The San Francisco call., 1905-02-02
RocKEFELLER's RAILROADS.

THE report passage of the Vanderbilt roads the owner
ship OF the Rockefeler-arriman probably The
Standard Oil Company due to its ability to con-
transportation this every possible expedent used
elimination the building OF pipe lines for transportation
OF which device entirely Complementary to the enterprise
The egal position Of the pipe line has not been decided
company classification carrier while
the appealing the right of eminent domain to con-
den right of wav From legal standpoint have doubt
that pipe line can be expelled private property which
bought right But be that the
OF Mr. Rockefeller the transportation He clearly
and sooner than other men transportation
production consumption and for the last FIVE
has been taking transportation companies wherever their
stock listed and available This last deal extends his influence
miles of railroad 1t puts practically under his control
continuous lines from the Pacific to the Atlantic from San Fran
all Middle States and New England points
doubt through train from coast to coast
their influence extended westward
to cut out breaks in the overland trip twenty years ago on the
aOgdn Finally Ogden cut out and then Omaha through Van
derbt of the Chicago and Northwestern and only the Chi
break left While said that the central operating office OF
the system will be in Chicago the financial interest will be in New
York that reasonable expect that will have through
days This prospect satisfactory this and
of the business be joined to like effect
fregtng well be- there will be complaint the
of facilities.
evidence of the great progress made in the evolution of law
five would have been feared the country
At that time the people were gropng in the dark and feeling almost
them under rigid restraint than afforded by the common
the links composing the Chicago and Northwestern system had been
made by Samuel Tden in 1860 Though joined links into
general system miles of track
garded appalling calamity,
Immediately enabled through trains through tickets and baggage
checks the great convenience of passenger traffic.
The fear which held the motive for legislative
perlents railroad all the Middle West the
railroads The laws of Wisconsin,
the legislative freight schedules of Iowa and the regatve laws
Illinois followed They all less tentative and expert
mental, but they beginning
Since then the and Congress have far beyond
point that sight then 1t has been of institutions
and still But the capacity follow up every consolidation
transportation with public regulation power of
troll has been found and applied 1t is significant that almost
rnry with the Presidents invocation OF all the of the
Federal Government to concrete in system public control comes
this Rockefeller combination Of miles Of road in system
which the rguave authority of the Government AS
consultations of lines the evolution law corresponded
the the combinations Of track need fear that
railroad consolidation will public authority and public
control The people will get relatively the expansion of
followed smaller consultations
accompanied by
that beyond legal remedy.
For California the change acute than for other part
OF the cony For enjoyed the distinction of hav
ing road built by Cfornans and held by hem
operated from The
north of projected managed from the
domestic institution member of family and though
relied with it. family affair. All this passes We
points
the Atlantic seaboard purse New York. and operating
center in Chicago The change great but with the flexible power
Of the law for panopy need anticipate injury
its result.