The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-11
--LATEST NEWS OF
The RAILROADS.
Southern Spending Thousands On
Improvements.
RAILROAD Y. NJ. C. A.coNFERENcE
President stevens Will Attend the
sessions in Philade!phia-Kel'c
OF By-Gone Days other
items OF Interest

The Southern Railway is spendin5 ,, snoa
sands of dollars in making mp ~ lie
.hrouehout the system. On the Ash s
80, baIf a million dollars Is Deiiis
snant on reducing grades alone. otne
onolnts are being spent which VIII 'nshe
heir tracks much safer and enapie tAei'i
to make better time 81
A, Morristown a cutoff is being maue
which will save mile for through Il ei' ~,
II is claimed that the Southern mas SUI
deal of freight from Old Poihl tointo.
west through Asheville, knoAvliie' eii',.-
tanooga to Memphis, and every Saving
loi,s ccnsiderablN The cutoff AVOIDS
-nnnh Grade. Between Asheville ana oid
point Comfort nearly all the track IS pal
lasted and between Asheylile ana oasis-
bl1rzr about fifty miles is completed. Sun
greater Improvements are BENG liaue ~
bridges The very best of steel structures
are replacing the old wooden ones ne
Phoenix and Edgemont bridge companies
have the contract for these bridges. Inc
track has recently been changed IN many
places to ninety-pound rails. the best 70
be secured so the roadhed will ore greatly
improved Better schedules will naturally
follow this great Improvement and danger
of trouble will to a large extent be aVolded-
LACIlAWANNA'S MOVE.
The passenger department of the Lack
awanna Railroad has made another move
for business in territory where the road
has been dependent upon its connections
for traffic. The company now proposes
to work upper Canada. where it has been
without a representative, and has opened
an Office in Toronto, the agent appointed
to take charge being George Bazzard,
who will look after both passenger and
freight traffic.
MR.. STEVENS WILL ATTEND.
President Stevens, OF the Chesapeake
ana Ohio, was in Cincinnati, but left
for the East yesterday, going to Phladel
soilit, where he viii attend the sessions of
the international Railroad Young Mems
Christian Association Conference. The ses-
sions will be held in the Pennsylvania
Railroads branch to-day and Fri
day. and many prominent railroad officials
and distinguished men will be in attend
ance.
Mr.. H. o. Williams, railroad secretary,
who has his headquarters in this city,
will also attend, he being in charge of
the work in the South Atlantic States.
IN NEW QUARTERS.
Mr. c. Z. Potts and M. John A. Han
cock, treasurer and paymaster OF the C.
& o.. have moved into their new offices
in the Pace Building. The offices they
now occupy was formerly the Directors
Room, which has been transferred to the
offices adjoining President Stevens Of
fees and formerly occupied by the gene
raj solicitor. The latter's new quarters
are those formerly the comptroller's.
while Mr.. Sullivan takes the offices across
the hall. formerly those OF the treasurer
and paymaster.
OF BY-GONE DAYS.
Mr. Meade T. Sp!cer, chief clerk to the
president of the C. & o. is in possession
of a rare relic of rai,roading of by-sone
days The relic is a timetable of the Viz
ginia Central railroad, dated sunday June
&c. 1867. The schedule shows that the mail
trains. which daily left Richmond, made
the run from Richmond to Covtngton, Va.
1.-TWO hundred and fifty miles, in twelve
hours and two minutes The book also
gives all the rules for signaling and in
structions for employees.
r.. T. e P. EARNINGS.
The following IS a statement Of earnings
and expenses of the Richmond. Fredericks-
burg and Potomac Railroad for August,
1900:
Gross earnings. s66,o2o-7c: expenses, SD
321.19: net earnings. 81, 699.51: gross earn
ings same month last year. S65.7S6.67; ex-
penses, $3s,SSS.O1: net earnings, s26. S5266;
increase, expenses, S+,43S.1S: decrease.
gross earnings, Si1,59l; decrease, net earn
inss 5,l5415.