Show corporations AND RAIL ROADS UNLESS the people go down into abject subservience to and dependence upon a few capitalists it would seem that the great battle of the future will be between corporation and cooperation operation co do there is a third possibility that great corporations through rivalry and jealousy will reenact re ro enact the battle of bf the kilkenny cats and devour each other leaving botho people the spoils tho the railroads aro arc among the most powerful ejof tho the corporative combinations at the present and some of them are actively devising ways and means of extending and perpetuating dor der nor petua ting their power a few feni of them contemplating and inaugurating schemes of imposing extent and importance two powerful combinations are striving fb for the monopoly of the vast carrying trade between the atlantic and pacific oceans the van party control the tile new york chicago and san francisco eimu rimu cisco route and the pennsylvania arbur are arranging to control the atlantic and pae par pacific inic and the texas and pacific with col thomas A ascott scott at the head bead the building of this road ive ivd westward stward is being pushed with energy vanderbilt V Is building a new and I 1 additional double track specially for freight oh oil the new york central from albany to duffalo buffalo miles to relieve the frequent accumulations mu lations of western freight A third of this new track is laid and the whole may bb within two years yearb scott stott is endeavors endeavoring ng to effect arrangements range ments to have a clear elear track from halifax nr S to san diego cal cai hoping bocatch to catch the european E u rot rol and transcontinental travel the principal route of this great line would be by the atlantic and pacific the Van dallan danan the pittsburg cincinnati and stlouis the pennsylvania the new tensey jensey tersey jersey central tiie the new york and new england the boston and eastern the maine central and the M european european and north american and inter colonial road roads the company building new and shorter korter borter roads where necessary and the route saving a day and a aalfs time from liverpool to new york or san francisco over the vanderbilt route by new york this is a bold and magnificent undertaking and if pushed through vigorously as it is likely to be will do much to 11 develop the south on and near where it passes |