsylvania system into Rookie
teller hands would stop this new
e project, the men who are behind
the demand for action on the route
by Pennsylvania believes they
will not have to build the road
|. However, they have the money to
build it, and will do so if the
!. Pennsylvania company does no.
s yield.
The significance of the deal lies
|. in the fact that with the Gould
!. Rockefeller Carnegie interests il
!. control of the steel trust they
n could turn all tonnage of tina
o huge combination over to theil
new road and thus turn it into
n money maker from the very be
;. ginning.
n The Pennsylvania robbed of it,
"a greatest source Of freight, an,
!. paralleled through most of it
v territory, would be brought t
e terms. The Gould roads woul'
r. under this plan split the terrltor.
Il between the Pennsylvania mail
line and Its Baltimore h Ohio ally
The southern tier Of counties i
d the richest In the state, and fey
4 of them are on the main line O
II the Pennsylvania. The Pennsyl
" vanla has proved It's inability b