33,737

457,369 4,165 279,040 165,509 2,059,445

7,880 -23,756

-381,216

770,921 12,461,699

548,603 21,138,346

10,204,122

27.246

73,496 1,112,105

23,304 148,151

617,962 3,799,075

323,341 744,525 1,209,018

235,032 1,703,940 44,231 660,021 45,303 .84,973 530,223 1,378,371 67,514

1,023,619

240,231

16,981,162

5,713,281

514,426

-1,846

263,707 715,095 962,900

on the New Castle division of the Baltimore & Ohio. In October, 1892, he was promoted to train despatcher at Akron, and in February, 1905, he was appointed division operator at that place of the same company. He was promoted to trainmaster of the Pittsburgh division on May 1, 1910, and two years later was made assistant superintendent of the same division, which position he held at the time of his recent appointment as superintendent of the Newark division, as above noted.

Frederick Edgar Bolte, whose appointment as superintendent of transportation of the Wabash Railroad, with office at St. Louis, Mo., has been announced in these columns, was born September 2, 1874, at Duquoin, Ill. He received a high school education at Belleville, Ill., and began railway work October 29, 1889, as a telegraph operator on the Illinois & St. Louis, now part of the Southern Railway. He was with that company until November, 1891, having been copier in the despatcher's office for a time, and later chief clerk to the superintendent. In 1891 he went with the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis in the telegraph and interlocking department, and in 1897 was promoted to chief train director in the St. Louis union station interlocking tower. Mr. Bolte was made passenger trainmaster of the same company in 1904, which position he resigned July 22, 1912, to become superintendent of transportation of the Wabash. J. M. Oxley, superintendent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul at Des Moines, Iowa, has been appointed superintendent of the Chicago division, with office at Chicago, succeeding L. R. Clausen, resigned to engage in other business. R. P. Edson, assistant superintendent at Mitchell, S. D., has been appointed superintendent of the Des Moines division, succeeding Mr. Oxley. W. B. Hinrichs, trainmaster at Milwaukee, Wis., has been made superintendent of the Milwaukee terminals, succeeding B. H. McNaney, transferred. C. A. Anderson, chief train despatcher west of Sanborn, Iowa, has been appointed assistant superintendent of the Iowa and Dakota division, west of Sanborn, succeeding Mr. Edson. M. C. Corbett succeeds Mr. Anderson. C. E. Corcoran has been appointed chief train despatcher in place of Andrew Esse, whose appointment as trainmaster of the Sioux City and Dakota division, has been announced in these columns.

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Frederick Winfield Scott, whose appointment as superintendent of the Georgia, Southern & Florida, with headquarters at Macon, Ga., has been announced in these columns, was born on May 28, 1868, at Salem, Ala. He began railway work in February, 1886, on the Central of Georgia, as an operator, and was later agent and operator of the same company. then promoted to clerk, and from March, 1887, to July of the following year was operator in the trainmaster's office at Macon, Ga. He was then for one year operator and car clerk at Birmingham, Ala., of the same company, and in July, 1889. was promoted to extra despatcher. The following March he was appointed traveling auditor, and in June, 1890, he left the service of the Central of Georgia, to go to the Georgia Southern & Florida as despatcher. He was promoted to chief despatcher about five years later, and in April, 1903, was made master of trains, which position he held at the time of his recent appointment as superintendent of the same company, as above noted.

G. M. Lindsay, manager of mail traffic of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, having resigned, all matters pertaining to the mail service have been placed under the jurisdiction of W. A. Durham, assistant general manager, with office at St. Louis, Mo. O. C. Smith, superintendent of car service of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and the Lake Erie & Western at Cleveland, Ohio, has been appointed superintendent of transportation of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas of Texas and the Texas Central, with office at Denison, Tex., succeeding A. E. Boughner. Incident to recent changes in the operating organization of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, Mr. Boughner has been appointed superintendent of the St. Louis district, embracing the St. Louis, Boonville, Hannibal and Holden divisions and Columbia branch; and W. Wackher, assistant superintendent at Parsons, Kan., has been appointed trainmaster of the St. Louis district, both with office at Sedalia, Mo. J. L. Walsh, superintendent at Sedalia, has been appointed superintendent of the Parsons district, embracing the Sedalia, Kansas City and

Neosho divisions, Iola and El Dorado branches and Parsons terminal; and K. A. Easley, superintendent at Parsons, and S. H. Charles have been appointed trainmasters of the Parsons district, all with office at Parsons. J. F. Hickey, superintendent at McAlester, Okla., has been appointed superintendent of the McAlester district, embracing the Cherokee, Joplin, Tulsa, Muskogee, Choctaw and Wilburton divisions and Coalgate branch; and R. R. Farmer, assistant superintendent at McAlester, has been appointed trainmaster of the F. P. McAlester district, both with office at McAlester. Stocker, assistant superintendent at Parsons, has been appointed trainmaster of the McAlester district, with office at Parsons. W. E. Brown, superintendent at Oklahoma City, Okla., has been appointed superintendent of the Oklahoma district, embracing the Osage, Oklahoma, Shawnee and Guthrie divisions, and T. E. Gardner, assistant superintendent at Oklahoma City, has been appointed trainmaster of the same district, both with office at Oklahoma City.

William R. Scott, whose appointment as general manager of the Southern Pacific Company, Pacific system, with office at San Francisco, Cal., has been announced in these columns, was

born on November 8, 1860, and was educated in the common schools. He began railway work in 1881 with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, where he was consecutively locomotive fireman until July, 1884, locomotive engineer during the next seven years, and traveling engineer from July, 1891, to August, 1898. He then went with the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, where he was trainmaster of the Northern division for two years, and division superintendent at Cleburne, Tex., from June, 1900, to March 1, 1901. On the latter date he was made general superintendent of the Fort Worth & Denver City, where he remained for more than two years. Mr. Scott went to the Southern Pacific in September, 1903, as assistant superintendent of the Sacramento division. Two months later he was appointed superintendent of the Salt Lake division, and he was transferred to the Western division in June, 1905. He was promoted to general superintendent in September, 1907, to assistant general manager two months later, and on July, 15, 1912, he was made general manager, as above noted.

W. R. Scott.

Traffic Officers.

E. C. Kannapell has been appointed traveling freight agent of the Southern Railway, with office at Louisville, Ky.

R. E. Bennett has been appointed assistant commercial agent of the Texas-Mexican Railway, with office at Corpus Christi, Tex.

H. A. Stuart has been appointed traveling freight and passenger agent of the Chicago Great Western, with office at Winnipeg, Man.

E. E. McConnell, acting commercial agent of the Central Despatch (C. C. C. & St. L. division), has been appointed commercial agent, with office at St. Louis, Mo.

G. L. Cobb, southwestern passenger agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul at Kansas City, Mo., has been appointed general agent, with headquarters in New York City.

George R. French has been appointed traveling passenger agent of the Great Northern, with office at Boston, Mass., succeeding G. M. Grabell, who has been made city passenger agent at New York City, in place of Stephen Lounsberry, promoted. M. A. Calhoun, traveling freight agent of the Seaboard Air Line, with office at Columbus, Ga., has been appointed commer

cial agent, with office at Columbus, succeeding G. H. Whitaker, resigned to go with another company. L. F. Buttolph succeeds Mr. Calhoun, with office at Columbus.

J. J. Devereux has been appointed traveling agent in the freight and passenger department of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, with headquarters at Salt Lake City, Utah, succeeding E. R. Leis, promoted. W. J. Curtis, passenger agent at Topeka, Kan., has been appointed district passenger agent, with office at Topeka.

James P. Anderson, district passenger agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Pittsburgh, Pa., has been appointed assistant general passenger agent, with office at Philadelphia, Pa. Bruce K. Wimer, freight solicitor at Philadelphia, has been appointed district freight solicitor, with office at Easton, Pa., succeeding W. J. Hickey, resigned to become district freight solicitor of the Long Island Railroad, with headquarters at Brooklyn, N. Y. J. E. Kirk succeeds Mr. Wimer, with office at Philadelphia, and W. W. Finley, Jr., has been appointed freight solicitor, with office at Baltimore, Md., succeeding A. L. Geyelin, promoted.

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Frank Wisner Robinson, whose appointment as assistant to director of traffic. of the Harriman Lines, with office at Chicago, has been announced in these columns, was born at Cherryvale, Kan., May 22, 1874. He began railway work April 1, 1889, with the Union Pacific, where for more than ten years he was in the passenger and freight accounting departments. From September, 1899, to January 1, 1906, he was in the freight traffic department of the same road Omaha, Neb., and for four years from the latter date he was chief clerk to the director of traffic at Chicago. He was appointed assistant general freight agent of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company at Portland, Ore., in January, 1910, and seven months later was made general freight agent of the same company. He was made assistant to director of traffic of the Union Pacific system and the Southern Pacific Company, as above noted, on May 15, 1912.

F. W. Robinson.

Engineering and Rolling Stock Officers.

Robert Wallace has been appointed general road foreman of engines of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, with office at Cincinnati, Ohio.

C. H. Dana, assistant engineer of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, at Galveston, Tex., has been appointed chief engineer of the Union Terminal Company, at Dallas.

F. Ringer, assistant chief engineer of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas at St. Louis, Mo., has been appointed engineer maintenance of way, with office at Parsons, Kan.

E. J. Boland, supervisor of the Illinois Central at Water Valley, Miss., has been appointed roadmaster of the Wisconsin division, with office at Freeport, Ill., succeeding J. H. Sheahan, granted leave of absence.

John W. Branton, general foreman of the Illinois Central at Mounds, Ill., has been appointed master mechanic of the Centralia district, with office at Centralia, Ill., succeeding R. H. Horn, assigned to other duties.

M. M. Cook, chief engineer of the Wichita Falls & Northwestern, the Wichita Falls & Northwestern of Texas, the Wichita Falls & Southern and the Wichita Falls & Wellington, with office at Wichita Falls, Tex., has resigned to become assistant engineer of the California railway commission.

Edward Gray, engineer maintenance of way of the Southern Railway, at St. Louis, Mo., has resigned, to become a member of the firm of Jones-Gray Construction Company, with headquarters at Winchester, Ky. This company has a contract to build a new line for the Louisville & Nashville in Kentucky.

Purchasing Officers.

M. J. Power has been appointed general storekeeper of the Canadian Pacific lines east of Fort William, Ont., with office at Montreal, Que., succeeding J. H. Callaghan, deceased.

OBITUARY.

Charles L. Ewing, until about two years ago general superintendent of the Illinois Central, with office at Chicago, died of heart disease at his home in Chicago on August 4.

Since the official opening of the Rosario to Puerto Belgrano railway, Argentina, in May, a regular passenger schedule has been in effect, giving two through trains a day in each direction between Rosario and Bahia Blanca. Freight is also moving. The opening of this line is of great significance, as it cuts directly across the previously established lines of traffic radiating from Buenos Aires and through the whole width of their territory.

Railway construction and consequent development of the regions traversed have been rather slow in Peru during late years. the North Western Railway of Peru being the only line that has actually been built. There are, however, good prospects of greater activity in this field in the near future. The concession for the Ucayali railway, to run from the present railway terminus to a navigable point on the Ucayali river, about 310 miles, has been granted, and the necessary financial arrangements for carrying it out are at present being perfected. The Huancayo-Ayacucho-Cuzco Railway, Peru, about 497 miles long, will connect the Central Railway with the Southern Railway, will pass through one of the richest mining districts in Peru, and probably in South America.

The new line between Ashmoum, Egypt, and the Barrage, with four stations, work upon which was begun in 1910, was opened for travel in July, 1911. This line opens up a section that had never possessed railway facilities of any kind. Considerable progress was made upon the line connecting Zifteh with Zagazig, which will be finished in another year and greatly shorten the distance by rail between the eastern and western halves of the Delta. A feature of the work upon this line is the construction of a steel bridge across the Nile at Zifteh and two more bridges across large irrigation canals. During the year a new double line swing bridge was completed at Rasswa, near Port Said, to carry the railway over the new canal which is being made to connect Lake Manzaleh with the Suez Canal. Nicaragua is divided into two entirely separate sections. the Atlantic and the Pacific, which can never be united to their mutual benefit without the aid of railway communication. At present almost all products, as well as the majority of passengers, go from one part to the other by way of Panama or Costa Rica. The balance of the freight and passenger traffic is via Greytown and the San Juan river. Two railways are now proposed from the Atlantic coast to the interior; one from Rama and the other from La Cruz on the Rio Grande. Rama is 60 miles up the Escondido river, and in order to allow large steamers to go up the bar at Bluefields must be dredged and kept open. The same objection applies to La Cruz, about 85 miles up the Rio Grande, the bar of which is very shallow and shifting. It is said that the best plan would be to build a railway from Bragmans Bluff on the Atlantic coast to Matagalpa in the interior, through the principal mining districts. Bragmans Bluff is about 50 miles south of Cape Gracias a Dios, and forms a natural harbor, protected from the north winds, and with deep water for large vessels, under lee of the shore. The road would be easy to construct, as the land is high and level, and few large bridges would be necessary by running the road from the Bluff to Wawa, thence to the Okonwass and Pis Pis mining districts, and from there to Matagalpa.-Consular Report.

Equipment and Supplies.

LOCOMOTIVE BUILDING.

THE WABASH has been authorized to purchase 20 mikado locomotives.

THE VIRGINIAN has ordered 8 mikado locomotives from the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

THE MOBILE & OHIO has ordered 2 mikado locomotives from the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

THE RARITAN RIVER has ordered 1 consolidation locomotive from the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

THE GRAY LUMBER COMPANY has ordered 1 ten-wheel locomotive from the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

THE CENTRAL OF NEW JERSEY has ordered 5 ten-wheel locomotives from the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

THE GREAT NORTHERN has ordered 10 six-wheel switching locomotives from the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

THE ESCANABA & LAKE SUPERIOR has ordered 1 consolidation locomotive from the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

THE MISSOURI & NORTH ARKANSAS has ordered 2 mikado locomotives from the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

THE MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS has ordered 2 consolidation locomotives from the American Locomotive Company. These locomotives will be equipped with superheaters, will have 222in. x 30-in. cylinders, 60-in. driving wheels, and in working order will weigh 187,000 lbs.

THE CENTRAL RAILWAY OF BRAZIL has ordered 2 ten-wheel locomotives from the American Locomotive Company. The dimensions of the cylinders will be 211⁄2 in. x 28 in.; the diameter of the driving wheels will be 68 in., and the total weight in working order will be 158,000 lbs.

THE NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES have ordered 50 mikado locomotives from the American Locomotive Company, and not from the Baldwin Locomotive Works, as mentioned in the Railway Age Gazette of July 19. These locomotives are for the New York Central & Hudson River. This company is now in the market for 40 mikado locomotives for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

CAR BUILDING.

THE WABASH is in the market for 1,200 center sills.

THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL is in the market for 30 caboose cars. THE AMERICAN COTTON OIL COMPANY, New York, is in the market for 100 center sills.

THE KANAWHA & MICHIGAN has ordered 5 passenger cars from the Pullman Company.

THE GRAND TRUNK has ordered 2,000 thirty-ton box cars from the Pressed Steel Car Company, and 50 tank cars from the American Car & Foundry Company.

THE CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL has ordered 500 refrigerator cars from the American Car & Foundry Company, and is in the market for 21 postal cars.

THE PITTSBURGH & LAKE ERIE has ordered 500 gondola cars from the Pressed Steel Car Company and 500 gondola cars from the Standard Steel Car Company.

THE BUFFALO, ROCHESTER & PITTSBURGH, mentioned in the Railway Age Gazette of July 26 as being in the market for 500 gondola cars, 500 box cars, 100 automobile cars and 100 refrigerator cars, is now in the market for 500 gondola cars, 450 box cars, 100 furniture cars, 100 refrigerator cars and 50 automobile cars.

IRON AND STEEL.

THE CUBAN CENTRAL has ordered 5,000 tons of rails from the United States Steel Corporation.

THE KANSAS CITY, MEXICO & ORIENT has ordered 13,500 tons of rails from the Pennsylvania Steel Company.

Supply Trade News.

Darwin R. James, Jr., has been made president of the Pyrene Manufacturing Company, New York, succeeding P. L. Wilbur, resigned. Edward A. Clapp has been made secretary of this company, succeeding Otto Kelsey, resigned.

B. N. Osbun has resigned his position as president of the Boss Nut Company, Chicago, to become president and treasurer of the Auto Refrigeration Company of the same city. J. T. Benedict, vice-president of the Boss company, has been made president, succeeding B. N. Osbun.

Dabney H. Maury has established an office as consulting engineer at 1137-8 Monadnock block, Chicago. He will make a specialty of reports on, and design and superintendence of, waterworks, sewerage, lighting and power plants; and also of appraisal and adjustment of rates of public utilities. Douglas A. Graham will be associated with him as principal assistant engineer.

The Westinghouse Machine Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., has sent out a circular explaining the use to which the funds, received through the recent sale of the stock of the Electric Properties Company, New York, have been put. This transaction was mentioned in the Railway Age Gazette of July 5, page 36. About $1,627,500 of the Westinghouse Machine Company's three-year notes, due January 2, 1914, have been retired. The circular goes on to say that "in connection with this transaction, $1,699,000 first and refunding mortgage bonds have been canceled by the trustees, greatly enhancing the security of the remainder of the bonds authorized. On July 1, 1912, the total funded liabilities, including the remaining $4,605,500 three-year notes, were $6,640,500, on which the annual interest charges were $384,880. The average annual earnings for the last ten years, were $651,994."

In the Railway Age Gazette of July 26, page 150, a reference was made to a sale by the McKeen Motor Car Company, Omaha, Neb., of two motor cars to the Victorian State Railways, Australia. Included in this item was a statement that it was doubtful whether any more of these cars would be ordered, because the railway authorities had heard of some English steam cars which they might prefer. This statement was misleading, for it seemed to imply that it was doubtful if any of the Australian railways would buy any more McKeen cars, whereas, as was announced in the Railway Age Gazette of July 19, the McKeen company had already received an order from the Queensland government lines for five 200-h. p. narrow gage motor cars to be delivered at Brisbane, January 1, 1913. This order for five cars was in addition to the order for two cars for the Victorian railways mentioned in the Railway Age Gazette of June 28 and July 26.

TRADE PUBLICATIONS.

GRAB BUCKET CRANES.-The Sprague Electric Works of the General Electric Company, New York, has published bulletin No. 902 on grab bucket cranes. This bulletin is fully illustrated, shows installations of these cranes and describes their operation and advantages.

TELEPHONE WIRE.-The Duplex Metals Company, Chester, Pa., has published a 45-page booklet entitled Copper Clad Steel for Telephone Service, giving a full description of the process, application and uses of copper clad steel in telephone service. The booklet is thorough and gives useful information.

PNEUMATIC DRILLS.-The Ingersoll-Rand Company, New York, has published form No. 8007 on Little David pneumatic drills. These drills are adapted in their various sizes for all ordinary work of the pneumatic drill, such as drilling, reaming, tapping, flue rolling and wood boring. The catalog is illustrated and shows these drills in section and at work. A table is included which gives the sizes and capacities.

AIR BRAKE EQUIPMENT.-The Westinghouse Air Brake Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., has published, in a booklet entitled Personal Letters, the eight letters which appeared in the advertising pages of the daily editions of the Railway Age Gazette, published in connection with the M. M. and M. C. B. conventions at Atlantic City last June. These letters give an interesting account of how the product of this company has developed.