Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-09-08
RAILROAD NEWS.
Matters From Here and There Concerning the
Great Corporations.


Owing to the present business de-
preston the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company has decided upon a
further reduction Of expenses. After
consultation among the executive
and general officers of the company
it was determined to order a 10 per
cent reduction in the salaries Of all
employees and officers whose pay is
$3.50 and over q month. This reduc
ton took effect September LIST. The
cut includes the executive and
general officers, superintendent,
chief clerks, paymasters and division
passenger agents. The minor clerks
and trainmen in the service are not
affected, although it is believed that,
their wages will next be reduced, in
Guiding agents and telegraph opera
tors. Some months ago the j. and
O. effected a saving of expenses by
reducing the force OF clerks, train
hands and mechanics. This was done
to avoid cutting the salaries Of those
who remained in the employ of the
company.
The Western Maryland Railroad
Company has also made a reduction
Of ten per cent in the salaries of all
its employees, except the road machin-
cry men. The working time Of the
latter has been reduced to nine hours
a day, which makes decrease in pay
Of something over ten per cent.
The schedule Of passenger trains
that went into effect on the Norfolk
g. Western Railroad last Sunday is
about the most convenient one we
have ever had at this place. 1t gives
US an early mail again, and enables
persons to visit CharlestOwn after
The mail now comes from the east
at 90 q. III. Train No. arrives at
7.42 instead OF at 5.2S a. In. No 4
reaches here at GA p. III. instead Of
at S.44. The accommodation trains
remain as they were. The corrected
schedule will be found on the second
page of the REGISTER.
Mr.. Fillmore Reynolds, Of this
place, freight conductor on TIE Nor
folk u Western Railroad, had mar
row escape from death at Stanley
last Saturday night. He was coup
ling cars when he fell between them
on the track. As car passed over
him he grabbed a beam, to which he
chung until the train was stopped and
he could crawl from his position.
One of his arms was dislocated and
he was bruised and scratched some
what, but he is mighty thankful it
was 10 worse.
The morning mail train from the
north on the Norfolk & Western Rail
road has been an hour and twenty
minutes late all this week, caused by
waiting at Hagerstown for the Cum
berland Valley connection. Both
roads were to have changed their
schedules last Sunday, but the Cum
berland Valley forgot to put its new
timetable into effect. 1t will do so
next Sunday.
Thieves Of an amateurish sort broke
into the Norfolk 4 Western depot at
Shepherdstown Tuesday night. The
money drawer, in which there was
no money, was forced open, and two
trunks in the waiting room were car
ried over behind Hodges's elevator
and broken into Their contents
were scattered around, but nothing
of much value was carried off.
The statement of the earnings and
expenses Of the Norfolk and Western
Railroad for July shows net earnings
of S190G71, decrease Of SEP, 256 as
compared with the same month of
last year. For the seven months end
ed July 81 the net earnings were
~, 504, 279, an increase over the cor
responding period Of last year of
300.
The accommodation train on the
Norfolk & Western Railroad hereto
fore running between Hagerstown
and Basic City now only runs as far
south ~ Shenandoah
The increase in the assessed value
of Railroads within the State Of West
Virginia this year over the assess
ments of last year aggregates about
$1,000, OOO
The Pullman car service on trains
No. and No. 4 of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad, between New York
and the South, has been discontinued.
Turkey GobbIer's Expensive Anger.
Mr.. J. n. Trusssll, the proprietor of