National Republican., 1885-09-29
RAILWAY NOTES.


II ia proposed 10 rcorganlzc the Portland and
OgdvDsburG Railroad Company under the old
charter and scale down the bonds TO what
they are worth, according to the earning ca
pocity OF the road
Mr.. Robert Garrett was seen last night, AMI
oil he would sny. In reference 10 the proposoi
deal Wns That, in his judgment, the pinish-
mcnt Of AnunlGs ought to be going on eSlen'
sivcly II currency continues to be given 70 such
statements.
The Pennsylvania railroad Is pushing work
on the schuyklll branch with all diligence.
Already more than FIVE miles Of track beyond
Reading have been laid, and satisfactory prog
rtss is being made on the section between Potts
VILE and New Boston. Connection will be
made with the Lchgh Valley at the latter
point
Vice President King. of the Baltimore and
Ohio, announces that, when the Susquchanna
bridge and some road work on the Baltimore aud
Ohio extension to Philadelphia are completed,
cars can be run from Baltimore to within fuw
miles OF Philadelphia. This work will he fin
ished by the last half of October, when he pro.
proscs to take n test and inspection trip over
the line behind n locomotive.
The report that the plttsburg stockholders OF
the South Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
who objected to the sale Of the road TO tho
Pennsylvania company had given up the fight
aud would agree TO a compromise, Is pro-
nouncCd untrue by Dt. lIostetter, of that city.
At the meeting iii New York last Friday DR..
Hostetier says the sale was discussed inform.
ally, but nothing was done. No offer to com
| promise was made by Mr. Vanderbilt.
The rumor of probable arrangement be-
| tween the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore nnd
Ohio railroads, by which the latter will stop It's
| new road at Philadelphia, appears to be news
In the baltimore and Ohio office. Mr. Robert
Garrett was absent yesterday afternoon, but his
| chief counsel Mr.. John X. Gowan, sta'es posi-
lively that there Is no truth whatever in II. lie
| treated It more as a joke, and iDtimnted that
the Baltimore and Ohio has no other idea but
| TO push its road through to New York.
The surveyors of the Chicago, Plrkersburg
and Norfolk railroad have completed theic
| rights Of way have been secured all along the
| line. The road has run through Wood Writ,
Calhoun, Gi'iner, Brnxton, Webster, Randolph,
| and Pocahontns counties In West Virginia, and
| through Bath and parts of Allegheny county
| In the Old Dominion, keeping along the bank
ofthe Little kanawha TO the divide nt New.
| Vile; thence down 10 Bends run to Elk river
TO lis headwaters; thence into Grccnbricr
The adjourned special meeting of the stock
| holders of the Central Transportation Company
| was held ut Philadelphia yesterday Before
the tellers could report the vote on tho
proposition to reduce the par value of the stock
| from $50 to s3S per share, and to distribute 81
| TO ench stockholder, II was rcsolvedto keep tho
| polls open each day from " to2 o'clock, from
| some inquiries President Stevens said that the
counsel of the company had under serious con.
sideration the question whether the president
| sponsible to the stockholders for the overissue
of stock by Mr.. COttringcr.
A new locomotive that promises good results
| In economy Is undergoing trial on the Pcln.
| sylvana railroad. IL Is known rs the Coven.
| try engine, named aiter the inventor, n Chit
cHgo man. outwardly, except that the smoke.
| stack Is close TO the cab, there Is nothing to
distinguish II from common locomotive. The
novelty Is In the boiler which has return luc,
thus doubling the length of the tube, and c)r'
sidernbly more than doubling the time of thu
retention Of the heated gases within the boiler
Mr.. Coventry snys that the engine can bo run
at saving Of at lcas, 10 per cent under Other
engines of its kind, aud is cleaner than any
other bituminous coal engine can possibly be
He hopes TO have the boiler adopted in new
engines that the road may build, both foi
freight and passenger service. The railroad
officers admit that the engine Is cleaner than
others that use btumlnous coal. The claim o
economy will be fully tested within the coming
fortnight. The engine acted very well on d
trip from New York TO Philadelphia OH Friday
night, returning on Saturday TO the Meadow
shops, Jersey City.
President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, says he has no knowledge o
the reported agreement between his company
the Baltimore aud Ohio, and the Reading rail
roads, by which another line to New York ma!
be avoided, further than the newspaper article
that he has read. lie denies that any papers
have been signed with that object in view
Another official of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company spoke to the same effect, and added
1.-The signs of peace that have lately appeared
In the railroad situation are not misleading
or course such an agreement as you allude tC
has not been entered into by the three com
panics, for 1t wOudbe impossible to have don,
1t SO quickly. II is but q little over u weel
since Mr.: Robert Garrett, of the Baltimore an,
Ohio Railroad Company, reached home Mr
Roberts met him for the first time at the trunl
line meeting last Tuesday. / believe they di
not have five minutes private conversation a
that time Mr.. Garrett has not been in this cit
(Philadelphia) and Mr. Roberts has not beef
in Baltimore, and they have not met since
Such n conclusion as Is declared to have bee
reached Is not an imposslbility, and do no
sny that the subject has not been discussed
but 1t would take a week or two to carry OIL
such an idea. Mr. KEN has talked with Mr.
Roberts on the relations of the two companie.
and that is all there Is to say All our informa
tion from the west Is that the connections Their
are in favor of advanced rates, and there 4
| every prospect that the trunk line meetings thi
week will be harmonious.