Show RAILROAD INFORMATION The Philadelphia West Chester Traction company last week wech La Lad had three conductors arrested for misappropriating ing fares fares instead instead of merely requesting their resi resignations on the ground round that accounts not satisfactory their were Tere A report has been published that tIle the New York tunnel extension of tho the Pennsylvania would be opened for traffic traffic traffie fic fie in the spring sprin of won 1900 but it is not true The Time tunnels will bo be completed this thia coming comin winter but at least a year will be required for laying th the tracks I and installing nY electric apparatus and completing to tho too Now York station build buildS in ing 0 G a aThe The Tho x New ew 1 York ork Central lines hA have ve given a contract to the American Car Carand Carand II and Foundry company for rebuilding about oOOO freight cars e At Pittsburg last week three men I were w re arrested for selling n tickets over or the tue Pennsylvania which had been been raised raised It is said that these men defrauded the therond I I road rond b by buying tickets in in which the tho destination was filled out in ink and antI i then theu altered them to read to a 3 destination destina destina- destination I tion ninny many miles farther away than that i ori originally written on the ti ticket ket They I avoided detection by the passenger ger er leave the train at a a. point short of tho destination and before his ticket had ad b been cn taken up tp by tho the conductor Alfred H. H president of Pet Pct Mulliken cn ij Co Chicago o has published a small pamphlet entitled The Advance in Freight bt Kates nates in which h he ur urges cs business men to do allin all allin allin in their power ver to briD bring about an advance advance ad ad- vance in iu freight rates and replies to the tho arguments ar of O. O 0 C. C Barber president of the Diamond Match company company J According to tho the New York Sun Prof Henry C. C Adams statistician of the Interstate Commerce commission in his bio annual report ort goes outside of his I geld eld Id c-Id as statistician and makes recommendations concerning what the government gov goO ought to require from tho the railroads railroads rail rail- roads in the tho future and tho the chief of thc these is the tho re recommendation for legislation legislation legis legis- lation providing di for the physical vain vain- I of railroad property He thinks that congress should appropriate a sum S sufficient to appraise tim tho t 10 value alue of all the tho great reat railroads From whatever point X int of view this question of valuation be rc regarded says Professor Adams Adame 4 whether of reasonable o capitalization a reasonable schedule of rates effective tive administration of the thc depreciation accounts or tho thu correct interpretation of tho the balance 8 sheet one ona is forced to conclude that an authoritative e valuation valuation tion of railroad property is tho the next important step in tho development dc of government government- supervision over railroad a administration mini The Tle object aimed at tt is n 1 tho the pro of investors against secret changes by their agents the directors which mi might ht impair tho the value of ot stocks s 1 or bonds and 2 2 the protection of the public a against Dinst high fares and frei freight ht rates whether any such protection of ofine in e investors actually would bo be afforded or 01 o whether if it some comae benefit of or the kind should accrue it would be worth a 1 I I i i I tithe of what it would cost tim the people in ill taxes are apparently questions too tuo tuoI remote to receive consideration in this thi s sI academic discussion Admitting that here and Ind there a a. J. J valuation mi might ht bring brinA out facts which unfaithful board of directors bad had ully concealed it is entirely probable that tuat I all the time useful results could be obtained by au any i vigorous governmental o agency at it a mere fraction of the co cost t of a valuation alu i but tho thu report indicates that Professor or Adams passes yh over this point in jn silence Tho The fact that a n valuation made ninth toda today at great cost w will 1 surely bo be inaccurate next year car and thus will wilI willbe willbo bo be almost useless unless s repeated an an- also seems to bo be i ignored That railroads arc aro continually finding themselves them them- selves Mel forced to rc reduce nce fares tares or freights in spite of high capital charges is one of the patent facts of railroad history and experience but this report gives i cs no hint of any such uch fact On the contrary eon con tr it assumes that overcapitalization o tion HOD does Iloe directly n affect rates If the report were Tere simply a plea pIca for more work Torl more clerks and more appropriations for a government o bureau it could hardly presen present its point more mOro baldly And yet this rc report ort having the sanction sanc sane sanction tion of seven sc eminent emment interstate commerce com corn merce mcree commis commissioners is likely to have o more wei weight bt before con congress ess than the opinions of practical and experienced men It is to be confessed that this is duo in iu considerable measure sure to the ne neglect neglect neg neg- lect of practical and experienced mento mento men mento to discuss subjects of this kind from a 3 high and impartial standpoint for the benefit of of the public which emphasizes the importance of the proposed action in the American Railway as association lookin looking hooking to the establishment of Unbiased unbiased un Un- biased authoritative sources of information information mation on transportation topics Idaho Railway Navigation Tho Tho plans for tor this company provide for 01 the construction construction construe construe- tion of or a A. line from Crom L Lewiston Ida to the upper Snake river rl country to tap a coal and timber limber r section and it I Is expected that gra grading will begin in a a. few fow weeks The company will also operate a line of 15 small all steamers on the upper tipper Snake river to handle freight and passenger business pending tho the completion of the road an anto and to servo ser tho construction camps a a North orth Coast President Coast President R. R E 13 is If said to have maths made a statement to tho the effect that this company has purchased In North Yakima Wash and Immediate during the tho past two weeks a aright aright aright right of oC wa va costing costine By franchises Iran fran ran ran- which have h vc been heen given this road the line is to be built Into North orth Yakima within two to years I I S Northern Pacific This Pacific This company has flied filed plans In tho the lan land office at Miles City Mont for or the construction of oC a line from Mandan N. N D D. to Glendive Mont by byway byway byway way of or Buford S D. D about miles This company compan has hils a n direct line from Crom Mandan Mandan Man Man- landan dan to o Glendive an and the proposed loop is isor for or the purpose of developing dc the tho new newlands newlands newlands lands of ot the lower Yellowstone Irrigation project comprising about acres of agricultural land which at the present time lime is served only ooh h by a stage stase line S S Sioux City Spirit Lake Lake Proposed Proposed cd line from Sioux City In Ta northeast to Spirit Lake passing through Le Mars Paul Paulina a Primghar Hartley HartJe and Ha Hagerty crt Tho city of or Le Mars has subscribed S S S MInot N. N D. D Plans D.-Plans Plans for fot a freight house feet are arc being prepared for Cor the Minneapolis St. St Paul Sault Marie Tho The building is to bo be a two story structure structure ture and to cost S S For the first half haIr of at this year car the gross earnings of or the Swiss state railroads were more than last year their expenses mor more S S S The ThA Union Pacific has announced that It will mal make o a rate of oC one faro fare for Cor the round trip or 1 cent a mile for Cor tho the state fair fall at nt Lincoln Nob This is the lowest cst rate that has been made for or such an on oc occasion occasion occasion oc- oc casion in tho the vest west since tho tim state cent 2 fare laws lam were passed p In 1907 1901 S S S The Wisconsin Central has ordered from Barker 26 2630 2650 0 ml miscellaneous freight cars S S a aThe The Western Steel Car Cai ar al and a 3 Foundry company compan Chicago o. o Is making makinI prices on specialties for tUt fifty box cars |