Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-02
RAILROAD NOTES.

IN Youngstown thif week.
| The Philadelphia and Readin" Railroa'
has ordered fifty new engines si,hi .
/ which are for passenger trains. ''"' =
The Minneapolis and st. Louis Railwa,
company expect to get fifty.year suppl.
OF coal from Boone county, Iowa.
The net earnings Qf the PHILADELPHIA and
ETle Railway for October show a decrease
OF $5S,gSl or 1913 per cent. The decrease
for ten months, ending October 81, is s227,
POI or 2O.5 per cent.
A force of 200 hundred men is at work on
the Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Chicago
Railway, between Newton Falls and Ra-
VIENNA. Ohio, and it is said the right of way
Huntington surveyors are TO begin in a
few days TO run line from Memphis. via
Pine Bluff, to Shreveport, to connect the
Chesapeake and Ohio with the Southern
Pacific system and make a complete trans
continental line
Earnings third week in November: Wa
bash Pacific 1886, 1925: increase, S53, $50;
Kansas and Texas, Sll5,653; increase,
$33,70S. Hannibal and st. Joe, St5, SO; de-
crease. 2,75S. Houston and Texas Central,
from January to September 30, 81, CSC, ,2S7 !;
increase, $269026
The New York Central Railroad Company
during the past ten days has contracted for
5000 freight cars, 2.300 of which are for the
Merchants Dispatch Transportation Com
pany, and the remaining 800 are for the
Lake Shore and New York Central roads
The Harrisburg. Pa, car works secured the
larger share Of this large order.
The passenger and freight conductors
who constitute the railway Passenger and
Freight Conductors Mutual Aid and Bene-
fit Association of the United States and
Canada are evidently conducting success
full and useful insurance society, as the re-
ceipts last year were S5l ,2GG.e5 and the dis
bursemcnts $5O, $50. The amount Of insur-
ance allowed to each member as benefit is
$500.
On the lst of january the Missouri Pa
Citc road will have completed arrangements
for the running of through cars between
Cincinnati and San Francisco via the South
ern route, that is via Dallas, Fort Worth,
FL paso and the Southern Pacific road So
far no special details have been arranged for
the running OF trains, but this much is
known that through sleepers will be run
through the city via the new route.
The Chicago and Alton Illinois Central
and Rock Island Railroads have decided on
u freight tariff, which went into effect yes
tcrday, which preSCribcS rates substantially
the same as those made by the Railroad
and Warehouse Commissioners. The man
ayers say they weren't Skecrcd into it, but
did not court expensive litigation, and are
awaiting the decision of the United States
Supreme Court in cases now pending,
An official Of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati
and st. Louis road says that it will be i'm
possible for the company to make schedule
time with their express trains until
second track is laid as the business of the
road is too heavy for single track. lie has
recently taken considerable trouble to learn
the cause of the delay of passenger trains,
and finds that the fast mail trains, in max
ing the run from Pittsburgh to lndanapo-
lis meet or run around SiXtY-fOur to
seventy freight trains and dozen pa>scn-
ger trains each trip. and that is where the
loss of time occurs.
The report Of the Richmond, Frcdcricks-
burg and Potomac Railroad Company for
the year ended September 80, shows gross
revenue $406,297 81 :: transformation az: az:
EsSs's fO.,S Which exceeds that of last year
Sj3G2l.7T. After paying interest on bonds,
dividend on guaranteed stock, and 81 ,622 IA
for additions to property and extraordinary
expenses, there was a balance on hand of
$56614.5S. For many years the company
has paid no dividends, the net profits hav-
ing been used in the purchase of real estate
and making other permanent additions To
the property, and now amount to the sum
of 800, O39l0
The Vandcrbilt-Jcwctt litigation in Ohio
has been compromised by the withdrawal
of all opposition 10 the consolidation OF the
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and In
dianapOls and the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and DAYTON as the "OhiO Railway" Van
derbit agreeing not to seek 70 control the
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, ,ofwhich
,Jcwctt is soon 10 hc president, and the Erie
is to use the Dayton line for its Cincinnati
business, under an arrangement for the
pooling of all business tocOmpcting or COM
mon points. such aS Cincinnati, Dayton,
Cleveland. Dunkirk, Buffalo, Rochester,
Ncwburg and New York city. situated on
both systems of roads Mr.. Dcvcrcuy. pres
idcnt Gf the consolidated organization, will
be given charge, it is said of all the Van
dcrbilt roads west of Buffalo.
II. d q. Extension.
WILMINGTON, Del, December 1.-The Su-
preme Court Yesterday granted the appl.
cation of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
for a commission to assess the damage to
certain land in this State for a new line
between Baltimore and Philadelphia.
The Opening Of the Big sandy.
CINCISyiTI, December 1.-General {. j.
Huntington, President of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad, General EchOls, Presi-
dent of the Big Sandy, General Wickham,
Second Vice President Of the Chesapeake
and Ohio. and Colonel C.. W. Smith, Gen
eral Manager of the Chesapeake and Ohio.
have passed through the city for Louisville
to attend the opening Of the Big Sandy
Railroad from Lexington to Huntington.
A Railroad Question.
Do railroad conductors and brakemen re-
gard passengers as their mutual enemies?
Or are they inSensible To the things OF com
fort and health? Or are they too lazy to
mind them? The regular starting state OF
the cars is with fires going at full head,
and all openings shut tight. In general
these pcrsonagcS think the vcntilators are
not for opening II at length a distressed
passenger asks for air, he is regarded as an
unpleasant person. And if the gentle
brakeman makes one change, he thinks that
enough for the whole trip, no matter what
the change in the weather or in the trcs.
Or il he has cooled off too much,
and some one complains Of the cold or
draft he thinks that this sustainS the origi-
nal status, and thcreupOn he proceeds TO
shut up everything, and to fire up to the
utmost, and so to the end OF the trip. Do
conduct"":s AM, STaxemen S;.come .:;ahS..:
bic. like woodchucks, to foul air and heat
Is it that they know nothing, or that they
have no authority over the know nothing
brakemen7 OF the passengers 1T must be
said that the American travelling people
will stand more heat, more bad AR ana
more imposition, without complaining,
than any people in the known world.
HempfeId Passenger stations.
Several officers of the B. & o. Railroad
were in town last week. They came over
the Hempfeld on a tour OF inspection
They also looked at the work on the Ohio
and Baltimore Short Line east OF town
The work on this new line is progressing
| steadily and with reasonable rapidity. Thy
probabilities are that the road will be com
pleted to en- neisyiiie, its eastern terminus
/ within twelve or eighteen month from I'M
present. If the dignitaries OF the b. q w.
were on trip of inspection and oDser
yation over the Hempfeld it is hoped thes
obse,rcd the dilapidated and forlorn c9nal ,
tion Of tho passenger stations along us lihe
At the thrifty and enterprising town Q
, GIaysville the station house resembles de