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Show aged relief funds In the country, from the Railway Age aGiette: "The bcnofit paid out by the relief fund of the Lehlph Valley Railroad during the year of 1909 amounted to $R5,CS3. and thtrc left a balance In the treasury of, $28,100. A recent newspaper Item says that the fund was. eftabiished in lS78,.a.nd that in Its 32 years 'of existence tho contributions contribu-tions have amounted to Jl.-185.793. of which sum' oneftaM Pld by the railway company; aid It is said that thls-lR thtj tfniyi.lnstance la tho United Unit-ed States-wheiro the railway company com-pany pays half of the Teller benefits, Of tho 21.S05 per3ons employed by the company last year, 7,3-16 were subscribers to tho relief fund. Subscriptions Sub-scriptions are called for whenever tho condition of the fund may demand." Tho following serve as an example Illustrating tho difficulty of securing authentic Information from the officer of the Ill-fated Western Pacific, which was recently subjected to severe damages dam-ages by storms along Its trestle over the southern end of the Great Salt Lake, and Incidentally puts another crimp Into the hopes of the Salt Lake Interests which havo been depending on tho Western Pacific to put them on a main line after all hope. of tho "Farmlngton cut-off"' had beeu killed by the announcement of tho Southern Pacific officials that repairs to the Lu-cln Lu-cln cut-off aggregating nearly half a million dollars would bo mado. The article Is taken from the Rllroad Age Gazette of March 18: . "The Western Pacific has been opened op-ened for freight business for some wcek3, but the reporters who try to find out how much freight is being moved hare no success. They observe, ob-serve, however,, that In January and February the gross revenues of the Denver & Rio Grande Increased about 23 per cent over the same period of 1909. It Is conjectured that these large Increases can have been possible only by reason of a large amount of traffic folng over the Rio Grande for the Western Paclflc." RAILROAD NOTES. That "It's an 111 wind that blows no one good," is well proven by the following fol-lowing clipping from the Ivailway Ago Gazette: "During the strike of the. street railway employes In Philadelphia last week the Philadelphia & : Heading carried about 90.000 additional-passengers each day. nearly all on short journeys within the city limit., Tho average increase in receipts is given as ?7,200 a day. That the newly adopted 8ys x?m -of telephone dispatching already in use on numerous roads throughout - tho country Is obtaining a strong foothold In the west is Indicated by . a atato-ment atato-ment in the Railway Age Gazctto, as follows: iJ 1 , "The Santa Fe system is now, ua-ing ua-ing telephones for train dispatching 1 between Denver and PuoMo, Colorado, 120 milea, making approximately U50 miles of the Santa Fe lines now U.vi8 equipped. There aro forty telephone stations on thin 12) mllos Western Electric telephones and Gill selector being used. There are about 30 traLua a day and 76 regular meeting points. 'This division Is used jointly by tho Sanla Fe and the Colorado & Southern, South-ern, the dispatching being all dond from 'Pueblo by the Santa Fe." Following Is an outline of what Is considered by railroad men as on of tbe most tncflolal uai well man- |