The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-01
A TLANT|C COAST
LINE CHANGES.
West Virginia Capitalists Havs
Acquired Charters for Two
New Roads.
TO TUNNEL BERING STRAIT
Pullman Porters Form a Union.
Great Export OF American
Engines.
TO TUNNEL BERING STRAIT

the Atlantic Coast Line. has been ap-
pointed to the newly created position Of
general traffic manager, and his former
Office has been abolished.
The following changes have been an-
nounced in the traffic department Of the
Atlantic Coast Line: r. A. Brand, here
tofore general freight agent of the first
division. has been promoted to freight
traffic manager; w. j. Craig. formerly
general passenger agent, has been made
passenger traffic manager; ]. w. Perrin
has succeeded to Mr.. Brands former
place. and q. McDavis has been chosen
assistant general freight agent OF the
system. James Menzies continues in the
Same capacity as general freight agent
of the second division.
West Virginia Reads.
sr Neee urs.nred in West
Virginia to the Ohio River Railway Com
,-.. si.,e % .puid nom A.dddle-
bourne 10 the Ohio River. about ten
miles The incorporates are all citizens
of Parkersburg.
The Morgantown and Dunkard Valley.
of West Virginia, has organized by elect
ing l.. L. Thomas president, d. c. Hoff-
man. vice-president; Sanford Barrickman,
treasurer; w. w. Smith. secretary. In
addition to the above, w. w. LuInley.
Lee r. Shriver, w. w. Smith, w. p.
Burker. c. L. Eakan and Elias C. Ten
nant have been chosen directors.
Minority stockholders of the Macon,
Dublin and Savannah Railroad, who Oh
tanned an injunction last July restraining
the Atlantic Coast Line from buying the
road, have lost their case on appeal to
the United States Circuit Court of Ap-
peals.
The Supreme Court of South Carolina,
In Bamberg, VS.. Atlantic Coast Railroad
Company, holds that in the absence OF
statutory command It Is the duty of q
railroad company to signal the approach
OF train to a public place IL the neces-
sity for such signal would suggest itself
as a measure of prudence to persons en-
gagged in the railroad business.
James S. Mackie has succeeded Harry
Bronner, who resigned as secretary of the
Colorado and Southern.
Pullman Porters' Union.
A union of Pullman car porrers, which
is intended to include every negro rail-
road employe In this service In the United
States, has been organized ly the porters.
cafe and dining car men running into
New York city on the various lines. Ar
tlCleS or incorporation, lt is sad, VIII
shorty be filed. The unon is to be known
as the American Association OF Railway
Employees. and negroes only are eligible
to Membership.
The Industrial awakening of the coun-
tries of the Far East In particularly
China and Japan, is Indicated in the in-
crease In exports of locomotives to those
countries from the United States the
past year. Locomotive engines show @
large percentage of gain in the shipments
to China, though the total value is not
large, being. for the ten months ending
with October. S166.0I5. against s3o,750 In
the same months of last year. the number
sent in the ten months OF 1905 being six
teen, against three in the same months
of last year. Railway locomotives also
show a large gain In our exports to jas
pan, amounting to s2,21S,62a in the ten
months OF 1905, compared with SiS2.1C0 in
the same months of last year. the number
In 1905 being 22e, against 6S in the Same
months OF last year.
The Illinois Central Railroad is rushing
the work of equipplng the entire system
with an independent telephone service.
More than two thousand miles OF metallic
long distance telephone circuits have al.
ready been, installed on the telegraph
poles from Chicago to Omaha. and Chi
cago to New Orleans.
The activity of American capitalists Z
in st. PETERSBURG is evidenced by the re-
vival of The project of a railway tunnel
between Siberia and Alaska under BerinE
Strait An official investigation into the
scheme is being held The cost, ii is es-
timated, would be $40, COO, 900.