Railway Officers,

ELECTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

Executive, Financial and Legal Officers.

A. L. Lathrop has been appointed assistant to the vice-president of the Mexico North Western, with headquarters at El Paso, Tex. George W. Lamb has been appointed second assistant comptroller of the Louisville & Nashville, with headquarters at Louisville, Ky.

Arthur Holland, of Concord, Mass.. has been elected president of the Bangor & Aroostook, succeeding Franklin W. Cram, resigned.

J. F. Waddell has been appointed auditor for the receivers of the Denver, Laramie & Northwestern, with headquarters at Denver, Colo., to succeed A. F. Dodd, resigned.

J. M. Gruber, general manager, and W. P. Kenney, general traffic manager, of the Great Northern, with headquarters at St. Paul, Minn., have been elected vice-presidents of that company.

J. M. Fitzgerald has been elected vice-president of the Western Maryland, with headquarters at Baltimore, Md., and J. T. Hendricks, freight traffic manager at Baltimore, has been elected vice-president in charge of traffic.

E. J. Chamberlin, president of the Grand Trunk and the Grand Trunk Pacific, with headquarters at Montreal, Que., has been elected president also of the Grand Trunk Western and other Michigan subsidiary companies of the Grand Trunk, succeeding the late C. M. Hays.

George Ziegler, comptroller of the Philadelphia & Reading, at Philadelphia, Pa., has been elected secretary, succeeding W. R. Taylor, resigned. Mr. Taylor has resigned also as vicepresident and secretary of the Reading Company. J. V. Hare. chief clerk to Mr. Taylor has been appointed to the new position of assistant secretary of the Philadelphia & Reading, and succeeds Mr. Taylor as secretary of the Reading Company.

Operating Officers.

E. H. Baker has been appointed trainmaster of the Illinois Central, with headquarters at Champaign, Ill., in place of W. E. Knox.

W. J. Hogan has been appointed master of transportation of the Grand Trunk, with office at Durand, Mich., succeeding G. W. Gillespie, transferred.

T. C. Dougherty has been appointed trainmaster of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, with office at Ottumwa, Ia., to succeed N. C. Allen, promoted.

C. G. Elliott has been appointed assistant to general manager of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway System and the Texas Central, with headquarters at Dallas, Tex.

A. S. Johnson has been appointed superintendent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas of Texas, with headquarters at Denison, Tex., succeeding H. F. Anderson, promoted.

F. R. Blunt has been appointed superintendent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas of Texas, with headquarters at Smithville, Tex., in place of C. J. Brown, resigned.

G. H. Emerson, assistant general manager of the Great Northern, has been appointed general manager, with headquarters at St. Paul, Minn., to succeed J. M. Gruber, promoted.

B. L. Bugg, traffic manager of the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic, at Atlanta, Ga., has been appointed assistant general manager, with office at Atlanta, succeeding W. R. Hudson, resigned to accept service elsewhere.

Walter S. Williams has been appointed superintendent of the Minnesota division of the Illinois Central, with office at Dubuque, Iowa, succeeding Timothy H. Sullivan, who has been appointed superintendent of the Springfield division, with office at Clinton, Ill., succeeding Walter S. Williams.

D. Van Hecke, trainmaster of the El Paso division of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, has been appointed train

master, with headquarters at Haileyville, Okla., succeeding H. F. Reddig, promoted. H. J. Sewell has been appointed trainmaster of the Panhandle division, with office at El Reno, Okla., in place of F. G. Weeks, assigned to other duties.

H. C. Ferris, general manager of the Mexico North Western at Ciudad Juarez, Chih., Mexico, having resigned, that position has been abolished. J. J. Pruett has been appointed general superintendent, with headquarters at Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. M. J. Gilmartin has been appointed superintendent of the El Paso division, with headquarters at Pearson, Chih., Mexico. M. L. Masteller has been appointed superintendent of the Chihuahua division, with headquarters at Madera, Chih., Mexico, and F. C. Herr has been appointed superintendent of terminals, with headquarters at Ciudad Juarez.

L. J. Ferritor, superintendent of the Northern and Southern divisions of the Chicago & Alton, with headquarters at Bloomington, Ill., has resigned. C. W. Miller, trainmaster of the Cleveland division of the Wheeling & Lake Erie, at Canton, Ohio, has been appointed superintendent of the Southern division of the C. & A., with headquarters at Bloomington, and S. P. Henderson, trainmaster of the Bloomington-Chicago district of the Chicago & Alton, at Bloomington, has been appointed superintendent of the Northern division, with headquarters at Bloomington. James Butler, road foreman of engines of the BloomingtonChicago district, has been appointed trainmaster of the same territory, succeeding Mr. Henderson.

William F. Ray, whose appointment as general superintendent of the Boston & Maine, with office at Boston, Mass., has been announced in these columns, was born in 1857 at South Vernon, Vt. He was educated at Ft. Wayne and at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind., and began railway work as locomotive fireman in 1874 on the Connecticut River Railroad, now a part of the Boston & Maine, and later held various positions in the freight train service, including that of brakeman and conductor, and then entered the passenger train service as conductor. He was then appointed trainmaster, and was later assistant superintendent. In 1903 he was made superintendent of the Concord division of the Boston & Maine, and in October, 1911, was transferred as superintendent to the Portland division, which position he held at the time of his recent appointment as general superintendent of the same road.

Traffic Officers.

J. L. Bacon has been appointed soliciting agent of the Central of Georgia, with office at Albany, Ga., succeeding W. C. Quillian, resigned.

C. T. Collett has been appointed traveling passenger and freight agent of the Houston & Texas Central, with office at Oklahoma City, Okla.

Gaylord Warner has been appointed assistant general passenger agent of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, with office at Minneapolis, Minn.

W. W. Croxton, general passenger agent of the Norfolk Southern, at Norfolk, Va., has been appointed also acting general freight agent, with headquarters at Norfolk.

J. R. Veitch, assistant general freight agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound, with office at Seattle, Wash., has been appointed assistant traffic manager, with headquarters at Chicago, succeeding S. M. Earling, resigned.

Theodore Doty has been appointed commercial agent of the Norfolk & Western, with office at Portsmouth, Ohio. H. C. Montgomery, soliciting freight agent at Mobile, Ala., has been appointed commercial agent, with office at Little Rock, Ark., succeeding Chas. E. Heaney, resigned to engage in other business. A. P. Smith succeeds Mr. Montgomery, and R. M. Taliaferro has been appointed general agent, with office at Lynchburg, Va., succeeding S. B. Younger, deceased.

Engineering and Rolling Stock Officers. George P. Kempf has been appointed engineer of tests of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, succeeding R. H. Morrison, resigned.

G. H. Bussing has been appointed superintendent of motive power of the Mexico North Western, with headquarters at Madera, Chih., Mexico.

J. H. Reinholdt, roadmaster on the Western division of the Minneapolis & St. Louis, at Watertown, S. Dak., has been appointed principal assistant engineer, with headquarters at Minneapolis, Minn., and J. B. Kelly, roadmaster on the Central division, at Minneapolis, has had his jurisdiction extended over the Western division.

C. N. Kalk, who recently was appointed chief engineer of the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, with headquarters at Minneapolis, Minn., was born June 29, 1860, at Fond du Lac, Wis. He was educated at the University of Wisconsin, and began railway work in 1881 with the Northern Pacific, with which road he remained until 1883 as chairman, instrument man and division engineer. He was then in private business for several years, re-entering railway service in 1887 as resident engineer for the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, in charge of construction. From 1890 to 1892 he was locating engineer for the Wisconsin Central, and the following year engaged in private work, returning to the Wisconsin Central in 1893 as principal assistant engineer. In 1902 he was made chief engineer, and in 1909 became principal assistant engineer of the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, from which position he was promoted to chief engineer on October 1.

W. L. Robinson, road foreman of engines of the Baltimore division of the Baltimore & Ohio, at Baltimore, Md., has been promoted to supervisor of fuel consumption. E. C. Shipley succeeds Mr. Robinson as road foreman of engines at Baltimore. As supervisor of fuel consumption, Mr. Robinson's efforts will be directed towards locomotive efficiency as well as economy in the use of fuel. He will instruct firemen on all classes of engines in scientific firing with a view to obtaining their co-operation in securing the greatest heat unit out of the coal burned. Mr. Robinson was formerly a member of the General Safety Committee, as a representative of the mechanical department when the safety campaign was begun on the Baltimore & Ohio about two years ago. After graduation from Purdue University as a mechanical engineer, he entered the service of the Baltimore & Ohio as a special mechanic. He was then roundhouse foreman at Garrett, Ind., and later was made special inspector of the mechanical department, remaining in that position until his promotion to road foreman of engines at Baltimore, which position he held at the time of his appointment as supervisor of fuel consumption on the same road.

OBITUARY.

Robert Toombs, auditor of the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, died suddenly on October 10, at Minneapolis, Minn., aged 53 years.

Adrian Hoffman Joline, formerly chairman of the board of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, died at his home in New York on October 15. He was born on June 30, 1850, at Sing Sing, N. Y., and graduated from Princeton University in 1870. Two years later he graduated from Columbia College Law School. In 1900 he became general counsel of the Toledo, St. Louis & Western, and in 1905 was counsel and director of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas. The following year he became chairman of the board of the M. K. & T., and in 1907 was elected president also of that company and president of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas of Texas. At various times he had been receiver of several railways previous to his appointment in 1907 as receiver of the Metropolitan Street Railway, of New York City.

THE MOBILE & OHIO has ordered I mikado locomotive from the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

THE LONG ISLAND is making inquiries for 4 freight locomotives and 2 switching locomotives.

THE WASHINGTON SOUTHERN has ordered 5 Pacific type locomotives from the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

THE MISSOURI, KANSAS & TEXAS has ordered 40 mikado locomotives from the American Locomotive Company.

THE ELGIN, JOLIET & EASTERN has ordered 20 mikado locomotives from the American Locomotive Company.

THE KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN has exercised an old option for locomotives with the American Locomotive Company.

THE LOUISVILLE, HENDERSON & ST. LOUIS has ordered 3 tenwheel locomotives from the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

THE NORTHERN PACIFIC has ordered 50 mikado locomotives and 10 Mallet locomotives from the American Locomotive Company.

THE LEHIGH & NEW ENGLAND has ordered 5 consolidation locomotives and 1 eight-wheel switching locomotive from the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

THE RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG & POTOMAC has ordered 5 Pacific type locomotives from the American Locomotive Company. These locomotives will be equipped with superheaters, will have 22 in. x 28 in. cylinders, 73 in. driving wheels, and in working order will weigh 241,000 lbs.

THE LEHIGH & NEW ENGLAND has ordered 5 consolidation locomotives and 1 eight-wheel switching locomotive from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. The consolidation locomotives in working order will weigh 143,000 lbs., and will have a tractive power of 31,900 lbs. The switching locomotive in working order will weigh 178,000 lbs., and will have a tractive power of 39,000 lbs.

THE ATLANTA & WEST POINT has ordered 1 ten-wheel locomotive and 1 six-wheel switching locomotive from the American Locomotive Company. The ten-wheel locomotive will have 21 in. x 28 in. cylinders, 61 in. driving wheels, and in working order will weigh 189,000 lbs. The switching locomotive will have 19 in. x 24 in. cylinders, 52 in. driving wheels, and in working order will weigh 119,000 lbs.

CAR BUILDING.

THE NORFOLK & WESTERN is considering the purchase of about 5,000 freight cars.

THE CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY has ordered 500 flat cars from the Haskell & Barker Car Company.

THE CENTRAL OF BRAZIL has ordered 300 freight cars from the American Car & Foundry Company, and 60 freight cars from the Standard Steel Car Company.

THE PHILADELPHIA & READING has ordered 1,000 hopper cars from the Cambria Steel Company and 1,500 hopper cars from the American Car & Foundry Company.

THE NEW YORK CENTRAL & HUDSON RIVER has ordered 25 passenger cars from the Pressed Steel Car Company, and is in the market for 40 baggage cars and 25 coaches.

THE LONG ISLAND has ordered 15 motor coaches, 15 combination motor passenger cars, and 4 postal cars from the American Car & Foundry Company.

THE KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN has ordered 1,000 gondola cars from the American Car & Foundry Company, 200 flat cars from

the Bettendorf Axle Company and 100 automobile cars from the Mount Vernon Car & Manufacturing Company.

THE LEHIGH & NEW ENGLAND has ordered 250 box cars from the American Car & Foundry Company, 250 box cars from the Standard Steel Car Company, and 100 hopper cars from the Cambria Steel Company. The capacity of the box cars will be 30 tons; and the general dimensions will be as follows: Length over striking plates, 38 ft. 2 in.; length inside, 36 ft.; width inside, 8 ft. 6 in.; height from floor to roof, 8 ft. 1⁄2 in.; height at running board, 13 ft. 2% in; total wheel base, 31 ft. 10 in.; truck wheel base, 5 ft. 4 in. The special equipment will be as follows:

THE PERE MARQUETTE has ordered 15,000 tons of rails from the Illinois Steel Company.

THE LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE has ordered 90,000 tons of rails, including 20,000 tons of seconds from the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company.

THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, mentioned in the Railway Age Gazette of October 4, as having ordered 125,000 tons of rails, has ordered 50,000 tons of rails from the United States Steel Corporation, 30,000 tons from the Pennsylvania Steel Company, 30,000 tons from the Cambria Steel Company, 10,000 tons from the Bethlehem Steel Company and 10,000 tons from the Lackawanna Steel Company. This makes a total of 130,000 tons.

GENERAL CONDITIONS IN STEEL.-The conditions in the steel market are most satisfactory. Orders continue to come in at the same high rate and the steel companies are experiencing difficulty in obtaining raw material in time to fulfill contracts. The railroads have been buying heavily and some large orders are still pending. Prices have been increased on a number of different products and it is probable that there will be further increases in the near future. The mills are operating at the maximum capacity possible and unfilled orders on the books of the companies are sufficient to keep the mills operating at a high rate of capacity through the first six months of 1913.

SIGNALING.

New Installations of Block Signals, Interlocking, Telephones for Train Despatching, Etc.

THE CENTRAL OF GEORGIA has ordered from the Western Electric Company apparatus for the equipment of 180 miles of its lines with a telephone train despatching line. This is the third extensive installation made by this road.

THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE in the near future will install automatic block signals, operated and controlled by alternating current, on the double track between Rio Puerco and Suwanee, N. M.; Seligman and Rampai, Ariz.; McCartys and Horce, N. M.; Crookton and Seligman, Ariz.; Keenbrook and San Bernardino, Cal.; and Holiday and Olathe, Kan. These installations comprise 85 miles of double track signaling, and make a total of 218 miles of double-track automatic block signals which the Santa Fe has now authorized and under construction. Three-phase, 25-cycle, 4,400-volt alternating current will be used on the transmission system.

CAR FERRY FOR ARGENTINA.-A Glasgow, Scotland, firm has recently turned out a car ferryboat to cross the Parana river - on the route of the Northeastern Argentine Railway, between Posadas, in the province of Misiones, and the shore of Paraguay opposite, about two miles. The river heretofore has been the : sole outlet of Paraguay.

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F. B. Marble, who resigned recently as assistant chief engineer of the Michigan Central, has been appointed superintendent of construction for the Siems-Carey Company, Limited, railroad con'tractors, with headquarters at Mile 53, B. C., via Edmonton, Alberta.

W. W. Broughton, first vice-president of the Pittsburg Coal Company, with headquarters at Minneapolis, Minn., has been made president of the Pittsburg Coal Company of Wisconsin. Mr. Broughton, formerly until March, 1911, was general traffic manager of the Great Northern Railway.

In the list of exhibitors of the Track Supply Association in connection with the Roadmasters' convention, in the issue of September 20, 1912, the name of the National Manufacturers' Company of Waterloo, Iowa, should have read Associated Manufacturers' Company of Waterloo, Iowa, represented by E. C. Cummings.

The Pennsylvania Railroad has ordered two 10-ton derrick barges from the Pusey & Jones Company, Wilmington, Del., two 250-ft. wooden car floats from the Skinner Ship Building & Dry Dock Company, Baltimore, Md., two 250-ft. wooden car floats from the American Car & Foundry Company, New York, for use in the New York harbor.

American Electric Railway Manufacturers' Association. The annual meeting of the American Electric Railway Manufacturers' Association was held on Wednesday, October 9, at the Saddle and Sirloin Club adjoining the convention hall. The following were elected members of the executive committee: J. L. Reprogle, Cambria Steel Company; C. S. Hawley, Laconia Car Company; Chas. J. Mayer, Electric Service Supplies Company; S. K. Colby, Pierson, Roeding & Company; W. L. Conwell, Transportation Utilities Company; C. C. Pierce, General Electric Company; D. W. Smith, Peter Smith Heater Company; H. C. Evans, Lorain Steel Company. The officers of the association for the coming year will be elected by the executive committee. Secretary McConnaughy reported 349 members as against 330 last year; also the fact that the exhibits this year occupied 74,000 net sq. ft. of space.

TRADE PUBLICATIONS.

PNEUMATIC RAMMERS.-The Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company, Chicago, has devoted bulletin No. 121 to pneumatic rammers, sand sifters, and other oundry equipment.

HAND POWER TRAVELING CRANES.-The Vulcan Engineering Sales Company, Chicago, has just issued a well illustrated circular describing certain of its various types of traveling cranes.

CARS.-The McGuire-Cummings Manufacturing Company, Chicago, has published a handsome cloth bound illustrated catalog describing its various types of cars, trucks, snow plows, sprinklers, etc.

SAWING MACHINES.-The Vulcan Engineering Sales Company. Chicago, has published an illustrated folder on its cold metal sawi: machines. These saws can be arranged for directconnected motor drive.

TIE RENEWER.-The P. & M. Company, Chicago, has issued a well illustrated pamphlet describing the Smith tie renewer and showing the method of operation of the renewer, with photographs of actual work in progress.

BOND WIRE PROTECTORS.-The P. & M. Company, Chicago, has issued a little bulletin describing the placing of bond wires between the splice and the rail, and telling how their method of handling bonding affects the signalman and the trackman.

PROTECTING TELEGRAPH POLES.-The Q. & C. Company of New York has issued a pamphlet describing its patented process

for treating the base of telegraph and telephone poles to arrest decay at the ground line and thereby increase the life of the entire pole.

CONCRETE BRIDGES.-The Universal Portland Cement Company, Chicago, has published an attractive little booklet showing illustrations of a number of different highway bridges and giving a brief description of each. This booklet is entitled Concrete Highway Bridges.

POWER STATIONS.-The Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, Boston, Mass., has published a handsomely illustrated booklet on the South Boston Power Station. The illustrations and descriptions combine to give an excellent idea of the magnitude of this plant.

TUBE EXPANDERS.-Gustav Wiedeke & Co., Dayton, Ohio, has published bulletin No. 26 on its ideal tube expanders. This bulletin is illustrated and gives full particulars of each type of expander, including the dimensions, weight, expansion, price, and code words for ordering.

COALING STATIONS.-The T. W. Snow Construction Company, Chicago, has published a catalog of its railroad coaling stations, which includes illustrations, diagrams and brief descriptions of these structures, and of the automatic reversible hoists designed for use in bucket type coaling stations.

SWITCHBOARD PANELS.-The General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y., has published bulletin No. 4996, on alternating current switchboard panels for three-phase three-wire circuits of 240, 480 and 600 v., 25 to 60 cycles; and bulletin No. 4995 on direct current switchboards, double polarity, 125, 250, 600 v.

PNEUMATIC HOISTS.-The Vulcan Engineering Sales Company, Chicago, has issued a circular describing its Q M S pneumatic hoists. The circular is illustrated and has a table showing size, capacity and weights of the various styles, giving also dimensions and including a list of code words to be used in ordering these hoists.

LOCOMOTIVE CRANES.-The Industrial Works, Bay City, Mich., has issued an unusually attractive booklet containing 42 handsome reproductions of photographs showing Industrial Works cranes in operation in heavy work in the construction of the United States Steel Corporation plants at Gary, Ind., and South Chicago, Ill.

HYDRAULIC ACCUMULATORS.-The Watson-Stillman Company, New York, has published catalog No. 84, illustrating, tabulating and fully explaining the principal types of accumulators made by this company. A few pages are also devoted to accumulator accessories and to special hydraulic working apparatus, reservoirs, etc.

APPLIANCES FOR BURNING FUEL OIL.-The Tate, Jones & Company, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa., has published a booklet entitled Appliances for Burning Fuel Oil, which discusses oil as a fuel and illustrates and describes its various types of oil burners. Pumping systems for pumping, heating and regulating the oil flow to burners are also described.

AMERICAN INGOT IRON.-The American Rolling Mill Company, Middletown, Ohio, has published a 44 page illustrated booklet, entitled Public Opinion on American Ingot Iron. This booklet shows facsimiles of complimentary letters from many users of this product. It discusses corrosion and its causes, and includes many interesting facts about American ingot iron. WELDING AND CUTTING.-The Oxweld Acetylene Company has issued a well-illustrated booklet entitled "Cutting the Cost," in which are presented descriptions of some of the various ways in which the Oxweld process is employed. With this process oxygen and acetylene are used to produce a small flame developing a very high degree of heat, which is applied for welding to the edges of the parts to be joined. As the metal is reduced to a molten state fused wire is added, providing a fusion weld. The process is also largely used for cutting wrought iron and steel plates, structural steel work and steel castings. Some of the descriptions and illustrations show the uses of the process in cutting up the wreck of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor, in the removal of the wreck of the Quebec bridge, in making locomotive and car repairs, repairing broken machinery parts, reclaiming defective castings and forgings, and for other similar purposes.

Railway Construction.

New Incorporations, Surveys, Etc.

ASHERTON & GULF.-According to press reports this company will build an extension from Asherton, Tex., northwest either to Eagle Pass, about 50 miles, or to Del Rio, about 100 miles. It is understood that residents of Carrizo Springs will raise a bonus of $40,000 in aid of the project. (July 12, page 80.)

ARKANSAS NORTH WESTERN.-According to press reports bids are to be asked for in November to build the first section of 15 miles from Bentonville, Ark. The general contract has been given to the Benton County Construction Company, to build the line which is to have a total length of about 35 miles. E. B. Whitcomb, chief engineer.

BEAUMONT & GREAT NORTHERN.-See Missouri, Kansas & Texas.

BRINSON RAILROAD.—An officer is quoted as saying that an extension is to be built from Waynesboro, Ga., either to Augusta or to Washington and Athens. The company has had under consideration for some time the question of building from Waynesboro to Athens, 105 miles.

CANADIAN NORTHERN.-The Canadian board of railway commissioners has approved of the site for a station and track layout at Calgary, Alta. Plans of the buildings to be erected have been submitted to the Calgary city council. A contract has been let to the Northern Construction Company for building the Calgary-Macleod branch, and the board of railway commissioners has approved location plans for the line through Macleod, mileage 102.05 to 104.26.

CANADIAN NORTHERN PACIFIC.-According to press reports bids were asked for recently by McKenzie, Mann & Company, Ltd., Vancouver, B. C., for building the Okanogan branches from Kamloops, B. C., to Vernon, to Kelowna and to Lumby, about 131 miles.

CANADIAN NORTHERN, QUEBEC.-Application is being made to the board of railway commissioners of Canada for approval of location plans for a line from Rawdon, Que., to St. Donat, Montcalm county, about 40 miles. Surveys have been completed from Rawdon through Chertsey, Ste. Emilie and Notre Dame de Mercie.

CANADIAN PACIFIC.-The Forward subdivision of the Saskatchewan division has been extended from Ogema, Sask.. west to Viceroy, 25.6 miles.

CHARLESTON & SUMMERVILLE INTERURBAN.-Incorporated in South Carolina to build a 22-mile line, also several miles of street railways in Charleston, S. C. J. L. Davis is president, and E. W. Hughes is secretary.

CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & PUGET SOUND.-An officer writes regarding the reports that contracts have been let recently for work on the branch from Hillyer, Mont., northeast to Roy, 26 miles, also on another branch from a point 41⁄2 miles from Hillyer, up Dog creek to Christiana, about 20 miles, that a contract for the grading work has been given to D. J. Burke, Lewistown, Mont. FLINT RIVER & NORTHEASTERN.-This road has been extended from Ticknor, Ga., southeast to Moultrie, 14 miles.

GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC.-The Moncton division has been extended from Skeena River Crossing, B. C., to Sealey, 12 miles. GREAT FALLS & TETON COUNTY.-This company has been incorporated in Montana to build from Power, Mont., on the Great Northern, west and northwest to Choteau, about 30 miles. The names of the incorporators are not given.

GREAT NORTHERN.-An officer writes that a contract has been given to A. Guthrie & Co., St. Paul, Minn., to build about 70 miles of the New Rockford-Willeston line, building through North Dakota via McKenzie county to Lewistown, Mont. (September 27, p. 599.)

GREAT SOUTHERN.-An officer of this company, which operates a line from The Dalles, Ore., east and southwest to Dufur, 30 miles, writes that work is nearing completion on an extension southwest via Three Springs to Friend, 11 miles. The work is being carried out by the company's men. It is understood that

the line is to be further extended southwest to Juniper Flats, 40 miles from Dufur.

GREENVILLE & KNOXVILLE.-This road has been extended from Riverview, S. C., to River Falls, 2.7 miles.

HUDSON BAY RAILWAY.-An officer writes that the contract recently let to J. D. MacArthur, Winnipeg, Manitoba, is for building the last section from Split Lake Junction, northeast either to Port Nelson, about 165 miles, or to Fort Churchill, about 245 miles. It has not yet been definitely decided whether Port Nelson or Fort Churchill will be the Hudson Bay terminus of the line. J. D. MacArthur has contracts also to build from The Pas to Split Lake Junction, 253 miles. (October 11, p. 710.)

LONDON & NORTHWESTERN OF CANADA (Electric).—It has been announced that the Mackenzie, Mann & Company interests have acquired the rights of this company, which has been authorized to build an electric line from London, Ont., to Sarnia. D. A. Stewart, London, is interested.

LOUISIANA & PACIFIC.-See Shreveport, Alexandria & South

western.

MARIANNA & BLOUNTSTOWN.-An extension has been opened for business from Blountstown, Fla., to Scotts Ferry, 15 miles. MISSOURI, KANSAS & TEXAS.-According to press reports this company has secured the right and property of the Beaumont & Great Northern operating a 49-mile line from Weldon, Tex., via Trinity to Livingston. An extension is to be built to connect with the main line of the M. K. & T. This will give the company a connection over its own tracks with its TrinityColmesneil line.

NEW IBERIA & NORTHERN.-Train service has been extended from Port Barre, La., to Opelousas, 0.8 miles.

NIPISSING CENTRAL (Electric).-The location plans for an extension from Haileybury, Ont., north along the shore of Temiscaminque lake to New Liskeard, five miles, have been approved by the board of railway commissioners of Canada. The Cobait town council has approved the company's proposal to connect its line with the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario at North Cobalt, and to run its cars over the steam railway tracks to Cobalt station. (March 1, p. 408.)

NORTH YAKIMA & VALLEY.-The Zillah branch, extending from North Yakima, Wash., southeast to Granger, 25.2 miles, is 'now open for freight and passenger business.

OKLAHOMA, NEW MEXICO & PACIFIC.-Under this name application will be made in Oklahoma for a charter to build a 50mile line from Ardmore, Okla., west to a point between Chickasha and Ryan. J. L. Hamon, Ardmore, and John Ringling are Isaid to be interested.

OREGON SHORT LINE.-An officer writes that contracts have been given to the Utah Construction Company, Ogden, Utah, for second track work from Kemmerer, Wyo., west to Fossil, 11.86 miles, also for second track work from Renfro, Idaho, west to McCammon, 9.88 miles, and for connecting the present second track between McCammon and Pocatello. The work in Wyoming involves putting up two 80-ft. plate girders, and one 40-ft. plate girder, and in Idaho putting up four 65-ft. plate girder bridges. PENNSYLVANIA LINES WEST.-An officer writes that improvements to be made on the Louisville division of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis, at Indianapolis, Ind., from South street south, include constructing a subway; elevating the present tracks and putting in additional tracks. The average fill will be about 13 ft., and the total filling will be about 150,000 cu. yds. There will be five steel bridges on concrete abutments over streets. The aggregate length of bridges will be 925 ft., measured as single track, and the aggregate length of concrete retaining walls and abutments, exclusive of wings, will be 1.750 lineal ft. There will be one outbound freight station 29 ft. x 936 ft. of brick construction, with concrete foundations and tile roof. This station will have five transfer plat forms, each 12 ft. x 916 ft. There will also be one inbound freight station, 60 ft. x 790 ft. of brick construction, with concrete foundations and tile roof, to have four transfer platforms, 12 ft. x 800 ft. Work on the foundation for the outbound freight house and subway is now underway by the company's forces.

The substructure of the subway is to be built this year and will be carried out by company forces. Contract for superstructures not yet let. Bids for the outbound freight house above foundations have been received, and the contract is to be let at once.

PITTSBURGH, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO & ST. LOUIS.-See Pennsylvania Lines West.

PORTLAND, EUGENE & EASTER (Electric).-This company is said to be making surveys for a line between Goshen, Ore., and the Pleasant Hill country.

SALT LAKE & UTAH.-Incorporated in Maine with a capital of $3,000,000 to build and operate railroads. C. Dyer, of Portland, Maine, is president, and F. M. Orem, of Salt Lake City, Utah, is treasurer. Mr. Orem is also treasurer of the Interurban Censtruction Company, incorporated to carry on a railroad construction business. E. A. Turner, of Portland, is president of the construction company.

SHREVEPORT, ALEXANDRIA & SOUTHWESTERN.-An officer of the Louisiana & Pacific is quoted as saying that this company is relaying 10 miles of branch line with 65-lb. rails.

SAVANNAH UNION RAILROAD & TERMINAL COMPANY.-Incorporated in Georgia to build a 14-mile line in Chatham county, Ga. Charles E. Hill, general manager of the Great Eastern Lumber Company, Savannah, is said to be interested.

WHITE PASS & YUKON.-An officer writes that this company is now busily engaged in expanding and carrying on extensions, one of them being the extension of the River division service 800 miles from Dawson, Yukon Territory, to Fairbanks, Alaska; the other being a plan under way to install freight boats on the Pacific ocean from Seattle to Skaguay, which would increase the freight carrying distance 1,800 miles, and the distance for transporting passengers and freight, 800 miles.

WINNIPEG ELECTRIC.-This company, which owns the Winnipeg, Selkirk & Lake Winnipeg, has secured from the Winnipeg. Man., city council, the right of way of the city's line to Stoney Mountain. Additional land has been secured to connect the company's line with the newly acquired property, and for the extension of the line to Stonewall, 17 miles.

WINNIPEG, SELKIRK & LAKE WINNIPEG (Electric).-See Winnipeg Electric.

RAILWAY STRUCTURES.

CALGARY ALTA.-See Canadian Northern under Railway Construction.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN.-The Foster-Creighton-Gould Company, Nashville, Tenn., has been awarded a contract by the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis for furnishing and erecting the metai work of a double-track steel viaduct over Running Water Creek. The work will require approximately 2,000 tons of metal work, and the viaduct will be 1.100 ft. long, with a maximum height of 120 ft., and a reinforced concrete ballast floor. The material will be fabricated by the Virginia Bridge & Iron Company.

CINCINNATI, OHIO.-Extensive improvements are now nearing completion to the passenger and freight terminals of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton at Cincinnati. The passenger station, which is of brick construction, having two stories and basement, has been transformed into a thoroughly modern terminal and remodeled throughout. In addition to these improvements the inbound freight house, just west of the passenger station, has been overhauled. The cost of the improvements will be about $20,000.

CLEVELAND, OHIO.-The Pennsylvania Lines have awarded a contract to W. F. Trimble & Son of Pittsburgh, Pa., for a new two-story freight house and office building of brick and steel 32 x 334 ft.

DECATUR, ILL.-The Wabash has awarded a contract to C. W. Gindele & Co., of Chicago, for the concrete foundations, brick work and mill work on its locomotive repair shop, to be built at Decatur.