The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-29
OUR RAILROADS.
Notes, News and Personals Here and Along
the Lines,

NVtCot NOWp 1uu xOIbUAhib 1lGIt thu hAVub
the Lines.
An O. & NJ. freight train brought ip
seventeen tramps yesterday.
The wife of Mr.. John II. Jordan, a fore.
man on the NJ. & G., is lying very sick
The boys of the @. & NJ. We're made happy
Thursday by the arrival OF the pay
Seven car loads Of cmigrants bound foI
the West. passed over the o. & NJ. Wednes
day.
The managers of the Little Miami Road
are negotiating for electric light for the
Cincinnati depot.
Mr.. NJ. f.. ingalls,, President and Receiver
OF the l., G. & L., has been in New York
during the past week.
The track laying on the Cincinnati
Southern is said to be progressing at the
rate of half mile day.
Mr. John Jacobs, outside clerk of the o.
& NJ. yards at Storrs, was recently pre-
sented with an amethyst ring.
Mr.. Charles S. Cone, Jr., General Ticket
Agent of the 0. & NJ. Road with headquar-
tiers at st. Louis is in the city.
The President of the Nashville & Chatta.
nooga Railroad passed through the city
w tuItSuuy th 1NCh Iolh.
During the week large quantity of cot
ton has passed over the Q. q NJ, bound for
Lowell, Chicopee and Providence.
Mr. Geo Knapp, engineer of engine No.
80, on the M. & G., has just recovered from
severe sickness and is again at his post.
Mr.. AL. Spurgur, Assistant Yardmaster Of
the NJ. u c., in this city, was robbed of his
watch while on Fourth street one day this
week.
| The eleventh annual report of the c., c.,
G. 4 I. shows that the net earnings of the
road during the year were 3.65 per cent. on
| the stock and bonds
The l., c. & L. road have been so pressed
with business lately that the company were
obliged to press several passenger engines
into the freight service.
Mr.. Charles Brent, who has been in tho
Cincinnati office OF the Louisville Short
line for five years, has been appointed Con-
tractng Agent for the road.
Mr.. e. A. Ford, General Passenger Agent
of the st. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern
Railway, with headquarters at St. Louis, is
stopping at the Grand Hotel.
The Cincinnati L. Eastern Railroad pro.
pose to complete their line to Portsmouth
l
confident of making the road success.
Mr.. John Burns brakeman on the o. q
NJ, who had two fingers amputated recent
ly has been obliged to undergo a second
amputation and is now lying very low.
Conductor Col. Wm. H. Martin, OF the
morning train on the c., II. & D., from
Dayton TO Cincinnati, was recently present
ed with fine nickel-plated lamp by Cap
tain John Devenney.
Mr.. J. C. Guthrie, recently Of Chicago
has accepted the position OF General Agent
of the Atlantic & Great Western. with
Headquarters at Cincinnati. Mr.. Guthrie
was formerly resident Of this city.
Mr.. C. A. Hasett, General Agent fol
the Ohio g. Mississippi Railroad, and well
, known in this city, has received the flatter
ing appointment OF Southeastern Agent fol
the Iron Mountain Railroad. His head
quarters will be at Chattanooga, Tennessee
,, 1t is expected that the Little Miam
, freight department, which is now situated
on the south side of the passenger depot
/ will be removed to Front street, and tn,
restaurant and ticket office be allotted tht
space now occupied by the freight, giving
up the space now occupied by them to ;
l fine passenger waiting room.
Since the Wabash and Vandalia Road
Withdrew from the pool combination at st
Louis, considerable anxiety has been mani
r fest among the railroad men of this city re
specting the fate of the pool combination
in this city. No one seems willing to ex
press definite opinion, but Should thes
two lines cut on rates East general rail
u way war is anticipated.