Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-09-27
Railroad Notes.

The Chesapeake & Ohio Company has is.
sued 81 800, 600 of the S4,600,000 consolida-
ted five per cent. bonds, reserved for i'm
provement purposes. With the money OBJ
tanned by the sale of these bonds, 900
freight cars, sixteen vestibuled cars and
thirty locomotives have been purchased.
New shops have been built at Clifton Forge,
the shops at Richmond have been enlarged,
and more yard room has been secured at
Clifton Forge and other points on the line
of the road. Ten miles of double track, two
branch lines from the coal regions and
about twenty-five miles of side tracks have
been built.
General Passenger Agent Harry w. Full
lei of the G. & O.. has presented the Gin
cinnati ticket Office of that road with a silk
| United States flag, as the banner ticket
Objects sales for the last quarter show
ing larger per centage of increase than
amy Office on the line.
The Valley Railway Co., will have on
sale at it's depots, excursion tickets to all
three Of the agricultural fairs-StaUnton,
Winchester and Woodstock-which COM
mence on the same day, October LIST. The
tickets are one fare with the price of adj
mission to the fairs added.
One of the prettiest summer villas on the
9. u 0. line is that of General Passenger
Agent, H. w. Fuller, near Keswick, AL
bemarle. His family and their visitors
greatly add to the social attractions of the
neighborhood.
j. H. McVey, night oper ator at Fort
Spring, has been promoted to the depot
agency at Hawk S Nest.
B. V. Jackson has been appointed Divi-
sion Freight Agent of the G. & 0. with
headquarters at Richmond. He was for
merly General N orthwestern Freight Agent
at Chicago, of the Big -Four.
Etna G. Stephenson, a locomotive Engi-
neer on the G. & o., was instantly killed at
the Huntington wv. Va.) Union depot last
week, by an engine running over him.
On Tuesday, the Sth of October, nine sec
lions of the Fast Flying Virginia" Vesti-
bule train on the G. & o., will pass through
here laden with Knights Templar from the
West, bound to the Grand Encampment at
Washington.
THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE CIIESA-
PEAKE & OHIO.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati En-
qui-er writing from New Y ork last Friday,
says:
''For a man loaded down with huge railroad
responsibilities, NJ. E. ingalls, is one of the
most disappointing looking individuals in the
vocation. He is big strong, wholesome
looking and has not sign of care on his hand
some features. A few years ago ne was pale,
thin, nervous, and was clearly working under
high pressure and carrying weights on his
safety valve to save every ounce OF steam.
Figuratively speaking, he was making good
| time and close connections, but 1t was at the
expense of his vitality. He said to-day: "Y eS,
there was time when | hadn't money enough
at my command to hire help and had to do al
most every thing myself.
| at was sixteen hours work, eight for meals
and sleep, and-this with twinkling eyes-the
remainder of the twenty -four hours for recrea-
ton. This was when l first began on the old
l., G. and st. L., and it was hard to tell which
was the poorest, me OF the road. Finally, as
cash began to come in, hired help, and now
have about me some of the best leutenants to
be found in the railroad business anywhere in
the United States. They are men thoroughly
capable i'll their several departments, and it is
with the utmost confidence and satisfactory
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minor detail that were wearing me out, and
now only have to personally look after the
larger and more important features.
Fortune has been good to me-So good, in
fact, that year ago had serious notions OF
retiring, but then, you know, | have two boys
at Harvard, whom intend must work for a
living, and l ask you how would it look to
those two boys to go to work and see their
father loafng? [ guess I'll stick it out for
three OF four more years in order to be an in
| luCtriouS oyamnla for them -
Speaking of the Vanderbllts, with whom he
is now so closely connected, he said evil
liam II. Vanderbilt is as sharp as a tack and
quick as lightning. Cornelius is also brainy,
and is a man who can't stand the sight of dis
tress. He is almost like father to all the
employees on the New DIRK Central, and they
all swear by him. Good things are constantly
being said here about Chauncey Depew, but
they will some time learn that the half has
not been told. Nothing but intimate acquaint-
ance with him discovers his true worth as one
of the ablest of railroad men,"