Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-09-27

| Upward or o,UOO miles OF Drancn uneS
In Italy are worked with limited service
and at a loss.
Extensive and substantial additions are
being made by the Texas and Pacific rail
way to the large shops at Marshall, Tex.
The Canadian Pacific has announced
that storage will be charged on goods in
freight houses after seventy-two hours.
The Canadian Pacific has arranged to
increase its common stock by $2O,Oc0,-
600 to meet various extensions and bet
terments.
Railroad property in Georgia has in
creased in value 81, 1877 ,293. according TO
the official returns of Comptroller Gen
eral Wright.
| Nearly 1000 employees of the Vandalia
Line have thus far participated in the
company's free excursions TO the Louis
lana Purchase Exposition.
The system of libraries and reading
rooms established by the Santa Fe rail
road for it's employees is an interesting
experiment in welfare work.
Lines running into ST. Louis report un-
precedented passenger hauIs TO the
Louisiana Purchase Expos.tion, leading
| to repeated calls for mos equipment.
Between 1891 and 1908 the amount
paid by the railways OF the United King
dom for rates and taxes was practically
doubled advancing from f2,246,oO0 to
FL, ASS 900.
Announcement Is made that the Cana
dian Pacific has closed a contract with
the United States Steel Corporation and
the Pennsylvania Steel Company for CO.,
| 600 tons of rails
The New York. New Haven and
Hartford is to spend $S,000000 or more
J for improved rapid trsnsit from New
| York City TO the Bronx and that part
OF Westchester lying along the Sound.
Chairman ]. p. Brown, of the Georgia
railroad commission is declared by South
ern newspapers 10 be in favor Of re-
duction in passenger fares within
Georgia to maximum of 2 cents a
mile.
The proposal OF number Of Ameri-
| can railways to assist in establishing
| department Of railway science in a prom
| inent college has been strongly Endorsed
by Walter g. Berg chief engineer Of the
Lehigh Valley.
| The Nandalia Line bas decided to run
| four special trains TO ST Louis to give
| its employees free transportation to the
worlds fair About 5000 employees. It
is expected will take advantage Of this
| liberal offer.
| Owing to the numerous forgeries OF
| passes on the New York Central rail-
road a new pass form las been adopted
BIZ the officials o. the road, who believe
| that hereafter forgeries will be prac
| tically impossible. Each pass viii be
limited TO carry one person cHiy and
none will be issued for a party. except as
| individuals.
Railroads east Of Chicago and st.
Louis have handled more freight OF a
general character during the past two
weeks than for a long time. The move
ment OF Eest-hound meSchandise has
been the feature. although the esst-bound
tonnage las picked up considerably.
Mail Transportation last year cost the
country S63. 594.0 900. paid to 400 lines
OF travelling postof3ces on railways,
steamboats, and electric roads, aggregat-
ing 1s0. 29S miles in length. or a bout 10
coo less than the total mileage OF our
fdiIW G3fA< tsf-iF ltfs-tO FhtpA'eFanf
and the railway postal clerks handled
nearly 1G.000,000 900 pieces Of mail mat
ter.
Under a contract just made By the
British government. the British Eastern
mails. heretofore carried By Canadian
liues. viii now be transported by the
New York Central lines and their con-
nections between New York and san
Francisco
A COMMITTEES Of officials Of the New
York Central railroad. which was IN
trusted with the task % forming a plan
for the unifcatioD or She financial depart
ments Of the eastern and western diyis-
ions OF the road haS practically COM
pleted its work. and the CONSOLIDATION Of
the treasury departments Of the forty
different lines in the system is expected
Is result IN great economy.