The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-06-17
Railroad Items.

| made over the Pennsy lvania rSalitos'u
bv President Roberts will occupy two
weeks.
The grading of new road bed Tor
the Pennsylvania Railroad, near the
Gap, in Lancaster county, has been
completed.
The Council Bluffs extension OF the
st. Paul road will be completed about
July Is.
The Davenport, Iowa, and DAKOTA
Company has been Incorporated Win
IS, 900, 900 capital.
The Rochester and Pittsburg Com
pany is working night and day on It's
line to Bradford.
It is stated that II. A. Hubbard,
General Freight Agent OF the Van
dalia Line, has been appointed to the
same position on the Pennsylvania
Line.
At the office of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad Company no
Information has been received from
Mr.. Gowan as to what time he ex-
pected to sail for home.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has put on extra baggage hand
lers at all the important stations on its
main line, in anticipation of a heavy
rush of travel this summer.
The stockholders of the Chesapeake
and Delaware Canal Company re-elec-
ted the old Board of Directors. The
balance in the Treasurer's hands was
reported to be SAT, 1922,
President Roberts, of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company, left Phila
delphia, accompanied by his private
secretary, to make tour of inspection
over the lines of the company West of
Pittsburg.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has purchased the station at
Edge Moor, on the Philadelphia, Will
mington and Baltimore Railroad,
which belonged to private parties.
Sufficient grounds have been pur-
chased for garden, and 1t will be
greatly improved and beautifed.
The Merchants Dispatch Transpor-
tation Company, which has taken the
export business on the Vanderbilt
roads, will be discontinued.
The st. Paul, Minneapolis and Sea
Coast Company has been organized,
with capital of s., 100000, to build
rom St. Paul and Minneapolis to
Clinton, Iowa.
The contract for building the extern
ion of the West Virginia Central and
Pittsburg Railway to Elkins, formerly
Fairfax Stone, fifty miles from Pied
mont, was awarded to Humbird &
Sons; Cavan, Codwise & Co. and
Ad ms & Kennedy. Humbird & Sons,
of Cumberland, get thirteen miles of
the road and all the masonry.
G. P. Huntingdon, in behalf of the
Chesapeake and Ohio, has closed q
contract with Hazeltine & Amman,
builders and managers of the Erie
grain elevators in Jersey City, to build
grain elevator and warehouse at
Newport News, with a capacity of
800, 900 bushels. Work is to be begun
within ten days. The Chesapeake
and Ohio Company is also building
extensive coal docks and warehouses
at Newport News.
Indianapolis freight agents report
an increase in receipts from local BUSH
ness for May of from five to fifteen
per cent. Though business shows a |
falling off of from thlrty.five to fifty
per cent. West bound through freight
business for five months ending Nav
81, was fifty-four per cent. greater than
1881, fifty-six per cent greater than in
1880, and twelve per cent gretaer than
in 1879. There was no increase in re-
ceipts as the business was done on a
low contract basis.
The Baltimore and Ohio has got its
charGer Tor It's telegraph company into |
New York. The route is from New
York to Brooklyn, thence across New
YORK Bay to Edgewater, through
Richmond county to point in the
southwesterly boundary, in or near
Tottenville, Staten Island. The OBJ.
jet of the new company is to connect
with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
and Its telegraph system, when that
road shall have built the proposed road
from Baltimore to Philadelphia.
Mr.. John Scullin, of st. Louis. the
Well-known Western contractor, has
accepted the position of manager of
construction for the Mexican National
lines and has entered upon the dis
charge of his new duties in Mexico
1t is his intention to let out the work
In contracts of all sizes-even down to
sections of single mile-to be deter.