The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-20
Among the Railroads.

The Atlantic Coast Line has hit upon
neat plan for providing for first and
secondclass apartments in passenger
! coaches that go across the line into
North Carolina. In South Carolina the
division is not necessary the three cents
per mile rate prevailing and separate
cars hauled for whites and blacks. The
| division is effected by handsome por-
| there's suspended from an iron rod. The
Charleston Wilmington local passenger
has just been fitted with the portieres.
which make a great Improvement too.
| in the appearance of the coaches.-Flor-
ence Is. Co Times.
President Samuel Spencer states that
there is no foundation for the rumors
that the Southern Railway is to absorb
! the Monon.
The Seaboard Air Line is to Join the
Southeastern Freight Association before
April LIST. Mr.. Barr inherited no an
tagonism to the association and was per-
fectly willing to join when Traffic Man
ager Peasants took the matter up with
him.
u
administration, the Seaboard and the
freight association did not pull together.
When the old Southern Railroad and
Steamship Association was re-organiZed.
Mr. st. John wanted it -christened be-
cause of the similarity between its name
and the Southern Railway. So the name
was changed to the Southeastern Freight
Association, but even then Mr.. ST. John
would not join.-The Common Carrier ,
The Common Carrier says of Capt.
Edmund Berkeley, injured in a collision.
that his internal injuries are not as seri-
Gus as they were at first thought TO be.
Scaboard Air Line IS are pronounced
rather attractive investment. The
company is not at all heavily bonded and
1T las survived troubles more severe
Common Carrier
Six box cars and 100 bales of cotton
were lost by the fire which burned the
Narrow Guage depot at Lincolnton on
Tuesday morning. The fire was started
by tramps.
at is the gneral blief of all railway
men, and especially of those who are
most familiar with the conditions in the
southern. that it will not be many days
before Mr. Samuel Spencer retires from
Inc presidency OF the system, and is
succeeded BY Mr.. Frank Cannon"
This was the remark of one of the
best known railroad men in the city of
ir11p IN,
tion regarding the retirement of Mr..
Cannon from the position of general man
ager of the company which was an
rounced yesterday, to take effect at once.
Further conversation made it a practical
certainty that it is on the card for Mr..
Spencer to retire and Mr. Cannon to sue
coed him as the head of the great sys-
tenn, says the Richmond Dispatch.
The Citizen was told yesterday by
Colonel Thomas Turner, of Esmeralda
Inn. who is here from Hickory Nut Gap,
that the prospects of the railroad from
Rutherford to Asheville for a distance of
forty miles are good. The rights of way
have been taken and an engineer will ar
rive from New York during the next
two weeks to go over the road. 1t is
most probable that the road will be be-
gun before tahe first of June.-Asheville
Citizen
Thomas S Boswell, superintendent
Of the Pennsylvania Railway Company,
has severed his connection with the road
and gone to West Virginia, There lie
has taken charge of the eng neering
work of large plant and will superin-
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