The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-30
RAILROAD NEWS.
Colorado Passenger Poo to Be
Disrupted.
Hawley Said to Be Planning
Revenge.
yAUSESCONSTERNATION
No Telling Now What Outcome
Will Be.
Gossip and Matters Of Interest
in Railroad Circles.

Edwin Hawley, principal owner of
the Colorado & Southern and the direc-
tor of the destinies of that road, has
thrown down the gage of battle to Geo.
J. Gould and his associate and hacker,
John D. Rockefeller, says the Denver
Post.
Hawley is said to be aching for a
fight with the great railroad magnates
and has chosen Colorado as a common
battle ground. Here Hawfey with his
Colorado & Southern is to tilt with
Gould and Rockefeller through the Dem
yer & Rio Grande.
The Hawley challenge for a tourna-
ment is concealed behind what appears
to be an unimportant announcement
that the Colorado & Southern is to
withdraw from a pool on passenger
between the Denver s. Rio Grande, the
Santa Fe and the Colorado & Southern
on traffic between Denver and Colorado
Springs and Pueblo.
These three roads operate daily trains
between the points in question, and it
was agreed between them. while Ben
janin L. Wincheu was with the Colo
RADIO & Southern, that the passenger
the business should be pro-rated be-
tween the three roads. Up to now the
agreement has been faithfully kept by
all interested.
u
lington of the Colorado & Southern, af-
ter consultation with President Frank
Trumbull and General Manager J. M.
Herbert. notified the Denver & Rio
expiration of three months his road will
withdraw from the present amicable
passenger agreement. In the light of
subsequent investigation the cause of
Southern seems to give direct affront to
the Denver & Rio Grande and to lead
the Gould road into any sort of a fight
it might see fit to take up.
The quarrel between the Denver &
Rio Grande and the Colorado & South
ern has absolutely nothing to do with
the passenger traffic agreement. The
Denver & Rio Grande, according to a
statement from an unquestioned source,
has been growing independent of late
and has taken the initiative in many
matters where its interests and those
of the Colorado & Southern were mutual
without in any way consulting the lat
ter road.
So as a method of retaliation the
Colorado & Southern announced its in
tention to withdraw from the long ex-
listing pool.
There was no intention in this to in
jure the Santa Fee in any way, but in
the rate war which seems bound to
come each road will have to look out
for itself. At present there exists a
joint operating agreement between the
Colorado e. Southern and the Santa Fe,
which could not be cancelled for years
to come and which is in no way affect
ed by this latest move of the Colorado
& Southern. The Colorado & Southern
and Santa F'e use the same tracks be-
tween Denver and Pueblo and Colorado
Springs and having no Denver ter
mina1s the Santa F'e comes into this
city on Colorado & Southern tracks and
over the Colorado & Southern right of
way. Colorado & Southern and Santa
Fee tickets are interchangeable between
the points mentioned SO even in the
event of a rate war these two roads
would be practically lined up against
the Denver & Rio Grande.
All this is an indication of the Haw-
ley feeling and supports The Posts ex-
elusive announcement that the Colorado
& Southern is to expand and, reaching
out into new territory become part of a
great transcontinental system.