The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
RAILROADS
4 COUP COMING
FROM HARTMAN.
HE SEEKS CONTROL OF ALL
TRANsCoNTINENTAL LINES.

Already I1S OWuS OI DOM1udCeS DIX OuG
of the Eight Lines Operating Strong
Forces Are Allied for Breaking His
Rule and the Battle Is Due Any Day.
Special to The Journal.
New York, Nov. 4.-Within the next
six months there is going to be a rath-
er startling change in the transconti-
mental railroad situation. A serious at
b roaE the nG mono S Whieh sEo f. Hos aar
riman has obtained in transcontinentals.
The history of the past thirty days has
brought things to point beyond which
they cannot 90 without an open rup-
Rock Island interests on the one hand
and the Hartman interests on the other.
Within these thirty days it has been
officially announced that E. H. Harri-
man has obtained working control of
the affairs of the Santa Fe. The mere
! fact that no Hartman representatives
have gone on the board of the Santa Fe
means nothing at all. Victor Morawetz,
? che m IT,. Of the board dictates the pol
dictates the policy Of Victor Morawetz.
The statement credited to E. P. Ripley,
president Of the road, that control is to
stay in the present form is grim joke.
III hHOWS WudI tue pIoSeuC lOIm Is. l. |
is not the same as it was twelve months
There are eight routes to the Pacific
coast. from the central west. Of these
Hartman has voice in the control Of
sT eoHF he sGftEoS r 2etFfAt sn win
ard of Pine Street" has made prac-
teal corner in transcontinentals. It
has taken him years. He has fought
and beaten one rrailroad power after an
as he is still engaged in his great fight
for one Of the transcontinentalsa against
the one foe that ever really thwarted
him, the old enemies gather to the at
tack again again. George Gould, Rock Is
they ARE all in the array.
Of the present transcontinentals, |
Great Northern and Canadian Pacific
alone are wholly Independent Of Harri-
man: The latter is beyond his reach,
his hands, or will be if he wins his
fight for Northern Pacific.
What is the results First, it is his
tory that last year the transcontinental
railroads openly combined to raise the |
rates across the continent certain
staple products Are not those rates in
force today, kept there by the power of
the Hartman roads? And is it not a
fact that while the earnings Of all local
, fallen off badly this year, the earnings
. of the great transcontinentals have ad-
: yanced and crowns This is but the
first result For it Mr.. Hartman has
y only smile and a: wink to his conf
| it will bear. That is all.
The Western Pacific Fight.
But the other result will not be
laughed off-and Mr.: Hartman knows
The capital of wall street has gathered
to fight this fight Missouri Pacific,
Z. Rock Island, Colorado & Southern are
together and will stand or fall togeth-
err to break thru, the Hartman Gordon
tended that within two years Rock Is
land trains shall reach the Pacific coast
by this route. Edwin Hawley, close as:
4 soe;i.ate' of the Rock Island party in
q senting them on the Western Pacific
0 board 1t was this fact that led to the
t open war between. Mr.: Hawley and
y E. 81. Hartman. This war will be car
ried on until the gates are forced. This
d particular party does not know, what
Q defeat means. They have proved it in
Q dozen great encounters.
h In the north J. J. Hill, North-W Western
t End an the Milwaukee will fght to the last
i bitter toward his little antagonist. He
man if his own wonderful power linked
II with the genius and the power Of the
l. house OF Morgan can accomplish it.
70 The Southern Situation.
Is Southwark along the gulf, Rock Is
Paciflc-the Goulds and the Rock Is
m land again-are piling freight thru the
BY E. Il. Hartman They wv! viii n net e con
Or tinue to do so. They will break thru
ID here again, as they will up north, in
to Colorado and in Utah. It is not fitting
~ that roads 50 powerful, as Rock Island
dictation Of p. Il. Hartman or of any,
10 one else on long haul business. They
IS. whether they like 1t or not. In return
ae he can give them whatever he likes
49, gamey the surplus left over after
~ 'S This is the situation today. Tomor
m, row, it may be changed. When the
ut stroke comes It will be sudden and un
ne Of a statement that the directors Of
ok Western Pacific or Of Denver, North
OF western & Pacific have elected George
'e- Gould and D: G.. Reid to their board
It may come in any one Of half a doze1
H. forms. When it does come, those VIII,
us watch the situation will know what i
or means. .es. .-.-.-- Up.
al 1t sounds heartless to say it, but it i
no true, that there are several RAILROAD
J, a boards Of directors who have not move'
ne greatly in this matter because they be
lieve that; within two years p. II. Ha1
or rlman will have passed into history as
est railroad power. Those who see him
en- pale, sickly, blue, anemic, know wha
=, the waiting means. They also can hes
fameat o o R Rs great n amb Rae for tn
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