The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-05

for $500 miles and SILT for each 100 miles
additional. Allowance Is made for ter
minal overtime as before. Grand Trunk
has Increased the wages of engineers on
shuntlng engines per cent. and allowed,
8 cents an hour extra for detention on
tho road The company offers to mako
tho increase date from January LIST. but
the engineers committee asks that It
begin with October 10th last.
a committee Of conductors and train
men has presented to General Superin-
tendent Gilbert, of the Northern Pacific.
a request that three brakemen. instead
of.two,, be assigned to long freight trains.
1t is argued that two men have more
work than they arc able to do. and that
third man should be stationed in the
caboose to act as brakeman, IL neces-
sary, or TO serve as iiagman when ono
is required.
The Georgia commission. as result of
its recent hearing upon the reclasslfica-
tion of Georgia railways, has placed the
Atlantic Coast Line in Class AL. instead
of Glass B. as heretofore: the Southern
and the Central of Georgia in Class 3,
instead of Glass c. as heretofore. In
general. railways in Class G are permitted
to charge % per cent. above the standard
tariff of the State. in Glass b. Is per
cent. and In Glass a. 10 per cent. above
the standard. To make sure that the
railways do not recoup by raising other
rates now below the new maximum. the
commission has issued an order formally
making these rates it's own. and forbid
ding the railways to raise them without
the commissions permission. The reduc
tions are effective on February 18th. No
change is made IN the classification of
the Seaboard Air Line.
The comptroller general of Georgia has
issued execution against tic Central of
Georgia for taxes upon it's holdings OF
Western Alabama Railway stock. with
interest at per cent. for ten years from
1896. The total amount claimed, includ-
Ing interest, is s1os.eslss.
The claim Of the State OF Alabama for
mortgage and llcense tax on the s., 10000
the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic,
in Alabama, has been compromised for
s2,7Sc.
Mr. C. b. Gwathmey has been appointed
travelling passenger agent of the Seaboard
Air Line at Atlanta, Ca, succeeding Mr..
Fred Geisser, transferred to Memphis.
Tenn.
Mr.. G. T.. Doyle, general manager of
the Chesapeake and Ohio, says that the
| run from Covington, Va, to ore proper
ties on Potts's Creek, about % miles.
and that work will begin early in the
| spring. 1t was recently stated that the
branch was to be built from Covington,
Ky. Mr.. Doyle says that there is no
present intention of extending the Guyan
dotte line beyond Logan Courthouse, as
recently stated.
Mr.. Fred L. Merritt, president of the
Beaufort and Western, says that grad
ing is under way on this road from More
head City to Beaufort. N. c., three. miles,
The road will be composed chiefly of
bridges and trestles. one and seven eighth
miles OF the line being across Pamlico
Sound. This structure is a pile trestle
with two steel draw spans, one fifty
feet In length and the other thirty. feet
in length. The contractors are the Gen
eral Constructionaand Engineering Com
pany, of No. Is Whitehall Street, New
York. r. p Foster. vice president
Goldsboro, N. c.; Charles Pearson, c. e..
Beaufort, n. G.
Louisville and Nashville ordered in
January, for construction at its shops at
New Decatur, 750 box cars. 200 coke
| cars. so ore cars and so fiat cars: for
construction at it's Louisville shops. 750'
drop bottom gondola cars. 100 refrige-
rator cars. 100 stock cars four vesti-
buled combination coach and baggage
cars. three straight vestibule coaches
with smoking compartments, two bag
gage and null cars and two baggage
! cars.
The Chesapeake and Ohio received bids
last week for new locomotives, the num-
| Der being reported as fifty.
| The Chesapeake and Ohio has ordered
| from the Lima Locomotive and Machine
/ Company another 15O-ton Shay locomo-
| tive, making three engines OF this class
and size ordered by this road, one being
ton.
The Norfolk and Western has ordered
$500 hopper cars OF 100000 pounds ca
pacity OF the South Baltimore Steel Car
and Foundry Company and 900 gondola
cars of 100000 pounds capacity OF the
\ Western Steel Car and Foundry Com
pany.
Tho Norfolk ana Western directors
have appropriated nearly $760. 900 for the
enlargement OF freight yards In Norfolk,
Bluefield and Williamson, and have au-
thorized the construction OF forty-two
miles OF second track east and west OF
Lynchburg, in the coal fold district.
COLO. & SOUTHERN'SA