The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-11
r. r. CHANGES.
ALL THE PENNsHLvANIA COMPA
MES WEST OF PITTSBURGH
To be Consolidated Under ONE Manage
ment-Al the Business 10 be Done
by One Head, with n Compact
System OF rOperatinE-Reas.
iOns for the Change.

PITTSBURGH, March 1O.-A series of rad
ical changes is to be made in the manage
ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com.
panies lines west of this city. 1t is said
nothing definite in regard to the changes
will be decided until the next meeting of
the Executive committee. Mr.. Thaw is at
present out of town and the meeting viii
not take place until his return. The ne.
cessary arrangements previous to the
changes. however, have been partially
made. and General Manager Caldwell, of
the Panhandle road, arrived in town last
night on business connected with the
transfer of the Offices.
'The movement contemplated, :" said he
to reporter, ''is virtually consolidation
of the passenger departments of the PAN
handle road and the roads west of Pitts
burgh that are operated by the Pennsyl-
vania Company. The main object of this
consolidation is for the sake of economv
and the perfection of the passenger and
ticket system. Mr.. E. A. Ford will likely
take charge of the general Office to be ga.
tabllSned in this city, and will have the
entire control of the Western roads of
the company. The general Offices of the
Panhandle road will not be removed !"
Continuing, Mr.. Caldwell said thew ex-
pected to open the new Pittsburgh Office
by the first of April, as they had authorize
to do so without awaiting another meeting
of the committee.
The Louisville Courier Journal refers to
the proposed changes as the railroad sen-
satlon OF the hour, saying: ''The Penn
syiyanla Company has looked with alarm
nm l. L. ~ l.
interests west of Pittsburgh have not been
Satisfactorily handled. There was too
much diversity of management, particu-
larIy IN the passenger service. The lines
owned and leased by this company are the
Plttsburgh. Fort Wayne & Chicago, Chi
cago d Plttsburgh, Erie & Pittsburgh.
Asthtao oula, youngstown & Pittsburgh,
Mansfield, Gold Water & Michigan, Tns-
caraWas Valley, Panhandle route, the
Vandalla route, and the Cairo & Vincennes
road. These lines are now sub divided
into tour divisions, with general passen-
ger agent at the head of each with its large
and extensive corps of assistants. All this
expense mas been matter which the
Company has for some time tried tn do
away with wholly, or at least modifv.''
The experiment. of consolidating the Of
noes OF the lines, with F. r. Myers as
General Passenger and Ticket AGENT
which was made in 1870, is referred to as
failure, Notwithstanding the fact that It
continued a number of years. and the ar
one that long trial has demonstrated a
success. The first development in this
policy Will be the certain removal of W.
l. OBrlen from his position on the Pan
dandle route, and his resignation, to take
effect on the 18th inst, has already been
forwarded. Mr. Miller, General Passen-
ger and Ticket Agent of the Cairo & Vim
eennes road, will also go. On that date F.
Z: Myers, General Passenger and
Ticket Agent of the Pittsburgh
Fort Wayne and Chicago Road
vii! permanently be displaced, his reeig-
nation to take effect on the 18th inst,
Wnen ne sails for Europe. Naturally, the
cnleI interest IN this matter will center in
the coming man. He is known to he F.
a. Ford, General Passenger and Ticket
agent of the VandaIia Line. It is stated
that ne already has the appointment in
MS pocket OF General Passenger and Ticket
agent OF these consolidated lines, with
headquarters at Pittsburgh, to take effect
on either the 18th inst. or on April /. The
offices now occupied by the various Gen.
erai passenger and Tickets Agents previ-
ously required will be wholly closed. or
simply used as offices of assistants.
In connection with these changes in
ohclals and headquarters of the COMPANY
number OF improvements in the road
are mentioned, and among them is plan
recommended, at the last meeting of the
Board of Directors for reducing the grade
over the mountains by constructing new
track over the old Portage road and absn-
donlng the line in the vicinity of Horse
shoe Curve. A new system of electric sig-
nails which will show whether the blocks
are occupied or not is also on trial, it is
said, with satisfactory results
There is official authority for saving
In2t the contaminated chanuaa NOT
have their origin in any dissatisfaction
with the gentlemen retiring, but result
from natural and regular causes Colonel
Myers has been with the company for
twenty-tour years and is compelled to
seek much-needed rest. He made ar
rangements some months ago to take a
trip to Europe this summer.