The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 26, 1927, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT QUESTION OF WHETHER TO HAVE 4 OR 5 TRUNK LINES IS CENTER OF WAR OVER GROUPING OF RAILROADS Bee alge: Erie, Chesapeake Nearly 50,000 Miles of Rail-) ana Ob larquette and Hoe road With Capitalization of | The chief figures in the fight over | four or five line systems, with the! $4,500,000,000 Involved in) interstate Commerce — Commission ia [trying for a solution are Tangled Proposition—Huge! tea, president of the Penns; Struggle 5 ..| George F. Baker, dominant force in| Began Nearly) the Lehigh Valley and New York Seven Years Ago Central; Leonor F. Loree, head of the | Delaware and Hudson; ‘Daniel Wil-| |lare, president of the Baltimore and| |Uhio, and the Van Sweringens of the | Cleveland, ihe) "With the Transportation Act of | ) openly espousing great railroad) pnsolidations where there had for) pars been severe opposition to them,| the ‘the| &ged by the Interstate Cotamerce| Commission to evolve un amalgama-| Professor Ripley favored | rights from the Pennsylvania Rail- road. The Loree plan is said today to have undergone modifications. It is! reported that his fifth trunk line now contemplates using the Lehigh, Valley out of New York as an in-} dependent line to Easton, Pa., con-, necting with the Delaware and Hud-| son, then constructing a new railroad est to Dubois, Pa., to make a junc-| ion with the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh. { In the war of consolidation the, New York Central, Nickel Plate and Baltimore and Qhio took over the control of the Wheeling and Lake Erie. while the Baltimore and Ohio secured a minority interest in the Western Maryland. Jt was in the purchase of the stocks of these feed- er line railroads that brought about leaping prices for Wheeling and Lake Erie on the exchange recently and created what was in effect a corner of the stock. The Van Sweringens are still working on their second plan of grouping their interests but it was learned that instead of exchanges of! stocks of the roads for that of the Nickel Plate which brought opposi- tion from the Interstate Commerc y fifty of railroad with of $4,500,000,000 involved in the tangled question whether the nation’s| transportation business in the north-| eastern section of the United Stat shill be carried on four highly con- solidated trunk lines or a fifth sys- tem created by the building of new ain independ- n New York and the Mississippi V In the swirl securities th ey. nd flurry of railroad rise and fall on the in the veiled m t buying of feeder railroads und in the plan proposed for rail consolidation made by the Interstate Commerce Com- mission may be pieced together aj composite picture of a railroad war that has not its like in transportation history, 5 No Rate War Possible = No rate war impends or is bankers say, as in other stra tions in their own field the greatest amount of gross busi- ness. ven years ago this subter- ranean battle began with here and there only ce indications visible to the public. Today finds the ques- tion of a four or five trunk line sys- tem still unanswered with the forces led by the New York Central urging trunk arrangement — while F. Loree, president of the Del d Hudson. fights for a fifth t would link up the Dela- re and Hudson, the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh and the Wabash by new trackage in Pennsyl- nian with certain tr: the Pennsylvania railroad. Aligned with Loree in his fight arainst the New York Central, Bal- timore and Ohio and the Van Swe ingens it is indicated, is the Penn a four Leono age rights for the fifth trunk 1 jolt when the Buf Rochester and Pittsbu de clined the suggestion of the Inter- state Commerce Commission that the Loree of that line tinued. Wall Street bank if the Interstate Commerce sion decides finally to permit 1 acquire the Buffalo, Roche f ‘om The Four Trank Line Plan The four trunk line urged by the New York Centr: friends groups the following es: tral, with the a high Valley; the Buf rand Pittsburgh and 1-—-New York dition of t falo, Ro the Orta 2-—-The Baltimore and Ohio plus the Reading, Jersey Central, Ann Ar- Dor, the Monon, Buffalo and Susque hanne the Cincinnati, Indianapoli Vestern and the Western Mary el Plate plus the Lack Virginian, the Det: Toledo South Shore and possibly the! the| Hudson aggressively waged his cam- Wheeling and Lake Erie and Pittsburgh and West Virginia, 4—The Pennsylvania plus the Nor- folk and Western, the Grand Trunk Western and the C ago and Alton from Chicago to St, Louis. The grouping for the Nickel Plate route has been changed by the oper: Ations of the Van Sweringens who are trying to bring about combination STOP!! 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D., March 26.—(P) trunk line with the Lackawanna as{ istaste for mathematics and af the main stem to which would bei trend toward cultural studies is not! e; the Buffaio,! confined to high school students, for righ, the West) people who take correspondence ake! courses from the University of sermer and Lake Erie North Dakota have a kindred fecl- and ‘the Erie and Western. jing, figures given out by the ex- The Ripley plan left the Pennsy!-| tension department show. vania untouched except to take away!“ Only three enrolled for the muthe- from it the Norfolk Western’ matical subjects while 60 arc stud: which he fing some branch of English; 49 are nother cast and west system to taking education; 21 are. studying urallel the Chesapeake and Ohio. iology; eight are interested” in The Interstate Commerce Commis-| history and seven in languages. ion substituted in the Ripley plan| Fourteen are taking courses in the Leigh Valley for the main stem | economies and political seience, while the fifth system and gave the! five are studying commercial sub- wanna to. the ; assigned | jects, the Western Maryland to the New|” Journalistic ambitions are shown York Central and suggested that the] py three people who are studying | Baltimore and Ohio take over the! niagazine writing, and interest in the ; New Haven. ‘ |problems of youth is manifested by Sharp shooting commenced ight who are taking a course ‘ii the publication of the plan and the adolescence in the sociology depart" battle began. The plan seemed to ment. Shakespeare, usually a stand- 1 find no in any railroad quarter. by, has only two adherents in the ‘The New Yorx Central wanted the extension department, und poetry and Jersey Central and this provoked /exsay has nine, 18 preferring rhetoric open opposition from the Bultimore|tg the more ‘abstruse branches of and Ohio while the Pennsylvania pro-| English. Htested against being shorn of the, “In languages, French has drawn Norfolk and Western, \the most students and Spanish and New militant railroad forces came! German also have. supporters, Latin, upon the scene of conflict when the | | Van Sweringens appeared with their | plans for a trunk line system. They | Ripley's Plan Professor Ripley created a fifth Rochester ai ern Maryland, the Wheeling and Lak Be: inks abhorred by many high school stu- dents, draws three people. Students taking extension courses from the North Dakota university live in all parts of the country al- though the majority are from North Dakota, Minnesota and Montana, All but three of the 53 counties of North Dakota have one or more students enrolled in the work. Thirty stu- dents who completed one or more courses du: the year have enrolled for additional courses. ON MOTOR ROW | Willys-Knight Six Averages 24 Miles to Gallon of Gas An average of 24 miles to the gal- lon of gas on a 7,500-mile tour over the Rockies and Big Horn mountains, through muddy gnd rough roads as well as paved highways is the ac- complishment of a “70” Willys- Knight Six driven by Dr. E. F. Ties- sen, of Freeman, So, Dak. In describing the performance of his Willys-Knight, Dr. Tiesen has this to say in a letter to the Willys- Overland factory: “We made an average of 300 miles a day, the lowest average being vv miles, with 24 miles to the gallon of gasoline. We er had a hot engine, changed and grease every 1,000 miles. Never touched the en- gine ut any time to look for trouble and I have between 11,000 and 12,000 miles on the car now and have yet to remove the first spark plug. “We went through the Big Horn mountains, the Cascades twice, the Rockies twice and over the Continen- tal Divide twice but not once did we have to take any of the steep grades in medium or low, the Willys-Knight responding in high gear although we passed many larger sixes struggling along in medium and low,” Another Letter “In the same mail, comes an_un- solicited letter from Dr. F. M. Tur- ner of Savannah, Ga., who tells of the sturdy performance of his Willys-Knight Great Six in a journey through the Blue Ridge mountains and across the states of North and South Carolina. “Not until [ drove off in this si- lent Willys-Knight did I realize that the motoring of yesterday is not to be compared with the new sensation of case, luxury and comfort afforded by this new monarch of the road.” he declares, “We have covered nearly 7,000 miles with our Willys-Knight Great Six and have yet to find our first engine or car trouble.” J. M. Stevens, Indianapolis, has Nickel Plate the Lehigh ¢ and Ohio. The Plate, the esapeake and Ohio.’ Pere and Hocking! Val \ s Proposals Discarded | proposals went into d certain executives s planned a four} This plan, still) urged by the New York Cen- . was opposed by Samual Rea, the Pennsylvania, and! vania. © found that the four trunk left the Delaware and Hud- | s ally isolated, He pro-' | substitute a fifth trunk| line made up of the Delaware and} \ Hudson; Lehigh Valley, the West! Shore, Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts- burgh with a quarter interest in the Reading and Jersey Central, Loree Bessermer. and Lake | faryland and Wheel- | ' The head of the Delaware and paign, while this plan was being formulated, by securing options on the Buffalo. Rochester and Pitts- | burgh and then threw a bomb in the | railroad camps by asking the Inter- state Commerce Commission permis- sion to bufld a line acros$ Pennsyl- from Easton, to Pittsburgh! asking certain trackage! | vania and also ing metropolitan centers throughout the country—these two finer Sixes have won enthusiastic praise wherever they were shown. Alzeady sales have climbed to new high starter, gencrator, authorized Service Station for —and behind Batteries, SATISFACTION this record of success strong substantial reason. : ee Experienced motorists have learned that in flexibility — acceleration —climbi . economy —long life—and low depreciation— this type of car is without a rival. They have learned that the Knight sleeve-valve engine means no valves to grind—no carbon- cleaning—no springs to weaken. And finally they have found in these two fine * cars a superiority of coachwork and | of interior finish that are unsurpassed in the fine car field. G BACK . A defunct used car can be cheaply doctored up so that it will purchaser carry the M. 5. GILMAN CO. Mroanway at secunnD sr. | PHONS sos BIisSmMancn CAR IS ONLY AS DEPENDABLE THE DEALER WHO SELLS IT | et of the performance of His Willys-Knight Great Six Sedan: A Great Climber Willys-Knight dan from Indianapolis to Cali- I covered the distance of 2,833 in nine days, averaging from to 401 miles a day. T used 139 gallons of gasoline, 14 quarts of oil and averaged 19.2 miles to the gallon of fuel. I met a few faster cars on the level road, but I passed every- thing in the mountains.” These letters are merely samples of the hundreds that pour into the Willys-Overland offices from Willys- Knight owners who appreciate the engineering features . embraced in these cars which are not found in any other American built automo- biles in their price class. Safety Principles | Must Be Observed Several million automobiles which are either: newly manufactured or have been in storage for the winter, will come out of hiding during the next few months. according to figures prepared today by Henry & Henry. Most of these will be private pass- enger cars. When the season is in full bloom, so to speak, there will be upwards of twenty-two million cars in opera- tion and then, Mr. Henry adds, the; “peril of the road” period begins. “The United States," said = Mr.! Henry, “has more accidents each year than any other country in the world. During 1926, this cofntry; had upwards of 90,000 fatal accidents, and of this appalling total 24,000 deaths were caused by automobiles. While the automobile has brought pleasure to countless ions, and has revolutionized transportation, it ix, neverthelis, the most dangerous single invention of modern times. “W. H. Cameron, managing direc- tor of the National Safety Council. recently said that eradjeation of what has come to be known: as the ‘automobile menace,’ rests with the three principles upon which all safe ty work is based: Education, en-, gineering, and the enforcement of traffic regulations. “Government officials,” Mr. Henry continued, “have been taking an un- usual interest in the automobile sit- uation. Model acts suggested by the national conference on street and highway safety, sponsored by Secre-! tary of Commerce Herbert Hoover,’ if passed by all states, would eradi- tin mind.’ cate many things which cause auto- mobile accidents at present. “Speme of these suggestions are for uniform’ speed laws, uniform penalties, and uniform operators’ and chauffeurs’, acts. The passages of these and sim- ilar legislation, Mr, Hoover's com- mittee believes, would make for more comfortable interstate. automobile Fai dpe 4 while. uniform legislation would obviate such infringement that a motorist in going out of his own into another state might make in his ignorance of another commonwealth’s laws, Such infringement, often in- nocently perpetrated, may cause ac- cidents, “Automobile accidents,” concluded, “can be greatly reduced if each of us will keep the common sense principles of safety uppermost New Chrysler Coupe : Sales Please Makers One of the striking new cars dis- played for the first time at the re- cent national and local automobile shows was the new Chrysler “60” two-passenger coupe with rumble seat. This coupes said by officials of the Chrysler corporation to be meet- ing with exceptionally generaous pub- lie reception and they are predicting notable popularity for it. The car is making a special appeal, its makers because of its at- tractive color. combination of wills green “with , flaminge carmine and gold bronze striping, and its uphol- stering: in a Zine gri of mouse gray mohair. ‘urther favorable comment has been aroused, according to the. makers, by attractive outlines resulting from the use of the new small wheels, by the gracefull round- ed rear windows; the smooth sweep- ing curves of the rear deck; and the smart, brisk appearance of the body as a whole. Among the other features reported to be much liked in the new car is the control of the rear window by a crank regulator which lowers the glass out of sight and not only per- mits free conversation between oc- cupants of the front and rumble seats but provides full ventilation for the body of the car when desired. The unusual refinements of the new “60” instrument panel are reported to assist in creating an impression of exceptional interior luxury. Appointments of the special coupe, which its makers declare are un- usually numerous and desirable, in- clude a spacious rumble seat, trim- med in moleskin imitation leather; rear view mirror; automatic wind- shield wiper; bullet type head and cowl lamps; smartly barred, Butler finished hardware with domelight to match; heavy rubber floor mats and kick plates below each door. Dealers’ reports to the factory in- dicate that the new coupe is éspecial- ly liked by women drivers on account of its unique construction, pleasing appearance and ease of hi its compactness, performance, carrying capacity and economy of upkeep are mend it to profession: small famili men and Two Improved, Finer Sixes More Luxurious—even Greater Power Engineering Leadership enthusiastically endorsed }VER was the trend toward the Will judged solely from the standpoi N'koigee Six more pronounced than ic is = aastey aad — life no other type today. 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