The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-12
|.I,ATEST new S o.
THE RAILROADS AL.
Ayger TO Try Southern investment.
Now.
C. & 0. ORDERS NEW CARS
p,,.ss Contract With PetcrsonrE
! concern for Six Hundred
other Items OF
Interest.
C, & o. ORDERS NEW CARS

covert from Pensacola, Fla, says
has been learned that the huSsei
a Alger syndicate VII! pul.u d O.
from ,.oshee Ala, to Ps!lSdcoia' '
through the timber lana feeehuS ~,
o,,5red by that company. y u.s. -,
VII, be erected at toshe' aiid a
tacrnrv or The American car company o.
Modno, Fla.
- MORE CARS FOR G. s. ..
rrha ,.nesaneake anu Onio Halfway '!es
,racad th. contract Tor six hundred hoppei
hottom sondolas with the Pressed o'0e'
car Company, Of PittsburS, -
The letting of this contract follows c'o 81.
" upon the announcement mace ~ 60
Iaa1er that the Chesapeake ana 90
was in the market for oo0 new coai ~
The contract calls LOT tue uei'
cars il, December, 1861
rho cars have a capacity Of 100000 POUNDS
ana are hopper bottoms. sef-clearlns. ne
CONSTANTLY increasing coal tralhc Oh nie
&, o. has made an increase in EQUIP
ment a pressing need
NEW WRECKER ORDERED.
The ,nesapeake and ONO has aust iel
the contract for one OF the latest M
proved steam wrecklng cranes. ne GU
tract was secured by the Industrial WORKS,
of Rav City. Michigan. The Dig crane VIII
ba delivered The latter part OF December
THE wreckins crane is known oftlciaily
az tyne No. iii, and combines all the nm
movements and most modern devices known
i'm the construction of this class o. ma
c,7ine1.v. The crane has a capacity OF one
hundred thousand pounds. ana the "eislt
s in working order, seventy-seVen TONS
-,,ia,, .i,c,I1fes the complete outrigger sys-
FEN, ballast in boiler extension coai ana
water over a wheel base of seventeen fee1
four inches The frame work OF car sup
nnrtino the crane is twenty-four teet. one
and oua-half inches, nine feet SIX lnciies
wide and Is constructed entirely OIL seer
and cast iron, and is carried on TWO ioui-
wheel trucks Westing House air brakes
are used.
The engines operating the crane are
! donhle with cylinders nine by twelve inch
| es. and for adding stability during heavy
l;ftire. n system of telescope outr.sgers
is provided.
n. & W. DIRECTORS.
! The annual meeting of the stockholderS
| of the Norfolk and Western is being held
| at Roanoke yesterday. The Board OF Direc-
! tors made a tour of inspection OF the road
| "Wednesday. and found everything in the
| most satisfactory condition. The inspec-
| ton party was taken back to Petersburg
! on the Cannon Ball at the rate OF sixty
| miles an hour,
| ERROR IN FIGURES.
4 typographical error mace the repol
| of the X. +. ana T. loI llle iiioiiI.i -
! August show a decrease in the gross
| earnings of 81 1897. The report should
| have. shown a decrease of only S1i3.9i
| RAILROAD NOTES.
! Mr.. William T. Pratt. general Eastern
agent of the Wisconsin Central Railway,
| with Headquarters at New York. was q
| visitor al the local railroad offices yester-
Mr.. c. Clifford. of Cincinnati, general
agent OF the Union Pacific, is Rich
| mond visitor.
Mr.. Sterling Ruffin the agent of the
| Norfolk and Western at Petersburg. is
! critically i'll with typhoid fever. MI EUf-
| fin is well known and popular here
Mr.. NJ NJ Ansley, Atlanta, travelling
! freight and passenger agent of the At
! lanta and West Point. is in the city
(, Captain c. ". Westbury. travelling pas
| senger agent Of the Southern. attended
| the convention of the T. ?. As at Nor
! folk, and reports a most enjoyable time
| a party of seventy-five Pennsylvania
! tourists will arrive in Richmond to-Erg
! over the Chesapeake and Ohio from Natu-
raj Bridge. They vii! go from here 10 Old
! Point.