The Sneedville news. (Sneedville, Tenn.) 191?-19??, 1919-01-10
TO MAKE QUEEN
CITY GATEWAY
TO The SOUTH
MeADoo ASKS FOR $40, 900 IN
WHICH TO BUILD ciNcIN-
MATT TERMINALS.
Big improvements Are Given az Ex-
ample For Continued Federal Con-
troll Of RaiIways-New Bridge Over
Ohio River Is Proposed.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-Term facilities, in
vOlving an aggregate expenditure of
$70OO0,O0O. are urgently needed In
Cincinnati In order to bring traffic con-
ditlOns there up to the required stand
ard, Director General McAdoO told the
Senate Interstate Commerce Commit
tee, arguing for an extension of Gov
eminent control of the railways for
five years. Congestion In Cincinnati,
he said, constitutes one of the most
serious traffic situations In the cOun-
try. II the separate railroads are left
to work out their problems In Cincin-
natl. Mr.. McAdoO said, they probably
would never be solved. The problem
must be solved, he said, In the inter
est of the common public good, with
out making the interest of any one
railroad paramount.
While the undertaking is a gigantic
one, Mr.. McAdoo said, II Is one which
must be undertaken II traffic IL to be
moved through the great Cincinnati
gateway between the North and South.
ut Is estimated" said the Director
General of Railroads, that there
ought to be spent In the near future
about $i5,OO00OO In the rehabilitation
Of Cincinnati terminals so as to make
them equal to modern public needs.
with probably $25,OOO.OOO additional
for passenger terminals. This In
wolves the building OF n new bridge
and the reconstruction and enlarge
trent Of two other bridges. the cun-
strnctlon OF convenient and couuDot1l-
GUS freight houses, the provlsiou OF
adequate belt lines and adequate -.
oilitles for intercommunication ~
tween the different railroads. tx
practically every item of this large
expenditure involves directly or tn6l-
rectly the interest OF two or more poD-
nrnte railroad companies. In fact. ~
tually the whole expenditure has 10 -
made In the common public infcfu11-
and without making the intefV1
any one railroad company par
AZ 10 any particular. itcnL.
matter n left to be wor1G1
separate railroad codnU
EFT Of the general pu1l|1
reason to believe that q e.
successfully worked out.
"Ccriainly the rnllroad ID
have had many years In which
out the problem and they han
done 40. IL the problem Is
quately solved the result Will - ~
n great burden of delay and IncoovoD-
lence. uncertainty and cost WIN O.
time to rest upon the people q IN
United States simply because . t1onG
which ought obviously tn be doUo 81
Cincinnati I'm the public Interest y not
done. and II win not be done becAugo
the power OF government, which ought
10 be exercised 10 promote the public
interest, Is allowed TO remain dormant
and subordinate to the separate inter-
csts and To the dlsagrccments Of vari-
Gus privately managed railroad compa-
niles. What IL true Of Cincinnati 10
true 10 large extent of every lmpor-
tant terminal I'm the country, particu-
larry Of Chicago and the terminals
around New York IIarbor.'
Mr.. McAdoo gave no indication of
when the colossal undertaking for
Cincinnati could be started or how II
would he financed. In his general dis.
cussion OF the railroad situation he
lad said that paralysis of traffic aud
the outstanding shortcomings In rail-
road transportation are due largely TO
INACCURACIES I'm terminal facilities.