Evening star., 1927-10-07
BIC POWER TRUCE
IS BELIEVED MADE
Philadelphia Electric and
Consolidated of Baltimore
Thought in Harmony.
Disnatrh to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, October "A truce
is believed to have been declared in the
fight between the Consolidated Electric
Light & Power Co. of Baltimore and
the Philadelphia Electric Co, promot-
ers of the $52,000,o00 hydroelectric
plant at Conowingo, under which the
companies will share in the distribu-
ton Of current from their respective
plants at HOLLYWOOD and Conowingo.
This is given credence here by the
fact that the Northern Maryland
Power Co. which is allied with the
Philadelphia Electric, has failed to ap-
peal to the courts from the recent
ruling of the Public Service Commits
sion granting permission to the Con-
solidated Gas & Electric Co. of Bal
timore to extend it's lines into Havre
de Grace. where the Northern Mary
land Co. has a franchise.
1t is also said that the United Gas
Improvement Go. of Philadelphia,
owned by the interests controlled by
Treasury Secretary Mellon, having re-
Gently obtained control of the Phila.
delphia Electric Co, now will seek to
extend it's holdings north of Pennsyl-
and south of the Maryland field
through companies seeking to tap the
Potomac River supply.
Northern Maryland Subsidiary.
1t developed during the hearing be.
fore the Maryland Public Service Com
mission the Northern Maryland Co.
is a subsidiary of the Philadelphia
Electric Co.
Arthur w. Thompson, president of
the United Gas Improvement Co, is
member of the board of directors
of the Consolidated. having been elect
ed about year ago.
1t is now believed Thompson, con-
trolling the Philadelphia Electric Co.,
will be able to work out a satisfactory
arrangement through which the fight
between the Consolidated and the
Philadelphia Electric can be entirely
eliminated
In such an event, observers say,
harmony of interests could be obtain
ed more adyantageOuSly than through
merger of the Consolidated and
Philadelphia Electric. which recently
had been forecast.
Such an agreement, it is pointed
out. would not only eliminate the
fight between the two companies for
preferred position, but would enable
them to pool their interests in further
extension plans both north and south
of the Maryland field.
Potomac River Survey.
Not long ago the Federal Power
Commission gave permission to
wealthy Cleveland and Chicago power
interests TO make survey of the Poto-
mac River with a view of building two
giant dams on the stream for hydro
electric Development
.1i, fjtncn rterht iS hGliaLnH
interests in which Mellon also is said
to be involved financially will seek to
supply electric power to the rich indus
trial field all the way from the Dis
trict of Columbia to the Gulf of
Mexico.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, in the
e1ectrifcation of its lines from New
York to Washington, will offer the
most desired field for the power com.
panies both north and south of Phila
delphia.
The railroad company already has
awarded contracts for the electrical
ton CT it's lines from Media, Pa, to
Wilmington, and not long ago Supt.
Smith of the Baltimore Wilmington di-
vision of the Pennsylvania said the
company soon will be ready to con
slider electrification plans over its sys-
tenn through Maryland and into the
District of Columbia.
The reported truce between the Con-
solidated and Philadelphia Electric
would enable the Pennsylvania to get
the advantage of the combined serv-
ice OF the two electric companies.