Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-04-21
RAILROAD AFFAIRS.
Changes on the 8. & O.-Finances Of the
& W.-ltems OF Minor Importance.

& W.-ltems OF Minor Importance.
Advance copies OF the twelfth an
nual report of the Norfolk and West
ern Railroad Company were issued
Tuesday. The report covers the ope-
rations for the year ended December
! 81. 1892. on which date the length Of
the company's lines. exclusive OF sec
ond track and sidings, was |, sos miles.
The gross earnings for the year were
S9952, Ss1; operating expenses and
taxes. S7,OS1,672; net earnings,
81, 92l. 209 Additional income of
S136, POO remainder ofspecIal dividend
fund make the totalincome 50, 202, 075.
The fixed charges amount to y, +15, 16l.
which, deducted from the total in
come, leave the net income S126,3l4.
The previous surplus of Sl,456,976
added to the net income, makes the.
total surplus S2,1S3, 300. Out of this
was paid 81 100000 in dividends and
S139, ass in purchase OF bonds for the
sinking fund, leaving a surplus of
Sl,0l3,S3l. Ample explanation is made
in the report of the reasons for the
unsatisfactory results of the years
operations and for the recent passage
of the dividend upon the preferred
stock.
a number of B. & o. Railroad Of.
ficials were in Baltimore this week ar
ranging for the new summer schedule,
which will 20 into effect May l4th.
A number OF changes will be made
The Chicago limited train, which
leaves Baltimore at 1920 a. IN, will
60 to Chicago via Pittsburg and Ak
ron, instead of via Grafton and Wheel.
ing, as at present The train which
now leaves Baltimore for Pittsburg
at :. ID p. III will then leave at =. IN,
and will run through to Chicago. An
additional train, leaving Baltimore at
II D. IN, will be put on aud will go to
| Chicago vic Grafton and Wheeling.
There will be no change in the run
ming of the Cincinnati and st. Louis
trains After the new schedule goes
into effect all the trains of the Royal
Blue Line, except the five-hour lin
tied, will run into the Readings new
depot at Twelfth and Market streets,
Philadelphia.
Within the next thirty days five or
six powerful, swift and handsome new
passenger locomotives will be added
to the equipment of the Baltimore
aud Ohio's Pittsburg division. They
will come direct from the Baldwin 10
connective works at Philadelphia and
will be used in hauling the through
trains They will be duplicates Of
the powerful machines used on the
Baltimore and Philadelphia division
and will weigh about ll4,0O0 pounds
each, exclusive of the tender. They
will cost not less than $4,000 each.
With the Inauguration OF its next
schedule the Baltimore and Ohio
Chicago trains will run through Pitts
burg. and the new engines will head
them. The cylinders OF the new ma
chimes will b- 20 by "a.
Last Thursday night Joseph Gauld-
ing, white, farmer living near
Vesuvius, while crossing the Norfolk
and Western Railroad track, was run
over by freight train and both legs
were so mangled that amputation
was necessary Gaulding is seventy
years old, and is not likely TO recover.
The Roanoke Machine works has
received an order from the Norfolk
and Western Railroad for the con
struction of eighteen locomotives,
thirty cabin cars and two wrecking
cars, the order aggregating S2OS, 800.
The circuit court at Harrisonburg,
Va. has rendered verdict Tor 1000
against the Norfolk & Western Rail
road for the killing of David Caldwell,
a brakeman, in wreck about year
/ AGO