Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-02
RAILWAY INTERESTS.

THE Concord and Montreal Railroad will
issue 1000 shares of new stock.
THE first train TO run over the Reading
Railroads. new line to Rochester Buffalo and
niagara Falls left Philadelphia last night.
The Trans Continental Association has
decided that the Northern Pacific Railroad
cannot carry free the Washington exhibit
TO the Worlds Fair.
THE executive committees of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company and of the Panama
Railroad have reached IN agreement which
substantially assures continuance of their
friendly relations.
THE Order of Railway Tele yraphers made
q demand on the officials of the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad tor an
advance of wages ranging from $40 to $50.
No reply has vet been given.
THE Chpsa peale and Ohio will advance
the wages OF locomotive firemen 2I per
cent, beginnn: to-day. The increase is
based uEon the wages allowed the engineers
in the employ OF the company.
JUDGE ADAMS at Rochester, n. Y, has
granted an order 10 show cause why re-
ceiver should not be appointed Ior the
Southern Central Railroad, on application
or the Metropolitan Trust Company, of New
York.
IT IS reported that the Housatonic Rail-
road will soon be absorbed by the Consol-
idated-th;,t it Will be leased in the same
manner that the New York, Boston and
Providence Railroad was acquired a few
months ago.
THE Norfolk and Western Railroad CON-
pany's statement for July: Gross earnings,
SS0l, l64 49; expenses. including taxes, S54s.-
2S6 30; net earnings, S252, 92s ia decrease of
sos, ,575 so compared with July, 1891. For
seven months of the current fiscal year net
earnings are Sl.502, $50 99, q decrease of $97,-
457 80 as compared with the same period last
year.
IT is expected that the meeting of the
Passenger Department of the Transcon-
tinental Association, to be held In Chicago
Monday, will be n stormy one Some of the
railroads have been directly charged with
cntting rates from the Pacific coast to New
York by paying eXorbitant commissions,
aud the most emphatic protests will be
made against this method OF competition.
GENERAL FISHER. of the Bluff Line, st.
l. & A. r. r., will retire from that road
September l. No successor has as yet been
decided upon. Mr.. Fisher was the organi-
ger of the syndicate which in 1856 brought
the line from Bates to Grafton. ILL.,; built it
into Alton and then succeeded in getting
capitalists, who will soon make it part of
st. Louis-Chicago line, interested in the
property.
COMMISSIONER STAHLMAN, of the Southern
Railway and Steamship Association has re.
ceived a telegram from Colonel Henry Fink,
wee PRESIDENT OF the Queen and Crescent
route and receiver of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia, Memphis and Charles
ton and Great Southern Railroad, express
ing mis- entire willingness TO sign the new
associat ation agreement for year. This in
sures the continuance of the association.
GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT ScULL, of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was in Chi
cago yesterday in consultation with Illinois
Central officials concerning trackage ar
rangements for the Worlds Fair. These
two roads are the only ones having direct
connection with the Exposition terminal
tracks, and other roads can only reach the
grounds by using their tracks. They will
charge the other lines for this service at pro
rata per mile.