The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-26
RAILROAD WORLD.


 The general staff of physicians and surgeons of the Baltimore and Ohio an- nounces that free expert medical atten- tion will be given hereafter to the fami- lies of employees.
 Specialties are being asked for by the Louisville and Nashville railroad for one thousand coal cars. which will be built In the shops of the company.
 It is reported that the Central of Geor- gia rairoad is soon to let the contract for furnishing eight passenger and two combination coaches. Considerable new rolling stock Is being purchased by the Central.
 The city council of Indianapolis is now considering an ordinance requiring all dangerous grade crossings to be protect. ed by watch towers. gates and fagmen. The earnings of the Central of Geor- gie railway for the escond week in Sep tember amounted to $2OS.SOO against s16s,- 800 for the same week last year. The in- crease in earnings for the week amounts to s39.50O.
 The earnings of the Louisville and Nashville railroad for the second week in September amounted to $729, ,795 against 1880 for the same week last year. The increase in earnings for the week amounts to sS0965.
 The earnings of the Southern railway for the second week in September amounted to $961,572 against $SSs, 7S7 for the same week last year. The increase in earnings for the week amounts to s72,- S35.
 The earnings of the Alabama Great Southern railroad for the second week in September amounted to $541S2 against $56,CS9 for the same week last year. The decrease in earnings for the week amounts to $1907
 The aggregate exhibit of ninety-four railroads reporting to the Wall Street Journal for the month of July give net earnings amounting to s34 S95 against $376S 231 for the same month last year.
 
 Club Day. at the St. Louis exposition. Members of the railroad clubs all over the United States have been invited to meet in joint session in the reading room of the transportation building. The ali fair will be largely a social one.
 Chicago special says that as rapidly as the change can be made the manage ment of the Burlington has decided to substitute the telephone for the tele- graph in dispatching and operating both passenger and freight trains. The an nouncement has just been made after comprehensive trials of the telephone on various portions of the companys lines for several years.
 Prominent officials of the Southern rail- way recently visited Greenville, Miss, for the purpose of organizing the Delta Southern railway. the company now con structing the branch of the Southern from Elizabeth northwest into Bolivar county. J. S. B. Thompson, general agent of the Southern, with headquarters in Atlanta, was made president of the com- pany.
 The total number of pensioners on the rolls of the Philadelphia and Reading rail- way on January 30 was leo, classified as follows. Fifty-year service employees, S1; employees 70 years of age and thirty or more years in service, 93; employees 65 to 6s years of age and thirty or more years in service, &; incapacitated employees, 2S Under the Reading pension system there was paid out for the fiscal year ending in June a total of s46.1sO. Ten pensioners died during the year.