New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-28
AMONG THE RAILROADS
Notes and Comment Concerning
Men and Traffic Affairs.

Notes and Comment Concerning
Men and Traffic Affairs.
Representatives Of the operating, traffic
and freight claim departments or the
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe will hold
their semi-annual meeting at 81. Joseph
Mo, on September so. and will discuss
plans for reducing loss and damage 10
freight
a test case has been started by the
Louisville & Nashville in the federal
court in Florida 10 determine the validity
of the law of that state. passed at the
last session Of the Legislature, requiring
all locomotives to be equipped with heao-
lights of 1900 candlepower.
As announced by the New YORK. Ne"
Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
beeinnlne TODAY. Sunday. September 2S,
important time table changes become Ell
fective Twenty trains have been ols-
continued between New York ana New
Haven, running between intermediate
points and a change OF schedule mas oeeh
made in other trains, including throush
service, and a discrimination OF parlor
car service on certain trains is includeo
In the announcement.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad has expend-
ed 1862, 300 for a new automatic signal ser
vice on the middle division, between Har-
risburg and Altglen.
W. z. Bull has been elected assistant
secretary OF the Southern Pacific OF Mex
ico and the Pacific Mail Steamship COM
pany. 10 succeed Joseph H. Ellens re-
Gently resigned
The Gulf. Colorado & Santa Fe Rail
road has appointed c. c. Womble So
letting freight agent at Waco, Tex.
The Chesapeake & Ohio has received
from the Baldwin Locomotive Works
eight locomotives. of the Pacific type, 70
be used on the Allegheny district Of the
Hinton division, between Clifton Forge
and Hinton, W. Va. These locomotives
are designed for heavy service, and on
the line to be used the grade runs in one
direction thirty feet TO the mile for a
distance OF sixteen miles. and in the other
sixty feet to the mile for a distance Of
thirteen and one-half miles. These loco
motives are expected 10 haul train OF
ten cars. weighing 500 tons, without as
sistance, and maintain an average speed
Of twenty-four miles an hour over the
sixty-foot grade.
Professor Henry c, Adams. Of the Uni
versity Of Virginia, has been engaged to
20 TO China in the capacity Of adviser
TO the government commission appointed
10 standardize accounts and records Of
the government railroads.
Thousands Of articles have been recov-
cred from the North Haven wreck on the
New York. New Haven & Hartford, hav-
ing an estimated value Of $1,000. and
there are now said to be only compare
lively few of the reported losses missing.
Included in the list recovered were over
40 pieces Of jewelry, embracing thirty
, watches. fifty rings, brooches, pins and
Il one pearl necklace.
4 complaint has been made by the
State Of South Dakota before the Inter
state Commerce Commission Of excessive
rates charged for the transportation Of
coal from Lake Michigan TO Lake SUI
perior ports TO points in South Dakota.
According to announcement just made.
the coast extension OF the Chicago, NIL
waukee & st. Paul Railway will enter
Spokane. Wash. to-day Sunday. the
connecting link Of forty miles from ST.
NIaries. Idaho, TO the former city having
recently been completed. This new route
is the shortest between Chicago and Spo-
kane. and Is part OF the extensive branch
building decided upon for the Puget
Sound division. The St. Paul also claims
10 have the shortest route from Chicago
10 Seattle and Tacoma, and is the only
road from the first named place entering
these Pacific Coast cities on its own rails.