National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-05-24
RAILWAY NOTES.

President Zimmerman, of the Chesapeake
and Nashville, having inspected the cOnstruo-
ton work, says the line Will be open TO traffic
next spring
Mexico and Pacific Railroad Company, to run
from Fort Smith, Ark, TO Albuquerque, N. NJ,
will be iayorably reported to the House.
The passenger representativesof the eastern
trunk lines and the Central Traffic Associa-
Sn Ss % hold %Sst
tion of joint rules and regulations.
The House has passed the Senate bill extend.
ing fori two years the time within which the
st. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company
may complete Its road through the Choctaw
and Chickasaw Indian reservations.
Hugh ]. Jewett, the retiring president of the
Chicago aud Atlantic, &C., has purchased and
will retire to the old homestead in Maryland
which his grandfather built way back in the
last century, and which Hugh ]. left as q young
man of 81 to practice law In GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
Tho engineers and other officers of the Rich.
mond and Chesapeake Railroad Company will
leave Richmond to-day for Richmond county,
the eastern terminus OF the new line. 10 begin
active operations looking TO the early oonstruc.
ton of the road. Messrs. Janey, of Philadel-
phia, are president and treasurer Of the COM
pany.
An election in Wood and Writ counties, W.
$50 600 and s25 600 respectively to the projected
Chicago, Parkersburg and Norfolk railroad
resulted in the defeat OF the proposition in
Wood county by a bare majority, while III
Writ county the subscription was voted by q
majority of more than 400
The House committee on Pacific railroads
will report resolution requiring the Secretary
of the Interior TO demand of the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad Company, information as to
and running Of trains 80 as to benefit certain
towns in which the direction OF the company
is interested and 70 the injury Of other towns;
aIu IWfNu hat no nf nNu hn anu
owns any interest In any town site company;
also, a statement of the company's freight and
passenger traffic. All this Information 10 be
transmitted to Congress.
A first mortgage for 100000 and a second
mortgage for u, 100000, ON the line of the Ohio
River railroad from Wheeling to Point Pleas
ant. log miles, were entered for record In the
county recorders office at Parkersburg, w.
Va. last Tuesday. The mortgage is made to
tho Fidelity Insurance, Trust and Safe Depos
| Company of Philadelphia, which advances the
money for the extension of tho road from Par
kersburg to Point Pleasant and releases q for
mer mortgage for $4,000 The first Is due
June /, 1896, and the second oct. l. 1926.
Arrangements have been completed for the
| change on the 30th instant of the gauge of the
| entire Louisville and Nashville system 70 the
standard gauge; Not only the main stem, bat
| all the lines either owned or controlled by the
| Louisville and Nashville will be changed al
| once, and no delay will be occasioned. The
Louisville and Nashville Is the most important
| railway system south of the Ohio river, and
| the change in its gauge virtually forces the
other lines In that section to follow, aud cOnse
| quently after that date the change will be gen
| eral and speedily contaminated.
The Insurance Association of Passenger Con-
| ductors of the United States, In session AZ Phia
delphia, elected the followlng.named officer,
| TO serve the ensuing year: President, George
| MogfOTd, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
| railroad: vice presidents X. Hoyland, Louis
vile and Nashville railroad; O. ii, Dale, West
| Shore railroad; H. NJ. lockwood, New York,
New Haven and Harlem River railroad
nonresident directors, Il, ]. Nixon. W. Il
| Waters, Frank Champion, and j. Y. Lever
| good; resident directors, Charles Parker w. II
| Kenney, j, A. Southwick, Justus Law, and
| Peter Young secretary and treasurer, Walter
Lackey