The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-21
McLAUGHLIN'S ROAD
CONNECTS WITH IT
Latter Has Been Bui1dir &
Toward Mobile TO Make
This Connection For
Months, and When Com
pleted VIII Give Pensa-
cola Another Great Rail
road System.

As has been surTnise6 BY, q majority
OF Penssco1fans who keep 20 touch
with operations IN the railroad world.
It would now seem definitely nStC1od
that one or the other OF the raSlroadE
now under construotion out OF this
city Is destined TO become a part Of
one OF the country's greatest trunk line
systems.
Indeed from q story appearing in
the railroad news column OF the New
Orleans Times Democrat of last ThuTs-
day II would seem an easy task for
readers of The Journal who Are con-
versant with railroad history OF ths
recent past and with what is tran
spring I'm railroad circles today. to
guess without miss the significance
of this story 70 PensacolA's railroad
interests. And too, to guess with
practically unerring accuracy which
zone or the other" OF Pensacola's pro-
jected railroads is TO be cinched as a
trunk line proposition II the story OF
the Times Democrat is predicated
upon facts.
The Times Democrat story is as fol-
lows:
NEW ORLEANS REPORT.
FOLLOWING the rapid disintegration
OF the norsh and south lines OF the
Frisco system there is a persistent re-
port IN circule tion that the New Or
leans, Mobile and Chicago railroad
control has passed out Of the hands OF
the big Frisco" as the st. Louis and
San Francisco was formerly called, and
into the hands Of the Hiu lines. To
be more explicit. the report ~ that
the Chicago. Milwaukee and 81. Paul
and the Burlington, which connect
~atss she New Qrlesns. Mobile and
Chicago at Metropolis, haEe acquired
the line and will make IL the sou 2nern
outlet of the powerful Hf1 system
through New Orleans and Mobile
""rhe report found many believers
locally. They said that it was current
in New York. Chicago and st. Louis in
banking and railroad circles and that
as proof OF n arrangements would be
made soon by the st. Paul line TO buil5
into New Orleans after January I,
1914. or ss7areabouts. II rs we'll
known fact that the Hill lines have
long been trying To get an entrancs
into this southern territory, and II is
now stated that L. s. Berg. the re-
and promoter Of the Mobile,
Jackson and Kansas City and It's sue
cessor, the New Orleans, Mobile and
was the means by which the
ST. Paul management was induced to
take over the Frisco holdings in the
property. The control Of the line was
held Jointly by the Frisco and the
Louisville and Nashville holdings as
well.
"The line VIII be rehabilitahed, ao-
cording to the report and not only
built TO the Ohio river crossing at the
bridge at Metropolis. but
equipped with standard steel and
supply Of motive power and rolling
stock second TO none in the South.
TT the reports prove true, and 10
the Santa Fe has IN reality taken steps
10 absorb the New Orleans, Texas and
Mexico and the Gulf coast lines Of the
Frisco, railroad men assert that the
most important deals in the history Of
New Orleans carriers have been ex-
.cuted. The Santa Fe will give New
Orleans a connection with the Pacific
coast and the central and Southwest
which has long been desired and the
st. Paul lines will connect up the