The herald., 1898-10-25
NEWS OF The RAIL WAYS
PRESIDENT RIPLEY INSPECTING
THE VALLEY ROAD
GENERAL TRAFFIC NEWS
Southern Pacifc's Long Beach Depot
to Be Moved-Progress of the
Traction to Boyle Heights

Traction to Boyle Heights
President Ripley of the Santa Fe in hi.
special train of four cars, with party Of
friends, and Vice President Paul Morton
also accompanied by General Freight Agent
Chambers of the Santa Fe Pacific, is or
his way to Bakersfield. He arrived ir
California Saturday night, but did not come
to this city going on his way to Bakers
field, where he will go over the line of the
chased by his company for the purpose OF
gaining an entry into San Francisco. Mr.
Ripley is accompanied by General Manager
Nevin OF this portion OF the Santa Fe sys
TEN, who will be placed in charge of the
whole system from Albuquerque to San
Francisco when the transaction for the Sc
curing of the Valley road is completed. 1t
is thought at the general offices in the
Bradbury block that the main offices OF
the company will remain in this city, though
one or two of the prospective general Off
GERS are said to be anxious to move the
whole works to San Francisco, which will
be the terminus of the line.
THE PENNSY'S EARNINGS
The Pennsylvani Railroad company's
gross earnings for the year ending June 80
which has just been filed with the interstate
commerce commission. were 500, IA .6S9
against SCI ,l43 033 for the preceding year.
The company employed 53,463 persons
who worked during the year the equivalent
of l6,s67,0O4 days, the compensation being
s3l ,539,066, a daily average of SlS7. These
figures include 33 general officers.
The company had in service 1903 locomo-
tives, 1754 passenger coaches, baggage, mail
and express cars, and 64.24S freight cars.
The number of passengers carried during
the year was 1864, ,507; number of tons of
freight, GA 4,376,7S5, while the granditotal of
train mileage was $3.50, 800 miles.
RAILROADS AFTER THE SCALPERS
Another big fight is on between the rail
roads and the ticket brokers, this time in
Chicago. Seven of the big trunk lines
running into Chicago have petitioned the
courts for an injunction restraining the
sale by brokers of the return portion OF
jubilee excursion tickets. The difficulty
no doubt will be amicably adjusted in the
same manner as it was in Pttsburg, by the
railroads refunding TO the brokers the
moneys paid for the tickets.
MADE TRAFFIC MANAGER
The announcement is made by Colonel
f. L. Russell, president of the Mobile and
Ohio, that ]. T. Poe, for many years gen.
eral freight agent of the road with head.
quarters in st. Louis, has been promoted
to the position of traffic manager, which
position was created on account of the in
creased work in the traffic department of
the Mobile and Ohio. Mr.. Poe will re-
Mobile, and will be succeeded by Hayden
Miller, of the Southern railway as general
agent Mr.. Miller will have his head
quarters in st. Louis.
TREMENDOUS FREIGHT CARS
The low rates on freight between great
commercial centers of this country has
compelled many of the leading railroads to
build larger freight cars, and it is not un-
common nowadays to see cars of 10000 and
$4,000 pounds capacity being hauled over
the road.
This constant tendency to increase the
size of equipment, for it has been as marked
in locomotives as in cars, has called for the
most careful attention to the roadbed and
has required large expenditures for heavier
bridges and rails and improved roadbed
which have been so generally made by the
western railroads. When it is considered
that the distribution of load in forty-tor
resting on each truck wheel, it can readily
be seen what destruction would be done
to a weak roadbed.
With cars of 100 tons capacity, and some
roads now have them, the load per whee
with an eight-truck, will equal about l6,
| $50 pounds, yet the traffic economy wher
| full loads are obtainable is so great that il
pays to haul these heavy cars instead ol
ones of lighter capacity.
TRYING TO BUY THE TRACTION
LINES
A report was current yesterday, said tc
have come from good authority, that the
Huntington syndicate, the owners of the
Los Angeles Railway company's lines, hao
offered the Traction company million dol
lars for their system. The story was con
tradicted by Mr.. Hook and by Judge Lamme
the attorney for the line. However, it i,
thought that there is some basis for the
Irumor. The Traction lines are the only
ones in the city that compete with the Other
companies business, and it is natural to sup
pose that an absorption of it would be good
business for the former.
NOTES AND PERSONALS.
With the building of city hall in Ions
Beach, for which plans have already becl
prepared, the Southern Pacific railwa,
will be obliged to move their depot from the
site now occupied by them, as it is wanted
for the new building;
Hugh b. Rice, ticket agent of the Ter
minal railway, has booked Miss Gertrude
Hande of Alamitos to Liverpool. The
young lady will sail in November.
The convention of the Switchmen'
Union of North America, held at Cleve
land last week, elected the following off
GERS: Grand master, NJ. NJ Conlin of Kan
Porter Nottingham, o.; grand secretary
treasurer, John T.. Upton, Parsons, Kan.
editor of journal, M. J. Ford, Jr Omaha
Neb.; grand board of directors, NJ. r
Wclch, of Omaha. Neb.; Clint L: Frantz
of Kansas City, Kan, and NJ j. Curran o.
Detroit, Mich.
its service on the Yazoo and Mississippi
Valley division between Memphis ant
Vicksburg This will open more than hall
that division, upon which the train service
both passenger and freight, has been en-
tirely suspended for some time on account
of the yellow fever outbreak.
The viaduct over the Terminal railway
tracks and the river being erected by the
Traction railway for its new line *