The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-27
LOUISVILLE ROAD
May BE ABSORBED.
Atlantic Coast Line Officers TAX
ing Charge Of Louisville
and Nashville.
AUTOMOBILE EXPRESS CARS
AUTOMOBILE EXPRESS CARS
a New Baggage Check Being
Operated By the Pennsylvania.
Other Notes.


MIR. a. H Plant, comptroller OF Tho
Southern Railroad, has issued the fol-
lowing statement OF tho earnings Of tile
road for tho third week in january:
southern Railway Company, excluding
st. Louis-Louisvillo Lines:
| This Year. Last Year. increase
$97t,sS7 ssa5 hoe s,oe oo,
Southern Railway Company, st. Louis
Louisville Lines:
This Year. Last Year. Increasc.
S7S,2o7 st7GS, s,osio
Mr.. Frank Bowman, District Passenger
Agent of tho Chicago and Alton, was
IN the city on yesterday. Mr.. Bowman's
headquarters arc in Philadelphia.
I some people who had carly and accurate
Information regarding the advance some
years ago In Nashville, Chattanooga and
st. Louis from 100 to 100 within a short
time, and who recently predicted the rise
IN Tennessee Coal and Iron from 100 TO
l6o, arc now buying Louisville and Nash
vile, expecting it to go to lS5. There has
been no guess work about the movements
referred to, and fortunes have been made
through them. 1t is confidently believed
That the next dividend on Louisville and
Nashville will be ut the rate of either
z or per cent and it Is considered most
probable that 1t will be guaranteed by
the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
The recent election of the second vice.
president is considered significant. j. II.
Ellis, an able officer of the Louisville anG
Nashville, with long experience. was
slated for tho office. but mt the last mo-
ment an Atlantic Coast Line official was
put in. 1t is believed that before the year
is over the Louisville and Nashville will
BIO ofticered throughout by the Atlantic
Coast Line. and that it will become an
integral part OF tho Atlantic Coast Lines
system. Louisville and Nashville stock
becoming a guaranteed issue.
Special box cars in which to ship auto
mobiles have been designed for the Penn |
sylvania Railroad Company. The Penn
sylvania's Altoona shops have been or
dcred to build 100 OF the autornoblc-car- |
rying cars. The order will be filled in |
time to have tho cars ready for the |
spring rush.
Contracts were signed late yesterday at
tcrnoon by tho Richmond and Chesa- |
peake Bay Railway for S5ooo host oak
ties for the line between Richmond and |
Ashland. These ties arc to be deliv |
cred within four months from date of |
contract. This is about the number of
ties to be required for the Richmond-Ash-
land division of the line.
More than 200 miles OF metallic Ions |
distance telephone circuit has been In |
stalled by the Illinois Central in partial
fulflment Of its plans for equlpplng It's
entire system in this way. The cuircuits |
established are from Chicago to Omaha; |
Chicago to New Orleans. Grenada and |
Jackson, Miss; Sioux City and Fort |
Dodge Ia: Carbondale, H., and ST. Louis, |
and Grenada and Water Valley, Miss. |
These circuits will be reserved exclusively I
for railroad business.
The American Car and Foundry Com
pany it is announced, has secured con-
tract from the Underground Railways Co., |
Ltd, of London, for $50 steel passenger |
cars. the cost of which will be about !
$l.5cO.00o. The steel and other construc-
ton material will be shipped frem here
for use in building tho cars at the Amerl- |
can Car and Foundry Company's new
British plant at 1'rafford Park. near Man
chester, where about 800 men are at pres
ent employed.
The directors of the Norfolk and West
ern Railway have authorized the con-
struction of about forty-two miles of sec
ond track at various points in the coal
fields and also the expenditure Of about
100000 for charging tho yards at Nor
folk, Bluefieds and Williamson.
South Station. in Boston, of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford, handled
more passengers tho past year. with the
single exception OF the Liverpool station