The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-09-29
0RIDA SENA TORSTO VOTEFOR SEPARATE PEACE TREATY
CONSOLIDATION OF AMERICAN
RAILROADS INTO 10 SYSTEMS IS
THE PLAN OF THE COMMISSION
Proposed Combination Designed
to Remove Weaknesses in
National Railroad System
lny the AssocIated Pressl

F3<AeoAAA1N " 4 O1N, sep. 20 - l0t1td-
tive plan for the consolidation of all
American railroads into nineteen
great competing systems was an
nounced today by the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
The proposed combination, author
lied under the transportation act is
designed to remove weaknesses in the
national railroad system shown by the
operation of the rate making power of
the commission and to effect readjust-
ment of terminal ana other subsidiary
facilities with resultant economy in
operation and delivery Of shipments.
Weak lines which have shown their
inability to live" under rate schedules
profitable to stronger roads. would, un-
der the plan, be attached to systems
more advantageously situated but it
was announced that in every case the
effort was made to maintain the in
demnity of existing strong systems.
Hearings will be called soon by the
commission for the purpose of discuss
ing the proposed consultations. Since,
under the law. no plan can be adopted
which has not been given the approval
of the individual lines affected as well
as that of the commission it was ex-
pected IL It discussion would be pro-
longed, ar that a number of modifi-
cations from the plan made public
today would be suggested.
1--WE have sought to minimize dis
memberment of existing lines and sys-
tems,n the commissions announce
ment said. "This tentative plan is
put forward in order to elicit full
precord upon which the plan ultimately
adopted can rest, and without pre-
judgment"
AS announced today, the proposed
consultations are:
No. New York Central. includ-
Ing the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago
and ST. Louis; Monongahela, Boston
and Maine, Bangor and Aroostook, and
others.
No. 2.-Pennsylvania, including To-
ledo, Peoria and Western; Long Is
land; Monongahela, as an alternative
to the inclusion OF that road in the
New York Central system and others.
No. 3.-Baltimore and Ohio, Read
ing, New York, New Haven and Hart
ford, Lehigh and Hudson and others.
No. 4.-Chicago and Erie;s Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western; Bessemer
and Lake Erie; Wabash lines east of
the Missouri and others.
No. 5.-Lehigh Valley, New Z York(
Chicago and St. Louis; Pittsburg and
West Virginia and others.
No. 6.-Pere Marquette, Ann Arbor
and others.
No. New York, New Haven and
Hartford. Boston and Maine, Bangor
and Aroostooh, Lehigh and Hudson
River, all of these being alternatiyely
to be taken in to other systems.
The commission mere proposed a
variation indicated system No. IA,
or New England-Great Lakes Con-
solidation which would include the
roads given in No. Z, the Delaware
and Hudson, the Delaware, Lackawan-
ma and Western. the Buffalo, Rochester
and Pittsburg and others.
No. S.--Chesapeake and Ohio; Hook
ing Valley and virginian.
No. 9-NorfoIk and Western; To-
ledo and Ohio Central and others.
N. 10-Southern; New Orleans Great
Northern and Alabama and vicksburg.
NO. 11.-Atlantic Coast Line; Nor
folk Southern; Florida East Coast;
Mississippi Central; Carolina, Clinch-
field and Ohio and Louisville and
Nashville and others,
No. 12.-Irinois Central, Seaboard
Air Line. Carolina, Clfnchfield and
Ohio alternatively and others
No. 13-Union Pacific lines; Chicago
Northwestern; Wabash lines west Of
the Missouri. and others.
No 14.-Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy; Northern Pacific. Spokane,
Portland and Seattle and others.
No. 15.-Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul: Great Northern and others.
No. 16.-Atchison, Topeka and San
ia Fe; Colorado and Southern; Dem
yer and Rio Grande; Western Pacific
and others.
No. 1z-Southern Pacific Company:
Chicago Rock Island and Pacific; Ell
Paso and Southwestern; vicksburg,
shreveport and Pacific and others.
] No. 1S.-St- LOuis-San Francisco:
St. Louis southwestern; Chicago and
Alton; Missouri Kansas and Texas.
san Antonio. Uvalde and Gulf and
others.
No. Is-Chicago and Eastern IIli-
nois: Missouri Pacific. Texas and Pa
cific. Gulf Coast lines an@ others.
The commissio.s noted that Canadian
railroads subsidiaries, such as the
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault ste
Marie and the Central Vermont, has
been eliminated from IT'S consolidation
and that water carriers, where con-
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