Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-11-23
THE RAILROADS.
Schedules Changed Last Sunday-Good Show
ing for the 3. & o.

Schedules Changed Last Sunday-oood Show
Ing for the g. o.
The sixty seventh annual report of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, for
the year ended June 30 1898, makes
an excellent showing of earnings,
gross and net. The gross earnings
We're S2G,2l4 S07, an increase of $685.
449 over 1892 There was an increase
of S492. 705 in passenger earnings and
a decrease of $50. 049 in freight earn
ings. Net earnings from operation
oftheproperty were 81, 172, S25, against
S7,444, 401 in 1892. Income from other
sources increased S4OO,G7j. After
payments of interest, rentals. taxes,
&c, S2,5l3, 40 remained for dividends
and other purposes The net earn
ings of the Philadelphia Division we're
S640, 302, an increase of S62,9S2 over
1892. The completion of the BaIti
more Belt road is promised for early
next summer.
In connection with the Norfolk and
Western and other southwestern
railroads the Baltimore & Ohio Com
pauy will run through Pullman sleep
ing cars 10 New Orleans. The route
10 be followed in making this run will
be over the Central Railroad Of New
Jersey from New York to Bound
Brook, the Reading Road from Bound
Brook to Philadelphia, the b. and 0.
from Philadelphia 10 Shenandoah
Junction, the Norfolk and Western
from Shenandoah Junction to Bristol.
Tenn, and the East Tennessee. Vir-
ginia and Georgia thence to New
Orleans The through trip Is to be
made in about forty hours.
4 new schedule went into effect on
the Norfolk & Western Railroad last
Sunday. South-boundtr trains are prac-
tically the same. North-bound. No.
comes at SOB a. M, instead of at IA; .
No. 4 arrives about two hours later
than formerly, reaching here now at
500 p. m; No. 2S is the same, 10 II a.
III. The new schedule, though per
haps not quite as convenient to our
people rs the last one, will do very
well.
y big swindle has recently been
perpetrated by Chicago crooks upon
the Baltimore & Ohio, Pitt>burg aud
Western, Erie, Missouri Pacific, aud
several other roads The sharpers
sold about 100000 worth of counter
felt tickets, which were 50 exceeding
ly we'll printed that the fraud was not |
discovered until Il large number of
them had been used. 1t i believed |
that the guilty persons will be caught. .
The b. & O. officials have issued
circular to the employees of that com
pany commenting them for efficient
services during the Worlds Fair bus
mess. Not single life was lost by n
railroad accident, and of the $4,000 |.
pieces OF baggage handled at Chicago .
only three satchels were lost.
The new schedule of the b. II O. |
Railroad will be found on the second |.
page this week Express train No. /
,, due at Shenandoah junction at
1908 II. ~, is the best eastern connec-
ton for Sheplerdstown people. From
the east, train No. /, due there at 5.lG /
p. IN, is most convenient.
Work has commenced on the new ,
electric railroad between keedysvilIe |
and Boonsboro, the contract for grad
ing having been awarded to Il Phila-
delphia firm.
An effort is being made TO organize |
a company at Roanoke to build a
railroad from that city to points on
the Is. 4 Q. and G. & O. Railroads
The first span. on the Maryland
side, of the b. \ .. bridge at Harpers
Ferry has been put in place aud the
others are being rapidly erected.