The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-09-28
BOSTON & MAINE
WOULD GO INTO
N. Y. CENTRAL
Central Vermont, Being
a Canadian Subsidiary
Was Not Included in
Consolidation-Hearings
on the Proposal Will BE
Held i'm Near Future

Washington, d. c., Sept 2S.-Ihe
interstate commerce commission an
nounced to-day tentative plans for the
consolidation of all major railroads OF
the United States into l6 systems, and
paye notice that hearings would be
called on the project in the near fu'
ture. The proposed consolidation was
authorized by the transportation act
In the main the plan proposed by
the commission is that drafted under
its direction by Professor William H.
Ripley, Harvard university, but some
variations were made The commission
said that while all of the larger or
class one railroads had been included IN
the makeup of its schedule, number
of class two and class three lines had
also been covered.
The following consolidated systems
are proposed by the commission;
No. /. New York Central, including
the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and
st. Louis; Monongahela; Boston and
Maine: Bangor and Aroostook and 9TH
ers.
No. .. Pennsylvania, including To-
Iedo. Peoria and Western; Long Island,
Monongahela, as an alternative to the
inclusion Of that road in the New YORK
Central system, and others.
No. 3. Baltimore and Ohio; Reading;
New York, New Haven and Hartford ;
Lehigh and Hudson, and others.
No. 4. Chicago and Erie; Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western; Bessemer
and Lake Erie; Wabash lines east OF
the Missouri, and Others.
No. ). Lehigh Valley, New York, Chi
cago and st. Louis; Pittsburgh and
West Virginia, and others.
No. 6. Pere Marquette, Ann Arborr
and Others.
No. I. New York, New Haven and
Hartford; Boston and Maine; Bangor
and Aroostook, Lehigh and Hudson
River, all of these alternatively to be
taken into other systems.
The commission here proposed a
variation indicated as system No. Z
or New England Great Lakes consoli-
dation. which would include the roads
given in No. I, the Delaware and Pitts
burgh and Others.
No. S. Chesapeake and Ohio, Hooking
Valley and Virginian.
No Q. Norfolk and Western; Toledo
and Ohio Central and others.
No. 10. Southern. New Orleans, Great
Northern and Alabama and Vicksburg
No. IL. Atlantic Coast line, Norfolk
Eouthern. Florida Vast Coast, Mlssis-
s;npi Central, Carolina, Clinchtie"l 400
Ohio; Louisville and Nashville, and
pthers.
No. u. Illinois Central; Seaboard
Air line; Carolina, Clinehiield and ONO
slternatively and others.
No. I3. Union Pacific lines; Chicago
Northwestern; Wabash lines, west OF
the Missouri. and others.
No. IA. Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy; Northern Pacific; Spokane
Portland and Seattle, and others.
No. Is. Chicago. Milwaukee and St
Paul: Great Northern, and others.
No. rs. Atchison, Topeka and Sante
Fe; Colorado and Southern; Denver
and Rio Grande; Western Pacific, and
others.
No. IL. Southern Pacific Co.; Chi
rapo Rock Island and Pacific; III Paso
and Southwestern; Nicksburg, Shreve-
port and Pacific. and others.
No. Is. St. Louis-San Francisco; st
Louis Southwestern; Chicago and Al
ton; Missouri Kansas and Texas; San
Antonio. Uyalde and Gulf, and others
No. 10. Chicago and Eastern Illinois
Missouri Pacific; Texas and Pacific
Gulf Coast lines, and Others.
The commission noted that Canadian
railroad subsidiaries, such as the Min
uoapolis, ST. Paul and Sault Ste Marie
and the Central Vermont. had been
eliminated from its consolidation and
that water carriers where controlled
bv railroads concerned, were included