Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-09-12
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Railroad Notes.

! DONALD ALLEN APPOINTED DIVISION EN-
GINEER AND SUPERINTENDENT ON THE
HOUSTON & TEXAS RY.-J. F. CAsSELL
APPOINTED DIVISION ENGINEER OF
MAINTENANCE OF WAY ON THE B. s. o.
THE NORFOLK & WESTERN TO GET THE
SHENANDOAH VALLEY EY., &C.
Mr.. Donald Allen has been appointed
Engineer and Superintendent OF the Waco
and orthweStern Division Of the Houston
& Texas Central Ry. He has been in the
service of the company for some months.
Mrs. Allen, with her children, is spending
the summer in Staunton with her father
Mr.. Columbus Halle.
Mr.. J. F. Cassell, who superintendent the
building of the Valley Ry. between here and
Lexington, and is well knownhere, has been
appointed Division Engineer OF Mainten-
ance of Way on the Parkersburg Division
Of the 3. & @. Ry. He is son-ln- law OF
Mr.. J. H. Picker of this city.
Capt. w. G. White, for many years
commander OF one of the steamers of the
Baltimore Bay line, has resigned to take
position with the Norfolk & Western Ry.
He is brother Of the late G. Men. Whit
tie of Staunton, and was an officer in the
Confederate Navy.
William Hassman has been appointed
Master Mechanic of the motive power de-
partment on the Cincinnati and Hunt
ington divisions of the Chesapeake & Ohio
Ry. T. S. Lloyd has been appointed to the
same position for the Richmond, Peninsula
and James River divisions. The Superin-
tendent of the motive power of the whole
G. & o. line is VIM. Garstang.
The first mortgage and general mortgage
bondholders of the Shenandoah Valley Ry.,
which has been in the hands of a receiver
for five years, have agreed to buy in the
road when it is sold Sept. S0th. New
bonds for SIT 600, 900 are to be issued which
will be guaranteed by the Norfolk 81 Wes-
tern Ry. The road, in effect, goes to the
Norfolk & Western. and So, 100000 is to be
spent in building the extension from Front
Royal to Washington City.
The travel on the Chesapeake & Ohio and
Virginia Midland this summer, has been
simply enormous. At Wright S restaurant
at the Midland Junction, nearly 200 people
are fed daily.
A corps of engineers are at Markham,
Fauquier county, permanently locating the
branch of the Shenandoah Valley Road from
Front Royal to Washington. The new road
will parallel the Manassas as far as Rector
town, where it goes to Middleburg and
thence through Loudoun to Washington.
The administrator of John L. Jarmin of
Albemarle, is suing the Chesapeake & OHIO
Ry. for $4,000 damages for the death of
brakeman Jarmin who was killed at Goshen
by another train running into his.
1t is stated that the Chesapeake & Ohio
is negotiating for the purchase OF the Lynch
burg & Durham Ry.
The people of Bridgewater, Rockingham,
have appointed delegates to the Cumberland
Valley Ry. Convention to be held at Staun-
ton, Sept. 18th.
The prospects are that the Cumberland
Valley Ry. Convention in Staunton, Sept.
18th, will be one of the largest bodies that
has assembled here. Rockbridge, Augusta,
Rockingham, and Shenandoah will be well
represented. At q meeting held at ''Zack, -
Rockbridge, Sept. 9th, presided over by w.
W. Walker, with J. w. East, Secretary,
five delegates were elected; and at meet
ing in Middle River, Augusta, presided
over by G.. W. Shuey, with J. y. McCutchan,
Secretary, twelve were appointed.
The earnings Of the Chesapeake & Ohio
road for the month of August show an in
crease Of $s7 1852, as compared with those
for the corresponding month of last year.
W. J. Mckee, Assistant Superintendent
of the Cincinnati Division of the Chesa-
peake & Ohio road, whose headquarters are
in Cincinnati, has rendered his resignation,
to take effect on the 18th inst.