The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-05-25
TO CONNECT LINES OF.
THE SOUTH,
Well-Known Bankers and Men Of
Means from Baltimore and
Richmond Come to Inspect
New Seaboaro Link and
Other Properties.

Important and far-reaching develop
ments in the railroad situation in the
south and west are likely to occur within
a short period.
This statement comes with the arrival
in Atlanta last Monday of the advance
guard of capitalists and bankers of Bal
timore and Richmond
The Seaboard Air Line, the Illinois Cen
trail and the lines composing the Gould
system, all strong and Independent sys-
TENS Of the south and west, Will, 1t IS
thought, unite at Birmingham and Mem
phis inside of twelve months.
While this will not necessarily mean
that the roads managed will enter into
what is usually called q combination, yet
from the well authenticated character OF
TIE rumors that are so generally being
circulated in railroad circles 1t IS probd-
Bile that they will at least unite to the
extent Of furnishing an unbroken service
TO and through the points mentioned, with
q thorough understanding as to business
between them
These are powerful systems. and such
community of interests" between them
would nightly affect the railroad situa-
ton in the territory trayersed by their
lines.
The party OF Baltimore and Richmond
capitalists. on a tour of inspection Of their
investment through the south, reach AT
Ianta today Many millions of present
and prospective investments are represent
ed in the group, and their visit meafI5
more to this section than anything that
has happened IN recent years
The men in the party control the Sea
board Air Line railroad and the Alabama
Consolidated Coal and Iron Company
making in all about three thousand miles
Of railroad and one Of the largest coal
and iron plants in the south. Besides
these well-known institutions, they have
many hundreds of thousands of dollars
invested In other manufacturing estaD-
Hshments scattered from Baltimore to the
gulf. and it is stated that their visit VIII
result in the investment of much more IN
this section.
Members of the Party.
The party consists Of j William Mid
dcndorf vice president of the Seaboard
Air Line railroad and a large banker and
man Of extensive interests in other finan-
cial institutions; Douglas II. Gordon,
president Of the international Trust Com
pany Of Baltimore, one of the largest
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Il0iil p'oIi' " III - ot'H1oi ''iio W.,
liam G. Baker. Jr., bankers; Richard H
Edmonds. editor of The Manufacturers
Record Of Baltimore. the best known IN
d1strjal iournal in the country. director
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IRON Company, ana Inc lhterhalioldI
Trust Company; Angus Cameron, manu-
facfurer. Charles r WeScott caDl+alist
and secretary and treasurer Of the Ala
hanna Coal ana Iron Connanv. ex-C;oy-
ernor I.ovd Lowndes OF Cumberland.
Md, coal operator and banker; Frank
land 6nggs, Of Trenton member Of the
wire nanufactrrere ~ TTenton. = Tan
caster Williams Of Richmond hrother np
John Shelton Williams. president of the
Seaboard Air Line and member Of the
banking house OF John l.. Williams x
- ". - AIilson ana ar4er Moore
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t"Hyt ~ former ifin, W Dukes
SONS q o., having organized the Amer
lcaA Tobacco Company
Interested in Alabama
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Must o. these men are interested in