Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-18
IMPROVING IT'S CONDITION.

The Policy Pursued by the Manage
ment of the Ii. and u. Railroad.
Mr. Charles F. Mayer. the president of the
Baltimore and Ohio railway, says in his annual
| report:
1.-The management realizes the extreme i'm
portance OF continually improving the physical
| condition of the property and bringing the
road and its equipment up to the highest stand
ard Of efficiency. In pursuance of this policy
| increased expenditures have been made during
the fiscal year both for maintenance of way
| and structures and maintenance Of equipment
| Expenditures in this connection and included
| in operating expenses have been made as fol-
| lows: For maintenance Of way and structures,
80, 086, 361 increase over 1889, $3.50, 635, or IL
per cent; for maintenance OF equipment,
"a, 332, 092, increase 1889, S341 76l or H. AZ
per cent The expanding business OF the COM
pany especially requires, for prompt and
economic handling, large and additional termi-
Locust Point yards in Baltimore, extensive as
they are, have become Inadequate"
ADDITIONAL YARDS.
To meet the demand for such facilities the
company has now under consideration (and is
contemplating similar work at other places)
additional yards and buildings at the following
points: At Brunswick, Md, the junction Of
the main line and the Metropolitan branch, a
yard containing ten miles of tracks, with the
necessary freight and engine houses and other
buildings. The expenditures here during
the year have been s149,SOs. At
Cumberland, Nd, large yard, with
engine house, car shops and other build
ings, which will transfer the handling of the
business that concentrates at that point from
the present crowded yard in that city. Al
Benwood. W. Va, the junction of the trans
Ohio division with the main stem, large yards,
with transfer and storage tracks, engine
houses, repair shops and other buildings, for
the transfer of the passenger and freight traf-
fic between the main line, the Wheeling and
Pittsburg division and the trans-Ohio division.
The expenditures here during the year have
been S5S.6l4. At Wheeling. WA, improve
ments in the present passenger and freight
station are under consideration. At Pittsburg,
the terminus of the Pittsburg division, large
yards and q freight house. sufficient to accom-
modate the increase of business at that point
which has heretofore been seriously embar-
| raised for want Of these facilities.
AT WASHINGTON.
At Washington, D.. c., some improvements
during the past year have been made in this
terminal amounting to S20.500. Plans of a
comprehensive character for this station are
now under consideration. All these improve
| ments will be furnished or largely advanced
during the coming calendar year. They will
| enable the company to handle more economi-
cally the business at these points and will
| greatly add to the capacity of its equipment by
reason of the prompter handling Of it, which
| their construction will enable. As the rolling
mill at Cumberland has not been in operation
for a considerable time it has been deemed
wise by the management to discontinue manu-
featuring at that point. The mill has, there
fore, been leased to the Cambria Iron Com
pany Of JOhnstown Pa, for a limited period
| and is now being operated by that company.