Operating Officers.

Edward M. Reese has been appointed chief train despatcher on the Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh, Western division.

F. A. C. Ferguson has been appointed trainmaster of the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific, with office at Shreveport, La., succeeding B. B. Fowler, resigned.

C. F. Myers has been appointed superintendent of car service and telegraph of the Mexico North-Western, with office at Ciudad Juarez, Chih., Mexico, and the office of car accountant has been abolished.

Homer W. Loomis, roadmaster of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern at Hillsdale, Mich., has been appointed trainmaster of the Lansing division, with office at Hillsdale, succeeding W. D. Stearns, whose headquarters were at Jackson, Mich.

W. F. Schaff, assistant division superintendent of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern at Cleveland, Ohio, has been appointed superintendent of the Detroit division, succeeding T. W. Niles, who has been assigned to special duties to be designated by the general superintendent.

C. A. Manthe has been appointed trainmaster of the Marcus division of the Great Northern, with office at Marcus, Wash., in place of B. Lantry, promoted. W. D. Mason has been appointed trainmaster of the Fergus Falls division, with headquarters at Melrose, Minn., in place of Mr. Manthe. J. A. Frogner succeeds Mr. Mason as trainmaster of the Sioux City division at Sioux City, Ia.

J. L. Hayes, trainmaster of the Pere Marquette at Plymouth, Mich., has been appointed superintendent of the Port Huron division, which has just been established and embraces the lines Saginaw to Port Huron, Saginaw to Bad Axe, Port Huron to Grindstone City, and the Almont, Port Hope and Sandusky branches. The headquarters of Mr. Hayes will be at Saginaw, Mich. F. P. Little has been appointed trainmaster of the Port Huron division, with office at Port Huron, Mich. The Canadian division will consist of the lines in Canada, and W. K. Tasker has been appointed superintendent, with office at St. Thomas, Ont. J. W. Mulhern has been appointed superintendent of the Grand Rapids division, with headquarters at Grand Rapids, Mich., to succeed R. P. Dalton, resigned. Effective December 1. J. D. Hester, who has been appointed superintendent of the Shenandoah division of the Norfolk & Western, with headquarters at Roanoke, Va., was born on September 26, 1866, at Marion, Va., and was educated in the common schools of his native town. He began railway work on August 19, 1885, with the Norfolk & Western as freight delivery clerk and has been in the continuous service of that company ever since. He learned telegraphy and ten months later was promoted to assistant agent and operator, remaining in that position

He was

until January, 1889, when he became a brakeman. promoted to freight conductor in September, 1890, and in January, 1899, was made assistant trainmaster at East Radford, Va. In May, 1901, he was made trainmaster of the Shenandoah division at Roanoke, and in April, 1905, was transferred in the same capacity to the Radford division, and now becomes superintendent of the Shenandoah division of the same road, as above noted.

Clayton N. Woodward, whose appointment as general superintendent of the New York, New Haven & Hartford, with office at New Haven, Conn., has been announced in these columns, was born on March 26, 1866, at Columbia, Conn., and began railway work in 1882 as night operator on the New York & New England at Franklin, Mass., and has been in the continuous service of that company, its successor, the New York, New Haven & Hartford, ever since. In 1886 he was promoted from the position of operator to train despatcher, and from 1892 to 1897 was chief train despatcher. He became assistant superintendent in 1897, and on January 14, 1899, was appointed superintendent of the Midland division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford; in May, 1903, he was appointed also superintendent of the Providence division. He was later made superintendent of the Shore Line division, which position he held at the time of his recent appointment as general superintendent of the same road, as above noted.

Benjamin R. Pollock, who has been appointed general manager of the New York, New Haven & Hartford, with office at New Haven, Conn., as has been announced in these columns, was born

on January 2, 1865, at Lansford, Pa. He was educated in the public schools, and began work with the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company in 1879 as an operator, remaining until 1881, when he went to the New York & New England, which later became the New England Railroad and was absorbed in 1898 by the New York, New Haven & Hartford. From 1881 to 1898 he was consecutively telegraph operator, train despatcher, chief despatcher, trainmaster and assistant superintendent. In 1898 he was appointed assistant superintendent of the Highland division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford, remaining in that position until January, 1904, when he became superintendent of the Air Line Northampton division of the same road at New Haven. The following December he was made superintendent of the Highland division and later was appointed superintendent of the Midland division. Since October, 1909, he has been general superintendent of the same road, with office at New Haven.

B. R. Pollock.

Ill., and from January, 1906, to December, 1907, was general yardmaster of the Northern Pacific at Duluth. In 1907 he went to Providence as assistant superintendent and trainmaster of the New York, New Haven & Hartford.

V. A. Riton, who has been appointed general superintendent of the eastern general division of the Norfolk & Western, with headquarters at Roanoke, Va., as has been announced in these columns, was born at Johnstown, N. Y., and was educated at Johnstown Academy, in his native town. He began railway work in 1872 and previous to 1875 was consecutively rodman, leveler, and assistant engineer on construction of the New York & Canada Railway for the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. From 1877 to 1879 he was assistant engineer of the Plattsburg & Dannemora, now a part of the Delaware & Hudson. For a short time in 1879 he was assistant engineer of the Chicago & Northwestern and the same year was appointed assistant engineer of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. He was promoted in 1882 to roadmaster of the Mineral Point division of the same road and later was transferred in the same capacity to the Chicago division. From January, 1895, to November, 1898, he was superintendent of the Cascade division of the Great Northern at Leavenworth, Wash. The following December he went to the Norfolk & Western as superintendent of the Scioto division at Kenova, W. Va., and has been in the continuous service of that road ever since. From June, 1901, to November, 1903, he was superintendent of the Pocahontas division at Bluefield, W. Va., and from November, 1903, to March, 1904, he was in the president's office. He was then appointed superintendent of the Shenandoah division at Roanoke, Va., and on August 16, 1905, was made superintendent of the Norfolk division at Crewe, Va., which position he held at the time of his recent appointment as general superintendent of the same road, as above noted.

Traffic Officers.

Howard C. Tucker has been appointed traveling coal freight agent of the Baltimore & Ohio, with headquarters at Uniontown, Pa.

C. L. Parker has been appointed commercial agent of the Seaboard Air Line, with office at Richmond, Va., succeeding G. H. Parater, resigned to accept service elsewhere.

W. H. Knox, traveling freight agent for the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis, at Nashville, Tenn., has been appointed commercial agent, with office at Nashville, succeeding W. L. Nichol, promoted.

E. F. McDaneld has been appointed freight and passenger agent of the Chicago & Alton, with office at Salt Lake City, Utah. Al. J. Wyant has been appointed traveling freight agent, with headquarters at Pittsburgh, Pa., in place of J. H. Walkmeyer, promoted.

P. L. Markey has been appointed division freight and passenger agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, with office at Ottumwa, Ia., succeeding W. C. Parker, who has been transferred to Cedar Rapids, Ia., in a similar capacity in place of C. J. Mikesh, resigned to engage in other business. C. J. Peterson has been appointed commercial agent, with headquarters at Minneapolis, Minn., to succeed C. B. Wilser, resigned to engage in other business. E. H. Spence succeeds Mr. Peterson as commercial agent at Cincinnati, O.

Engineering and Rolling Stock Officers.

G. C. Millett, engineer of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Coast Lines, at Los Angeles, Cal., has been appointed assistant to chief engineer.

J. J. Waters has been appointed superintendent of motive power of the Pere Marquette, with headquarters at Grand Rapids, Mich., to succeed W. L. Kellogg, resigned.

G. E. Perry, master mechanic of the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf, has been appointed superintendent of motive power, with headquarters at Muskogee, Okla., and the former position is abolished.

W. M. Vandersluis, formerly sales engineer in the Chicago office of the Union Switch & Signal Company, has been appointed signal engineer of the Illinois Central, succeeding N. E. Baker, resigned. Effective December 16.

W. L. Kellogg, superintendent of motive power of the Pere Marquette, at Grand Rapids, Mich., has been appointed superintendent of machinery and equipment of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, with headquarters at Parsons, Kan., succeeding William O'Herin.

Thomas Bernard, engineer maintenance of way of the Northern district of the Southern Railway at Greensboro, N. C., has been appointed assistant to chief engineer in the office of chief engineer maintenance of way and structures, with headquarters at Greensboro, and W. T. Dobyns succeeds Mr. Bernard.

Purchasing Officers.

F. A. Bushnell, purchasing agent of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle, at Portland, Ore., has been appointed assistant purchasing agent of the Great Northern, with headquarters at St. Paul, Minn.

Special Officers.

E. D. Stratton, commercial agent of the Southern at Evansville, Ind., has been appointed land and industrial agent of the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific and the Alabama Great Southern, with headquarters at Chattanooga, Tenn., succeeding T. O. Plunkett, who has been appointed manager of the farm improvement department of the Southern Railway and affiliated lines, with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga.

OBITUARY.

F. H. Bainbridge, formerly principal assistant engineer of the Chicago & Northwestern, with headquarters at Chicago, and later resident engineer, died at Ravenswood, Chicago, December 3, at the age of 49 years.

James M. Shanley, a well-known civil engineer, of Montreal, Que., and formerly chief engineer of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a part of the Quebec Oriental, died at his home in Montreal, on November 27, at the age of 55. Mr. Shanley had been connected with the construction of many new railway lines in the Dominion of Canada. He was a member of the council of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers and was also a member of the Engineers' Club.

John Strode Barbour Thompson, formerly assistant to the president of the Southern, died at a hospital in Richmond, Va., on December 11, after an extended illness. He was born on June 10, 1858, in Culpeper county, Virginia, and began railway work in July, 1878. In December, 1910, he resigned from the position of assistant to the president of the Southern to become president of the Atlantic Compress Company.

Alfred Pancoast Boller, president of the American Institute of Consulting Engineers and one of the best known bridge builders, died on December 9, at his home, in East Orange, N. J., after a year's illness at the age of 73. He was born at Philadelphia, Pa., and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1858 and received his engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., in 1861. He was for a time on the engineering force of the Lehigh Canal, and in 1863 became associated with the staff of the Philadelphia & Erie. He was chief engineer for the Hudson River Railroad for a short time, and then entered the iron business with Samuel Milliken as the New York agents of the Phoenix Iron Company. From 1870 to 1890 he was with the Phillipsburg Manufacturing Company, and during the same period he was consulting engineer for railroad building in Hayti and Cuba, chief engineer for the Manhattan Elevated Railway and consulting engineer for the Department of Public Parks of New York City. Mr. Boller entered into partnership with Henry W. Hodge in 1898, and they became consulting engineers for the Mexican National Railroad. The firm also was concerned in the construction of the Ninety-sixth street viaduct, New York City; the stone bridge over the Connecticut river, at Hartford, Conn.; the Singer and the Metropolitan tower buildings and the Wabash Railroad entrance into Pittsburgh, with the cantilever bridges over the Ohio and Monongahela rivers. Mr. Boller was a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers of London, the New York Chamber of Commerce, the Century Association and Railroad Club, of New York City; the Pennsylvania Society and the New England Society, of Orange, N. J.

Equipment and Supplies.

LOCOMOTIVE BUILDING.

CAR BUILDING.

THE BALTIMORE & OHIO is in the market for 8 postal cars. THE NORFOLK SOUTHERN is in the market for 300 box cars and 200 flat cars.

THE CUMBERLAND & PENNSYLVANIA is making inquiries for 100 steel underframes.

THE BUFFALO, ROCHESTER & PITTSBURGH is in the market for 1,000 composite gondola cars.

THE CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC is making inquiries for 500 50-ton steel floor drag bottom gondola cars.

THE NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES have ordered 1,000 gondola cars from the American Car & Foundry Company.

THE CENTRAL OF NEW JERSEY has ordered 12 vestibule coaches and 9 combination passenger cars from the Harlan & Hollingsworth Corporation.

THE CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY has ordered 1500 gondola cars from the American Car & Foundry Company, and 1,000 gondola cars from the Haskell & Barker Car Company.

THE LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTHERN has ordered 1,000 hopper cars from the American Car & Foundry Company. This order was mentioned in the Railway Age Gazette of December 6 as being for the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie.

THE PITTSBURGH & LAKE ERIE, mentioned in an unconfirmed item in the Railway Age Gazette of December 6 as having ordered 3,000 hopper cars, has ordered 2,000 hopper cars, which will be equally divided between the Pressed Steel Car Company and the Standard Steel Car Company.

THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD has ordered 500 gondola cars from the Pressed Steel Car Company, 500 gondola cars and 200 coke cars from the American Car & Foundry Company, 700 coke cars from the Cambria Steel Company, 500 gondola cars from the Ralston Steel Car Company, and 600 coke cars from the Standard Steel Car Company.

Supply Trade News.

W. M. Vandersluis, formerly sales engineer of the Union Switch & Signal Company, Swissvale, Pa., with office in Chicago, has been made signal engineer of the Illinois Central, effective December 16.

L. H. Mesker, manager of the St. Louis office of Manning, Maxwell & Moore, Inc., New York, resigned that position to become manager of the St. Louis office of the Ferro Machine & Foundry Company, Cleveland, Ohio, effective January 1.

Marvin F. Wood, general sales manager of the Van Nest Company, New York, has resigned. He has not yet decided what kind of goods he will handle, but he intends to continue to sell railway supplies, just as he has been doing for more than 20 years.

The H. W. Johns-Manville Company, New York, has opened a branch office at 311⁄2 South Broad street, Atlanta, Ga., in charge of C. S. Berry as manager. To facilitate delivery in the South a stock of roofings, pipe coverings and other J.-M. asbestos, magnesia and electrical products is carried at that office.

For a quarter of a century the general office and Chicago laboratories of Robert W. Hunt & Co. have been in the Rookery. Owing to inability to secure in that building the necessary space in which to conduct their very largely increased business, the offices and laboratories were moved on December 1 to the twenty-second floor of the Insurance Exchange building, Jackson boulevard, between Sherman street and Fifth avenue, where the company will have ample space for its offices and both chemical and cement laboratories.

George Burnham, one of the former owners of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, died at his home in Philadelphia, Pa., on December 10 at the age of 96. Mr. Burnham was born in Springfield, Mass., in 1816 and went to Philadelphia when he was 15 years old. Soon after this he became a bookkeeper for Mathias W. Baldwin, who had entered the business of building locomotives. After Mr. Baldwin's death Mr. Burnham became senior member of the firm of Burnham, Parry, Williams & Co., which in 1909 was incorporated as the Baldwin Locomotive Works. Mr. Burnham retired from business in 1909 after a connection with the firm of 73 years.

The reorganization committee of the Allis-Chalmers Company, Milwaukee, Wis., has called a third assessment of $3 on the common stock and $6 on the preferred stock. The assessment is payable January 15. There still remains to be paid $4 on the common and $8 on the preferred. The court has ordered that the foreclosure sale of the Allis-Chalmers properties takes place February 3. Up to date there have been deposited under the plan of reorganization $10,458,000 first mortgage 5 per cent. bonds, or 93 per cent. of the outstanding issue, $14,146,500 7 per cent. cumulative preferred stock, or 88 per cent. of the outstanding issue, and $17,215,600 of the common stock, or 86 per cent of the outstanding issue.

TRADE PUBLICATIONS.

Railway Construction.

ATLANTIC & WESTERN.-This company is building an extension from Lillington, N. C., east, about 40 miles. It has not yet been definitely determined whether Goldsboro or Mount Olive will be the eastern terminus.

BLAKELY SOUTHERN.-This company, which operates a line from Blakely, Ga., south to Jakin, has projected an extension from Blakely north to Bluffton, 11 miles, and on the southern end from Callafield to Donalsonville, 20 miles.

DALLAS, CORSICANA & PALESTINE.-Incorporated in Texas with $400,000 capital and office at Palestine. The plans call for a line from Palestine northwest through Anderson and Navarro counties to Corsicana, and it is understood that construction work is to be started at once. The incorporators include: G. J. Heflin Corsicana; T. Royal C. W. Hanks W. B. Flanagan, Palestine; L. E. Mitchell, Neosho, Mo.; K. Brent, T. T. Crittenden, Jr., Kansas City, Mo.

DENVER, NORTHWESTERN & PACIFIC.-A grading contract has been given to M. A. Wogan, Denver, Colo., for work from Steamboat Springs, Colo., west to Craig, 42 miles. (November 22, p. 1013.)

EASTERN TEXAS TRACTION.-An officer writes that a contract has been given to Karner Brothers, Dallas, Tex., to build from Dallas northeast via Garland, Rockwall, Fate, Royse City, Josephine and Caddo Mills to Greenville, about 50 miles. The maximum grade will be 2 per cent., and maximum curvature 2 deg. The work will be heavy at Rockwall and between Garland and Dallas. There will be four steel bridges each 100 ft. long. There will be 2,200 ft. of reinforced concrete viaducts at the east fork of the Trinity river. F. E. Wright, president; W. A. Obenchain. Jr., chief engineer, 1307 Commerce street. Dallas. (September 27, p. 599.)

EL PASO ELECTRIC RAILWAY.-According to press reports, the Stone & Webster Management Association of Boston, Mass., will build from El Paso, Tex., along the Rio Grande valley to Fabens, about 35 miles.

INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY.-An officer writes that this company has finished work on 8.3 miles of new line in the province of New Brunswick from Nelson to a point two miles east of Chatham to replace the old line between these two places. Work is now under way between Georges River and Sydney Mines on nine miles.

LAUREL FORK.-Work is now under way building an extension from Frog Level, Tenn., to Laban, 3 miles.

MEXICO TRAMWAY COMPANY.-On the line under construction from Mexico City to Toluca, 45 miles, the first section from Mexico City to Coazimalta has been finished, it is said, and over 800 men are now at work on the remainder of the line. Work on the line between Mexico City and Puebla has been largely suspended, owing to the disturbances caused by bands of rebels near the route. This line is to be about 130 miles long.

NEVADA, LEBANON & EASTERN.-Incorporated in Missouri with $1,000,000 capital, to build a line from Nevada, Mo., east via Stockton, Bolivar, Polk and Buffalo, to Lebanon, 100 miles. The stockholders include: J. A. Daly and S. A. Wright, Nevada; R. A. Brown, C. W. Vilas, J. B. O'Bannon and S. J. and W. A. Thompson.

NEW YORK CONNECTING RAILROAD.-See New York, New Haven & Hartford.

NEW IBERIA, LAFAYETTE & NORTHEASTERN.-An officer writes that surveys are now being made to build the line projected some time ago from New Iberia, La., to Eunice, 52 miles. H. A. Genung, chief engineer, New Iberia. (March 29, p. 780.) NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD.-The report of this company for the year ended June 30, 1912, shows that construction work has been authorized on the Harlem River branch to permit the connection of the New York Connecting Railroad with the Harlem River branch at Port Morris, N. Y., and

this work will be carried out coincidentally with the construction work on the Connecting Railroad. At Van Nest a modification of the existing yard tracks, with construction of repair shop, inspection shed and auxiliary facilities for handling electric locomotives and cars, is under construction, and at the Westchester yard the construction of receiving tracks and new west entrance to the yard for the classification of cars floated to Oak Point, together with transfer platforms and additional track is well under way. Double-tracking work has been completed between Hawleyville, Conn., and Shelton, and this improvement provides a double track line from Naugatuck Junction to Hopewell Junction, 68.44 miles. In connection with the line and grade revisions made, 12 new steel railroad bridges and eight highway bridges have been placed and 16 grade crossings have been eliminated. Work is well under way on an enlargement of the Cedar Hill classification yard, also of the departure yard, together with a change of the storage yard on the Air Line division to a classification yard. The filling of the Lyman and Rapello viaducts, east of Middletown. for double track roadbed, with construction of concrete culverts to provide necessary waterways under the embankments has been started. About 1,000,000 cu. yds. of filling will be placed by the company's forces. Improvements to line are being made at Westerly, R. I., including provision for future four-tracking; putting up new pas senger and freight stations; passenger subway; abolition of ce grade crossing and new bridges. Progress has been made during the year on the construction of double-track on sections of the line between Providence and Fall River, together with the elimination of grade crossings. It is expected that the negotiations in connection with the elimination of grade crossings at Rumford will soon be successfully concluded, and the laying of second track is now under way between East Providence and East Junction. Work is about finished on the extension of the east freight yard at New Bedford, Mass., and the company's portion of the work in connection with the elimination of grade crossings at Worcester, Mass., is about finished, the work still to be done depending upon the completion of the work of other companies. The new coach yard and engine facilities, as well as the double-track connections between the Norwich & Worcester and the Providence & Worcester railroads are nearing completion. At Boston, Harrison square to Atlan tic and Savin Hill to Neponset the work includes the eliminati n of grade crossings and the construction of third and fourth tracks; rine grade crossings have been eliminated and the tracks are elevated and in service from Savin Hill to Neponset. Three passenger subways have been built; the station grounds and freight yards have been enlarged or improved and res stations have been put up. During the year 81 sidetracks to serve industries along the company's line were constructed, and a number of passing sidings have been installed to per mit double-track operation from Bristol to Hartford, and work is authorized or contemplated on a number between New Haven and Springfield, and between Providence and New London. A number of sections of the New York. Westchester & Boston were completed and placed in operation during the year, and the line is now in operation from Willis avenue, at 133d street, New York, to White Plains and New Rochelle. Work is also progressing on the New York Connecting Railroad. Contracts have been let for the steel work for the Big Hell Gate bridge and Ward's and Randall's Island viaduct, for steel work for Little Hell Gate and Bronx Kill bridges and approach viaducts, for masonry of Bronx viaducts, for foundation and masonry work of Eastern viaduct, for tower bases East river bridge and for excavation and masonry from Woodside avenue to Stemler street. This line is being built jointly with the Pennsylvania Railroad. It has been decided to improve the facilities of the Boston & Providence Railroad by the construction of two additional main line tracks from Boston to East Junction, also to eliminate the grade crossings and to adopt and equip the whole main line, thus four-tracked for operation by the use of electricity as the motive power. The most important work carried out by the electrical department during the fiscal year included the extension of the Cos Cob power station; the electrification of Harlem River branch main line, yards and sidings, and electrification of yards and sidings, Woodlawn to Stamford, and the electrification of the New York, Westchester & Boston. Work is also well under way on the extension of electrification from Stamford to New Haven.

NEW YORK, WESTCHESTER & BOSTON.-See New York, New Haven & Hartford.

OBERLIN, HAMPTON & EASTERN.-An officer writes that this company has projected a 4-mile extension south to Elton, La., also a 16-mile extension northeast towards Pine Prairie.

SUGAR LAND RAILWAY.-An officer writes that this company owns and operates 32.72 miles of main line from Cabell, Tex., in Fort Bend county, to Otey in Brazoria county, the line from Burnsides to Arcola having been abandoned and the line extended from Burnsides to Otey. The company has located an extension from Cabell to Rodgers, 24.1 miles. (June 28, p. 1627.) UNION PACIFIC.-Work is now under way on the line projected some time ago from Gering, Neb., west towards Medicine Bow, Wyo., on the section from Gering to Mitchell, 10 miles. The Kilpatrick Brothers & Collins Contracting Company has the contract. Work is also under way laying second track from Herdon, Neb., to Dix, 14.28 miles, and from Kimball, Neb., to Pine Bluffs, 21.04 miles.

UNITED VERDE & PACIFIC.-This company has projected an extension from Jerome, Ariz., to the Verde tunnel, 6 miles.

ANSONIA, CONN.-The report of the New York, New Haven & Hartford for the year ended June 30, 1912, shows that a four span reinforced concrete bridge over the Naugatuck river and the company's tracks at Bridge street, Ansonia, is under construction and is expected to be finished this year. At New York new piers, Nos. 39, 40 and 41, have been completed, and at Oak Point an office building and storehouse with facilities for the inspection of electric locomotives is under way, and will be completed during the year. A new 43-stall brick and concrete roundhouse at Cedar Hill, Conn., with machine shop, power house, locomotive coaling plant and ash handling facilities, storehouse and water supply is about finished. A new steel bridge to replace the present structure over the track at Ferry street, which will allow for a future eight track layout under the bridge, has been completed and is now in service, and excavation of a portion of the site of the proposed New Haven station is under way. Contracts have been let for building a passenger station at Westerly, R. I. Grade crossings are to be eliminated on the line from East Providence to East Junction, also at Worcester, Mass. At Readville, Mass., a 200 foot extension of the locomotive shop has recently been authorized and is expected to be finished next year. Work has been started on an extension of the present company's Cos Cob station. This extension of the station completes the power plant, whose capacity is sufficient to handle all trains in the zone of electrification, inclusive of the New York, Westchester & Boston between New York, Harlem River and New Haven. To provide increased office facilities at South Station, Boston, an addition to the building has been made by the Boston Terminal Company at a cost of $425,000.

CHATHAM, VA.-The Southern Railway is building a combined freight and passenger station and making other improvements at Chatham, including the construction of a new 100,000 gal. capacity water tank. The new station is to be 30 ft. x 161 ft., a contract for the work has been given to the Elliot Building Company, Hickory, N. C.

GALLUP, N. MEX.-The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe is planning to erect a 36-stall roundhouse, shops and a passenger station at this point.

NORRIS, S. C.-The Southern Railway is asking for bids for putting up a combined passenger and freight station at Norris. The building is to be 281⁄2 ft. x 693 ft., with tile roof, and the work is to be started at an early date.

Railway Financial News.

CANADA SOUTHERN. This company has issued $22,500,000 consolidated guaranteed (by the Michigan Central) 50-year 5 per cent. bonds of a total authorized issue of $40,000,000 bonds, of the remainder of which $3,000,000 yearly may be issued to provide for improvements and extensions. J. P. Morgan & Co., New York, are offering holders of the first mortgage 6 per cent. bonds of the Canada Southern, due January 1, 1913, and the second mortgage 5 per cent. bonds of the Canada Southern, due March 1, 1913, to exchange their bonds for new consolidated 5 per cent. bonds on a basis which will yield 4.70 per cent. interest on the new investment. Holders must deposit the 6's by December 20, and the 5's by January 9, to avail themselves of this offer. Holders not desiring to make the change will receive cash for their bonds on date of maturity. CLEVELAND, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO & ST. LOUIS.-This company, which was authorized on August 20 to sell $1,578,000 bonds at 92, has been authorized to sell these bonds at 90, it having been found impossible to sell them at 92.

COLORADO MIDLAND.-See Denver & Rio Grande.

COLORADO & SOUTHERN.-The directors have declared an annual dividend of 1 per cent. on the common stock. For the last four years heretofore, annual dividends of 2 per cent. have been declared at this time. The dividend is payable December 31. DENVER, LARAMIE & NORTHWESTERN.-Bondholders are understood to have agreed to the issue of $375,000 receiver's certificates to pay for building the road from Greeley to Severance, Col.

DENVER & RIO GRANDE.-This company has bought, the Commercial & Financial Chronicle says, at 55 the $737,150 Grand Junction Railway stock, forming part of the collateral for Colorado Midland notes.

GULF, FLORIDA & ALABAMA.-Megargel & Co., New York, are offering $1,500,000 first mortgage 5 per cent. bonds of 1911-1961 at 90. The road runs from Pensacola, Fla., to Local, Ala., 72 miles, and is part of a road under construction from Pensacola to the mineral district of Alabama. The sale of the above mentioned bonds is to furnish funds for completing the 78 miles of road from Local to a connection with the Southern Railway at Pine Hill. The company owns a right-of-way from Pensacola to Tuscaloosa, Ala., 236 miles.

INTERNATIONAL & GREAT NORTHERN.-T. J. Freeman, president of the International & Great Northern, is quoted in the Houston Chronicle as saying: "The purchase of the control of the International & Great Northern by the Missouri Pacific people would not be a merger nor a consolidation, but merely a sale. Stock would be sold from one company of stockholders to new stockholders. The Goulds control the board of directors of the Missouri Pacific. Should the Gould interests dispose of their International & Great Northern holdings to the directors of the Missouri Pacific, it would not affect their control of the Missouri Pacific system and they would still control the International & Great Northern as a part of the system. . . . Should the Missouri Pacific get control of the International & Great Northern it would not be the first out of state railroad to own stock in a Texas railroad.

LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE.-See an item in regard to this company's contract with the Western Union in General News. MICHIGAN CENTRAL.-See Canada Southern.

MIDLAND CONTINENTAL.-Spitzer, Rorick & Co., Chicago, are offering $400,000 6 per cent. collateral trust notes at a price to yield 5.75 per cent. The notes are secured by $1,850,000 first mortgage 5 per cent. bonds, and by $1,850.000 preferred stock and the same amount of common stock. The road is in operation from Edgely to Jamestown, N. D., about 45 miles. The proceeds of the notes are to be used to pay for the building of the line from Jamestown to Wimbledon, 25 miles. The bonds securing the notes will themselves be secured by a first lien on the 70 miles of road when completed. The road is built with 65-lb. rails, douglas fir ties and with a maximum grade of 6 of 1 per cent.