Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-24
RAILWAY INTERESTS.

The Trans-Continental Association II In
session ut San Diego, Cal.
AFTER June Is the Santa Fe second class
coast win be 81 50.
TIE Mexican Government has approved
tho contract for the extension OF the Inter
Oceanic Railroad to the Paoinc-
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
will build at Benwood, ". Va, q machine
shop. q <s-stan roundhouse and other ouhd'
ings.
TIE tratio managers Of the several rail-
roads in Mexico have united in an effort to
secure the adoption Of nationals Lstanoaro
time.
SeALPERs are selling tickets from Los An
geles to New York for from sls to sSS. All
the railroads are connfying at the reduc-
ttons.
ST. PAUL general passenger agents have
requested the Pittsburg and western TO
withdraw from the market tickets, now In
the hands Of brokers, good from Cn1cago TO
st. Paul.
THE Lehigh Valley offices now under the
control of the Reading are to be removed
within week from Bethlehem, Pa, to Phil.
adelphia. Clerks are notified they may hold
their places If they move, too.
THE Sioux City, Chicago and Baltimore
Railroad Company was incorporated at the
first named city yesterday. The proposed
new lines will give the Baltimore and Ohio.
the Missouri Pacific, the Santa Fe and other
lines valuable Iowa concessions.
TIE Board of Directors of the Pennsyl.
vania Railroad Company met yesterday and
reorganized for the year by re-electing First
Vice President Thomson, Second Vice Pres1-
dent Dubarry, Third Vice President Green,
Secretary Sims and Treasurer Smith.
The engineers surveying the route for the
Watertown, Sioux City and Duluth Railroad
were driven off the reservation yesterday
by the reservation police. The Government
has issued strict orders to allow no white
man On the reservation till noon OF April To-
THE Western Passenger Association has
been requested to name date when a COM
mittee of the Commercial Travellers Fedora
tion OF America may appear before it and
argue for the adoption OF a 5,000mile inter.
changeable ticket to be sold at nat rate OF
cents a mile.
A CONTACT is said to have been entered
into by the Boston and Albany, the Wander
bilt lines. the Chicago and Northwestern
and the Union Pacific for the payment OF
commission of $50 on every second-class
ticket sold from Boston to the Pacific Coast.
The purpose is said to make war on trans
continental tourist cars.
THE Pittsburg, Shenango and Lake Erie
Railroad, as a result of the deal with the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, has placed q
end of the system. The proceeds of the
mortgage will be invested at once In the
completion of the Erie Terminal, giving the
Baltimore and Ohio a direct route 70 the
chain of lakes in competition with the Penn
sylvania Company.
AT the recent meeting of the Wheeling
Bridge and Terminal Railway Company in
New York, Judge R. H. Cochran, of Toledo,
was superseded as President by w. H.
Thomas, of Boston. This is taken to indi-
cate an entire change of policy, and has re-
vived the talk of a big combine, with this
system as the connecting link between the
Eastern and Western seaboards.
GENERAL MANAGER BRADBERRY, of the Lake
Erie and Western Railroad has prepared his
annual report to the directors. The earn
ings for the year were s. e73,35 against S.
OIL 43S last year, an increase of $l9o, ,9l6. The
sources were: From freight, s204l. sos; from
passengers, sssS.77s; express, $4s,7Sl; mail,
S55,74l; car mileage, Sl42. 5l miscellaneous,
sos 933. The operating expenses were l,s25,
457; last year they were 81, 7os, 49, an increase
OF $26, ,675.
THE Kansas Board of Railroad Commits
s1oners yesterday requested Governor Hum
phrey to institute mandamus proceedings
against the Union Pacific Railroad Company
to enforce its order of May g. 1891, calling
for additional train service on the Lincoln
branch. Shortly after this order had been
made the Union Pacific increased its serv-
ice, but subsequently removed the train. A
new complaint was then filed. A decision
Of the Supreme Court in O similar complaint
against the Kansas Central Railroad places
the commissioners in an embarrassing posi-
ton 1t was decided that in the matter OF
physical condition and train service of a
road the commissioners orders were adyis-
ory, as there was no statutory provision for
enforcing them.