The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-04-15
May Be Merged With Six Roads
Controlled by HawIey.
SIGNIFICANCE IN SHAKE Up
II the Shops Are Brought to oska
ioosa They viii be Built Large
Enough to Accommodate
Great Railway.

AhUliy AidAC ~ biAh5 ShS
shops here, is indicated in the ru
mors Of a big merger and eonsolida-
ton OF six railroads which is now
current in railroad circles. Increas-
ing Of the capacity of the shops,
which General Manager Cutter prom
Uses IL the shops are removed, is be,
lieved TO be one step in the merger
suggested. and the changes OF Off.
cials are viewed in the same light at
Minneapolis.
According to report telegraphed
from New York there may be 81.
gantic merger of the roads controlled
By the Hawley interests which may
ST. l.. with the Chesapeake & Ohio,
Chicago & Alton, and Glover Leaf
systems.
The Chicago Tribune contains the
following news dispatch:
."Plans for the formation of great
trunk line railway system, reaching
from the Atlantic seaboard TO the
Mississippi river. and as far north as
! South Dakota, by me consolidation Oh
the roads now controlled by Edwin
Hawley and his associates and the
purchase of the Chicago, Cincinnati
C Louisville railway as connecting
Link, were outlined in report from
New York yesterday.
"Such q combination would form
a system of 1882 miles of main track,
with capitalization of 1853 200, 000
and would include the Chesapeake Il
Ohio railway recently acquired by
the Hawley interests, the Chicago 4
Alton and Toledo, St. Louis & West
ern (Clover Leaf system, the Iowa
!. Central and toe Minneapolis & St.
, Louis railways. These roads are con-
b rrolled by the -.awley interests, all
y led with which are, Theodore p.
Shonts, Paul Morton, John w. Gates
and other influential capitalists.
They are operated as separate groups,
the Alton and Glover Leaf and the
Iowa Central and minneapolis and
nSt Lonfs being operated as two sys-
tens. E., .9g'
e Report Frequently Denied. E
/ Reports of combination of the
Hawiey roads have been frequent Oh
late, but have been declared unbound
cd because of the lack of connections
between he individual roads. 1t is
stated now that control of the Chica
CO. Cincinnati & Louisville, now OPP
Grated by a receiver, has been Sc
cured. This line extends from Gin
asn IN 10 Ind in q
Chicago over the tracks of the Iii
nois Central, and intersects the
Clover Leaf at Marion, Ind.
THE Chesapeake & Ohio extends
from Cincinnati to tidewater at Old
Point Comfort, Va. The Alton-Clover
Leaf system connects Toledo with
Chicago, St, Louis and Kansas City,
and there is break of only q few
miles between the Alton and the
Iowa Central Minneapolis & St, Louis
system, which reaches St. Paul and
lie Beau, S., p; on the Missouri river.
THE report could not be confirmed
in Chicago. although 1t was not au-
thoritatiyely denied. Chicago execu-
tive officials of the Alton and Glover
I Leaf said they had heard nothing Of
plans either for a consolidation of the
Hawley roads nor of negotiations for
the control of the c. C. & L., except
newspaper reports from New York,
and thought they would have been
informed If such a deal were pend.
ing ,.s" -. o g4tfs $751;
Meaning Of Official shskeup.
The following, which tells of the in.
terest awakened in railroad circles by
the official shakeup on the Iowa Cen
trail and the Minneapolis & st. Louis,
is from. Friday evenings issue of the
Minneapolis Journal. That paper be-
lieyes that the change in officials is
directly connected with the trunk line
scheme of the roads involved The
Journals story is as follows:
"The biggest railroad 'shakeup' that
the northwest has seen for many
years is on right now in Minneapolis.
The general offices of the Minneapo-
lis & ST. Louis railroad in the Metro
politan Life Building have been stir,
rcd by the resignation of DC. Noon
FtUta SGUSi anu " &.
ID. Wheeler, chief engineer. Mason }.
Could. trainmastr. is out, and il isl
reported that John Tonge, master.
mechanic at the local shops, has re.
signed Mr.. Tonge IS out Of the city
today.
II. r. Day. vice-president, in
charge of the Hawley interests here,
and active head of the Minneapolis
&. St Louis, has been In the Bermu-
das since the first of the year. He is
expcced back within week or tenI
days, his health having greatly i'm.
proved Meanwhile M. B. Cutter
general manager, who took that ONCE
about Jan. /, Is the man of the hour.
Learned How on Lehieh.
"Mr Cutter was formerly general
manager of the Lehigh Valley. work
ing under ], A. Middleton. vice-presi-i
dent lin charge. The Lehigh Valley
Offices are In philadelphia sand in