ry already occupied in a crude way in 1894, yet it had
acquired a large number of feeders and smaller railroads in other
sections. The Mobile and Ohio, operating with its branches about one
thousand miles from Mobile to St. Louis, Missouri; the Georgia Southern
and Florida, furnishing an important connection from the main system
to various points in the State of Florida; the Alabama Great Southern,
operating in and near the Birmingham district of Alabama--all these
properties were molded into the system during these years. The system
was then rounded out toward the North and consolidated through joint
control, with the Louisville and Nashville, of the Chicago, Indianapolis
and Louisville Railroad, which operated lines northward into Ohio
and Illinois and on to Chicago. Thus, with the lines of the Queen and
Crescent route running southward from Cincinnati to New Orleans, the
system secured a direct through line from its various southern points to
the shores of the Great Lakes.

In addition to these developments, the management of the Southern
Railway system arranged direct connection with Washington through the
joint acquisition with other lines of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac; it made traffic arrangements with the Pennsylvania and the
Baltimore and Ohio systems to Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York; and
it also developed close alliances with the coastwise steamships plying
northward from various Southern points.

In the reorganization of 1894 the Central of Georgia Railway system
was cut off and separately reorganized, although it remained under the
control of Morgan for a number of years. Finally in 1907 Morgan sold
his Georgia properties to Charles W. Morse. They subsequently passed to
Edward H. Harriman, who afterwards merged them into the Illinois Central
system, under which control they have since remained.

As compared with the old Richmond Terminal aggregation with its
broken-down rails and roadbed, poor equipment, and miserable service,
the modern Southern Railway system shows startling changes. The Southern
States have grown enormously in population and wealth during the last
generation; the industrial activities of the South at the present time
are elements of large importance to the country as a whole. Cities have
vastly increased in population; new towns and manufacturing districts
have been built up; and at the present there is scarcely a mile of
unprofitable railroad in the entire 9000 mil