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Show NEW YORK CEHTRAL i secures lakes to glCco:;;:ectio:i Will Be First Real Competitor Competi-tor of Harriman's IU1- nois CentraL CHICAOO. Vune . H. The New Tork Central Mm have entered Into a traffic acreemeert with the Ioulovule Naah-vlile Naah-vlile railroad which practloally (Ives the former a lake to the gulf line, according to aa "article la' the Inear-Oceaa today. The article aay: "With the . announcement made . laat alht by officials of the Chleaso, Indiana aVAitbern railroad that oa July 1 that road would run Ita Prat train from Chi. ease Into Bvansvllls, tad., the first atea of what may prove a sreat railroad war wee taken. - With the brtnain to a auo-ceeaful auo-ceeaful .oonaummatloa of tha nlane of the former owner and builder of th road, John R. Walah, th Chleaso banker now In . th federal prleon at Lavnworth. Kan., tha hande of two of the srateat railroad powera. the Vanderbllte end th Harttmil Inureata, were ehown already ensased In a etrueele to set control of the - sulf traffic, which will reault from Use opening of the Panama canal. "For With tha opanlns of th old Walih railroad to tha Ohio river by the vennr-bilt vennr-bilt tntereete, which control 11 throutrh their, Naw York Central llnee, a tramc asreemant haa bean entered Into with the Loulaville A Kaahvlll railroad which practli-allr ,lv. th Naw York Central llnee a Chlreso lake to tha sulf lln and which hrinsa the flrat actual oompetlton the ,Karrtman great lakee to the sulf line, th Ullnol Csnual, -ever expert-l expert-l enoed." ' ' |