The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-08
RATTLE OF THE RAIL,

All lines in the system Of the Baltimore
ing.
A meeting of the western Passenger as.
soclntion will be held in Chicago on Sep
TENDER ).
An order for forty new freight engines
mas been placed with the Baldwin works
by the Pennsylvania.
During July the Reading Relief assoca-
$l0594. Is for physical disability.
W. c. Jones. at ono time an engineer on
the Lchigh valley, Is now superintendent
of the Ann Arbor and its boat line.
On September II and is the ninth annual
convention Of the Eastern Maintenance of
WAY association VIII be held al Rochester,
n. Y.
c. S. Willard has left the Lackawanna' $
engineering department to become engineer
OF maintenance of way on the Peoria and
Pekn.
G. A. Walton, formerly with tho pas.
scnger department of the Grand Trunk has
been appointed rate clerk for the Canadian
Pacifcs department.
Next season the Colorado and Southern
proposes to make 4 bid for southern tour
lists and will run through trains from New
Orleans to Colorado points.
An effort is being made to raise enough
money to build new road from Delta to
er for the Northern Central
Chief Engineer Hood of the Southern Pa
CHIC says that he has not had orders to
make n survey for tunnel and line that
would pierce the Sierra ranges.
= E, Crowley has succeeded ]. b. stew
division Of the New York Central, with
headquarters at Corning, y. Y.
1t is reported that the Santa Fe has
bought the Kansas Southwestern in order
to prevent opposition to It's proposed road
from Arkansas City to Fort Smith Ark.
Manouar II No+n of tho Nttsgn,,ri vi
ley Car Service association has resigned to
take a position with the California asso-
citation, now In process of organization.
1t is believed that the possibility of Pres
ident Mohler of the oregon Navigation be-
ing assigned 10 the Southern Pacific has
not had the serious consideration to which
it Is entitled.
A. a. Mayer has been appointed master
mechanic of the Grand Trunk, succeeding
j. T. Muhlhcld, who has been made super
intendent of motive power Of the Inter
colonial railway.
John p. Evans. who has been assistant
auditor of the Rio Grnnde Western, has
become auditor Of the company succeed
ing Theodore Geddes who has lled the
position for fifteen years.
Meadford, Ont, terminus Of the Grand
Trunk midway between owen Sound and
Collingwood, has been made grain receiv-
ing port and an elevator built that has a
working capacity of 100000 bushels.
Copies OF The Compendium" which con
tains all passenger rates and their divi-
slons are being distributed by the com
piler, W. Il. Bailey, formerly general pas
senger agent Of The Colorado Midland.
The Pennsylvania has elevated the track
and lowered II AT various places between
Hartford City. Upland and Dunkirk, and
when completed the improvement VIII have
cost in the nclghborhood OF SlO0,OOD
Vice President and General Manager Rus
sell Harding of the Missouri Pacific said
that so far us he knows there is no dispo-
siton on the part of the Missouri Pacific
Iron Mountain system to absorb the Arkan-
sas- Choctaw.
II is again rumored that J. y. Barr. me
chanical superintendent OF the Baltimore
and Ohio, is TO resign and return TO the
ST. Paul. r. W. Deniarcst OF the Penfsyl
vhnla Southwest system being mentioned as
his successor.
Surveyors are running line up the 60
dOrus creek to York, Pa, for road which
Ii Is presumed will he built by the Read
ing II viii connect at York with the
Western Maryland or the Maryland ana
Pennsylvania.
Lester S. Carroll has been appointed pur-
chasing agent Of the Chicago ana North.
western aud OF the Fremont, Elkhorn ana
Missouri Valley. with headquarters AT Shl-
cago Mr.. Carroll succeeds Charles nay
ward, resigned.
S. G.. Neff, who for several years has been
chief clerk In the maintenance OF way de-
nnrfment az tie PENNSYLVANIA lines al Rich
inond, Ind, takes service with the 'shicheu
and Eastern Illinois as chief clerk 10 fres'
ident Carpenter.
John H. Arms. who was formerly with
General Agent .. D Pool Of me Sln men
natl, Hamilton and Dayton road at pay
ton, has taken service With the lnterstate
Dispatch line as travelling agent, Win hsad-
quarters at Memphis.
President Ingalls, has modified the eitizens
Of ufhana, III, that the Peoria ano DAs'sih