Show GOULD AND HARRIMAN the control of wabash is the all absorbing subject in railroad circles the bearing the contest has on the railroad situation is 0 much concern to Ogden ites A high authority on railroad affairs says it Is interesting to note at this juncture that J pierpont pont morgan jr has been elected a director 0 the western pacific railroad the westerns We sterns interests have been joined with those of the wabash as links in common in the gould chain of transcontinental under one management morgans presence in the western dictor ato indicates that the morgans arc backing gould in tho wabash light which is not surprising considering the bitter between the elder morgan and harriman engendered by the northern securities litigation is believed to taj the power behind ramsey and his support is suspected of being given to contuse Gould tf transcontinental plans which naturally threaten to impair the interests of the union pacific and southern pacific companies there Is nothing in tho present struggle however to indicate that anything but the fate of tho wabash Is involved tho western pacific railroad has out of tho line of danger and it is probable thai both sides in the wabash fight are committed to its construction which Is now in progress J D rockefeller is a largo western pacific bondholder and is in te rested in the wabash but nothing he has said or done so far throws any light on his status in the fight for the control of the latter temporarily at least gould Is in control whether ahe will continue to hold his position bo determined after tha injunction suit is settled and tho regular annual election of the wabash Is hald the latter is assuming the shape of a battle royal between the great railroad operators and financiers of the country |