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been selected as treasurer of the Hooking
Valley Benefit Association

been selected as treasurer of the Hooking
Valley Benefit Association.
Train No. 20 over the Vandalia and Pam
handle was run in two sections yesterday.
the second section carrying two hundred or
more home visitors to Ohio.
Including the Monons $50 miles the South
ern Railway system comprises 1.2i miles
Of main line, and is master OF the rate
situation in the territory Ii covers.
F.. r. Thrall, recently appointed travel
ing freight agent of the Erie, assumed the
duties on Monday. Mr.. Thrall was pro-
NOTED from the local office at Cleveland.
The directors of the Cincinnati. Indian
apolis Western will hold special meet
ing to-day at the general offices Of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton at Cincinnati.
President Fish. of the Illinois Central.
is emphatic in his denial of any intention of
combining its system, which now has 1856
miles of main track with any other system
of roads.
Master Mechanic Hainan of the Erie
shops at Hornellsville, has installed COM
plete fire apparatus with a full equipment
of trucks hose and everything necessary for
the proper lighting of fire.
The Delaware & Susquehanna has placed
an order with the Barney & Smith car
works, Dayton, o.. for 200 cars, some $1,000
and others 100000 pounds capacity, with
special equipment in couplers, etc.
Published statements of the anthracite
coal-carrying roads show that their losses
in gross earnings aggregate for the four
months ending Aug. 81 over A,500,000, and
net earnings show a loss Of 81, 595,4ii.
1t is stated that w. F. Schaff. who was
appointed general -yardmaster of the Big
Four at Columbus, o., prefers to remain
where he is in the same position louis
ville) and another appointment will be
made.
At the annual meeting of the Ohio &
Little Kanawha Railroad Company yes
terday l.. u. Loree, of the Baltimore &
Ohio, was chosen president. The newly
elected directors are all connected with the
latter road
Monday was one of the woodworking
days with the baggage rooms at the Union
Station. In addition Ito the regular travel
large numbers of students left for the vari-
Gus colleges and SeminarieS, all having one
or more trunks.
1t is stated that the Erie management
has under consideration consolidating the
headquarters of the Kent, Marion, Hunt
ington and Dayton divisions at Marion.
At present the headquarters of the West
ern line is at Gallon.
George b. Simpson, assistant general
freight agent of the Chicago e. Alton, who
went from Galveston to New York by
water for the benefit Of his health. is re-
ported much improved and will be able to
return to duty in short time.
Lieutenant Colonel Horatio Yorke, chief
inspecting otficer Of the railways Jf Great
Britain for the Board of Trade, has been
commissioned to come TO this country, and
will sail this week TO prepare report on
the workings of American railways.
]. E. Gimperling, formerly general super
intendent of the Indiana Bloomington q
western, was in the city yesterday en- route
home with his family from Colorado. Mr..
Slmperhng IS now connected with the
Board of Public Works at Dayton, o.
George T. Gunnip, general agent of the
passenger department of the Santa Fe,
and Charles Mordaugh, representing the
passenger department of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul, are in the city. Both
speak of business as being heavy beyond
precedent.
w. III. Fisher, general passenger agent
of the Hooking Valley road, passed through
where his brother recently underwent an
| operation for appendicitis and suddenly
became worse There is little hope of his
| recovery.
| to what the Wabash will do. Some
| true and others false, but it is evident
| that the Wabash will be much more i'm
| portant railway system than ever before.
| power will be greater.
| 1t is stated that the roads of the country
have already contracted for 100000 tons of
rails, 1903 delivery, enough to keep the
| the mills are still much behind in their
orders for the present year. The output
| of this year will be fully 3O00O0,000 tons.
The Pennsylvania is equipping all it's
turn tables at important points so as to
| operate them by electric power. The COM
pany is making the change as an economi-
|
eight men at the more important points
| and doing it much more expeditiously.
The Pennsylvania has received its new
equipment for it's twenty.hour trains be-
| tween New York and Chicago. The new
! trains consist of two Pullman sleeping
| cars. combination smoking and baggage
| car and dining car, and 1T is said an addi-
| tional sleeping car may be needed IL bust
| ness continues to improve.
The September number of the Cincinnati,
| Hamilton Dayton Magazine announces
edltorially that arrangements have been
| made with several authors of high standing
| to contribute short and others continued
| stories, keeping in touch with the popular
| demand, avoiding sensationalism, and CIV
| ing clean literary productions
| charter was granted yesterday to the
| Oklahoma Central Railroad Company,
| capital $5OO0,000, TO build a line from Fort
| Smith, Ark, to Vernon, Tex. a distance
OF 800 nrn es Of me sat fT Are s amd
a number of Oklahoma capitalists. The
principal offices will be at Asher, o. T.
The Boston & Maine, after three years
| trial, has decided to discontinue oiling its
road-bed. Passengers complain of their
clothing being marred by particles that
| settle upon it. 1t is stated, on the other
hand, that those who use the road almost
| daily and leave their Sunday clothes at
| home, are in favor of continuing the allay-
| ing of dust with OIL
| An official of the Pennsylvania states
J that it is the intention of the company,
/ when 1T gets the improvements now well adj
vanced on the portion of the line between
| New York and Philadelphia, to make the
| run, ninety miles, in seventy-five minutes.
| The company is spending several million
| dollars on that division in perfecting tracks,
| strengthening brides and elevating tracks
| through cities.
| Harry Crawford, 1t is stated, has dis
| posed of all of his interest in the Chicago
| & Southeastern, after controlling 1t seven
! teen years. 1t is said that the road cost
1 Mr.. Crawford originally 100000 and the
nj l-t-~
| and pays Mr. Crawford in the neighbour
| hood of s1,400,O000, the sum depending on
/ certain claims over which there is some
| doubt as to the liability of the company.
| The Indiana Car Service Association
| handled in August 49, 731 cars. with an aver
| age detention of LIS days. General Manager
! Bacon says the business is so good that
| some of the industries preferred to pay
| demurrage charges for the use of a car
| than hurry in unloading it, and this in
1 creases the earnings of the bureau-not
4 that the consgnee has disposition to hold
cars beyond the time, but has not time to
| take care of the business.
| As intimated a day or two ago. there
| is trouble between the Chicago roads over
| the carrying of Odd Fellows to Des Moines.
/ Chicago roads announced a round-trip rate
| of S11.50, which is fare way. 1t is al
| legged that one of the roads did some
| crooked work. and this led another line to
| announce 50 rate for the round trip The
| Odd Follows of this CITY had ARRANGED