Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1887 — THE RAILWAYS. [ARTICLE]

THE RAILWAYS.

A Nf.w York dispatch states that the of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad : Company lias passed into the hands of ; Alfred Sullv of Now York. Negotiations w ith President GnrTetthad been in progress ‘ for some time. Tins is the greatest and bids 1 fair to lie the most influential railway deal ; that has taken place in this country witbjn many years. It throws other affairs of tfio sort into the shade. The possibilities of this new control are beyond estimating. Hv the acquirement of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad—the one railway of the lnnd I that lias eter been considered out of I the market—Mr. Hally and his friends become controllers of what is probably the most extensive railway system in the world...i It stretches from New Y’ofk to almost the uttermost portions of the .South and fnr into the . \Vost. It includes the Central Railroad of New Jersey, (lie Philadelphia and Reading system, the Richmond Terminal and Richmond and Danvillo properties, the East Tennessee, Virginia und Georgia lines, the Central Railroad of Georgia, and-now, last o& all, the Raltimore and Ohio. And of all these properties there is to be made one greqt trunk line, with 16.000 miles of track. * A LEAD IN O hank President of New York, in commenting on the importance of the sale of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, said that the railroads represented in the purchasing combination, or in harmony with them, would have control of all the anthracite coal territory of the country. The Illinois Board of Railroad Commissioners has decided that the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Hnute Road must increase its passenger facilities between Benton and Duquoiu, a train to make a round trip each day. President Norman Wii.ei.vms of the Chicago, Santa Fe and California Railway officially announces the appointment of Mr. C. A. Armstrong as Purchasing Agent, his duties to begin at once, and the appointment of Mr. Emmons Blaine as General Freight and Passenger Agent, whose duties will begin April 1.