The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-19
MAY De A STRIKE
ON .LACkAWANNA.
Reading Railway Increases Pay
Of Its Track Working 4
Force.
ACCOUNTABLE DlscoMFoRTs
ACCOUNTABLE DIsCoMFORTs
Pennsylvania New Station at
Washington Severely
Criticised.

| Mr.. Charles 3. Ryan, general passenger
agent OF the seaboard Air Line Railway
Company, was in the city on yesterday
on his way from Columbia to Norfolk
| Mr.. Fl. 8. Leard, district passenger
ngent OF the seaboard Air Line, returned
on yesterday from Florida.
Mr.. r. Campbell Kennedy, we'll known
in Richmond. has resigned his position
of travelling passenger agent Of the Big
Four, with headquarters at Huntington,
w. Va, to accept the Office of city pas
senger agent OF the Lake Shore and Mich
igan Southern Railroad, at Chicago.
/ Mr. n. L. Griffin has succeeded Mr..
Kennedy as travelling passenger agent
of the Big Four with headquarters at
Huntington.
Tho Norfolk and Southern Railroad,
formerly owned by the Vanderbits, and
the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad
are to be operated In the future as {.
unit. r. E. l.. Bunch, former passenger
agent of the Seaboard Air Line. and now
passenger agent OF the Atlantic and
North Carolina. has been appointed gem
eral traffic manager of the Norfolk and
Southern.
a poll of the Lackawanna firemen We'd
nesday, 1t is said shows that IS per cent
are ready to go on strike IL one Is or
dered. 1t Is not the Intention OF the
fsremen, however, to precipitate a strike,
and they are prepared to make further
efforts to preserve peace.
Officials of the Delaware, Lackawannn
and Western Railroad Company are still
of the opinion that no general strike will
be called by the iremen. They contend
that many concessions have already been
made by the railroad; that the fremen
are better paid and are working under
better conditions than on most of the
other roads.
The engineers and flrenen on the Penn
sylvania and Baltimore and Ohio sys-
tens are also reported to BIO dissatisfied
with their wages. and. 1t is said. will
demand an increase.
The National Board of Trade, in con-
vention In Washington yesterday, with
delegates representing commercial bodies
In all the principal cities of the country,
went on record against the Presidents
railroad rate policy. a compromise reso-
luton was adopted recommending that
whenever a United States court of COM
petent jurisdiction shall have determined
that an existing rate is excessive. the
Interstate Commerce Commission. or some
OTHER authority, shall be given power to
compel the substitution of a reasonable
maximum rate such rate to go into effect
within reasonable time, and to remain
In force not longer than one year, the
rate fixed to be subject to revision In the
proper Federal court.
The Reading Railway Company has in
creased the wages OF it's subtrack fore
men and track hands generally one cent
an hour; others one-half cent an hour.
The company has also reduced the work
Ing time of its roadway department TO
nine hours a day.
The following criticism of the new
Pennsylvania Railroad station In WASH
ington appears in the Railway Age:
The abominable dscomforts during the
season of fall and spring rains. and in
winter weather. of a terminal with only
umbrella sheds over the platforms are
well known: indeed. II Is almost beyond
belief that an architectural firm of expe-
rience would be guilty of designing such
an immense and costly station as the
one now going UP Yin Washington, and
consider umbrella sheds at all. 1t is n
blunder of the worst sort, which even
now ought TO be reotifed. The question
of cost has not entered, seemingly. with
much force into this new structure. The
government and the Pennsylvania Rail-
way have been lavish to the limit almost
in providing this much-needed improve
! ment, but when s14000,0C0 Is declared to
be the expenditure. and when the thing
Is done it is to be simply monumental
piece of architecture, without practical
railway requirements, there will be loud
complaint undoubtedly.