The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-23
Among the Railroads.

j. M. Eulm, postal clerk, who was
injured in the wreck on the Seaboard Air
Line at Rockingham, which DELAYED the
Forepaugh and Sells Brothers circus on
October 18th, this year, has sued the
company for $4,000 damages, alleging
that he was permanently injured in the
spine and hips and that his nervous sys-
tenn was SO shocked and unstrung that
he has partially lost his memory. Hulm
formerly ran between Atltnata and
Washington on the Seaboard Air Line
and has employed an Atlanta legal firm
to conduct his case.
There is much encouragement to young
men in the career of William W. otter
bury, who has just been made general
manager of all The great Pennsylvania
railroads system east of Pittsburg. Six
teen years ago, at the age of 90, After
bury entered the repair shops at Altoona
as an apprentice. For three years he
studied the practical end of railroad
ing, and then, in line with the company'a
policy of pushing young men to the front,
he was made a road foreman of engines
on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore division. In 1892 he was pro-
NOTED to be assistant engineer of motive
power of the northwest system and a
year later became master mechanic for
the company at Fort Wayne, Ind. Three
years later, in 1885, he became super
intendcnt Of motive power of the Penn
sylvania railroad division and in Octo-
Der, 1901, became general superintendent
of motive power of the Pennsylvania lines
cast of Pittsburg and Erie. His last
promotion to general manager is the
highest positive appointive position on
the great system.
The railroad situation in the noun
tains of North Carolina, where the South
ern and Seaboard Air Line are making
passes at each other about rights Of way
the Knoxville Sentinel regards as an
nomily Both the Southern and Seaboard
Air Line have surveying corps in the
mountains not far from Marion which
they are approaching. Each is surveying
and watching the other. The construction
of the South and Western Railroad con-
tinues. Each surveying corps is supposed
to be making extensions for this road
The opinion among some who are we'll
posted about it, is that the Southern Rail
IL
Railway, while others believe that the
original plan of the Seaboard Air Line to
get entrance into the coal fields Of Vir-
ginia and West Virginia through that
PASS is to be carried out.
Geo. L. Carter proceeds with the con-
struction of the South and Western Rail
road quietly. but exasperatingly to those
who would like to know his hand One
or the other of the roads which has
surveying corps in the mountains of
North Carolina is bluffing. Which it is
remains to be seen. Tt is believed by
some that Geo. L. Carter is holding off
and waiting TO get the biggest price
possible for the road and is negotiating
with the Southern, the Seahoard Air
Line and the Virginia and Southwestern
roads The Virginia and Southwestern
and the Seaboard Air Line arc allied in
the cause. 1t was fully expected that
the Seaboard Air Line would step in,
but there was a hitch and Geo. L. Carter
has some sort of scheme up his sleeve
which some believe is to turn the South
and Western road over to the Southern.