Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-12-29
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til January 9th.
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Ricl'mnna Chamber OF Commerce.
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Argument on the application of Thos
f. Ryan for an injunction restraining
the consolidation OF the Seaboard and
Roanoke, the Georgia and Alabama and
the Florida Central and Peninsulur into
one system will be heard in the United
States District Court in Richmond
Monday. January Sth, at IL o'clock.
Argument was to have been heard by
Judge Waddill yesterday. but the case
was postponed by the consent and at
the request of counsel on both sides
President John Shelton Williams, of
the Seaboard, is still in New York. 1t
was given out at the offices of John l..
Williams & Sons. the Richmond bank
ers, yesterday that he would probably
make statement from that city in
reply to the telegram from Mr.. Ryan,
published in the Virginian- Pilot Of
Wednesday.
The controversy between Mr. Will,
liams. president of the Seaboard, and
MIR. Ryan. who controls n small por
ton of the stock, and is endeavoring TO
prevent the consolidation of the lines
into one system, is attracting very gen.
eral attention 1t is very probably that
meeting of the Chamber OF Commerce
ch VIII DE nclu III IL lew Guys,
says the Dispatch, for the purpose of
expressing the desire or the business
men of Richmond to have the CONSOLE
ldation perfected.
AFTER THE b. AND Q.
| General janis {. Hill, Railroad Com
| missioner, is determined that the people
| of the Valley shall have good schedul S
over the Baltimore and Obi, and South
ern. About ten days ago, after a hear
| ing of the representatives of the two
roads in his office, G. neral H II ordered
a change in the Baltimore and Ohio
schedule Of twenty minutes, ana enc in
that of the Sou hern of about five min
utes This would allow the trains of
| the two roads to connect at Strasburg
Ju-ct on. The Southern promptly COM
piled with. the order, but the Bait more
and Ohio refused to do so. General
Hill prop ses to make it comply, il the
law can do so. The preliminary notice
| was drawn by Attorney G eneral Mon
tasue yesterday. After rec ting the
facts above set forth. the notice says:
Therefore, In the name of the Com
monwealth, l hereby give notice that !
shall move, in vacation. before the Hon
| Thomas w. Harrison. judge OF the Cir
! cult Court of the county of Shenan-
doah. on the -- day of --, 1900, be-
tween the hours of sunrise and sunset
doah, TO adjust said complaint and to
order and require that said Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company (lessca of
the sad Winchester and Strasburg
Railroad Company and the said Win
chester and Strasburg Railroad Com
pany shall hold said Train No. H. of
the Winchester and Strasburg railroad,
at said Strasburg Junction for connec-
| ton with Train No. IS, of the Southern
Railway, and that the schedule Of the
sad Winchester and St:usburg Ra :
| road Company shall b. changed In can-
formity thereto. JAMES C. HILL.
Railroad Commission e.. for and in be-
half of the Commonwealth of Viz
| ginia."
NAVAL RECRUITS.
The Chesapeake and Ohio will receive
l2l naval recruits at Jersey City Mt s
o'clock this morning, when they begin
their long trip to the Mare Island
Navy-yard, at San Francisco The
special train in which the future
1ackies will ride will consist of four
sleepers, dining-car and n baggage
car. The train will run over the Penn
syiVania to Washington, thence over
the Chesapeake and Ohio to Cincinnati
thence via the Big Four TO Chicago
thence by the Sante Fe route to San
Francisco. Under recent arrangements
perfected by the War and Navy De-
ipartments, the Transportation COM
panies now furnish subsistence for SOL
diers and marines carried by them
Formerly the men We're subsisted by
the departments. Now they are fed on
ldining-cars and at railway restaurants
UNPLEASANT PROSPECTS.
Railroad people as a rule. are not at
all pleased at the prospect of the Vir-
ginia General Assembly passing a law
requiring that separate coaches be pro-
Vided for negro passengers. 1t means,
of course, additional expense and trou-
bic. North and South lines. like tho
Southern and Atlantic Coast Line, need
give themselves little concern over the
matter, as they have TO provide sepa-
rate coaches under the North Carolina
law 1t will catch the Chesapeake and
Ohio and Norfolk and Western
RUMORED EXTENSION.
The news that the new owners Of the
old Chester and Lenoir railway (be-
lleved to be the Seaboard Air Line) will
extend 1t southeastward to Charleston
and northwestward TO Bluefeld. w.
Va. attracts attention among railway
people in the Old North State.
C. & o. EARNINGS.
The gross earnings of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway Company for the
third quarter Of November, 1899 were
S295035S9; for the same period 1898,
1863 ,63G.70, an increase of $25, 399.19
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