The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-02
Rail WAY MERCER
Unity Of Control for Vanderbilt
Hartman Lines.
10000 Miles of Railway in One
Combination.

The changes announced recently in
the official staff of the Vanderbilt lines
have given rise to considerable specu-
lation in regard to the future railway
map.
The most generally believed theory IS
that the changes in the Vanderbilt lines
are the preliminary steps to the forma-
ton of a gigantic railway merger the
largest in history, giving Rockefeller
and Hartman united system of more
than 10000 miles, stretching from the
Atlantic to the Pacific oceans.
1t is generally known that the Rookie
feiler-Harrirnan combination has been
investing heavily in the railway stocks
of the railways known as the Wander
bilt lines. Whether these investments
have been enough to vest actual con-
troll through ownership, is only prOble-
matical with those who are not masters
of teh actual information. But regard
less of whether or not the actual con-
troll of the Vanderbilt lines, or more
than so per cent of the stock of those
lines has passed into the hands of the
Rockefeller Hartman combination, the
real facts indicate that plans have been
matured for the harmonious co-opera-
tion of the lines which really means the
same thing as unification in ownership.
The eight roads of the VanderbiltS COM
monty referred to as the New York
Central system are: New York Central,
Boston & Albany, Lake Shore, Michi-
gan Central, Nickel Plate, Lake Erie &
Western, PittSburg & Lake Erie, IN
diana. Illinois & Iowa and possibly the
Northwestern.
These lines with the New York Cen
| trail system, Big Four, Pittsburg &
| Lake Erie Lake Shore Michigan Cen
traI, Nickel Plate, Chicago & North
western, Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri
1 Valley. Lake Erie & Western, Omaha
line, Indiana, Illinois &c Iowa, Union
Pacific, Southern Pacific, Illinois Cen
/ fro fHc Oroc inc
Railroad and Navigation company, the
Houston & Texas Central railway, the
Texas Pacific, and Kansas City South
ern would form a vast network of lines
under one control touching the greatest
tonnage centers in the United States
The system would serve more than half
/ the states of the Union and originate
| traffic valued at more than 300 million
| dollars annually.
The Wall Street Journal says: "Ar
/ interest cognizant of pending plans II
which New York Central and afflIiatee
| lines are concerned makes this SUN
mary of main factors involved in the
steady increase in the value OF III
shares:
sThe New York Central, the Chicago
/ & Northwestern, and the Union Pacific
and all the various properties whicf
| these three in turn control, are to ben
eft materially from the closer relations
/ among them which are in the future
/ to rule While it will be denied thai
/ these CnanReQ IeldllOIlS dIG " 4llCeNA
passing of control, it is accepted as
| conclusive that the results will be prac-
/ ticalIy the same.
TT will be found. when the Harrl-
! Vanderbilt relations can be ana
| lived from official authority, that their
eastern, middle west, northern, north
western, and western systems and
parts of systems will be operated III
.aThe New York Central will be the
eastern outlet for the Hartman Union
Pacific system, just as in the west the
Central Pacific, Oregon Short Line, and
Southern Pacific will form the triangle
admitting New York Central and
Northwestern to the Pacific coast on
the same terms with Union Pacific.
1.-The Chicago & Northwestern, with
the various arms of its subsidiaries
will be the feeder from its section 1or
the Union Pacific and New YORK Cen
trail. west and east.
1.-The Union Pacific. with it's middle
west Missouri valley, and mountain
territory and its divisional roads to all
the valuable ports on the Pacific. viii
round out a transcontinental system
which, for territory covered and faelll-
ties available, will be at the top.
TT is pointed out, finally, that the
delay in settling the Northern Securi-
ties litigation gives time in which to
perfect the working combination be
tween the Harriman-Vanderbiit inter
ests which will prove profitable from
the start -