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Show NEWS OF THE TRACK. Items of Interest to Railroad Men The Banquet to the Newspaper Men. The annual meeting of the Pullman company com-pany was held in Chicago last week. The statement showed that the revenues for the year from all sources were '..,77-,:tii. The disbursements for the same period were $6.73.101, leaving a surplus for the year of f J.'.ty.t.-J-Jo. The total assets of the company are $4"i.o54.(ot, and the total liabilities fti,-'bl,o7t. fti,-'bl,o7t. The request of the di-reeters di-reeters to issue JjO.OJU shares cf addltiona stock to meet the demands incident to the World's fair business, was granted. The usual quarterly dividend of $2 a share on net earnings was declared. The. following directors were re-elected: teorge -M. l ull-man, ull-man, Marshall Field, J. W. Doane, Norman Williams and O. S. A. Sprague, of Chicago; Henry C. Huiburtof New Y'ork, and Henry Reed of Boston. At a subsequent meeting of the board these officers were re -elected as follows: President, George. M. Pullman; vice-president, Horace Forter; secretary, A. S. Weinsheiiner. John Hoey. the president, of the Adams Express c ompany, who w as deposed recently by the board of directors for alleged irregular irregu-lar and dishonest transactions in his oflkia capacity claims to have been gro.-sly misrepresented mis-represented and previously wronged. He has placed his case in the hands of an at-torney at-torney w ho will institute a suit for damages. I. C. Adams assures the press gang that next Sunday night c anqu.-t will be worthy of it's guests attention of D. ., General Manager Clark of the Union Pacific Toad, and withall it will be a feast tit for the gods. Local officials of the Rio Grande Western are profuse in fheir assurances that their road would be tickled to death to see some of the Deep Creek railroad schemes succeed. President E. S. Jeffrey of the Denver oc Rio Grande is making a trip over the entire system of that road, his trip extending as far south as Santa Fe, N. M. It looks as if another war among the eastern east-ern roads w as imminent. The. rausus belli is the action of some of the lines in selling their tickets to scalpers. |