The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-17
SPEED TWO.
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New Invention Which Is Claimed
Will Revo1utiot,ize Rail
way Travel.
COAST LINES NEW E. PROPERTY 4: E R ! ! 4
Al English Railway Employs.
American Manager at Seventy
d Thousand Dollars q Year.

| X
Thousand Dollars 4 Yeah M.
HI President stevens OF the Chesapea
ana Ohio, is expected to return to Rich-
mond next Tuesday, General Manager % 9.
IL. Doyle was In New YORK on yesterday.
Mn Edward Swift, district passenger
agent u tho Wabash. was Q i caller lFi at
the passenger depar t1nent OF the C 5an'el-
npeake and Ohio yesterday
Mr.. Henry Wickhar1, director ;1l1E ~ 1,
l1citor- genera1 Of the chesapeake LIZ
Ohio. Is on his holiday. & If sS{i '$8 III iS5;it
Franz Burger, OF Fort Wayne, 1nd..l
y n echnnical engineer. has invented an y
patented what no calls IAN automatic
equalizing piston valve, : which, ne 9. says,
,vi1l enable LOGON olives to attain q speed
81 {l2b miles Of, hour without danger to
IL gstea. m apparatus or other machinery.
It's use overcomes the back pressure u
the cylinders, thus giving lem 7, q gIeate '@
aneed power. In other words, the piston
Nv It's use, will8not draw the hot gases
orr o1nders into the CYLINDER. . A ~ ?,
advantage Is that It enables the lubri-35
eating Of the pistons at Ill times. G5
ElT Mr., Burger learned his trade US q ma y
oh,nist In the locomotive works Of Han
over Germany, and Is q graduate OF the
polytechnio school Of that city. he came ne
70 An erica in 1870, settling In washing
ton, %, c.. where, until 1881. he conducted
a ',model shop" giving his time to the
construction Of models for inventors. IN
1882 he went to Sterling, ILL.,. and In 1897
he came to this city, HI was the first
man TO build gasoletlet engine. a3 ~,
sla 7R' ], iiSs
I'll One Of the most important railway
movements in Georgia in recent years IS
indicated in tho chartering OF the Atlantic
and we stern, which I Is TO be sixty i've
miles long and will be the connecting link
between the Atlantic Coast Line and Its
newly acquired property, the Macon, Dub
lin and Savannah. Al The n Coast Line will
secure q new through line between Sa-
varlnah and Macon, which will 2be, 1t Is 1
stated, some thirty or forty miles shorter
than the present route by the Central OF
Georgia. S,ssi 5$5155s B 81 b sS8
= The Coast Lines next step, 4 It Is re-
ported, will be to secure ton be-
tween Macon and Atlanta, either by forc-
Ing a traffic agreement wi It'll the South
ernE or the Central h. or II necessary, by
building a line Of It's own. All this, Of
course, is in the future. but the present
actual fact is that the Coast Line is
preparing to secure connection with the
macon, lJuDll1l lHu StiVdulAtill WiliCu ~
recently bought, thereby comple sting IA
short line between Macon and Savannah.
II The official inquiry at Tomsk into the
abuses and malyersau ions OF the Siberian
Railway during the war IS coming to#a
conclusion. It has come &tO1light that
1900 cars disappeared ii and that at one
railroad station alone the State was de-
frauded OF $3.50 900.
"A San Francisco paper says the killing
and injuring OF twenty three Americans
at Salisbury, England. on one Of the
most modern and best equipped railways
in England has caused the company to
make overtures to secure the services Of
]. G.. Stubs, present traffic director OF
the Hartman railway system. It is sal Id
that the British company has offered Mr..
Stubs salary OF $50, 900. Mr.. Hartman
is paying him $50, 900. 1t Is said Stubs
will accept the British offer.
& The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and
St. Louis Railway Company ('Big Fourso
reports for tho twelve months ended
June 30th: II 81 I'M
Earnings,-F freight, s15.1ol,245; passen-
gers, $6632,526; express, s631 ,16s; malls,
s7e3, 9s5: rents, Sass, 518: all other sources,
s47,Sl8; total, $2a,649,258. 81
II Expenses Maintenance OF way ii and
So, 80, 358; maintenance Of equip
ment s3,232,442; conducting transporta-
ton, SO, 661, 1863: general expenses, 1888 ,917:
total operating expenses. 81, 7S2.6S6; y net
earnings, Sc, 9l66 72: other moor $262, b6l
gross income, s6,119, 1873. IL Il 4 IA rs ~ Al
Deductions from incorne.-1ncome on
bonds. s., s44072: general Interest, general
account, s143,640; general interest. uae
. o1e,Esa
taxes, 1892 496; total deductions from I'M
come, $4,172,o25: net income. 5000, 1oS. III
! John Clancy, OF Kenner. for twenty
seven years in the railroad business has
Just obtained patent on a rnil Joint,
which, he says. has the following advan-
tages: It does away with the pounding
OF the Joint; prevents CREEPING OF rails
by. having projections rolled on the base
of the rail, locking all ties to the. rail-
by means Of spikes; ties will last two
years longer than now, and there ts
saving OF 10 per cent. in the number OF
spikes used. 81 Is 81 x
The Joint Is interlocking,s one rail pro-
jecting and entering into a recess In an
other, while key bolts al on. expansion
and contraction. Mr.. Clancy claims as
another advantage Of his rail- that when
used on elevated lines It Will result IN
doing away with the great noise produced
by the passing Of trains. 81 Fl
& The Central Railroad OF New Jersey
Will spend 100000 for repairing and re-
paving Johnston Avenue. running from
tho Lafayette section down throug ll the
railroad yards to the terminal at Com
munpaw. Granite blocks WILL be laid
on a concrete foundation. 1t Is the pu "
'nnsa of the road TO provide. a suitable
ihoroughfare for vehicles to reach It's
ferries, and thus build up q hi trucking
traffic.
From present Indications the next Me-
braska Legislature will pass q tWo-cent-
a-mlle passenger rate on Its railroads
The present rate is three and four cents