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Show Kallwajr Not pa ami rrratinal. The net earnings of the Louisville & Nashville for February were i,257,titH, an incrcaso of $1X.1M . The Chicago & Alton railroad has the distinction of being the only road in Illinois Ill-inois that had no accident iu which a passenger was injured in The Pennsylvania Railroad company has established a training school at Philadelphia, at which institution brakemen w ill lie put through a course to equip them for passenger conductors. conduct-ors. Robert (iarrelt will leave Baltimore for Kurvp early in May. Mr. (iarrelt often conies ihto Baltimore from his country residence In Baltimore county. He looks well and hearty and Is always congratulated upon his appearance, Several of the railroads in Michigan contemplate putting on fast freight trains (lining the present spring ami summer for the rapid transportation of ice. The trains will run on regular passenger schcdulo time, and will be known as ice trains. (icorge (iould madu some fast time on his special from (ialvestou lo Tcxar-kaua. Tcxar-kaua. The average run was tifty-one miles an hour over the International and (ireat Northern to Longvicw front (ialreston. where a Texas and Pacille engine hurried him along at a similar rale. Tue roilroads have not moved all tho corn in tho country yet; in fact, only about one-half of last year's crop has been moved. There were OTO.000,000 bushels in farmers' hands on March 1. The railroads will be busy for some months to conio handling what Is left. The results following the making of 2 cents a mile tho 'rate on passengers traveling over roads In Michigan have been so satisfactory that it is creating a strong feeling iu favor of making '2 cents a mile tho uniform rale on all classes of tickets over roads in the central cen-tral traffic territory. The southwestern division' of tho Western Freight association will meet in Chicago to dispose of a big budget. Among the. features of tho docket are rates of .shipment from Bellevuc to Missouri Mis-souri river points, milling transit regulations, regu-lations, etc., from St. Louis millers. Assistant (jcneral Manager Vining, or tho Frisco, did not attend the committee com-mittee conference on reorganization of the Interstate Commerce association, but the. Frisco manag-Miieul is not to lit; undcr&tood as holding aloof. It desires de-sires to co-operate in the most feasible movement for the maintenance of rates. By invitation of the Wabash a large number of ladies ami gentlemen w ill run out iu a special train today from the union depot to inspect the Piiilsch system of lighting cars. ' The special will run across the bridge ami ever l lie oast-side, lino to Kdwardsville ami return. re-turn. There will be music, Dowers and refreshments aboard. , . On Sunday. April '-'7, divisions of the Order of Railway conductors nil over the country will meet to select dele-gales dele-gales to the annual convention to be held in Rochester. N. Y., in May. Each division will be expected to instruct in-struct its delegates as In how they shall vote on the proposition lo eliminate from their ritual the clause which makes it a non-striking organization under any circumstances. The Indianapolis Journal says: "Ticket brokers in Chicago. St, Louis i:nd Kansas City are said to have secured se-cured fully J23,(KHI worth of unlimited tickets since the war broke out between the Northwestern and Missouri river lines. This is tho rcaon some of the general passenger agents assign for declining de-clining to restore rates, as these tickets in the hands of scalpers will be thrown on the market and demoralize mat ters generally." |