Show 0 I FOUR GREAr-f GREAr LINES AND PROPOSED FIFTH I Wr W- M r rVAN VAN LINES a Ij LOREE LINES LINES' NEWYORK YORK CENTRAL LINES fl I J 1 d dI I 1 PENNSYLVANIA LINES LINES' A BALTIMORE OHIO LINES lIN j t i WHEELING LAKE ERIE RIE R. R L W SiEr N MARYLAND RR HL H I I J M I T t J A rE 4 MILWAUKEE Q O R I t d i Q EV AND a r N 1111 t NW ORK PEORIA 1 r T LV I I fJ i ir r 1 e Q The relation of the various railroads railroads involved in the pro posed shift shifting ing of the eastern railroad lineup is shown on the A r above map a y The fifth trunk line proposed by L L. L F F. Loree links the follow M ing roads Delaware Hudson a r I Buffalo I Rochester pittsburg r Lehi Lehigh h Voile Valley New York Pitts Pitts- 1 sS 4 a v r burg Chicago to be constructed con con- st g a strutted from Easton to Pitts z 44 3 r 1 bur burg the Wabash the Wheeling Wheeling Wheel Wheel- c ing Lake Erie Western Mary r 4 r land Pittsburg West Virginia Vir Vir- w. w ginia Ann Arbor Akron Canton Can Can- C ton Youngstown Washington sly y I Western MInneapolis St St. Louis i f The map also shows the relation rela rela- tion of the Wheeling Lake y Erie and the Western Maryland to the lines of the two rival e the groups New York ork Central s 's Baltimore Ohio and Van lines on one hand t tand and the Loree lines and the Pennsylvania on the other By i 7 gaining ni es domination O ia York y frk L P. P LOREE C GEO F BAKER DANIEL WILLARD MJ VAN SWEARINGEN OP OP VAN WA D. D 0 and tho Van NIk Pia ym SWING put an obstacle In the way of r a Lorees Loree's merger plans Nearly Miles of Railroad Between Atlantic At- At lantic and Mississippi Involved in War for Control Now Being W Waged ag d Between en Captains of Industry NEW KEW YORK March 18 AP- AP The checkerboard war of the Eastern eastern East East- ern trunk line a llers to capture the rich railroad business that lies between the Atlantic seaboard and the Mississippi 1 river continues unabated un- un un- un abated while quiet moves rare are planned by the of the railroad raIlroad raIl raIl- road industry Nearly fifty fifty- thousand miles of railroad with a capitalization of f 4 i j are involved In the tangled question whether the nations nation's transportation trans trans- business In the rth nc-rth- I eastern section of the Uni United ted states ta tes shall be carried on four highly consolidated trunk lines or A A. fifth System created by the buildIng of new to connect certain independent lines between NewYork New York and the Mississippi valley In the swirl and flurry of railroad rail rail- railroad road securities that rise and fallon fall fallon on the stock exchange in the veiled moves of quiet buying by railroad interests of fee feeder er railroads and Inthe In Inthe the plan proposed for rail consolidation consoli- consoli dation made by the interstate t pom- pom merce commission may be pieced together together to- to gether a composite picture of a rail rail- road war that that not has not itS like In transportation history ry STRUGGLE OF GIANTS No rate war impends or is possible possible pos pos- sible the bankers say as In ether days but It is a struggle of carrier carrier car car- rier giants to organize organize tl their stra- stra positions in their awn wn field and obtain the greatest amount of i gross gross' business once seven years ago tl this s subterranean sub sub- battle battle began with here I and there only surface indications visIble to the public Today finds the question of a four or five trunk unk line system still unanswered with the forces led by the New York Central urging a four trunk arrangement arrangement ar- ar while Leonor F. F Loree president of the Delaware Hud Hud- Hudson son fights for a fifth system that would link up the Delaware Hudson the Buffalo Rochester r Pittsburg and the Wabash by new in Pennsylvania with certain certain tain rights eights over the Hie Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania railroad Aligned with Loree Loree Lo- Lo ree In his fight against the NewYork New lork York Central Baltimore Ohio and the Van SW it is Indicated indicated in- in Is the Pennsylvania Lorees Loree's plan for the fifth trunk line sustained a jolt when the Buffalo Buffalo falo Rochester Pittsburg declined de- de cUned the tho suggestion of the interstate interstate inter inter- state commerce commission that the Loree option on that line Une be continued Wall van street bankers sa say that it if the Interstate commerce commission decides finally to permit permit per per- mit Loree to acquire the Buffalo Rochester Pittsburg the head of the Delaware Hudson will again seek Us its acquisition LINE FOUR SYSTEM The four trunk line system as urged by the New Central and its friends friend's groups the followIng following follow follow- Ing loves lones The I-The New York Central with the addition or of the Lehigh Valley the Buffalo Rochester Pittsburg and the Ontario Western Vestern The 2 Baltimore Ohio plus the Reading Jersey Central Ann Arbor Arbor Ar- Ar bor the Monon Buffalo Susquehanna Susquehanna Sus- Sus the Cincinnati U Indianapolis olis Western Vestern and the Western Maryland The 3 Nickel Plate Plat plus the Lackawanna Virginian the Toledo South Shore and possibly possibly bly the Wheeling Lake Erie II and the Pittsburg West Vest Virinia The 4 PennsYlvania plus the Norfolk Western the Grand Trunk Western Vestern and the Chicago Alton AIton from Chicago to St 81 LouIs The grouping for the NickelPlate Nickel Plate route has been changed by the ope operations op- op of the e Van S. S who are trying to bring van about A A. combi- combi I nation of the NIckel Plate Erie Eric Chesapeake e Ohio Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley The chief figures in fight ever vel the four lr or line five systems with the interstate commerce commer e sion on trying for a solution are Samuel flea Rea president of the Penns Pennsylvania Penn Penn- s sylvania George F. F Baker dumi- dumi nant force In the LehIgh Valley and New York Central Leonor 1 F. F Loree head of the Delaware Hudson Hudson Hud Hud- son Daniel Willard Villard president of of- of the Baltimore OhIo and the Van Yan of Cleveland RIPLEY'S PLAN With the transportation net act of 1920 openly espousing great reat railroad railroad rail rail- road consolida consolidations where there had for years ears been severe opposition to toI them President Ripley of Harvard was engaged by the interstate commerce commerce com com- merce commission to evolve an amalgamation plan Professor Profesor Ripley Rip HIp ley favored a trunk five line 8 system tern tem namely the Pennsylvania the New York Central Baltimore I Ohio the Erie and the creation ofa of I a fifth system He further I 1 posed to award the Jersey Central and the Reading to the BaltImore Ohio the Lehigh Valley to the Erie EIle to which would be added the Wabash Professor Protessor Ripley created a fifth trunk line with the Lackawanna awanna ns its the tha main stem to whIch be bedded be added the Nickel Nick l Plate the Buffalo Rochester t Pittsburg the Western Western West West- ern Maryland the Wheeling Lake Erie the Bessemer Lake Crie and the Lake Lal e Erie Western The plan left the Penns PennsylVania Pennsyl- Pennsyl Ivania I vania untouched except to t take takeaway ke away from it West West- tern which he wanted as the nucleus nucleus nu- nu cleus of another east and west ays- ays tern em tp tl parallel the Chesapeake e Ohio MAKES SUBSTITUTION The rhe interstate commerce commission commission com com- mission substituted in the plan the Lehigh Valley for the main stem slem for the fifth system and gave the Lacka Lackawanna wanna to the Erie assigned assigned as- as signed the Western estern Maryland i to the New York Central and suggested that the Ohio tale take over the New Haven commenced with wilh the ca cation tion of the tho plan and the battle began The plan seemed to find no fa favor VOl in any t ter I The New York Central wan wanted led the Jersey Central and this provoked pro pro- I oven opposition r 10 n th the Baltimore Ohio while the Penn Penn- j sylvania l protested agaInst being shorn of the Norfolk Western New ew militant railroad forces came upon the scene of conflict when the Van appeared with their plans for a trunk line lines system s stem They opposed joining the Nickel Plate with the Lackawanna or the Lehigh but wanted the Chesapeake e Ohio Van later suggested sug the consolidation of the Nickel el Plate the Erie Chesapeake e Ohio Marquette and Hocking Valley Valle PLANS DISCARDED All previous proposals went into tho discard and certain executives of eastern railroads planned a tour four line Une trunk system This plan llan still being urged by tine tle New York Central Cen- Cen was opposed by Samuel Ilea Hea president of the Pennsylvania and brought Leonor F. F Loree back from froma a a European vacation and caused the Baltimore Ohio and the Van forces to join Issue with the New ew York Central as against the Pennsylvania Loree found that the trunk tour line plan left the Delaware Hudson Hud Hud- son practically isolated II He e proposed proposed pro pro- posed a substitute a fifth trunk line made up of oC the Delaware Hudson Lehigh Valley the West Vest Short Buffalo Rochester burg with a Quarter Interest In the Reading and Jersey Central Loree also wanted the Bessemer Lake Erie Elle Western Vestern Maryland and Wheeling Lal Lake e Erie The head of the Delaware Hudson Hudson Hud Hud- son aggressively waged his campaign cam cam- while this plan was being formulated by securing options on thE Buffalo Rochester Pittsburg and 1 threw aro mb in in Ehe tHe railroad railroad rail rail- road camps by asking the asking the interstate commerce commission permission to build a line Uno across Pennsylvania from Easton Pa to Pittsburg and also asking certain rights from the Pennsylvania Pennsyl raIlroad MODIFIES PLAN The he Loree plan Is said today to have undergone modifications Itis It Itis is reported that his fifth trunk line Une now contemplates using the Lehigh Valley out of Vew ew York as an Independent independent inde- inde pendent line to Easton 1 Pa 1 connecting connecting con con- with the Delaware Hudson Hud Hud- son son then constructing a new railroad railroad rail rail- road west to Dubois Pa to make a junction with the Buffalo Rochester Rochester Roch- Roch ester Pittsburg In tho war of consolidation the New York Central Nickel Plate and Baltimore Ohio took over the control of the Wheeling Lake Erie while the Baltimore Olio secured a minority interest in the Western Vestern Maryland It was the purchase se of the stocks of these feeder line that brought about leaping prices for Wheeling Lake Erie on the exchange recently and created what was in effect a corner of the stock The 1 he Van are still working on their second plan of oC grouping their Interests but it waS learned that instead of exchanges of stocks of the roads for that of the Nickel Plate which brought opposition opposition op- op II position from the interstate commerce commerce com com- merce commission It Is now contemplated contemplated con con- to have the numerous Van roads buy stock interests in- in interests in each other |