The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-11-11
KIND WORDS FOR
HOME RAILROAD.
General Passenger Agent Whit
t1ey, Of Great Northern,
Praises c. and Q.
IMPROVES It's CONDITION
Norfolk and Western Has Elk
pended Large Sums on
Roadbcd.
IMPROVES ITS CONDITION

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway SER
vice Is accustomed to praise ut home,
| where It Is best known, and Is not wholly
unfamiliar with expressions Of coinmenda--
! ton from officials OF other lines. The fol-
lowing voluntary tribute to 1t by CEN
eral Passenger Agent whitney, OF the
Great Northern, retiring president Of the
General Passenger Agents Association at
Old Point, has Just been published by the
New York Commercial:
II was not familiar with the Chesa-
pcako and Ohio. ami like more than one
In the party imagined that the road was
an old fogy property and hardly up 10 the
what was my surprise to find II magnil.-
Gently double tracked and equipped with
the best and latest OF everything In the
way of stock and power. Tho road passes
through 81 beautiful country, and the
speed and comfort Of travel was all that
could be expected"
Almost new industry, calling for all
enormous tonnage OF steel. is promised
TO tho Pittsburg district as a result Of the
successful effort OF tho STANDARD steel
Car Company III building nll-metal pas
sengcr train equipment Sisf.
At the works OF the company at Butler
there Is nearly completed in al-stccl
postal cur, built on strictly master car
builders standards In all respects de-
signed to suit modern railroad conditions
and furthermore toagive to the lifeso the
postal clerks and the mails in the cars
greater protection than has ever bee,ilen-
joyed before.
Progress in almost every limo of rail-
road activity is exhibited by the figures
for the year 1853, just compiled for
Poor's Manual lor 1901, which will be
issued shortly. y synopsis Of the re-
turns shows that the length OF rail-
roads In the country completed on Dc
cembcr 31st last was 2o7,6o3.S3. This was
IN increase In mileage of 1895 miles, and
Is tho greatest increase Of any year
since 1890, when the gain was 5,37S miles
The French locomotive imported by the
Pennsylvania and tested at the Worlds
| Fair for speed and power has been under
trial on the Nnndnlia. 1t is Of a type that
Is said regularly 10 make n ninety-mile
run out Of Paris in one hour. and was
bought by the Pennsylvania for eXperiA
mental purposes. After the Exposition
he placed In regular service on the At
lantic City Short Line Of the Tennsyl-
vanin.
Tile physical condition of the Norfolk
and Western has been greatly improved
since it's reorganization, Tile total ex-
penditures for improvements and con-
| struction work amount, to over $780, 600,
or about $4,000 pei. mile of road. In
consequence the entire system has been
practically rebuilt.
Preparations have been made by the
Chesapeake and Ohio to begin shol tIY
1.-the extension OF its branch line w the
Marrowbone Creek, in Eastern Ken
lucky.
Mr. William H. Refer, the new assist
ant to the general superintendent OF the
Philadelphia and Reading, WAS born forty
ono years ago. 4
Increase Of from 11a cents to 2ls cents
per 100 pounds have been announced at
Chicago in the rates on grain ana grain
products to the Atlantic seaboard.
The following dividends have Eeen de-
clarcd: Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, pre-
ferred, ~ per cent; chesapeake and
Ohio, ! per cent; New York, PhIladcl-
phia ana Norfolk, per cent.