The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-31
INCREASE WAGES
.0|N|| | COAST [ }. Q | line
KITCHEN E: CAR A NOVELTY Y
Richmond, Frederick burg and
Potomac Has Issued Round
Trip Tickets to NcwsYork. II

Atlantc Coast Line railway has
agreed to u new wage scale crrcctivs ~
April 1st and affecting about 900 telo- q.
Eraplers and agents on It's lines.
The increase is about eight per cent?
Tie telegram was received Inst night.
ON inquiry Mt tic Offices OF Tho Atlantic
Coast 1lnc.1it was found that the scale
OF Increase extended from $3.50 to SO
per man. Only the agents and tce.
ErArhcrs will receive the Increase rhs
agents will receive from, 81 to $40 adj.
3tlonal ind tile operators or the first
( class VIII receive s5.f and or tho second
class $3.50 additional pay. HI
# The sWashngton- Southern has inau.5
& gurntcd a new system for feeding pas
songers OH the midday train between
Richmond and Washington. regular
tlsItcllcn car IL coupled In fro or tho
chair cars. ind men ls nre served 10 pas
scngcrs without. the crowding and the
disasrccable odors OF n buffet car.
President Lcakc. or the Washington
Southern, has prevailed upon the Penn
4sylvania officials to issue Il round trip
ticket from Richmond TO New York. Phil
&adelphlnsand Baltimore, nj a5chcaper rate
than has hitherto been In effect. n Is
3f Probably no convention or the year
that has considered the railroad rate PROP
lem has attracted the attention that ilis
seventeenth annual meeting OF the Ma
tional Association OF Railway; Commits
fsioncrs viii receive whcn4it Is In session
In Washington noxt Mondny.S5F For months
committees lI;ivcS been 8preparing reports
on various phases OF the subject and n t
this convention All these Will be made
public. Among the committee reports Will
be one on rates ana RI tc-ninking: amend
Snents ofitlc actgto regulate commerce:
uniform classification md silnpliicntion
or tariff sheets; IL legislation and delays
attendant Upon enforcing orders OF rail-$8
way commissions. s9.tI
At the annual election or the stock.
holders OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, held here yesterday, The retir-sst
ing directors were reelected. Tho board
met and organized 4by re re clcctins tie lie
retiring Officers. a new position WIS 4
3orcntcd thatof general manager. and
IN. . Carson was appointed ito the place ),
Will, hcadu,iartcrs in Philndclphla. = tie
annual meeting of the Bal tinore. Chcs:i-s
ke and Atlantic Railroad Company
the retiring officers were rc-elcelc
@,rhe Bourd of Public Works OF Alary.e
land has sold the States interest in the
1900 @ntlatcs OF the capita stack of int
Washington branch of the Balt !more-aIc
Ohio Railroad Company 10 the Markham =
Trust Company, or Baltimore. for 81: /
100000. ii Is believed That the interest
WAS bought by the trust company SOL !
the baltimore ana Ohio Raiirpad Cont
rany. This was nc only BID reviewed
Tho Governor last night signed Mr.. Corr
mans LII fixinEsthc condition for ti,s \
sale or the stock, He also signed 5hn-
other bill which will facilitate The lsai7
timoref ana Ohio Company in outlining
state bonds, with which the stock u TO
be paid for, aud the use Of bonds from
the sinking fund. il that Is necessary.
is authorized.
Tile New York. New Haven and Hart. I
fcrd and tile New England Railroad Com
-panies have pettipned the Massarl'i-
sets Railroad Commissioners for permis-
sion TO sell tile New England togthc New
Haven for the sum OF $2750o,OcO. tlie
New Haven TO assume all the existing
liabilities OF the New England ut tile
time Of the sale. g