The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-30
RAILROAD NEWS
FROM ALL POINTS
Southern Railway Will Be An
Extensive Exhibit at James
town Exposition.
CROWDS COMING TO REUNION
Supreme Court OF United States
Sustains North Carolina State
Corporation Commission.

Bir. w. u. Christian, assistant general
passenger agent of the Scahoard Arr
Line Railway, with headquarters in
Atlanta is in the city on "A pleasure
trip He is mingling with his numer-
GUS friends and not transaslHg raj
way business. However, Mr.. Christian
says the Seaboard Air Line is going to
haul vast armies of people from the
South to the jamestown Exposition
There viii be wonderful travel toward
Richmond fo, Confederate Reunion
week. Mr. Christian SAYS. lie judges
from appearances on his own line that
more people are coming to this reunion
than to any that has ever before been
held.
The next excursion trains for the
exposition over the Chesapeake and
Ohio Hallway have been set for Thura-
day and Saturday of this week. Tho
trains VIII leave promptly MT Sis a. NJ.
on those dates. Passenger Agent War
then says the trouble at the Ncwpor.
News pier has now been entirely over
come. and these trains will certainly
land their passengers at the Expo
sition Grounds in two hours and u
half after leaving Richmond.
Tho Southern Railway Company VIII
make three separate permanent cx-
hibits at Jamestown, and has all three
OF them nearly completed. These VIII
comprise locomotives and cars in the
Transportation Building. minerals and
timbers In the Virginia Mines and
Timber building. and agricultural and
manufactured products in the States
Exhibit Building. IL IS the Intention
OF the Southern Railway Company In
making these exhibits to call particu-
lar attention TO the natural resources
of the South, which include mines OF
almost every known American mineral
and metal. large and varied tim
ber supply, stone, marble, cuys aud
cement material. In demonstrating the
agricultural and manufacturing inter-
osts OF the South, the Southern Rail-
way Company will join various in
dustrlcs i'll making exhibits. Tho
southern Railway received the blue
ribbon for the most attractive OF eight
similar exhibits of the products OF
field, garden and orchard at the Ili-
nois State Fair and the management
VII cndeavor 10 make the Southern
Railway exhibit ut jamestown the best
OF It's kind.
The seaboard Air Line has prepared
plans for new shop buildings ut jack
HOnviiie. The plant VIII be operated by
electricity throughout and Will cost
100000.
The Supreme Court OF the United
States last week upheld the power of
the State Corporation Commission OF
North Carolina to require the Atlantic
Coast Line to make certain connections
OF its through trains with an east and
west train OF the Southern Railway in
North Carolina In order TO acrommo-
date the public, even II the Coast Line
has to put on an extra train to- do 1T.
selma. n. c., is the point named in
the controversy, but the principle APP
plies to any point where like tond!-
tons prevail.
The Raleigh and Southwestern Rail-
way Company has filed mortgage to
secure an issue OF si,5oo00o per
cent bonds to provide for the con-
struction of the road from connec-
ton with the PIney Branch of the
Chesapeake and Ohio at or near RAJ
leigh The project is reported to be a
Chesapeake and Ohio enterprise.
The Chesapeake and Ohio has sold
$500, 900 Potts Creek Branch l per cent,
forty-year bonds. The bonds are a
lien on the branch extending from
Covington, Va. through the Potts River
Valley, twenty-five miles.