Show Railroad Racket Chicago 6The officials of the LakeShore Lake-Shore road are densely ignorant of the programme for the lightning express and the public are informed from official sources Elsewhere it is said that Vanderbilt Van-derbilt has met so many difficulties in Competing with the Pennsylvania roads fast time that be has given up the fast train from Chicago to New York and will not attempt to beat the Pennsylvania time from New York to the west The difficulty arises from the longer route of the Vanderbilt combinations and from the jealousy of the Michigan Central and Canada roads which must be left out in the cold City of Mexico 6The Senate approved ap-proved the rbilroad concession granted to Frisbie and De Cress for Huntington and Gould respectively and at the request re-quest of the President abrogated the authority au-thority of the executive to grant railway concessions but authorizing him to alter existing ones and transfer those forfeited New York 7Insiders believe the secret of Erie will become public property pro-perty this week The open secret is likely to be the fact that English holders of Central in Erie have requested Gould to take the presidency of the company and name ten directors It is said among the ten will be Gould Sage Humphrey I Dillon and four members of the present board on friendly terms with Vanderbilt I Vander-bilt and with the Pennsylvania Company Com-pany The Pennsylvania company is said to be ready to make a satisfactory agreement with the new combination Semiofficially it is stated that the Huntington Hun-tington syndicate has bought 60 per cent of the stock and bonds of the Cincinnati Indianapolis and Chicago road in the interest of the Chesapeake and Ohio system A road is being built to give the Cincinnati Indianapolis and Chicago a direct connection with the Rock Island read and establish a great trunk line from northwest to Newport London was a large buyer of Erie on Saturdao one firm purchasing 20000 shares Louisville I Louis-ville New Albany and Chicago stock is I reported scarce Hannibal 7The annual meting of the Hannibal and St Joe WEB held today when 96000 shares of stock were voted Jay Gould Russell Sage Enoch Pratt and Julius Halgarten were retired from the directory by their own request |