Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-13
THE TRACK ALL LAID.
This Important Work Finished
from Petersburg to RidgsUay'
SOUTH CAROLINA DIVISION.
This 10 Be Completed BY The End
Of the Ysat.
sEABoARD ORDERS MORE ENGINES
Contracts Given for Twenty-Five
More, Making It's order One Of the
Largest Ever Given ny a southsrH
Road-Freigh Cara.
sEADoARD ORDERS MORE ENGINES
Contracts Given for Twenty-Five
More, Making It's order One Of the
Road--Frcight-Carss

The laying OF the track OF the Rich
mond, Petersburg and Carolina railroad
the northern division OF the Seaboard
Airline System--from Petersburg to
Ridgsway was completed yesterday. Bus
little work remains to be done on the Me-
herrin bridge before that lire. seventy
seven miles in length, can be opened the
entire length for traffic.
Work is being pushed forward With ah
possible energy and haste. The company
is having the temporary trestis hare built
under its own direction. instead OF lettin0
IL 10 contract President Williams said
last niaht that trains would almost oer-
tainly be running into Richmond oy the
end Of January.
1--WE are making excellent progress On
our South Carolina Division, too, SAID
Mr.. Williams, and that will be open from
Columbia to Cheraw by tho first OF the
wear. This division is ninety miles In
length. The rails have been laid tor
twenty-five miles. and the work Ii going
forward nicely"
orders were given yesterday for tho
construction OF twenty-five more iocomo.
tiyes for the Seaboard Airline system.
This makes the total number OF engines
now building, or to be built at once Tor
the seaboard, nifty. orders for twenty-hvs
having been given Monday. This 10 pro-
baby the largest number Of locomotives
ever contracted for by southern road
at one time.
The seaboard also ordered 200 ventilated
| freieht-cars Yesterday. These are to De
J nut in the fruit and vegetable trade from
| Florida.
The engines ordered Monday are to be
| brilr nv the Richmond Locomotive and
Machine.Works. Ten of those for when
orders were given ssterday are 10 0"
| built by the international Power CON-
pany. formerly the Rhode Island Loeo-
| motive Works. of Providence, ana the To-
naming fifteen are 10 bo built at tho
| BALDWIN Works. at Philadelphia. Tho
| cars are to be built By ths Baltimore Car
| Works.
| The deliveries OF the engines will begin
| I'm Aoril. and that OF the cars In Feb
| ruary. The twenty-five engines ordered
| from the Richmond Locomotive anu
| Machine-Work are ten-whecl freigns
moguls. Twenty of those ordered yester-
| day are 10 be mammoth eight-wheeiers
| for the passenger service. and nyo arc
to be switch engines Of tho latest type
/ Tho c,hesaneake and Ohio 10 reoei~ins
| TWENTY-FIVE new locomotives, and has just
| placed an order for twenty five more Mr..
| w s. Morris, superintendent OF motive
| mower Of the Chesapeake and Ohlo Is IN
| Chicago for tho purpose OF closing con-
tract with the Pullman Company for AtSo
/ coai-cars Nine hundred OF them are 10
he hopper-cars, and coo " the tlat-bottom
variety.
The Norfolk and Western Is having
| large number of locomotives built here
and 100 100, pound fgeght-cars In tho
shops at Roanoke. Mr. X. r. Kirk. travel
ING freight agent OF the Norfolk and
Western. was in the city yesterday. He
SAYS that the heaviest train ever run
over the road from Roanoke 70 Norfolk
was run one day last week. 1t was COM
posed OF nineteen cars, the weight OK
each, including load, being lD.0Oo POUNDS
The steamer Louise. which the Chesa-
| make and Ohio has had in the Newport
| News-Norfok trade for several years, ID
| 10 be replaced by new passenger steam
| err which will reduce the time between
the two cities to forty minutes. IL naa
| heretofore been sixty-hye minutes. The
old Louise has never been fayorite Of
the public.
There was regular annual meeting ol
the stockholders Of the Virginia Hot
Strings Company at the office Of Second
NONRESIDENT Axtell, OF the Chesapeake
and Ohio. yesterday. A large majority ol
the stock was represented. The follow
Ing Board OF Directors was elected FOL
the ensuing year: NJ II. ingalls,. ". X
Johnson, Il. r. Osborne, l. +. sullivan
G.. II. ingalls,, Warner Moore, III. T. Wick
ham. Decatur Axtell. C. l.. Wexford. Tn,
| election OF officers was deferred
co,,n,emoratiou OF tooth Aunaven