Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-09-28
BOTH ROCK ISLAND
and q" INCLUDED
IN CONSOLIDATION
Washington, Sept. 2S.-The interstate COM
merce commission announced today, tentative
plans for the construction of major railroads Of the

United States into nine
teen systems and gave
notice that hearings
would be called on the project in the
near future. The proposed construc-
tion was authorized by the transpor-
tation act.
In the main the plan proposed by
the commission is that drafted under
its direction by Prof. VIM. H. Ripley,
Harvard university, but some varia-
tions were made. The commission
said that while all of the larger or
class l railroads had been included in
ber of class 2 and class 8 lines had
also been covered.
The following consolidated systems
arc proposed by the commission:
No. New York Central, including
tho Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago &
st Louis, Monongahela, Boston e.
Maine, Bangor 4 Kroo3tock, and
others.
No. 2-Pennsylvania. including To-
Monongahela, as an alternative to the
inclusion of that road in the New York
Central system, and others.
No. 3-Baltimorc & Ohio, Reading.
New York, New Haven & Hartford,
Lehigh & Hudson, and others.
No. 4-Chicago & Erie. Delaware.
LackawannG & Western, Besscmer &
Lake Erie, Wabash lines cast of the
Missouri, and others.
No. 5--Lehigh Valley, New York,
Chicago & St Louis, Pittsburgh &
West Virginia. and others
No. 6-Pere Marquette, Ann Arbor.
and others.
No. New York, Now Haven &
Hartford, Boston & Maine, Bangor &
Aristock Lchigh & Hudson River, all
these being alte'nativcly to be taken
into other systems.
The commission here proposed d
variation indicated system. i"'t
No. IA or New England
lakes consolidation, which would in
clude the roads givcn in No. Z, the
Delaware & Hudson, the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Wootorn, the Buffalo,
Rochester & Pittsburgh. and others.
No. S-Chesapoake & Ohio, Hook
ing Valley & Virginian
No. 9-Norfolk & Western, Toledo
& Ohio Central, and others,
No. 10-Southcln, New Orleans,
Great Northern and Alabama & Vicks-
burg.
No. 11--Atlantic Coast Line. Nor
fclt, Southern Florida East Coast.
Mississippi Central. Carolina, Clinch
field & Ohio, and Louisville & Nash
Vile, and others
No. 12-Tllinois Central, Seaboard
Air Line, Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio,
altcrnatively, and others.
No 13-Union Pacific lines Chicago
& Northwestern, Wabash lines west
cf the Missouri, and others.
No. 14-Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy, Northern Pacific, Spokane
Portland & Seattle, and others.
No. 15-Chicago Milwaukee & st.
Paul, Great Northern, and others.
No. 16-AtchiGon, Topeka e Santa
Fc Colorado G Southern, Dcnver &
Rio Grande, Western Pacific, and
others.
No. 17-Southern Pacific company,
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, Eel
Pago and Southwestern, Vicksbure,
Shreveport & Pacific, and others.
No. 1S-St Louis & San Francisco.
St Louis Southwestern, Chicago d
Alton, Missouri, Kansas & Texas, San
Antonio. Uvalde & Gulf, and others
No. 19-Chicago & Eastern Illinois,
Missouri Pacific, Texas & Pacific,
Gulf Coast Lines, and others
The commission noted that Cana
dian railroad subsidiaries, such as the
Minneapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste.
Marie and the Central Vermont, had
been eliminated from its consolidation
and that water carriers where con-
trolled by railroad concerns were in
cluded.