New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-31
RAILROAD INTERESTS.

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| TROUBLE BETWEEN TERRITORIAL RAILROADS
st. Paul. Minn Dec. 30 (speclap.-The long quar-
rel which has been brewing between the Columbia
! and Puget sound Railroad Company, narrow gauge,
| and the Puget Sound Shore Railroad, broad gauge
broke out hostility at Seattle, Washington ler1
| tory Yesterday. when Manager Miner, OF The latter
| COMPANY was retired and compelled TO give place 10
| Secretary Nadeau. Miner has been identified In a
managing capacity for time with several OF inc
/ old Willard companies. The Columbia and Puget
sound Company claim the right of way By priority
Of occupancy and tho Puget Sound shore hoad
claims under the Willard contract of 1882 that the
latter company should the road If 1t reconstructS
he rOadbcd. For some time the Interests OF me TWO
companies have diycTced and the Columbia ana PuHct
sound Is trying to make short cut eastward 10 some
East White the Puget Sound Shore Company owned
by the Northern Pacific and brings rariic up rom
Tacoma. This railroad O0Sructs the seattle Trans,
fer Conpany's intentions TO put up gigantic terminal
| facilities on the Puget sound Shore. A temporary
sound from using the Puget sound Shore tracks was
applied for last night but refused by Chief ynstlGe
Of way until the Territory becomes State
| ANOTHER NEW-YORK ROUTE FOR THE B. AND o.
Philadelphia Dec. 80 (speciaD.It is stated I'm rail-
road circles here that the Baltimore Ohio Railroad
will certainly make connection with the Philadelphia,
Newtovn and New York Railroad and push on to New
York City over its own route To do this the com
rany Will build branch from Thrtlcth-st and Penn
l~rl a The
Ohio makes connection with the Reading, and run
seven miles northeast 10 point near the NewtoWn
line. Surveys have been made along the line OF me
Newtown road with view 10 laying a double trac<.
and understood that the work is paid for by the
Baltimore and OHIO.
Is THE INTERSTATE LAW 4 HANDICAP
The railway construction in the last year was
7120 miles according ID The Railway Age and
G43O miles according to The Engineering News
The first named authority finds the most striking
characteristic of the years work to be the small
average Of less than twenty miles In extension OF
| existing lines while the other expresses the opinion
| that the construction is simply Development OF
| local business 80 The Engineering News says
The current belief that the Interstate Commerce
Law tends force The local roads to consolidate win
the great systems Is hardly cOrrObOatcd by me large
number of local lines built in 1883. 1t seems IN.
deed open to question whether the law, WINE II
tends 10 force the consolidation Of competing lines,
does not handicap The great systems
| MISCELLANEOUS RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
The directors Of Cleveland Cincinnati and Indian
apolis Railway have elected George s. Russell OF CeVe-
land treasurer MI the place occupied for many years
by George H. Russell his father. who died week ago
= warren Of Cleveland was chosen secretary, posi-
ZION held In conjunction with treasuryshp by George II
Russell.
The directors OF the NewYork. New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad Company reelected ohcers a. Io.'
lows: President Charles p. Clark; vce-pesident I'd
ward N. Reed treasurer W. L. Squire ana secretary
W. d. Bishop, r
PHILADELPHIA Dec. 80 (SpcciaD.-The Reading Rail
road will build a branch from Rupert to bloomsbury
| The right Of way has been secured The same com
many will construct a branch road between the Pha
lciplia and Reading and Lehigh Valley tracks, al
silver Brook which will open 10 the Philadelphia ana
| Reading Company cOaGed heretofore monopolzed
By the Iehigh Valley Company.
Surveyors began work yesterday for an extension OF
the old Cornwall Railroad from Mount Hope TO
Lancaster Penn, to connect with the Pennsylvania
I at that point
The statement OF earnings of the West Jersey
| Railroad and the West Jersey and Atlantic City
Railroad for November Is follows: Gross earnings,
s1Ol or As: operating expenses, Ss0,4Ot "a: net
| earnings s11611l4 For the eleven months ending
November 30 the net earnings were $ieo'3oo, an
Increase OF 50 1856 as compared with the same period
last year The gross earnings OF the Camden ana
Atlantic Railroad In November $36.006 IL, an
| increase over November 1887, of S22S7 80. Tho
accounts for eleven months OF the year show sur
plus Of s34 $50 g. after paying all expenses, against
AT 7a2 "a al the same time last year. The gross
earnings OF the Northern Central Railroad in No
vcmbcr were e1S8,l13 and net earnings Sl2o,olsi
an increase In net earnings of S23,3ooi colnpareu
with the same month last year. Tor the year 10
1at" no not earnings are 81 sl0,052, against 81,
$50 673 for the period OF 1901
Before the opening Of the next summer season a.
Atlantic CITY the Pcnnsy lyanid Eallfuad VIII eApehu
upward of 100000 I'm Improvements
pbuadelphia Dee 30 (Specia)-lt is stated here
that in connection with the extension Of the New YORK
PHILADELPHIA ana Norfolk Railroad toward the South be-
vond The Chesapeake line Is being projected to extend
from suffolk little Of Norfolk. to the southwest Of
Jamesvie the northern terminus OF the GAINESVILLE ana
Wasbincton Railroad and another line will be built
TO extend from Washington westward 10 GodSboro on the
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad In this way Whining
would be reached.