New-York tribune., 1910-01-19
NEW RAILWAY DEAL
". ". IN PITTSBURG.
". \. {. Gets Outlet at Balti-
more as Result.

A close working agreement has been
made between the Western Maryland Rail
way Company and the Pittsburg & Lake
Erie Railroad Company which will give
the,former road the entrance into Pittsburg
which for years was the aim of George j.
Gould. It will give the New York Central
also. which through the Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern controls the Pittsburg
& Lake Erie. another outlet to the At
lantic seaboard
After a meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Western Maryland yesterday
at No. Is Broadway, the Standard Oil
building. the following official announce
ment was made:
traffic arrangement covering a period
OF ninety-nine years has been concluded
between the Western Maryland Railway
Company and the Pittsburg G. Lake Erie
Railroad Company. The contract as exc
cuted involves immediate extension of the
Western Maryland line from Cumberland,
Md, to a connection with the Pittsburg
&c Lake Erie line at Connellsville Penn.
and provides for full through traffic ar
rangements between the two lines, open
ing lines and terminals OF each company
TO the traffic Of the other company and
its through connections.
Inc lldIH line OIL the f1tlSDurg & Lake
Erie extends from Pittsburg northerly to
Youngstown, Ohio. The Pittsburg & Lake
Erie leases the Pittsburg, McKeesport &
Youshiogheny Railroad, extending south
ward from Pittsburg to New Haven, Penn.
Connellsville, which, as the statement says,
is on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie system is
across the Youghiogheny River from New
Haven and only a short distance from that
town. The distance from Cumberland, Md.
the present western terminus of the West
ern Maryland, to Connellsville is about
eighty-eight miles
The extension which the Western Mary
land is to build to connect these two points
will be single track, but the line will be
graded with a view to ultimate double
tracking, and the construction will be such
as TO enable the line to handle the heaviest
traffic. The construction will be difficult
and costly, as the line will traverse noun
famous country. The cost will be not less
than $4,000 a mile, and perhaps s150 600
1t was reported in dispatches from Balti-
more several weeks ago, when the Western
Maryland Railway Company was incor-
porated as successor TO the railroad COM
pany which had been sold at foreclosure
few days previously and bought in by rep
resentatives of the organization committee,
that the road would be extended from Cum
berland TO New Haven and that the money
required for construction and equipment,
estimated at s120o0,000. would be furnished
by John D. Rockefeller and his associates.
who are commonly understood now to con-
troll the Western Maryland.
The plan then, according to the dis
patches, was for the Western Maryland to
use the Pittsburg & Lake Erie's tracks be-
tween New Haven and Clarendon, Penn,
where connection would be made with the
Wheeling &; Lake Erie system for the en-
trance into Pittsburg-
The arrangement now entered into, how
ever, marks the abandonment of any idea
Of union with the Wheeling & Lake Erie
and the Wabash-Pittsburg Terminal Rail-
road. and apparently also the abandonment
Of Mr.. Gould's project for a transcontinen-
tai line. as under it's traffic agreement with
the Pittsburg & Lake Erie the Western
Maryland will in future interchange all OF
its Pittsburg traffic with that road. The
agreement will become effective on the
completion of the construction work which
must be undertaken by the Western Mary
land. The latter road expects to get a great
deal of business through this arrangement,
as the Pittsburg & Lake Erie ranks with
the Pittsburg. Bessemer & Lake Erie Rail
road and the Duluth. Missabe & Northern
tldliNdN DIS one Ol liIGB IOdOS HdnQllQE
traffic of the greatest density of any rail-
ways in this country, If not in the world.
The benefit to the New York Central sys-
tenn is also expected to be great as the al
lance will give that system. which now
reaches two important points on the At
lantic COast-New York and Boston-a third
ocean terminus Baltimore-and will place
1t on an equality in that respect with its
competitors the Pennsylvania Railroad and
the Baltimore & Ohio. which reach New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
The Western Maryland Railroad Com
pany was placed in receivership on March
3. 1905. the receiver being it's president, B.
+. Bush. 1t was bid in at foreclosure sale
on November 49, and its successor company,
the Western Maryland Railway Company
was incorporated on December l. The di-
rectors of the latter F. r. Gates who is
closely associa ted with John D. Rockefel-
ler B. F. Bush Winslow S. Pierce, George
]. Gould. +. L. Marsten, Alvin w Krech
II. e. Cooper, Alexander Robertson and w
A. Wilbur.