Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1887 — THE RAILWAYS. [ARTICLE]

THE RAILWAYS.

There is some gossip in regard to an alliance ' between Jay Gould and Austin Gorbin for joint control of the Reading and Jersey Central Roads, as the first step toward the extension of the Southwestern system to S«/w York. : The greatest puzzle in the interstate commerce law is the clause exempting from its operations mileage, excursion, and com-, mutation tickets. The General Passenger

I '* i - : ; agents recommend a uniform rate of cents for,mileage tickets. Ja v Gould is stated to have acquired tha controlling interest in the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, and after tbo next 4 '■ i *** : annual meeting, at which be will have a ; majority representation, the 'Frisco will he I a fulLlledgeJ number of the Missouri | Pacific system, and will be qperated throughout by Missouri Pacific officials. . A cylindrical tunnel with a diameter of six feet is being bored, under the SL Clair i River at Port Huron, ns a test for a Grand | Trunk railway connection The Minnesota nnd Northwestern Rond has withdrawn from the freight pool on account of dissatisfaction with the percentages awarded it.