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Show WHO OWNS THE RAILROADS? Five Men Control the Vast System 1 ' of National Transportation. (World's Work.) Here. then, is a vast continent belted. I and banded, and cross-crossed with 200. ""O : f miles of railroad. Many of the roads are systems controlled by groups of men outside the five large syndicates. But I practically half the stupendous network. affecting in one way or another every in- ; habitant of the country, is in possession , ' s: of five little bodies of men with head- ouarters in New York. A strip of land hundreds of miies wide, beginning at the , s Washington ports in the northwest and sweeping east to the lakes, is practically . ; an industrial field of Mr. Hill and Mr. j MorRan. 1 I In Mr. Harriman's hands in some meas- r tire is the prosperity of California and the southwestern states, as well as of a broad strip up the Mississippi valley, a fertile band through the prairie states. i and all the habitable land reaching west f from the Rockies to the coast. The ecu- f tral Atlantic states live to the rhytum , of the New York Central and the Penn- ; svlvania railroad. It is true that one can iro from Boston to San Francisco, from ; the jtulf to St. Paul, and travel not a mile on the roads of the railroads giants. j but onlv through a narrow pathway and for the most part within view of competing com-peting syndicate lines on cither side. i When it is remembered, furthermore, ; that Morgan men are directors in Vander- bilt roads. Hill men in Pennsylvania roads. Gould men in Harriman roads, and ; ; that every other possible interweaving of 1 t common control exists throughout the great groups, the lints of demarcation J melt awav and we see dimly outlined a - j-condition j-condition of affairs which may possibly take the hue of monopoly. . i |