Show ONE RAILWAY LINE MOSS ACROSS NATION i ROCKEFELLER ER PLANS PLANS LINKING i TOGETHER EXISTING E EXISTING ROUT ROUTES S INTO INJO ONE LINE Unless Ne New R Railroad Law Renders Such Combination Impossible Abundant Abundant dant C Capital pl al Will be Pla Placed ed Behind Single Trunk Line Washington Word Word has reached Washington Washington- that if the Esch railroad bill does not stand not stand In Inthe the way John D. D Rockefeller and affiliated capitalists capitalists cap cap- will soon launch a plan for tor linking together existing railroads Into a single tr transcontinental system to to extend ex ex- extend tend from both New York and Baltimore Baltimore Balti Balti- more to to San Francisco Francis o b by way of ot Ogden Utah The plan in contemplation Is similar to a scheme once proposed but never consummated by br E. E H H. Harriman In brief brIet It is proposed to link into one one transcontinental system a portion ol ot the Pennsylvania l and tind nd the New NewYork NewYork York Central with Rock Hock island Island Union Pa Pacific and Central Pacific in lit such a Q away away way as to connect New v York and Baltimore Baltimore Bal Bat with Pittsburg Cleveland Chicago Chi cago go Omaha Ogden and San Fran Fran- cisco Rockefeller interests after survey surveying lag ing the situation Ion are re reported report d to have havo concluded that upon the return of the railroads to their owners March 1 many of the trunk line roads will find themselves hard pressed financially By throwing an abundance of ot capital b back ck of a 11 single trunk line lne system across the entire continent tile Rockefeller Rockefeller Rockefeller Rocke Rocke- feller Inter Interests feel that adequate at and reliable transportation from coast to coast can be maintained over that one ono system regardless o of what hat happens to weaker eaker and ana competing i roads ads Rockefeller Is reported to h have ve gone far enough with negotiations to be assured assured as as- of adequate backing for his enterprise enterprise enterprise en en- and unless the new railroad law renders su such h a combination of ot railroads Impossible le this consolidation consolida consolida- tion would be permissible under the tho terms of the Pana Panama a canal canai act apt which whIch specifically permits the combinations of lines which ar are are extensions of of each other and which which are are not in tion A single single transcontinental system such as as s Ro Rockefeller er contemplates would be be bet t tapped at various poInts points by byroads byroads roads loads traversing g the IntermountaIn states It it is understood There Is now now under consideration no proposal to to h have ye more mol than th the one out outlet et on on t the e I Pacific coast oa t. t |