| Show Icrsonal Tuul General The Union Pacific will soon receive ten new broad l gauge coaches for the Colorado lines and these will be supplemented by fifteen narrow gauge coaches nOl the j Xicavenwoi th and CJtahJforthern branches The road has been greatly taxed ol late to handle the enormous paSSel < gel business out of Denver and the equipments yiil relieve the strain The Louisville and Nashville company has sold JOUO000 of its now consolidated 4 percent bonds to a syndicate Tie total uthorized issue of these bonds will beTh 000000 Of these 841000000 will be re served to retire maturing bonds The balance including the 3000OUO just sold will be used for terminals improvements anti betterments Tho Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad people arc not disturbed over the rumond parallel line from Chicago to Birmingham Aia The report of such a project doubtless doubt-less growoutof toe fact that it is proposed to extend the Chicago and Ohio river road the gid Danville Olney and Ohio river road iurther north and possibly south to the Ohio river One of the Yanderbuilt officials in Chi cugo says about the Street conviction Its It-s a disgrace to the road and to everybody i conne ted with the case Arthur Street I iae the cut rate on Counselinan Cos shipments under orders from his superiors Vhy when the general freight agent or Qers a subordinate to cut a rate he does not I issue a general order or even put his instructions in-structions in writing he simply calls his man into his oflice and tells him She here wo arc getting done up You must get some of this freight that is goingby other lines If necessary take the course that will bring it to our road If you cut a rate I do not want to know about officially and you must not get caught A board of trade investigation committee caught Street on the Counsclman deal and he is uttering for obeying orders which had he ignored would have resuleed in his dismissal dismis-sal salThe llaUirau Aye says In the midst of the hot season it seems very strange to rend that some of the sidetracks of the Central Pacilic railroad in the Sierras are still covered with snow and that as late l as the middle of June a rotary snowplow was at work clearing oil hard packed drifts from 4 to i feet deep It is said that in the mountain gulches along the road snow still remains as much as SO feet deep The Erie is to be sued for damages aggre gating 150000 on account of injury to property sustained by people in Elmira during dur-ing the flood of a year ago The theor Ton T-on which the actions are to be brought is that the railroad is responsible the damage dam-age done because it unlawfully stoppd up the culverts under the roadbed and formed a dam which held the water back on the people The New York Da HI StocMtolder the semiofficial organ of Mr Gould says I Much is said as to a combination of some ortjbetween Missouri Pacific and Atchison I It is undoubtedly true that these two great systems are working toward closer and more friendly relationsa kind of recipro city of traffic interests but as to any I change in the status of ownershio or as co any prospects of merging the two proper ties under one management nothing of the I kind is incontemplation |
