The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-21
RAILWAY Men
AND MATTERS | | /. h:
Unprcc tented Activity in Car.
Building Keeps the Con
structors Busy. 81

The special holiday ateA for students
i 81 schools and colleges over the various
railway lines are now IN force, and many
Of the hundreds Of persons attending the
schools Of Richmond are taking advarl-5
tage Of them to visit their homes during
the Christmas vacati ion. TheS rate Is one
and a third fare for the round trip Spc-
cial reduced tes wi be on sale for the
public generally on ~ 2 rtday, y December
23d The return limi t OF these tickets is
a date in Jan,,a ~ 4.
Mr. ". NJ. Cluls. recently appointed
commercial agent OF 4 the Rock Island
Frisco system Of raj lIfays in tins clty.
has been promoted to !, general agent OF
these lines, and g 'StsMlH hereafter have
charge. Of. both Il passenger@pnds freight
business In this rsect Zion ri Mr. Cluis was
formerly travelling frelgb and passenger
agent OF the Cincinna Il ~ Hamilton and
Dayton and later was distric tHpasseng ger
agent ofssthc Rock Island att New Or
leans. He Will remain In this cit
B = is5s Z 4. " gs3E5
ssucl, activity In car building has sell
dom been known as Is now prevailing Ten
railway lines of this country are in the
market for a total Of more than ten thou
sand cars, including gondolas. box cars car
srefrigerat tors and GOAL cars. This Is one
week s report, and does not include 5Vo
gondolas recently ordered by the Chesa-5
reaase and Ohio, and thousands ordered by.
other lines. 1t Is said that the car fac
tories are oyerrun by orders. The great
activity In car building indicates nm un-}
usually large and rapidly growing busl-.
ness Of many of the larger lines.
y.
IT is said that tic Baldwin Locomotive
Works, Of Philad elp hia, will soon con-
struct a locomotive to compete IN teGts
with the big Cole locomotive built BY tn
American Locomotive Company, and re-.
Gently shown In the railway exhibit at
ST. Louis The Baldwin locomotive Is to
be OF tho four cyclinder, balanced COM
pound Atlantic type, The result Of the
competition will be awaited With interest
by the railway world
tits reported IN this city that engineers ',
have recently been at work wlthsa VleW
/: to nscertaining the Feasibility Of an, elec-i
ftric railway line from Raleigh n. g, to
( Durham. in tho same State. Tho cons
struGtion OF the lilo Is said to be In cons
5tempys,tlon, but has not yet been decided.
There arc many rumorsr OF projected
railways In this State, but Just how many
viii actually be built remains 70 be seen,
Surveyors arc actively at work laying
out n route for the Deepwater Railway.
and are now engaged In tho vicinity of
suffolk, VA. This Is said to he the effort
OF the Wabash system to reach a deep
water terminal on, the South Atlanta
aoast, Both Norfolk and Newport News
IRE suggested for the eastern tcrmlnu,
hut the men behind tho instruments arc
guarding their plans aud Keeping luier
rs to- the Identity Of their principals,
SThe Deepwater road Is being laid out
from q point in West Virginia to HAmp-
ton Roads, 1t Is reported that stil an
other railway line is contemplate n line
across souths!de Virglnia and Eastern
North Carolina, to Southport, n q, south
Of the dreaded Cape I4atterps. The pros
arectIve building of the Panama Canal rs
said to BIO giving an impetus to these
projected lines 10 South Atlantic ports.
The Southern Railway still keeps IN
Tits show OF steady Increase IN earlpnsa
for this year. compared With the same
period OF last year. Comptroller a. IA,
Plants statement lust issued shows the
festimated earnings OF The system for tt,''
second week in December to- ha ss1i, ss22 or
s56,t,s7 Ii, excess of last year for he Same
week at this rate of Increase the
|earnlngs for the year would show gain
! lover the preceding year 5of nearly three
millions of dollars. The statement o. en-
penscs for the galhe period is not ayaii-
I able.