National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-06
CURRENT RAILWAY NOTES.
Latest InrormatloH by Wire from Special
SOurcea

Canadian Pacific earnings for March, 1885,
sG77. 100; increase over last year OF $4,000.
Passenger Agent John Evans, Of the Boston
and Providence railway was in this city yes
terday,
G. Lcmbnch, emgrant agent OF the Bnti
more and Ohio at Baltimore, was in Washing
ton yesterday.
The Old Virginia rail works at Iynohburg,
operating torty cutters, have shut dOWn on ac-
count of oyer-producuoD.
Dan Janowitz, formerly passenger agent Of
the Pennsylvana rnilway in this city, has
lately been appointed passenger agent of the
Northern Pacific railroad ut Philadelphia.
The reported sale Of the Virginia and Caro-.
lima railroad to the Atlantic Coast Line has
created the liyelicst Interest in Petersburg aud
the counties Of Virginia through which the
road Is TO run.
Col Tamadge general manager Of the
Wabash railroad, has given orders 10 take all
Wagner's sleepers off that road as rapidly as
possible and substitute therefor Pullman and
Mann boudoir cars.
The committee appointed at the meeting Of
the West Shore boudholdcrs held In New York
three weeks ago had another conference last
Monday. A plan Of reorganization which viii
get rid of the present managers of the road Is
under gdyisement, aud will be known In a
day or two.
In Wall street yesterday mn impression was
entertained by a few spccuators that au carly
settlement of the railioad war was probablei
but private dispatches were received lale IN
tho afternoon Inserting that nothing will be
| done 70 stop the war, but Oh the contrary, II
VIII be waged more hsrcely.
The earnings Of the union Pacific Railroad
for March, 1870, were Sl,V1Jl1; expenses, sl,.
2A65s; surplus earnings, $40 93g an increase
oithc latter over the same month last year Of
S3l, l32. Tho earnings Of the road for the first
three months Of the year are 50, ,2lI4l6; surplus
for the same period, sljSs, ,2gj.
Committees from the directors Of the Union
Pacific, Northern Pacific, and Oregon Nnyiga.
ton railway companies held q conference IN
Boston yesterday in reference to the oregon
Navigation lease. No decision was arrived at
rs TO the terms of the leuse and the confer
encc adjourned until to-day or tomorrow.
The amount necessary TO secure the right OF
| way for the Martins Creek railroad was raised
at Enstyn, Pa, last Monday night at the meet.
| ing of the Easton board of trade This road Is
an extension Of The Bangor and Portland aud
VIII run irom Bangor TO Alartin's Creek, dis.
tance Of fourteen miles, where II Will cross the
| Delaware river aud connect withthu Bclvldero
| Delaware division OF the Pennsylvania road.
The trouble between the Delaware aud IIud-
| son Caual Company and It's locomotive en-
glneers IN regard to compelling the latter TO
undergo examinations iof color blindness still
| continues The engineers have submitted u
! proposition 10 Supt. Hammond, agreeing to
| submit 10 the test, provided that any engineer
who fails 10, distinguish the difference be.
l
| used upon the rOad--llags by day and lights
by night Ii they pass they shall be retained.
| The board Of managers OF Phlladelphia aud
Reading Railway Company have now under
consideIatlOn the plan agreed upon by the
| Mhcan' BnrtOl committees for the adjustment
| of the debts ofthat.compauy, and also the rec.
| ommendatiol by the same committee that
| Tue present plan for the reorganization OF the
| Reading Railway Company DC dropped US the
time for taking ,asscnts 70 the, same had cx-
| plred and that the modified plan which they
had agreed upon be substituted for 1t.
The statement OF the New York Lake Erie
aud Western Railroad Company for the month
/ Of March, 1850 including the New York Penn.
! sylraniu aud Ohio, shows gross earning OF
81 ,56s,b22 operating expenses, VI, ,40i, 8Sj: net
! curniugs, SBoi, ,lS1 This is an incrense of
| S72Vs2 IN gross earnings, u decrease oi S7S,527
| IN operating expenses, and an increase OF
| sljl soy In net earnings as compared with the
| same mouth last year. III other words the
| gain in gross aud net earnings and most OF tue
saving IN expenses were IN Erie.
Between 400 and 500 shop hands in Denver
| and Sulida, COL, the employees Of the Denver
aud Rio Grande Railroad Company went on
| strike Monday morning. They demand the
discharge Of two Objectionable Denver tore
men and the Reinstatement OF about dozen
| men. lhe yards arc filled with hundreds of
| loads OF freight, which arc not allowed to
move. Thirty engines are housed with their
fires drawn; fle strength Of the strikers
| IL estimated at 1000. Everything Is quiet
1
! pdted.
At Cincinnati, George IIafer brought suit in
the superior court against tue New York, Lake
| Erie and Western Railway Company, the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway Com
plny, Hugh j. Jeweit, president of the Gin
cinuti, Hamilton and Dayton Railway Com
pany, aud others for an INDUCTION To restrain
these roads and these individuals from voting
2!OOO shares OF Cincinnati iHamilton and Day
ton pool stock, for which Mr.. Jowett became
proxy in 1852, when president OF the Erie. Mr.
Jewett was in Cincinnati at the time, and was
served with notice OF the suits,
A case full of legal complications was begun
at Boston yesterday by James +. Smith to re-
strain the American Loan unG Trust Company
from further exchanging certificates OF the
New England Car Trust for second mortgage
bonds of the New York and New England
Railroad Company. Mr.. Smith is the holder
OF thirteen Car Trust certificates, The amount
OF certificates low outstanding is Sl,2il, ,uOJ.
one of the points relied upon Is that the courts
Oi Massachusetts have no Jurisdiction IN the
controversy as the railroad is IN the hands OF
u receiver appointed by the United States dis.
trict court Of tConneCticut, which has already
act 81 upon the matter IN dispute.