The Washington times., 1903-06-11
If So, Why So =?

Are the Goulds and Rockefellers af-
ter the Pennsylvania, or are the Key
stone cohorts after the Goulds and
Rockefellers. or are both after the 9TH
er. and if not, why not?
why was the Baltimore and Ohio the
center of the storm in the stock mar
ket. during which the price of the stock
was forced down? Was it the Goulds
and Rockefellers who offered to buy III
seventy-h five million dollars worth of
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad stock at one fell
swoop, and if so, why so? Was it
But what is the use!
The above tumble is fair representa-
ton of the condition of the average rail
road mind. when it is applied to the
problem of trying TO discover Just what
is happening in the troubles between the
two great railroad systems.
No one except President Cassatt and
Gould and John D. Rockefeller and their
immediate associates, can give any de-
tails. and naturally they decline to take
the public into their confidence just yet
In the meantime the knowing investors
and railroad operators are standing
ready to dodge the expected lightning
due when the forces clash. should II
come their way.
That some big deal is being arranged
of which the outsiders get an occasional
glimpse. when It is necessary for the
men who are behind it to go into the
open markets to complete some detail
is no longer doubted.
In fact. it is tacitly admitted. especial
| ~ by the Gould interests. Just what is
| being planned, however. is a mystery, but
! the belief is general that before many
months have elapsed, another phase o.
the war. which will cause the wire ant
| pole destruction episode to pale into in
| significance. viii break out.
please paste ~this in your hat re-
marked a railroad man yesterday, IL
discussing the matter. there is some.
| thing big doing. Big men are after one
another. Something is going to droI
| somewhere. and that not so very far off
| However, as. rich and as powerful a:
they may be, the story that the Goulds
and Rockefellers are going to get the
Pennsylvania seems absurd If they get
anything. it is going to be the Reading
| Erie, or the Baltimore and Ohio. The
State of Pennsylvania would have to be
reckoned with in getting control of the
great Keystone system-and reckone6
with financially. politically. socially and
every other way, for the Pennsylvania
Railroad is more of Pennsylvania thar
anything else in Pennsylvania
The interests OF the railroad are sc
mingled with the interests of the State
that in many matters il is hard for one
to determine where the railroad begins
and the State ends and vice versa.
Now. it is just possible that The
| Rockefellers and Goulds, especially the
! former, who have had some dealings II
! the keystone State in an oil way, might
get majority control of Pennsylvania
stock at a cost of several hundred mil
| lions of dollars. but even then they
would not have the railroad and they
would not be allowed to have IL
mo. It Is not the Pennsylvania tina
the Goulds are after. II they are after
anything 1t is one of the other roads
controlled by the main road"
The statement that the Goulds had OF.
fered to take 5000, 600 worth of Penn.
sylvania stock al 120 emanated from
New York Concerning the report. q
high authority on Pennsylvania affairs
said: There Is nothing whatsoever II
the statement. Please deny IT.