The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-12-25
INDIANA AND OHIO ELECTRIC
RAILWAYS
PLANS FOR THROUGH SERVICE
One Big Electric System-Important
Move in Electric Railway
World.

A move of Importance to the cleo
tric railway world, and especially to
Indiana and Ohio, is said in Cleve-
land to be in prospect. 1t is no
less a project than to unite the in
terurban electric companies operat-
ing in eastern Indiana and western
Ohio, so that from them will be
formed a system of electric railways
closely connecting Indianapolis and
Ft. Wayne in this State, and Gin
cinnati, Columbus, Springfield, Clev-
Gland and Toledo, in Ohio.
The moving spirit in the under
taking is said to be the Elkins-Wid-
ener syndicate, of Philadelphia,
largely interested in Indianapolis
and Indiana and Cincinnati and
Ohio electric lines.
The Cleveland report is that the
plans are so far along that the sue
cess of the undertaking can no long
er remain a subject of doubt. They
call for through lines from all the
large cities reached, and will bring
hundreds of miles of electric rail-
ways under one management and in
one system.
Developments in Ohio.
The details Of the great system
thai .iasto be worked out are moi. yet
public, and no official continuation
of the project has as yet been Civ
en-. But for the last six months
there have been rumors among men
familiar with the Ohio and Indiana
traction situation that the Cincin-
natl, Dayton & Toledo traction COM
pany, promoted by the Mandelbaum
syndicate, was to be leased TO a hold
ing company, and that it had plans
for important developments in the
extension and enlargement of the
system. This system is now to be
leased to the Cincinnati Northern
Traction company, recently incorpor-
ated at Columbus with capital
stock of 100000. 1t will have
charge of the further development
of the c., ID. & T. operating between
Cincinnati and Dayton.
The Western Ohio intends extend
ing its line from Lima to Findlay,
which will give Ohio traction lines
in operation through Hamilton, Day
ton, Piqua, Wapakoneta, Lima,
Findlay, Fostoria, and thence to To-
ledo. AT Findlay the Ohio cross
State line can preceede directly to
Toledo over the Toledo, Bowling
Green & Southern, OF it can run to
Fostoria, from which point there has
been much talk of line to connect
with the Lake Shore electric into
Toledo. The construction of an Ohio
cross-State line is thus made easily
possible, with only short stretches
of new line to be built.
Indiana-ohio Through Service.
1t is understood that the Elkins-
Widener people are anxious to have
through service between all the
large cities of the two States. Con-
nection with the Ohio lines by the
Indianapolis & Eastern is already
made, and quite recently attention
has been called to the possibilities
of cooperation between the /. & Z.
and Ohio traction lines Through
service between indianapolis & Day
ton, by cooperation between the /.
& z. and the Dayton & Western elec-
tric line is to be introduced about
the first of January. Several lines
projected eastward from northern
: Indiana cities would also give other
important connections with the Ohio
: system.
Representatives of the Indiana
> polls & Eastern would not talk OF
: the reported merger.