The Evening critic., 1883-02-07
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Railroad Affairs.

The Curtis Bay branch Of the Baltimore
& Ohio, four miles long, will be ready for
opening about March L.
The Kansas Senate yesterday adopted the
House joint resolution instructing the Attor-
ney- General to bring proceedings in the Su-
preme Court against the Union and the
Kansas Pacific Railroads, with tho view of
breaking up the consolidation of those two
companies
The first through train of the season left
Hagerstown yesterday with persons emil
grating for the West, via the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. About fifty persons left
from that point and the Valley of Virginia.
Mr.. b. +. Bond is the agent in charge of
these excursions.
In the Circuit Court at Richmond Va.
yesterday, rule was issued against the
Washington & Western Railroad Company,
returnable on the 18th, to show cause why
the road should not be resold at purchasers
Iisk, Service was accepted by G. U. Will
Jams for the company.
At the annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Camden & Atlantic Railroad
Company, which, in accordance with Chan.
cellor Runyon's decision, will be held on
February 90, new board of directors will
be chosen by syndicate headed by Mr..
Wm. l.. Elkins, q director Of the Pennsyl.
vania Railroad Company.
In the New Jersey Assembly yesterday
Mr.. Castor's bill, providing that railroad
property in the State shall be taxed at
local rates and the proceeds therefrom go
into the treasures of the counties in which
the property is located, instead of into the
State treasury, was passed after an eX-
citing discussion. Tho vote upon the
passage of the bill was 80 for and go against.
The Wilmington Erery Erening says that
the Baltimore & Ohio Company's new bill
in the Delaware Legislature, excites
more attention than any railroad
bill yet introduced. The first section spec
ifies that the new line shall run through"
Newark instead of "within half mile of
that town, thus giving this provision un-
mistakably the construction which the Bal
timore & Ohio men have all along sought to
place upon it.
In the United States Court at Pittsburg
yesterday, United States strct-Attorney
Stone made an application for a mandamus
| to compel the Pittsburg & Lake Erie Rail
road Company to make such changes in the
railroad bridge over tho Ohio at Beaver,
| Pennsylvania, as will cause it to conform
| with the statutes of the United States
and the obligations entered into at the
time of its erection. In case the manda-
| mus is granted it will cause complete
| iSiouNiihS Va tiS pliuSS Wv ~ Soop Va haii
million dollars and long interruption in
traffic.
A dispatch from Dover, Del, says notice
| was given in the House yesterday of bill
| to authorize the Philadelphia, Wilmington
| & Baltimore Railroad Company to construct
| branch road from State Road Station, on
| the Delaware division, through the town of
New Castle, and thence to some point on
the main line, near Shellpot Creek, and to
erect a grain elevator at New Castle. The
object of the bill is to avoid the detour
made through the city of Wilmington in
shipping freight intended for points beyond
that city. This change will make almost
an airline from the peninsula to New
York. There are so many railroad bills
now before the Legislature that railroad
war is among the probabilities.