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...were acting as agents, but for whom they would not state. After many questions, denials and guesses, however, it was stated, unofficially but definitely, that the purchaser was not Baltimore & Ohio but Pennsylvania R. R. Whether the Pennsylvania would keep Canton for itself or sell it to the friendly Wabash road was not announced.* It appeared evident, however, that the Pennsylvania, long opposed to Baltimore & Ohio expansion, had made a successful foray into the heart of the hostile camp...
...once rumored that Louise Dresser was the sister of Novelist Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser had a brother, Paul, who changed his name to Dresser and gained fame by writing songs ("On the Banks of the Wabash," "My Gal Sal"). Paul Dresser, not Theodore Dreiser, was the friend, not the brother, of Louise. He knew her at a time when he was selling candy on a train which ran through Indiana. Louise, nee Kerlin, came to the station to meet her father who was a conductor on the same train. Conductor Kerlin was killed in a railroad wreck; Louise brought...
...City Southern and the Cotton Belt was essential to the southern portion of the Loree plan. The northern portion has, of course, long since collapsed. So passes from the rail consolidation stage Juggler Loree, shrewd and potent but faced with too heavy odds. Two of his stage "properties" - the Wabash and the Lehigh Valley roads - are prominent in the present rail-merger performance. Headliners of this program are the Two Van Sweringens, Oris Paxton and Mantis James. To the Interstate Commerce Commis sion came last week a somewhat peculiar request. Briefly, the petitioner - Nickel Plate R. R. - asked permission...
...could this weak-at-the-ends situation be remedied? Very easily, said the B. & O. last week. First, let us take over the Wabash. Running west from Buffalo and Toledo, the Wabash goes through Indiana and Illinois, gives us an additional line into St. Louis and an entirely new line into Kansas City, Des Moines and Omaha. Then if we could also have the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville, and the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, and build a new line south from Toledo through Ohio, we would have our northern arm (Toledo to Chicago) and our southern arm (to St. Louis) nicely connected...
Surely hostile will be the Pennsylvania, which only last year bought control of the Wabash and might well object to relinquishing this major line (2,400 miles). The Pennsylvania is also understood to be sympathetic with the ambitions of Charles Farrand Taplin, who is trying to put together a fast coal route from Toledo to the Atlantic and all of whose prospective roads (particularly the Western Maryland) are included in the B. & O. plan. The Pennsylvania, affluent, central, well satisfied with existing conditions, has no more reason to applaud new consolidations than Great Britain had reason to applaud Napoleon...