Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-28

greater portion Of your lines are con-
structed above or below the streets, ex-
| cept in the southern section of the City,
, between the Delaware and Schuylkill
Rivers. The necessity for the develop
ment of several square mics in this
section of the City. including the I'M
provement of conditions along the river
front, caused the municipal authorities
TO decide upon the elimination of nearly
all existing grade crossings of your
delphia, Baltimore and Washington
Railroad and of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Companies, and in asking the
agreed to bear an equitable share of
the large expenditures. Under this ar
rangement this Company will be re-
quired to elevate and relocate the pres
ent running tracks. yards and facili-
ties on the portion of the Delaware Ex-
tension. with its Girard Point and
Arsenal Bridge over the Schuylkill
River to Delaware Avenue and Queen
Street, and use in lieu thereof the new
tracks of the Delaware Extension when
elevated between the Arsenal Bridge
| over the Schuylkill River and Twenty
fifth and Mexican Streets, and new
| two-track elevated line extending gem
Twenty Street. and the Back
Channel north of the League Island
Navy Yard to terminal yard to be To-
Delaware River, from which point the
line Will remain at grade along the
north side of said yard and on Della
ware Avenue to Bigler Street. and the
Avenue will be relocated as far north
as Queen Street. The Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company, which will likewise
relocate and elevate its present tracks in
that section of the City, will occupy a
new location adjoining the relocated
tracks of your Company. from Pass
yunk Avenue to and along Delaware
Avenue This portion of the line will
be operated as a joint four track rail-
road, with provision for its use as a
belt line. Under this agreement the
| tracks and facilities of the Philadelphia
Baltimore and Washington Railroad
Company along Washington Avenue
Will also be elevated as a three-track
rroalroad to Broad Street, and as a
double-tracl1 line east thereof 1t is
| expected that this important project
Will be completed in five years, as and
When the CITY and the Railroad Com
panies provide the funds requisite
| therefor.
The construction of the New York
Connecting Railroad owned jointly by
Haven and Hartford Railroad Com
pany, and fully described in previous
annual annssia reports is satisfactorily pro
completed by the Summer of 1916.
The increasing. traffic on the Chau-
| tauqua Branch between Buffalo and
Oil City on the line of the Western New
in connection with similar improve
ments on your Allegheny Division,
| necessitated the revision of grades and
| alignment and longer passing sidings.
During the year $1.602, ,036.12, was ad-
vanced to the Western New York and
Pennsylvania Railway by this Company
to meet its Construction and Equip
| ment expenditures, which sum was
charged against the net income of the
| Lessee Company.
1t has been deemed advisable to alb
sorb the Hollidaysburg. Bedford and
Cumberland Railroad Company, which
| is owned and operated by this Cons
pany in connection with it's main line
The necessity for maintaining that
Company as a separate corporation no
longer exists, and the agreement pro-
vid1ng for it's acquisition will, in ac-
cordance with the notice given to the
| stockholders, be submitted for approval
at the annual meeting.
During the year your Company made
advances to the Long Island Railroad
Company aggregating $4,500,O 900, for
the Improvement of it's railroad and
! facilities, and the construction of new
| lines and equipment, for which it will
receive securities of that Company,
In accordance with the policy hereto
| fore announced as to the proposed sale
| of this Company's security holdings in
the anthracite coal companies owning
properties served by its system. name
~, the Susquehanna Coal Company,
Mineral Railroad and Mining Company
and the Summit Branch Mining Com
pany, your Board deemed 1t desirable to
! first compact the ownership of the Sc