The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-18
Among the Railroads.

| During the past year nine postal clerks
we're killed on the railway, eight severe
| ly injured and 302 slightly injured.
A dispatch from Philadelphia says:
| John Gregg, who is IA years old and
lives in Principis, Md, recently saved the
Colonial express from going into wash
out, and the Pennsylvania Railroad has
| placed him on the pay roll and will give
him a college education if he desires it.
| John prefers to be a fireman, however,
Work on the railroad to connect the
property of the Whitney Reduction Works
with the railroad that runs from Sails
| bury to Norwood has been completed.
| Capt. E. B. C. Hambly says the railroad
will be extended further over the Yadkin
| River.
w. S. Bradley, of Norfolk, succeeds
Capt. X. S. Finch, as local freight agent
of the Seaboard Air Line in Charlotte.
A new freight and passenger steamer
| is to be built by Capt. Herbert Ward,
at Point Caswell. for the Black River
| trade, to run from Cedar Run, Sampson
county, to Wilmington.
The Wilmington Star, referring to the
election of Col Warren G. Elliott as
president of the Atlantic Coast Line of
Connecticut, the parent company of the
| Atlantic Coast Line, says it is under
stood that Colonel Elliott's headquarters
will hereafter be in Baltimore. North
| Carolina will regret to lose Colonel
Elliott as a citizen.
Captain w. F. Williams and Mr.. r. w.
Massie, president and vice president, re-
spectively, of the Harnett Lumber Com
| pany, which was recently established
near Manchester on the Atlantic Coast
Line, were in the city yesterday and held
| a conference with Atlantic Coast Line
officials about freight rates The plant
| is twelve miles from the Coast Line and
they have built broad gauge railroad to
connect the two.-Wilmington Dispatch.
General Passenger Agent w. ]. Craig
| is getting out some very handsome ad-
vertising matter for the Atlantic Coast
Line He has made a special study OF
| that kind of work and the posters and
other advertising matter designated and
approved by him are extremely attrac-
| tive. Just now he is getting out some
| fascinating placards catering to the
| tourist travel to the South this winter
The outside world knows little of the
| rapid and gratifying agricultural and
| industrial development of the country
| lying to the west and southwest of Fay
etteville, on the Seaboard Air Line Rail-
| road. For this, in large measure, credit
| is due to the Aberdeen and Rockfish
Railroad; and it's president, Mr.. John
Blue, today finds himself distracted by
an embarrassment of riches for, do
what he may, he cannot supply the
| freight cars fast enough to fill the orders
of those clamoring for shipping facilities.
| These orders come mostly from saw
mill men, for the lumber business of that
section has grown to great proportions,
and shows signs of still further in
| crease.-Fayetteville Observer.
| The announcement that Col. Warren
| G.. Elliot was elected president of the
Atlantic Coast Line Company, of Con-
necticut, is followed at Wilmington by
| the semi official announcement that Col.
Elliott, who is also president of the At
lantic Coast Line Railroad Company,
| will hereafter have his headquarters in