The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-27
RATTLE OE TIE RAIL.

1t is reported from Chicago that a truce
mas been declared in the rate war to Den
Baltimore and Ohio employees will not be
refused half rates for members Of their
families.
Passes of all kinds are to be materially
curtailed by the Pennsylvania during the
coming year
President Ramsey says that the Wheeling
and Lake Erie will issue and ask for ex-
change passes
Cut rates to ColoradoNtah territory have
increased the movement of traffic only
about - per cent 1t is said
Commercial travellers are opposed to the
establishment of trans Missouri and trans
continental mileage bureaus.
Extensive improvements and enlarge
ments of the Canadian Pacific at St. John,
~ T., are approaching completion.
1t Is reported that the Wabash will use
the PenDsylvania's new passenger station
in Pittshurg and NOT build one Of It's own.
Divisional headquarters of the Baltimore
and ONO southwestern will probably be re-
moved from Seymour to Washington, Ind.
Superintendent H. $ Storrs of the Bur.
lington has resigned to become general SUI
perntendeut Of the Wheeling and Lake
Erie.
p. W Farnham, superintendent Of car
and special freight service and industrial
commissioner Of the Burlington has re.
signed.
1t is expected that part Of the electric
line ia connect Baltimore, Washington and
Annapolis will be in operation early next
summer.
Rails from Belgium will he used In build
Ing Stllwelfs Kansas City, Mexico and
Orient, the manufacturers taking Mexican
cash In payment
Next summer the Gould lines will adopt
an aggressive traffic policy for the purpose
| Of divertlng travel from Northern Lake re
sorts to Colorado.
owing to scarcity Of steel rails the Bur
lingtou, Cedar Rapids and Northern en-.
trance to Minneapolis will not he com
peted before May
Lehlgh Valleys loss through damage by
the recent freshets Is estimated at from
81, 500 600 10 100000 and that of the Jer
sey Central at S1,j0O00o.
Traffic, according tn officials Of the Chi
cago and Northwestern, has quadrupled Ii
four years and the increase is likely to b.
more rapid in the future,
General Superintendent Piers Of the Ca
madam Pacific is confident that some day
the company Will have an Atlantic line OF
at least four large steamships.
Charles Todd has been appointed travel
Ing freight and passenger agent of tho
| Chicago and Northwestern at Cincinnati
to succeed W, B, Hutchinson.
Removal by the Baltimore and Ohio o.
distinctions against the Wabash crossing
! It's right of way In DeKalb county, Ind.
has been ordered by the court
| The American Railway Associations cod,
of rules has been adopted for the Hartman
lines, which includes the use of green in
stead of white as a safety signal
| 1t Is semi-offcially announced that tn
auditing department Of the Northern Cen
! trail will he abolished and the account
| kept by the auditor Of the Pennsylvania.
The Canadian Northern line between
! Winnipeg and Port Arthur will be com
| pleted next week and train service will he
| gin, 1t is expected, early in the new year.
Passenger officials Of the 500, Northerr
| Pacific and Great Northern are in favo
Of the homeseekers' rate being dscontin
ued during January and February of mex
| year.
The New York State railroad commission
! has authorized the Adirondack and st
Lawrence to increase its capitalization Z
si.616,ooO in order to retire OUTSTANDING
| bonds,
President Ramsey says that the Pennsyl
vania is not antagonizlng the Wabash lin
into Pittshurg, and he denies that the I'M
ion station In that city is TO be used a
! reported.
Lack Of cars and rap over the knuckIe
| from traffic managers are said TO hav
made II impossible for Denver agents VIII
cut rates to move shipments and put then
| In hot water
Godfrey Morgan, who so successful,
managed the Niagara Falls Gorge road
has been appointed manager of the new
! forty-mile electric line running out o
Youngstown, Ohio.
r. X BARTON formerly general agent a
| Nashville Of the Georgia Southern an
Florida has become travelling passenge
agent Of the Piedmont line at Baltimore Il
! place Of j. Boykln Lee.
Great Northern traffic Is breaking al
past records owing to increasing industrial
| enterprises along the line, The road 1
| no longer entirely dependent on agricul
tural products for tonnage and revenue.
| H. NJ. Butler. for twenty-seven years sta
! tion master Of the Union station In Pitts
! stations for the Pennsylyanln's PittshuTi
! division. Mr.. Butler has been with tn
| company nearly fifty years.
! one OF the latest stories is that the Penn
! sylyania the Rock Island and senate
| Clarks San Pedro line are 10 have clos
] traffic relations I'm handling transcontineu
| tai business. There are Indications tina
! TEND to Justify this conclusion
The Monterey and Mexican Gnlf Is not Il
/ be transferred to the Mexican Central unit
! ful Settlement and protection of thel
| rights has been accorded American cred
! tors whose claims are 70 he passed upo
soon by the supreme court Of Mexico
Bruce Jeffries, agent Of the Continents
/ Fast Freight line At Terre Hante. has bee
appointed travelling passenger agent OF tn
Evansville and Terre Hante ana Chicag
and Eastern Illinois for the Southeastern
l states, with headquarters at Atlanta.
4 overcrowded with work Of other plant
and inability Of builders 10 supply new en-
ginss as fast as they must be had ma
cause the Pennsylvania to arrange 10 bull
iis eva engines At Allegheny where sus