Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-30
ABOUT RAILROADS
In West Virginia and ofher STATES
Brief Items About Big subjects.

The C. & o. changed time yesterday.
]. NJ. Ferris. of Cleveland. Genera!
Manager of the Nypano, was IN Clncinha'i
Saturday.
III Setchel has been appointed General
Master Mechanic OF the OHIO ana MISSES
ippi railroad.
The following in regard to the sale OF the
mSickel plate" road is from the Buffalo
Courier and is official:
An unknown man who was stealing
ride on the pilot of an engine on the Z.
o. road fell off and was killed day or TWO
ago.
jay Durham. of the Cincinnati, New Or
leans and Texas Pacific, started for. tne
South iast night on business trip Tor MS
company.
Sir Charles Young and Vice President
Scott. of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and
Texss Pacific railroad, are back from their
trip South. Z
The Cincinnati and Eastern Railroad
Company will soon receive the hrSt install
rpent Of standard steel rails recently
purchased to complete the road to Ports-
mouth.
The freight earnings of the Charlotte,
Colum bia and Augusta for the third week
in October, 1882, were $l7,l9I5l, against
$40 507. "a for the same period IN 1881, oeluS
an increase of IS per cent.
The traffic on the Chesapeake canal IS
very active at the present tine. Boats are
passing up and down constantly anu "us,-
ness along the canal is greatly stimulated.
Freight has been advanced five cents ton,
owing 10 a threatened strike OF the boat
men.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
many has presented Miss Jennie Smith, the
temperance reyivaliSt, with house ana
iot and a cow at Mountain Lake Park, Car
rett county. Miss Smith will bring her
mother from New Jersey and locate at the
Park.
On last Wednesday the B. & o. r. r. Co.
took charge of its recent purchase, the
Pirtsburg Southern, and w. c. King, agent,
at Washington, Pa, was placed IN charge.
The company will make some improve
ments in the road bed and rolling stock ut
once.
Superintendent Mendenhall, of the Mariet-
IA ard Cincinnati aud Ohio and Mississippi
Express ,issin ST. Louis on business Tor MS
line Immt diately on his return he goes
10 Baltimore and New York to look after
the rapidly increasing business OF the sew
errl lines he represents.
The West Virginia Central and Pitts
burg railroad has been completed to Kits
millersville, making it now twenty miles
from Piedmont. Grading has been done
much further, and the road will probably
be completed as far as Fort Pendleton,
twelve miles from Oakland, before winter
On last Saturday, MessrS. C. w. Smith,
General Manager of the G. & o. railroad, +.
7. Smith, Superintendent of the Eastern
Division, w. p. Harris, Superintendent OF
Huntington Division and J. ID. Warrington,
Superintendent OF Lexington Division,
were all in Huntington on business con-
nected with the road.
November DIST books will be opened at
the office of the Cincinnati & Eastern rail-
way at Portsmouth for subscriptions to the
capital stock of the Portsmouth Il Gallipo-
lis railroad. The prospect for the road is
said to be good. Our people will certainly
look upon its completion with great de-
gree of pleasure Portsmouth and CALI
polls are old GGitip0LiS Bulletin.
The great iron bridge of the Atlantic and
Pacific railroad over the Canon DiablO, in
ArazOna, has recently been completed. 1t
is 500 feet long, the cannon being some $50
feet deep. The height OF the bridge is 2iO
feet or IL feet higher than Bunker Hill
monument. The weight OF the bridge
amounts to something like 800, 900 pounds,
and the cost Of construction was 100000.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
have taken the lead in experiments look
ing TO the adoption of electric lamps for
passenger cars. The electric storage is &C.
cOmplished by the use of secondary batter
les underneath the floor of the cars, thirty
cells of battery furnishing current for six
Edison lamps for seventeen hours. Test
experiments made Sept. 10 are said to have
been very satisfactory TO the officers OF the
company.
Among the depredators convicted at the
present term of Court were Elias Coppa and
Jerry Hanley, indicted FOR stealing coal
from the cars of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, and John Sullivan, IN
dcted for stealing a cart from the same
company. These depreciation are very an
moving to the company, and warning Is
thus given of the intention to rigidly en-
force the law against them. Prosecuting
Attorney RUhrbaugh will of course take
prompt cognizance OF all such offences,
coming to his notice NdruNburg Herald.
There was received a day or two ago from
Treasurer William &. Mcdowell, of the
Norfolk and Western, a statement of the
earnings of that road, from which we take
the following: Net earnings for Srptem-
Der. lnS2, 1920, l6S4S, against Sl23,9OS.32
for the same month in 1881, being de-
crease Of 50, 1884. Net earnings for nine
mOnths-January to September 30, 1882
-ST24, 99l 26, against $40, l39 46 for the
same period in ISL being decrease OF
Sl5,l4S 20 The Norfolk and Western is
one of the few roads that gives its earnings
to the press regularly, whether they be ia
YOrable or unfayorable.
Mr. +. A. Ford, of the Panhandle and
John Eagan, of the Big Four have with
drawn from the Western General Passenger
Agents Association, and thereby hangs a
tale FOrd's withdrawal, it is said was
caused by Eagcn's intlammstory threhtS of
repriSal for Bob Emmett's cutting Of theat-
rical rates at Indianapolis, the other day,
and Eagen's because Emmett did cut the
rates US charged. The result is a break in
the theatrical rates agreement and cuts and
single tickets are in order again. In fact,
il was reported yesterday that the Vandalia
folks had cut the rate at St. Louis for the.
airical party coming east, and the agents OF
cOmpeteipg lines were instructed TO meet
90 the cut and capture the troupe il posi-
Bile. IL seems singular that railroad CorpOr-
atiuns will permit general passenger agents
TO tritle with their interests in this manner
On Wednesday &. 5. Srice, First Wee
President, and Gen. Thomas, one OF the
leading Directors, acting in behalf OF the
projectors, sold all the stock they had left
To MeSSrs. DevereuI and Burke. 1t is I'M
der>tood that Mr.. Seney turned into the
SeIllHR poo! aOOul oV,VvO SHdItS Vi tue SbOCh'
some OF which he has bought in the mar
ket during the last few days; Brown, How
ard & Co. about 10000 shares, and the
others enough to make a total OF about
l25 900 shares. The price paid was $37 per
share for the preferred and SIT per share
for the common, about the present market
price. other stock has been acquired by
the purchasers, sufficient to give them the
control, if they do not own the majority
OF the stock Those who sold give their
good will with the stock, and will make no
effort TO be represented in new board.
This was necessary as the Directors are
elected in classes. and without the whole
sale retirement of the present board it
would require several years before an en-
tire new board could be elected
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