Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-11-29
RAILROAD GOSSIP.

| NOtWltnSldIlulllS Ium oil"'
crops, the railroads OF the country show in
| creased earnings.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
| without much noise or confusion, have
| constructed a handsome and convenient
| depot un Pearl and Butler streets, Clhcin'
| natl.
The earnings OF the Cincinnati Southern
| road for the week ending November Il, 1881,
were SiG,62362, while the earnings for the
same number of days in the same month OF
| 1850 were but S40,6i3.62. showing ~ i'll
! crease of $3.50.
Mr.. Vanderbilt and Mr.. Jcwctt have ami
| Cablv adjusted their differences, and the
Ohio Railway is an accepted fact, the New
York. Pennsylvania and Ohio receiving III
return the right to work its business over
the Dayton Short Line.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
notifies its agents shippers and connecting
lines that all special rates and agreements
on frcighl> now existing on its lines, cN-
Ccpting agreements and tariffs and joint
| rates between its own and other roads, will
expire on December 81.
Notwithstanding rumors to the contrary
il is asserted by high authority that con-
| ccrnng the management of the lndianapo-
lis and St Louis road the relations of the
Pennsylvania Company with The Bee Line
are entirely amiCable, that no controversy
exists, and change "f management Is not
probable on the first Oi January, a. has
been stated.
Mr. Naudcrbilt'> extension Of the Pitts
buryh ard Lake Erie road mp the lough-
ioughcny, and possible connection with
tie Reading system by continuation OF
this line Ia Harrisburg, is exciting much
query. At ChamhcrSburg the new line
would connect with the Western Maryland
road. giving a line thirty miles shorter be
tween this city and Baltimore than by the
Baltimore and Ohio road. Ii the statements
of Mr. GOwcn concerning Reading affairs
are verified at the January election oi that
company, an impetus may b" given To rail-
road construction that cannot fail I" he "I
the greatest importance Ia Western Penn
sylyania.
PITTSBURGH. November 23.--Among later
railroad runIurS is one 10 the effect that en-
gineers are surveying from Il point "i III"
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Rail-
road eastward into the Mahor valley. in
WcStmorrland county. crossing the Penn
Sylvania Railroad at Manor station. The
object of this alleged extension i said Ia
reach the gas coal region of NcStmorcland
! county, whence this grade Of coal i sup
piled t"thc entire Eastern market. paving
quite handsome revenue to the P"nnSyl-
yania Railroad which now las almost the
entire business "f carrying il from the pro-
ducing region.
Wi~uYrroN. pa. Novrmhcr2 2S.-A mmm-
Der Of officers ui the Baltimore and ohio
road came here Saturday afternoon Ia III
>pcCt the work On the llcmplield extension.
Me>SrS. krctzrr and Savage, uf III" II. ~
q. cngincer corps. now at work on the
llcmpiicld extension east Ol Washington,
were in the city yesterday, and from them
we learned that work is progressing very
satisfactorily. The road has been located
from Washington tn Greenfield by way ~
the middle fork oi Pigeon creek, instead ot
the north fork, aS WIS at first proposed.
Near Bently>lillc - tunnel will De driven
through Pctrrman's summit, but this tun-
mel, il is understood, will not he uf very
great length and will be easily driven.
\ bridge will he thrown arro~S the
MuuUngahrla at Greenfield. whence the
road will be pushed on tn u junction with
the T.. W. Il +. branch of the Il. n -. with
all possible dispatch. Mr.. krctzcr VIII"
has been assistant To- Col. Randolph, says
the route is splendid one. and thinks that
hut little difficulty will hr met with in tll"
extension OH account Ut physical impc'ti
mcntS.
Progress Of NarroW-ssNuSe SSSteuS.
Perhaps the most notable feature OF mod
ern railroad construction j. the progress ot
the narr0w-gaugc systems. with which the
general public is by no means familiar.
Whether the principle is correct, AMI
whether this system will be success. is
vet an open question. but III" progress j.
none the les, noteworthy on that account.
Railroads varying in gauge from twenty
three and q half inches To- tire" feet six
inches have existed in North
Wales. Norway sweden and other
nnrthcrlv mountainous cnuntrl"" al
Europe Tor generation ar more. and Eng
land Ion. ago established three feet --iN
inches as the standard gaugc of her Indian
railways, but the first narrow gauge road III
the United States. the Denver X Riot "Grand",
was begun in ISL. vet now, only ten years
later there are one hundred and fifty mar
row gauges within an aggregat" 0i over six
thousand miles, or about seven per cent "i
the railway mileage OF the country. De-
duet from this ten years the five blank
years 0ccaSioncd by the panic nl 1873, and
YOU will have some idea UG the progress Vl
the system.
For the most part. roads oi this gauge
have been built by local companies in de-
tarhcd sections connecting Y local points
and doing only local business. but now We
find Eastern capital interested ami forl> oi
this gauge being consolidated into far reach
ing aud important trunk lines. We sec
the Cleveland, Canton, IushOCton ani
StraitSvi!lc, ConnottOn Valley. and Tia"
Cleveland. Youngstown and Pittsburgh,
which will reach from Cleveland To- tn"
MahOning Valley coal regions, and t" th"
ron regions AT PittabitrgtI,, ,rapldly as>im-
M tangible shape, white. .tila Toledo. Del
phos aud Burlington is alycady in opera
ion from Toledo to Dayton, Cincinnati.
Weliston. and Coalton. in the very heart Of
the famous Jackson coal regions. on the
south, and To- Kokomo and Frankfort and
to Nccd~burg, in the Indiana coal fields.
on the west, with its line to 81. Louis. and
its branches to less importan, points rap
idly building.