The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-20
CHIEF SURGEON
OF The S. A. |.
Ills Understood That Dr.. Geo. Ben
Johnston Will be Named.
A sEABoARD AIR LINE HOSPITAL.
tits Expected That the Charlotte Williams
Hospital Will Become Such-Richmond
Bnilt locomotives Plenty of Cars
Now For Moving Fertilizer.
A sEAB0ARD AIR LINE HOSPITAL.

It is generally understood that DR..
George Ben Johnston, of this city, Will
soon be made chief surgeon of the Sea-
board Air Line hallway. President Will
Jams when asked concerning the matter
yesterday said no changes had been
made in the medical department. DR..
Johnston refused to discuss the supjece.
There is believed to be doubt that the
appointment will be announced in a, few
days. Dr. Johnston, who is one OF the
best known surgeons in the United States,
would be a most valuable official. He and
Mrs. Johnston and Mrs. John Shelton
Williams have recently returned from
short stay at Palm Beach, Fla
The prospective appointment OF DR.
Johnston to the head of the medical and
surgical department of the Seaboard Air
Line will revive the rumor that the Char
lotte Williams Hospital, TO be built here,
will become the Seaboard Air Line Hos
pital, in the sense that it will be the
hospital to which sick and injured en-
ployes of the road will be taken DR..
Johnston will be at the head Of the new
hospital. Mr.. John l.. Williams, and Mr..
John Shelton Williams have been the
chief contributors TO the endowment fund
Of the hospital. Work will soon begin on
the hospital.
The fifty locomotives being built for the
Wabash at the Richmond LOGON otive
Works will be probably the finest ever
turned out at the works. This is saying
a great deal, when it is remembered that
the Richmond works have turned out
engines for nearly every road in this
country and Canada, as we'll as Tor sew
eral European railways. a year or two
ago a Richmond man was travelling IN
western Canada. The train was stopped
on siding in a very desolate section.
far from civilization. The traveller walked
down by the side OF the train to where
the engine driver was oilng his machine
The gentleman CHANGED to observe that
the engine was built at the Richmond
Locomotive Works. He declared he could
hardly refrain from shaking hands witt!
the engineer, the sight OF the Richmond
built engine did him SO much good 1t
was like meeting an old friend from
home. The engineer, by the way, remark
ed to the traveller that there were no
better engines made than those turned out
at the Richmond Locomotive Works
The officials of the Richmond. FREEZER
icksburg and Potomac Railroad deny that
they know anything regarding the report
that the system between Washington and
this city is to be doube-tracked ana shops
established at Fredericksburg.
,rhe scarcity OF cars Tor the moving OIL
fertilizer shipments has been relieved.
All southern roads some few weeks ago
found themselves suffering seriously from
failure to supply cars for the leaVy move
ments Now this pressure mas pech re-
lieyed, and hundreds OF cars are pelhS
brought to Richmond and other points
daily TO load with fertilizer
The Chesapeake Steamship Company has
arranged for a special vacation tour tor
the students of the Womans College and
the Girls Latin School, in charge OF Or
Hans Froelicher The party will
leave Monday evening, April LIST, on
the steamer Atlanta, arriving at
old Point next morning. The day VIII
be spent about historic Fort Monroe In
the evening Norfolk will be reached. We'd
nesday will be spent at that city and
Virginia Beach. Thursday and Friday
win be token up with Richmond and It's
enyirons. They will return to Baltimore
Saturday morning.
Following is a comparative statement
of the gross earnings of the Chesapeake
and ohio Railroad Company for the sec
ond week of March: 1901. S2SI 95552; 1900,
$40, 1854; Changes. increase. S47,00L6S. For
the two weeks of March: 1901. $500, S63. 49,;
1900, S4s1 ,S91.eS; Changes, increase, $50
91.45
The Chesapeake and Ohio will run an
excursion to Newport News Saturday on
the occasion of the launching of the
Korea, the largest vessel which was ever
nut into the water in the Western henlis-
phere.