The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-18
OUR RAILROADS.
News, Points and Personals Here and
Along the Lines.

The L, @. & l. pay-car was in the city
Thursday.
The old c., H. & D. Railroad stock has
gone up to 50 cents.
The grain business during the past week
has averaged 500 cars per day.
Mr.. Joseph Clare, of Bethel, Is the re-
ceiver of the Cincinnati & Portsmouth
Railroad.
1t is estimated that 400, 600 excursionists
were brought into the city during the
month OF September.
The gross earnings of the l., G. 4 L. Road
during the past year were $33, 600 greater
than for the year previous.
Mr.. L. c. Sproull Cashier of the United
States Express Company, left yesterday on
short visit to Maysville, Ky.
Low rates and the improvement in bust
ness have taxed the express companies to
their fullest capacities this fall.
Mr.. W. S. McChesney, General Travel
ing Passenger Agent Louisville Short Line
Railroad, visited the city yesterday.
The l., G. & L. depots along the entire
length of the road, including the Plum
street Depot of this city, are undergoing re-
pairs.
]. H. Rhodes, Superintendent, and L. G..
Weir, Agent of the Adams Express Com
pany, have returned from their trip to
Nashville.
Gus Romer, of the American Express
Company, will in future make Kentucky
his home. Gus says it is more Democratic
over there.
The Masons of Akron, Ohio, and at
points on the line of the A. 4 G. w. Rail.
road have an excursion to this city on
Monday next.
The express rates to New York, which a
year ago was S. so per hundred, is now
down to 81, which is certainly low enough
for all purposes.
The Adams Express Company can not,
TOR the present, take freight on the river
between here and Portsmouth in conse-
quence OF the low stage of the river and the
stoppage of boats.
Harry Stow, of the Adams Express Com
pany, will shortly be welded to a hand
some young widow of the Bluegrass
Region of Kentucky.
Mr.. ]. Reeves, nephew of Colonel Reeves,
master of trains on the L., c. & L. Rail
road, has been appointed operator and as
slstant to Brent Arnold.
The office of Master of Transportation NJ.
q c: Railroad has been abolished and the
business OF that department transacted by
General Superintendent Stewart.
The entire lines of the B. 60, M. &C.
ana y. d M. are being laid with steel rails,
new trestle, and the finest rolling stock
added, together with new engines.
The California excursionists left in the
special car of William f. Lockland, Super
intendent of the Philadelphia Division of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, last evening by
the p, G. & st. L. Railroad.
Among the prominent railway gentlemen
in this city this week are N. s. Penning-
ton, Cairo A. B. Thomas, Toledo; VIM.
+. Lockard, Philadelphia; r. w. Town
send, Shawneetown, ILL.,; A. Hills, Cleve-
land.
d. P. Hyatt, ofthe United States Express
Company, was too full for utterance when
he heard the result of the election. If
Ewing and Rice had carried Ohio Dan would
certainly have been good subject for the
picking vat.
Mr.. Sam Stevenson General Ticket Agent
OF the G. III. q D. Railroad, was this week
presented with a fine gold watch and chain,
and Mr.. F. H. Short, Secretary of same
road, with handsome unique carved cane,
by the widow of Jack Collins, the veteran
engineer of the c., H. & D. R. R.
Mr.. John King, with party of o. & M.
railroad officials, has been inspecting the
Springfield Division for the purpose of
making a report to the Committee on the
Reorganization of the Company. The Peo-
ria, Pekin & Jacksonville Road will also
be inspected with the view of purchasing
it for the Baltimore & Ohio.