Evening journal., 1921-09-28

RAILS into
70 SYSTEMS
Continued from First Page.

Chicago, with branch lines through
Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.
2. Pennsylvania - The present
system and lines running from the
tip of Long Island, westward to
Chicago, st. Louis and Burlington.
with branches through New Jersey.
Delaware and Maryland and states
crossed.
3. Baltimore and Ohio-Lines
from New York city south and west
to Chicago and st. Louis. south OF
Great Lakes and north Of Ohio and
Potomac Rivers.
4. Erie-From New York city
northwestward along the Northern
Lake Shore territory to Chicago and
st. Louis, but north Of previous two
systems
S. Nickle Plate-Lehigh Valley
Same territory as Erie, but with lines
south to Baltimore and West Vir-
ginia coal fields.
6. Pere Marquette - Michigan
Peninsula lines with extensions south
into Ohio and Indiana.
7. Two systems, A and B-A in
ciudes New Haven road and other
connecting lines in New England and
south to New York city.
B-Includes New England connec-
tions and lines westward to Great
Lakes territory.
8. Chesapeake and Ohio-Lines
from Washington through Virginia
and West Virginia and north TO Chi
cago and Toledo. taking in c. and
o., Hooking Valley and Virginian
Railroads.
9. Norfolk and Western-With
Virginia and Ohio coal roads.
10. Southern-Lines from Wash
ington south and southwest to Jack
sonville, Mobile New Orleans, Mem
phis and St. Louis.
II. Atlantic Coast Line-Louis-
vile and Nashville-Lines through
Southern territory. along coast line
and up through Alabama. Tennes-
see, Kentucky to Louisville and st.
Louis.
70. Illinois Central-Seaboard
Mississippi Valley lines with sea-
board routes through Southern tier
OF States to Savannah.
13. Union Pacihc-North0e
lines from Chicago to Portland and
Seattle.
Ia. Northern Pacihs-
Competing lines with Union Pacific
and lines along more Southern route
to San Francisco.
IS. Milwaukee, Great Northern
Transcontinental lines, Chicago tc
Portland ande Seattle along border
with connections in Canada.
16. Santa Fe Southern transcon-
tinental routes-Chicaso. Memphii
and New Orleans west to Los Angelo.
and San Francisco.
II. Southern Pacihc-Rock Is
land-Prairie lines from st. Pau
south to New Orleans, west to Lo,
Angeles and up coast to Seattle.
IS. Frisco Katy Cotton Belt
From Chicago and st. Louis south
west through cotton belt with con
nections to coast.
10. Chicago Missouri Pacific 90
Prairie in a broad belt from Chicag
and Omaha south to Delta coun
try.
Reductions in rates and a genera
rehabilitation Of the transportation
lines OF the country would resul
from the consolidation OF the rail
road systems tentatively proposed b.
the commission experts of the com
mission believe.
A huge saving in the operatinl
expenses OF any roads can be mad
by such plan, commission official
believe. Bankruptcy which con
tinually threatens some small line
could be averted in this manner
/ they say.
Congress, realizing the importanc
to the country of consolidation,
made provision in the Esch Cum
= minis law for such action. leaving
, to the discretion of the commission
5 Some high officials of the com
i mission are known to hold the opin
4 ion that only by such action can raj
{ road rates be cut to the pre- wa
level within the next ten years
e Strong opposition to the plan
It expected from some railroads.