New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
BUDGET OF WEEK
in RAILROADS
transportation News and Conn.,
ment, Changes and Happen
ings in General.

The Supreme Court of the United states
has been appealed TO by seven officers OF
the Peterborough Railroad, a small line
in New Hampshire. TO compel the Boston
& Maine, which operates the road, TO
grant them interstate passes.
WESTINGHOUSE. Church, Kerr Co, or
New York, have filed suit in Boston
against the Grand Trunk Railway Com
pany, of Canada, for 81 10000 for alleged
breach of contract in connection with the
construction OF a railway terminal at To-
rOnto. Ont.
Freight arrangements are being made
by the LehiSh Valley in the expectation
that its Seneca Falls branch, between
Auburn and Geneva, will be completed by
February /. The Auburn branch, when In
operation, will eliminate a freight haul OF
$50 miles.
The New York Central and the Newport
e. Sherman Valley Railroad Company
were each fined $500 in the United states
Court at Harrisburg. the former for Keep
ing the crews eighteen hours IN service
and the latter for violating the federal
safety appliance act.
President W. II. Truesdale OF the Lack
awanna Railroad In an official letter an
nounces that q system OF monetary re-
wards Is 10 be installed. affecting every
employe. from the lowest section hand 10
the officers. The plan OF the company Is
to stimulate business. as well as encour-
age employees.
The machine shop OF the Pennsylvania
Railroad at Altoona. Penn. IT is reported
will hereafter work forty hours week.
instead of fifty-fve, as heretofore. TINS
order affects five thousand men. Inc
time is apportioned into four days OF ten
hours each, and. all told, 10 men were
suspended in this department. At the car
shops, where three thousand men WORK.
the same reduction was made and 10
men were laid off. The total number OF
suspensions at all plants aggregates ne
tween 400 and 500 men.
The report OF the Independent Order Of
Railroad Employees OF the Reading hah-
way system, an organization OF telesra-
pliers. showed that during the year IN
creases in salaries Appropriated Seo"o
and also showed the granting OF an en-
tirely new working agreement through
the efforts Of the general committee.
Pierce Butler. OF St Paul. was chosen
TO take the place Of Fairfax Harrison
newly elected president OF the Southern
Railroad. on the board Of arbitration CON
sidering differences between the Chicago.
Burlington & Quincy Railroad and It's
employees.
St Donald Mann has announced that
the Canadian Northern line Is completed
as TO grading and laying OF steel from
Quebec 10 British Columbia, with the eH-
ception OF several small stretches aggre-
eating twenty-nine miles.
Governor Tener OF PENNSYLVANIA In a
statement made last week said that he
saw nothing I'm the new public service
company law OF Pennsylvania 10 prevent
the railroads OF the state from continuing
to issue passes to families OF employees.
The Waycross & Western, a line hfy-
one miles long in the course OF construc-
ton I'm Georgia, has taken measures to
develop stock raising on n large scale and
scientific plan. The president OF the road
Alexander X Seasons. has ordered ma
terlal for fencing two thousand acres OF
land for a stock farm.