Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28

The 500 road will not have to fight in
the courts to get into Superior. The
other roads have agreed to abide by the
decision of the Wisconsin commission.
The headquarters of the Wabash rail-
road has been removed from Pittsburg to
Cleveland, and the new million-dollar de-
pot and Office building in Pittsburg will
be rented.
The federal grand jury at Richmond,
Va, has indicted the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway and its general freight agent,
together with Rich1rend grain dealer,
ON the charge of rebating
The Burlington road attempted to file
with the Secretary Of State at st. Paul
mortgage for $3000O0,0O0 covering all
of its property. The Secretary of State
has refused to accept che filing until a
registry fee of $100,00o is paid into the
State treasury. Another thing that will
be required of the road is that it give a
detailed statemen of it's real estate hold
ings, together with values. This covers
trackage, terminals and depots. This
statement must ccTey the entire system.
Upon the petition of the National Car
Wheel Company of New York. the Dis
trict Court at Toledo, Ohio, has appoint
ed Vice President Worthington OF the
Wheeling and Lake Erie receiver for the
road, which is the fourth Gould property
to go into the hands of a receiver. The
proceeding was a friendly one. The pc
tition says that the road is in debt to
the extent of over SOS, 100000. This move
4 70 hk1 lffrll-
nary step to the reorganization OF the
Gould system.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad Com
pany has undertaken to plant pine trees
along both sides of the track, from Win
nipeg to Vancouver. The company will
plant various kinds Of pine trees and ey-
cry few years younger trees viii be added
to the plantation, whish will be some
1000 miles long. These trees are to be
planted for double purpose, the younger
ones to keep the track clear of snow and
as they grow up the larger ones viii be
used for bridge timber, telegraph poles,
etc. while the smaller trees win be util-
lied for fence posts and ties.
Chairman Knapp Of the interstate com
merce commission has decided the case of
the Rhinelander Paper Company against
the Northern Pacific and Chicago and
Northwestern railway companies. The
complaint challenged the reasonableneSs of
an Scent rate Oh pulp wood from Duluth,
MINI, to Rhinelander, Wis. During the
proceedings the Scent rate on pulp wood
was reduced TO 6.95 cents. The commits
sion held that the reduced rate on pulp
wood is not shown to be excessive, and
that, upon all facts disclosed, the rate
adjustment on paper is not shown to be
unlawful
Engineers have taken the field to begin
the actual survey of the contemplated
short line Of the Pennsylvania railroad
between Chicago and Cincinnati, via Nun
Gle. Ind 1t will connect with the Penn
sylvania at Hagerstow4-
Chicago htars that the leading railroad
managers have agreed to defer the ques-
ton of a general wage cut for three
months in the hope that by that time
either conditions will be improved so that
a cut will not Be necessary or tnat lS-Dor
organizations will recognize the necessity
Of a reduction The feeling prevails IN
some companies raat wages ought not 10
be cz1t 80 long as dividends are paid.
Rather than hold up its Ss)0.OOO,Op0
bond issue. the Chicago, Burlington and
Ouincy Railway Company paid the mort
rare registry tax on the mortgage issued
70 cover the bonds and had it recorded
with Secretary Of State Schmahl Of Min
nesoea- The tax amounted to S2gS67.T7.
The last steam locomotive has passed
from the big terminal yards Of the New
York Central railroad at New York. All
rains Of the New Haven system. as well
as of the Central, are now pulled in and
put Of the heart Of the city By the Cen
trails powerful new electric locomotives
TIE work on the excavation for the new
terminal at subway level goes On and the
I'D station Is being torn down.