The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-29
RAILROAD NEWS
FROM ALL POINTS
Increased Exposition Travel
Necessitates More Daily
Trains on c. & o.


and Ohio Railway WDl place three
more daily trains on the line between
Richmond and tho Jamestown EXPOSE
ton. This increase has been made
necessary by the greater travel which
General Passenger Agent Potts expects
from the West during tho months OF
July and Augustine holiday season,
when more people will have an oppor-
tunity to visit the show.
Seven regular trains Will run on the.
line daily, as follows: Leave Richmond
at 6, Z, 8 and Q o'clock in the morning,
and at 4, 4:25 and o'clock In the
afternoon; returning, reach the Main
Street Station at 9:1o. $3.50 and 11:45
in the forenoon, and 1:45, 7, and 1880
p. NJ. The I a. NJ. and p. NJ trains
will be local. taking up passengers at
all way-stations.
The Southern has arranged to run
two special 5O-cent round trip excur-
sion trains between tnis city aud West
Point on the 4th of July. They will
?. NJ, and, returning, will leave Beach
Park at Z P. NJ. and 10 P. NJ. Tickets
sold will be good on either train.
Captain T. NJ. Workman, adjutant of
| the Howitzers. and Division Freight
Agent T. D. Meanlcy, of the Norfolk
and Western, have been throwing bou-
quets at each other. Captain Wor-
| than praises the road for good service
| and courtesies to the HowitZers when
they were returning from Jamestown,
and Mr. Meanley says agreeable things
about the boys. and expresses delight
| that they had such good time.
The Norfolk and Western has com
pleted its arrangements for hauling
the Virginia agriculturists to the Vir-
| ginia State Farmers Institute. which
| will be held in Roanoke August 18th,
14th and 18th. AS side attraction, the
farmers will have a special trip to
| Jamestown, the train or trains to carry
them leaving Roanoke on the morning
Of the 18th of August. The farmer ex-
4 cursionists will be allowed to make a
stop at Ivor to get sight of the Nor
folk and Westerns experimental farm,
located at that point. Farmer f. II.
LcBaume will be on hand to welcome
and help entertain the horny handed
sons of toll at Ivor.
Vice-President and Treasurer Nc
Dowell and Secretary Alden, of the Nor
4 folk and Western, have gone to Ashe-
. Vile, N. c.. to attend the hearing be-
fore the Federal Court for continu-
against the Virginia State RAILROAD
Corporation of putting in effect, July
list, two-cent passenger rate on the
, Norfolk and Westarn and other South
ern railroads.
! The louisville and Nashville reports
! for the third week In June an increase
In gross earnings Of $106,605, and the
! increase from July last Is placed a
$5,092,14S.
The Interested railways have agreed
among themselves to make no figh
against the two-cent-p cr-mile passen
! ger rate in the States of Illinois. In
!, diana and Ohio.
The estimated earnings for The
Southern Railway system tho thire
week in June were as follows:
Southern Railway Company. exclu
sive of st. Louis-Lou!sville lines: Thl
year. s997,821; last year $G93,1S5; in
: crease. s1O4,6so.
J, ST. Louis-Ioulsville lines: This year
. ss6,911; last year, $3.50; increase
$4,562.
beginning Sunday, the Norfolk an,
: Western will put on the line two NOR
}. passenger trains from the West. Thi
{, will DO done to meet the demands o
IiGISaSSu lIhHel " ttuu 1tpIu vi
:, Jamestown Exposition, Both train
: will. OF course, include Richmond Il
their trips both ways.
The special sunday excursion owe
j. this route that was announced to leay
the Byrd Street Station at $3.50 Sunda
II morning has been changed to leave a
). $40 A, M. That is just twenty min
: ,tes earlier. and would7be excursion
4 lists Will do we'll to make note o
A., the change
d Messrs, Winston & Co.. we'll know
contractors of this city. who built tn
J, AZ lume to the settling basin, have Jus
I'll made a contract with the Virginia Al
II. Line Railway to build a ten-miie sec
I'D ton of that road. Their contract wi
n, begin with and Include the bridg
IN over the Rivanna River, and the ten
T. milo section Will carry the line to
~ connection with the Chesapeake an
NJ Ohio In Fluvanna county,
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