New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-18
,,,scr1r ,vrors RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE

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,hu.d,luhia Aug II fSpeclal)-The Reading Railroad
u award contracts next week doube-track the East
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad throughout Al present 'herc a
twenty miles OF double track. and sixteen miles OF SS'
track The company have also well uhdef way ~"
,o1 four miles long branching from the Lebanon valley
s tho. ,,il run from tho Lebanon furnaces to Avon
,, t. oid This IS done 70 checkmatc the operations OF
pc,t H. Coleman in extending the Cornwall una Lebanon
rual 80, 49,, 49,,
Chicago Aug "a morning paper says: " IL mas D''"
,eporled about town for some time past 'hat the
pacific Railway Company making arrangements TO
- an entrance Of its own into Chicago and that large
nurchases OF land were in prospect II Is now 'oe'aS
certain that scheme by which this great corporation
ul have rs good an entrance Chicago and as COCA
terminal facilities any other ROAD mas oce" n'"'a'
worked out. The supposton Is that the Nor'hcin a
will come in oyer the tracks Of the Wisconsin central
,tu,.,rleo ,uo Il General Passenger Agent baiKer'
, tho Wisconsin Central road, today issued cii'""'
authorizing reduction in first and second c'i'' ""
r. ,,,cs between Chicago and st. Paul and MiDneap'
oils TO SO 40 aud 80 respectively In Fcialauoh io ~
made by the Chicago, Burlington ana quincy roai ~
is probable that the Cehtra's "0''o" ~
general passenger rate war =.
St Paul Mimi, Aug. IA passenger rate war -
threatened by OF competing harvest c"'u'
made by the Manitoba and Northern Paclhc ro''' -"
latter read In making sweeping reduction mas cu' i
the territory OF the Milwaukee, ana V'''i'" ' 49,
may be drawn into the Aght.
washington, Aug. 1.-THE cases OF the Linco" n i,
y, Trade AGAINST the burlington and Missouri RIVER nan
road Coupanv in Nebraska and against the MISSOURI
Pacific Railroad Company, haze been decided oy 'n n
urstate Commerce Commission, when ials 10 n"u "''
surlcIent reason for change in rates complained Oh III
either
| Pittsburg Aug II CspeciaD.-For the last week en-
plneers OF TIC Pennsylvania RAILROAD Company nave Wv"
a, work between Butler and Newcastle, surveying Zinc
70 connect them. The line VIII shorten te ui''a.
! between these points by about cighy-hve mleS' n
nrescnt business from Butler and the vicinity destined
| Newcastle Erie or points north, must DO senS oy
roundabout rodtc nincty-nine miles The distance d.
tween the two towns, across county Is ABOUT
| miles When the line is built all business coh'"'
from, the iain stem east Bairsyilo can be sent owe
tho West PENNSYLVANIA to Butler Junction. thence hr
Ave miles 10 Newcastle. The present route ioF So"N"
this business Is seventy-elght miles.
Chicago Aug 1.-THE freight agents OF western roauS
who have been In for over week adourh'u u'
They have disposed amount OF detail III alJu
,A rl,,o,. schedule on higher scale and making tn
r,,as barmoniye with those interstate trshc 10 IN
satisfaction Of all roads interested Inc ne" r''
| will 20 into effect september D.
| General Passenger Agent Parker OF INC Nlscohs'
Central Road has Informed Chairman Abbott OF the "cs
crn States Passenger Association, Of reduction oil nr'
and ,cond class fares Chicago 10 Minneapolis anu "
Paul beginning tomorrow. .,.
An advance Of twenty-five cents per ton on ahtn'ac'
, "a onnounced from Buffalo to Chicago, on and hte
son,omber / This will the through rates - 20
The Chicago aud Atlantic makes - rate on scrap Ito
- pr,shurc 10 meet similar cut made BY the Lake Sho