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Show HARRiftUN-HILL IN COMPROMISE Nnrlliern Securities Case Called 61 Fight of Three Years Will End In Peaceful Settlement. Set-tlement. Northern Lines Work Independently, but Burlington Will Work in Harmony Har-mony With Union Pacific. Special to The Tribune. NEW YORK. Jan 11 -The giants of the railroad world. Edward H Harrlman and James J Hill, will compromise Their differences will be amicably settled The Northern Securities will be dissolved and pass Into history, while the Northern systems, of which Hill Is the great power, will go on aa before, and the I nlon Pacific Pa-cific will pursue the even tenor of Its way. with the added advantage of having a cIob traffic arrangement with tho Burlington, Bur-lington, the latter a part of the Hill group of roads. Forcexi Hill s Hand. Harrlman. to whom is allied the great Kuhn Loeb. Speyer and Standard oil millions, mil-lions, has forced Hill to compromise, although It is an open secret that Hill j plan to build the Butte and San Francisco line was a bluff that workud well for a time In Toreing tho Issue Harrlman Har-rlman does not wish to enter Into any arranjrement with the two Northern lines, but the Burlington Is a direct connection con-nection of his Union Pacific, and this line will hereafter becottio an ally of the Oxcrlond Route. Harrlman Will Not Appeal Harrlman will not appeal from the recta re-cta court decision Involving the Northern North-ern Pacific stock In the Northern Securities Securi-ties . .ij.... !,:,( will tit. Id.- bv the last decision, and this means that the famous ri.ratli n which f..i nMciul ..ir-. h.t-stirred h.t-stirred financial circles to the very bottom, bot-tom, will become Inactive through Its own d ilne, and will soon pass Into memory. The threatened building of a line to San Francisco from Butte will be abandoned 0) Hill, and all will be at peace once more. For an Eastern outlet mil will still have his Baltimore St Ohio connections while Harrlman will work In harmony with the Vunderbllts. as has heretofore been detailed. Forming Big Consolidations. Without going Into on Illegal pooling of parallel roads, the great systems are tied up In Immense through lines, and within the year there will be several eomtrinstlona. reaching from the Atlantic to the laclflc, none of the combinations f.il lr.K' i. inter th bin of the l One road buying another, which means an extension of the first, is not slmhar to parallel or competing lines tied up In a trust, and so It will not be long before the Pennsylvania and the Santa Fe c Vanderbllt and Harrlman. the Morgan and Hill and the Gould groups will b operating through lines between the two great oceans |