Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-23
PRESENT MANAGEMENT.
Passenger Equipment and system-Future
PoIicy-western Connections.

As the Chesapeake and Ohio railway
was built in pieces so it was equipped in
pieces, not to say in heterogeneous man
ner. From the trials through which 1t
has passed, and owing to the bending of
every energy to one central idea little else
could be expected. The present manage
ment of the road consists Of III. Il. ingalls,,
president George L. Bliss, yice-president;
Decatur Axtell, second vice president; @.
E. Wexford, secretary: T. o. Barbour,
treasurer; l.. +. Sullivan, auditor; Henry
#. Wickham, general solicitor; Oscar G..
Murray, traffic manager; y: w. Stevens,
general superintendent; w. p. Walker,
freight traffic manager L. ID. Hotchkiss,
general freight agent II. W. Fuller, general
passenger agent, and numerous heads OF
subordinate departments.
Mr.. ingalls, is also president of the Cleye-
land, Cincinnati, Chicago and st. Louis
and it was his brain and energy that
brought organization, order. and success
out of that system. When this manage
ment took hold of the Chesapeake and
Ohio about two years and half ago. the
watchword it adopted was system, and to
that end and to development within the
lines of financial safety it has assiduously
worked. Mr.. Ingalls, and his associates
found the road with sixty different kinds
of switches and half as many different
lengths and weights of rail. Now there are
but two of the former and two OF the lat
ter, the rail weight being 81 and IS pounds
respectively. Nearly three hundred miles Of
the latter weight of steel rail have been
laid, and it is only question of time when
the entire road will be SO tracked.
MACHINERY DEPARTMENT.
In the machinery department there was
no standard, but this great drawbackshas
been obviated. and now the company keeps
on hand supply of patterns which renders
the shortest possible notice. Standard
colors have been adopted for the stations,
cars, and water-tanks; iron bridges have
been substituted for wooden ones; solid
ballast has taken the place of the old bal
last subject to wash, and mammoth loco
motives have supplanted toy engines.
ELEGANT PASSENGER TRAINS.
The +. +. V. solid vestibule train from
New York to Cincinnati is the most luxu-
rious and neutrality-suspicious. railroad
train in the United States and the Flying
Dutchman, as the people on the road call
It, is scarcely less elegant. Both are sup
piled with dinlng-cars and every other
convenience that can contribute to the
comfort, the pleasure, and the safety of
passengers. The roads enterprise in this
respect has been rewarded by making II
one OF the favorite passenger lines between
the eastern cities and the great West, and
been the means of contributing largely 10
the company's revenues. The present
double trackage and sidings of the road
constitute an important beginning Of the
double sets of rails that will soon be an
absolute necessity.
BOILING STOCK.
In the matter of rolling stock there is
probably no road in the South better
equipped for handling O large traffic than
the Chesapeake and Ohio. The present
exhibit, which is constantly being added
to. is 267 locomotives, ISL passenPer-cars,
,801 box-cars, 98 refrigefator-cars 322 live
stock cars, 81 platform or hat-cars, 5.003
coal-cars. 227 miscellaneous cars, 1873
caboose-cars. OF the above, 1,100 box-cars
and 500 coal-cars are equipped with air.
brakes. The majority OF the cars are OF
as and 30-ton capacity.
CONNECTIONS AGAIN.
A general sketchy reference has been
made to the connections of the Chesapeake
and Ohio with other railroads and with
steamboat lines, and its facilities Tor ship
ping and transfer. bat in the closing chap
ter of this article IL may not be out of place
to give brief detailed guide 10 its adgan-
sages ia these directionsas follows:
kswpoRT News Yk.--With Old Dominion