The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-24
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A||1HT ! 4 !. HEARING q
5N>IearlySAll$ ,ofatl,c Big Gu = @.
Men Attend Session Of Cor
poratioh Commission.
Big sEAsHoRE EXCURSIONS \ / s, I rs
Estimate That At Least $500
People Leave the City Every
NJ. Ia Sunday. VI. lAA. II

n The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Company officials appeared yesterday be-
fore the n State Corporation Commission
in the matter OF freight rates. W }.
Major 3. h .. II otchkiss, general traffic
manager, was On the stand. General Man
agerf Doyle was present, with q number
OF other officials. Messrs. Wickhain and
Taylor, the regular attorneys OF the road.
appeared as counsel. President George
vs. Stevens was not present. He Is IN
5Rockbridge county ut his country home
One road running out OF Richmond 5car--
rled + to the seashore on Sunday nearly
one thousand persons. 1t is estimated
that more than $500 people leave Rich
,nond on excursions every Sunday during
the summer months. INK @ Il 3s$ss;
Work on the. new office building at the
Richmond, Frederic ksburg and Potomac
freight depot 40 being rapidly pushed. It
Will be npleted before the end OF
summer. i5ftsS # VI f1Ss Il i5,$55;$
The rail- ways6of the world aggregated
$50, 735 miles &of 1 main track at the com
1nencements Of 1906, BY the latest German
statistics. Construction had been pros
ceeding for several years at an annual
average OF over 1900 miles, and In 1904
reached 16, 751 miles. So that We may
assume a that to-day In the middle OF
1905, about 675, 900 miles OF railway lines
IRE In operation on the globe-an evolu-
tion Of eighty wonderful years. OF the
$50, 900 miles at the end of 1904. Europe
had 1S9,774 miles, Asia a, s74, Africa le, 2o2,
North s America 2497 III, South America
sO,25S, 5} Australasia $3.50, q The United
States Is credited with 21s. a04 miles, which
ID nearly 80 per cent. OF the total, and
North America, including Canada and
Mexico, shows 249,717 miles. or IS per
cent. n OF the whole world mileage
South America Is coming forward stead
lily, having &c, 26sS miles at the date named
of which 2ss5 mlles-or more than half
as much q as the years building IN the
United n States--wero added In 1904
Roughly estimated, tho railways OF the
age OF $40, 900 q mile. HI.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts
has reversed the decision OF the lower
courts In the case OF Louis Singer vs.. the
Merchants Dispatoh Transportation Com
spany, which Is interesting to shippers.
q Singer sued for the value Of three cases
Of shoes which he shipped with the COM
tpany y to & .Si Singer Springfield, ~. ''5
He intende ed them for a customer at that
place OF a. different name. The company
delivered the goods Ito Lena Singer, Of
that place, who was In business there, but
was not the party for whom the plain plain,
tiff intended them She did business ness asl
@"L. Singer and Is held that the COM
spanySls not liable for the wal ue Of u the
goods, though It proves It delivered them
to the person not. intended BY the plain
tin. The lower courts findings In favor
lofithe plaintiff forst Tie value Of the goods
Is set aside. The finding was based upon
tho ground that the conn any should have
first ascertained that the party It left
the goods with was the one to whom they
were sent. But this duty is held not To-
have devolved upon the defendant "a under IN
the circumstances lsj5