phia. In the original report these differentials were three cents and two cents respectively. In the original report the differential on iron and steel articles was three cents to Baltimore and two cents to Philadelphia. This has now been changed as follows: from Chicago rate points to Baltimore, three cents per 100 lbs., to Philadelphia two cents per 100 lbs., from Detroit rate points, to Baltimore three cents per 100 lbs., to Philadelphia two cents per 100 lbs., from Pittsburgh rate points, from Cleveland rate points and from Youngstown rate points to Baltimore 1.5 cents per 100 lbs., to Philadelphia one cent per 100 lbs. These differentials should not be exceeded. Differentials on iron and steel articles from other points should not be made greater than they now are. As regards import rates the commission in the original report decided that they should be the same from New York as from Boston. The commission now holds that via the standard all-rail line the standard rail-and-lake lines and the ocean-andrail lines via Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk and Newport News the import rates from Boston should not be lower than from New York; if the New York differential ocean and rail routes via New London, Conn., and the Central of Vermont and Grand Trunk roads are opened to import traffic from Boston, the import rate from Boston should not be lower than from New York; if the differential river-rail-and-lake line from New York via the Hudson River, the Rutland and the lakes is opened to Boston traffic, the import rate from Boston should not be lower than from New York; via the differential rail route from Boston, via the Boston & Maine and Boston & Albany roads in connection with the Canadian Pacific and National Despatch lines, the import rates from Boston may be the same as the domestic rates; via the differential rail-and-lake routes from Boston via the Boston & Maine, Grand Trunk and CanadaAtlantic Transit Company's lines through Depot Harbor the import rates from Boston may be the same as the domestic rates. All these import rates apply to both class and commodity (24 I. C. C., 651.) rates. A New Jersey court, Judge William H. Speer, has declared unconstitutional, so far as it affects interstate railway traffic, the law of that state, enacted last year, limiting the amount of damages which an employee can recover for injuries resulting from negligence of the employer. As regards an employee of a railroad engaged in interstate commerce this state law is set aside by the act of Congress which regulates the payment of damages for injuries sustained by employees of such roads. Jules E. Bernard of the Chicago forwarding house of Bernard, Judae & Co., August Bonteaux, Maurice Assher, Oscar F. Kesche and Albert E. Graser pleaded guilty on October 30 before Judge Mayer in the Federal District Court to receiving rebates from the Baltimore & Ohio. On Graser sentence was suspended. The others were sentenced to a day's imprisonment. In addition Bernard and Kesche have to pay a fine of $3,000 apiece and Bonteaux and Ascher a fine of $1,000 apiece. 1.502.588 1,074.159 339,028 Average mileage operated during previous period 672; 2263; 1,995;404; 264; 459% 1,278,424 144,449 170,737 463 937 773,769 264,791 216,512 106,683 185,767 86,640 45,179 11,309 1,965,390 448,862 62,550 4.677 475,540 10,729 172,813 16,438 184,606 123,464 1,500,275 428.070 27.477 434,179 26,462 913,330 589.258 61,871 387.775 181 5,204 6,600 116,624 -11,711 1,351,075 83,354 388,070 18,377 -46,423 51,095 534.428 -14,559 55,225 785,534 54,693 20,610 160,803 19,586 342,332 288,625 -3,304 70 39,667 8,000 249,028 15.371 -11,304 6,442 152; 799; 457. -Indicates Deficits, Losses and Decreases. Railway Officers. ELECTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. Executive, Financial and Legal Officers. P. C. Hardy, acting freight claim agent of the Bangor & Aroostook at Bangor, Maine, has been appointed freight claim agent. Fred E. Jones has been appointed freight claim agent of the San Antonio & Aransas Pass, with headquarters at San Antonio, Tex. F.. Lethenstrom has been appointed auditor of the Marietta, Columbus & Cleveland, with headquarters at Marietta, Ohio, succeeding Robert G. Shorter, resigned. Richard Kirkwood, assistant auditor of the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie. has been appointed acting auditor, with office at Minneapolis, Minn., in place of Robert Toombs, deceased. George W. Richards, vice-president and treasurer of the Potomac, Fredericksburg & Piedmont, at Fredericksburg, Va., has been elected president, succeeding his father, L. H. Richards, deceased. L. F. Timmerman, secretary and assistant treasurer of the Western Maryland, at New York, has been elected treasurer, succeeding Major J. T. M. Barnes, who has resigned on account of ill health. William P. Kenney, whose election as vice-president of the Great Northern has been announced in these columns, was born in 1870, at Waterville, Wis. He began railway work as telegraph operator, and later was contracting agent. Subsequently he was made chief clerk in the general freight office of the St. Paul & Duluth at St. Paul, Minn., and when that road was absorbed by the Northern Pacific he continued in the same capacity. Later he went to the Great Northern as assistant to the fourth vice-president and was afterward appointed assistant traffic manager under W. W. Broughton, which position he held until September, 1911. He was then promoted to general traffic manager, and on October 1, became vice-president in charge of traffic, with headquarters at St. Paul. W. P. Kenney. Alfred G. Ellick, assistant county attorney and a member of the law firm of Ellick & Brome, of Omaha, Neb., has been appointed assistant attorney for the Union Pacific, with headquarters at Omaha. John T. Hendricks, who has been elected vice-president in charge of traffc of the Western Maryland, with headquarters at Baltimore, Md., as has been announced in these columns, was born on September 20, 1867, at Shelbyville, Ind. He began railway work in Aprii, 1886, on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton; and from 1889 to 1892 was traveling freight agent of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, with headquarters at Cincinnati, Ohio. He was then general agent of the International & Great Northern until September, 1894, and for three years was general agent of the Gould lines in Texas. His next position was general agent of the Union Pacific, at Philadelphia, Pa., where he renained until November, 1905, when he became assistant general reight agent of the Western Maryland, at Baltimore, Md. He vas promoted to freight traffic manager on January 15, 1906, which position he held at the time of his recent election as vice-president of the same road, as above noted. Charles H. Hix, who resigned as vice-president and general manager of the Seaboard Air Line, as has been announced in these columns, has been elected president and general man ager of the Norfolk Southern. He was born in Nelson county, Va., in 1862, and began railway work in 1880 as rodman in the engineering corps of the Norfolk & Western. In the winter of 1881 he was made receiving and delivery clerk at Saltville, and later became assistant agent and operator, leaving that position in 1884 to become agent at Buford. In 1886 he was appointed relief agent and two years later train despatcher at Roanoke, and in 1891 chief despatcher. He was appointed trainmaster of the Radford division in 1897, and later, owing to a change in administration, he was again appointed chief despatcher, remaining in that position until July, 1900, when he left that road to go to the Seaboard Air Line, as trainmaster of the Second division, becoming trainmaster of the First division in June, 1901, and in September superintendent of the First division. In September, 1905, he was promoted to general superintendent, and in July, 1909, was made general manager. becoming vice-president and general manager of the same road in December, 1909, which position he recently resigned to become president of the Norfolk Southern, as above noted. Mr. Hix has been made a member also of the executive committee, and a director of the Norfolk Southern. Charles H. Hix. James M. Gruber, whose election as vice-president of the Great Northern, has been announced in these columns, was born March 22, 1868, at Iowa City, la. He was educated in the common schools, graduating from the Iowa City high school in June, 1885. He began railway work September 12, 1885, as stenographer in the general ireight office of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba at St. Paul, and in October of the following year was transferred to the general manager's office as stenographer, where he remained until September, 1889. He then went to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe as stenographer for the president, and in December, 1890, became clerk in the superintendent's office of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe at Temple, Tex. He was promoted to chief clerk to the superintendent at Cleburne, Tex., in March, 1891, and six months later was made assistant trainmaster at Gainesville, Tex. In December, 1892, lie was appointed trainmaster at Temple, Tex.. and in April, 1893, was transferred to Galveston, Tex., as chief clerk to the superintendent of transportation, remaining there until July, 1894, when he became trainmaster at Galveston. He was appointed J. M. Gruber. assistant superintendent of the Eastern Railway of Minnesota at West Superior, Wis., in January, 1895; six months later was made superintendent of that road, and in July, 1896, accepted the general superintendency of the Montana Central, with office at Great Falls, Mont. Mr. Gruber was assistant general superintendent of the Great Northern, with headquarters at St. Paul, from March, 1897, to April, 1903, when he resigned to become general superintendent of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific at Topeka, Kan. He went to the Union Pacific in February, 1904, where he remained a year as general superintendent, with headquarters at Omaha, Neb. From February, 1905, to October, 1907, he was general manager of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy at Chicago, and on the latter date he became general manager of the Great Northern, which position he held until he was elected vice-president on October 12. Philip J. Kelly has been appointed auditor traffic receipts of the Philadelphia & Reading and subsidiary lines, and Thomas S. Neale, acting auditor coal traffic at Philadelphia, Pa., has been appointed auditor coal traffic. W. J. Harahan, president of the Seaboard Air Line, has been elected president also of the Tampa Northern, with office at Norfolk, Va., succeeding Charles R. Capps, who has been elected vice-president in charge of traffic, with office at Norfolk. Operating Officers. Henry J. Roth has been appointed inspector of transportation of the Illinois Central, with headquarters at Chicago. F. H. Hohnsbean has been appointed trainmaster of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, with headquarters at Smithville, Tex. R. F. Shuman has been appointed trainmaster of the Chicago & Alton, with headquarters at Roodhouse, Ill., succeeding C. W. Bearden, promoted. A. D. McCarthy has been appointed trainmaster of the Fourth district and Montreal terminals of the Grand Trunk, with headquarters at Montreal, Que. W. T. R. Hoddinott has been appointed assistant trainmaster of the Philadelphia division of the Baltimore & Ohio, with headquarters at Philadelphia, Pa. E. D. Hogan, assistant superintendent of the San Antonio & Aransas Pass, has been appointed assistant general manager, with headquarters at Yoakum, Tex. F. S. James has resigned as division superintendent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas and superintendent of the Texas Central, with headquarters at Waco, Tex. Edgar W. Batchelder, division superintendent of the Erie Railroad at Meadville, Pa., has been appointed assistant general superintendent, with headquarters at Marion, Ohio. J. M. Walsh, superintendent of terminals of the St. Louis & San Francisco at Memphis, Tenn., has been appointed superintendent of terminals of the Illinois Central, with office at Memphis. E. L. Magers, assistant division superintendent of the St. Louis & San Francisco at Ft. Scott, Kan., has been appointed superintendent of terminals, with headquarters at Memphis, Tenn., succeeding J. M. Walsh, resigned. O. D. Lewis, chief train despatcher at Ft. Scott, succeeds Mr. Magers. E. G. Atkins, trainmaster of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul at LaCrosse, Wis., has been appointed superintendent of the Southern Minnesota division, with office at LaCrosse, succeeding E. G. Perkins, deceased. F. J. Holmes, chief train despatcher, succeeds Mr. Atkins. J. C. Muir, general superintendent of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, with office at Danville, Ill., has been appointed superintendent of the Chicago division, with headquarters at Danville, and the former position has been abolished. Mr. Muir succeeds G. H. Trenary, who has been transferred to Salem, Ill., as superintendent of the Illinois division in place of P. S. Sampson, assigned to other duties. S. Ennes has been appointed superintendent of the Mesabi division, and B. Lantry, superintendent of the Superior division of the Great Northern, with headquarters at Superior, Wis., to succeed G. S. Stewart, who has been made superintendent of the Montana division, with office at Havre, Mont., in place of F. D. Kelsey. Mr. Kelsey succeeds Mr. Ennes as superintendent of the Breckenridge division, with headquarters at Breckenridge, Minn. Effective November 1. W. H. Beeland, whose appointment as assistant superintendent of the Tennessee Central, with headquarters at Nashville, Tenn., has been announced in these columns, was born on September 14, 1874, in Lee county, Alabama, and was educated in the common schools. He began railway work in 1892 as a brakeman on the Atlanta & West Point and the Western of Alabama. Three years later he was promoted to conductor, and in 1901 went to the Tennessee Central as conductor, which position he held at the time of his recent appointment as assistant superintendent of the same road. S. P. Henderson, who has been appointed superintendent of the Northern division of the Chicago & Alton, with headquarters at Bloomington, Ill., as has been announced in these columns, began railway work as a telegraph operator on the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville at Monticello, Ind. He was later with the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling, now a part of the Baltimore & Ohio, and the Chesapeake & Ohio, first as despatcher, and then as chief despatcher. He was then superintendent of the Buffalo & Susquehanna, with office at Galeton, Pa., and later superintendent of the Kansas City Southern at Mena, Ark. At the time of his recent appointment as superintendent of the Chicago & Alton, he was trainmaster of the Chicago & Alton, with headquarters at Bloomington, Ill. S. P. Henderson. was C. W. Miller, whose appointment as superintendent of the Southern division of the Chicago & Alton, with headquarters at Bloomington, Ill., has been announced in these columns, began railway work as a brakeman on the Cleveland Terminal & Valley, now a part of the Baltimore & Ohio. In 1889 he went to the Wheeling & Lake Erie, and the following year was promoted to conductor. He was later in the yard and train service of the Chicago & Alton, also of the Northern Pacific, and of the Cleveland, Canton & Southern, remaining with the latter company until it was absorbed by the Wheeling & Lake Erie. In 1905 he was promoted to trainmaster on the Cleveland division of the Wheeling & Lake Erie, which position he held at the time of his recent appointment as superintendent of the Chicago & Alton, as above noted. C. W. Miller. Benjamin L. Bugg, whose appointment as assistant general manager of the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic, with head quarters at Atlanta, Ga., has been announced in these columns, was born on August 8, 1869, at Palo Alto, Miss. He received a high school education and began railway work as a telegraph operator in 1887 on the Florida Railway & Navigation Company, now a part of the Seaboard Air Line. In 1891 he went to the Georgia Southern & Florida, and in 1895 left that company to go to the Central of Georgia. He was appointed general agent of the Old Dominion Steamship Company, at Norfolk, Va.. in 1907; in August, 1910, he resigned to go to the Norfolk Southern as traffic manager, and in February, 1912, his authority was extended over the Raleigh, Charlotte & Southern. On September 1, 1912, he was appointed traffic manager of the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic, and now becomes assistant general manager of the same road, as above noted. George H. Emerson, whose appointment as general manager of the Great Northern, with headquarters at St. Paul, Minn., was announced in our issue of October 18, began railway work as water boy on the Willmar division of the Great Northern during the summer of 1880. In April, 1882, he became an apprentice in the shops at St. Paul, and in October, 1887, became a boilermaker. From September, 1890, to February, 1895, he was fireman and engineer on the Dakota division of that road and was appointed locomotive foreman at Glasgow, Mont., in 1895. Two years later he was made general shop foreman and master mechanic of the Dakota and Northern divisions, where he remained until January 1, 1900, at which time he was promoted to general master mechanic of the Western district. On January 10, 1903, Mr. Emerson was appointed superintendent of motive power of the entire system, and on March 15, 1910, he was made assistant general manager, from which position he is now promoted to that of general manager. Traffic Officers. G. W. Oliver has been appointed assistant statistician of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, with headquarters at Chicago. C. W. Pinney has been appointed general western freight agent of the Coal & Coke Railway, with headquarters at Columbus, Ohio. W. B. Butler has been appointed soliciting freight agent of the Georgia Southern & Florida, with office at Atlanta, Ga., succeeding J. H. Donnell, resigned. J. A. Fullerton has been promoted to soliciting freight agent of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, reporting to assistant general freight agent, Buffalo, N. Y. W. L. Greiner, traveling freight agent of the New York Central Lines at Salt Lake City, Utah, has been appointed commercial agent, with office at Salt Lake City, succeeding Kent O. Keyes, resigned. Joseph W. Brady has been appointed traveling freight agent of the Toledo, St. Louis & Western, with headquarters at Toledo, Ohio, in place of H. C. Weber, promoted. F. M. Miller has been appointed traveling freight agent, with office at Pittsburgh, Pa. Samuel Wilson, export and import agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound, with office at Seattle, Wash., has been appointed assistant general freight agent, with headquarters at Seattle, succeeding J. R. Veitch, transferred. F. J. Calkins succeeds Mr. Wilson. S. A. Hess, ticket agent of the Wabash at Decatur, Ill., has been appointed division passenger agent, with headquarters at Decatur. H. P. Gardner has been appointed passenger and ticket agent, with office at Springfield, Ill., in place of R. C. Fleming, resigned to engage in other business. J. M. Farriss, commercial agent of the Sunset-Central Lines at Corsicana, Tex., has been appointed division freight and passenger agent, with headquarters at Austin, Tex., succeeding C. M. Reeves, who has resumed his duties as city passenger ind ticket agent at Austin. J. H. Evetts succeeds Mr. Farriss it Corsicana. C. T. Collette has been appointed traveling reight and passenger agent, with office at Oklahoma City, Okla. F. L. Sheeks, local agent at Beaumont, Tex., has also een appointed general agent in charge of the traffic department, 1 place of J. W. Wilkinson, resigned. T. L. Cleveland has een appointed traveling freight and passenger agent, with eadquarters at Beaumont, Tex. Engineering and Rolling Stock Officers. veston. A. B. Ziegweid has been appointed division engineer of the Pere Marquette, in charge of maintenance of way and structures in territory comprising Saginaw-Ionia and S. T. & H. divisions and branches, with office at Saginaw, Mich. E. Schultz, roundhouse foreman of the Chicago & North Western at Milwaukee, Wis., has been appointed master mechanic of the Northern Wisconsin and Lake Shore divisions, with headquarters at Green Bay, Wis. He succeeds E. Becker, who has been transferred to Escanaba, Mich., as division master mechanic to take the place of F. Slater, appointed division master mechanic, with office at Kaukauna, Wis., succeeding W. Hutchinson, deceased. OBITUARY. Frank Shelley Spafard, assistant superintendent of telegraph of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, died at Chicago in the early part of this week. John L. Kirkpatrick, traveling passenger agent of the Lehigh Valley at Philadelphia, Pa., died at his home in that city on October 30. Mr. Kirkpatrick was 42 years old and had been connected with the Lehigh Valley company since 1894. He was president of the Quaker City Association of Railroad Men. Charles F. Melick, general freight and passenger agent of the Mexican Railway and secretary of the Vera Cruz Terminal Company, with headquarters at Mexico City, Mex., died recently in that city. Mr. Melick was born on September 28, 1867, at Roseville, Ohio, and was educated in the common schools. He began railway work in 1883, and for a time was bill clerk on the Baltimore & Ohio. He was later chief clerk in the general freight office of the Pittsburgh & Western, now a part of the Baltimore & Ohio, and was then made contracting agent on the same road. From 1890 to 1893 he was out of railway work. He then went to the National Railways of Mexico as claim clerk, and since July 15, 1904, had been general freight and passenger agent of the Mexican Railway. John M. Whitman, formerly vice-president of the Chicago & North Western, died on October 29 at Chicago. He was born in 1837 at Elbridge, Onondaga County, N. Y., and began railway work in 1856 in the engineering department of the Illinois Central. From 1858 to 1860 he was a leveler on enlargement work on the Erie Canal. Next he became engineer in charge of construction for the Brunswick & Albany, now part of the Atlantic Coast Line. He was then for one year engineer in charge of construction of the Union Stock Yards, at Chicago, and from 1867 to 1869 was engineer engaged in deepening the Illinois and Michigan Canal. In 1869 he became engineer in charge of construction of the Iowa Midland, now a part of the Chicago & North Western, and from 1872 to 1876 was engineer and superintendent of the Chicago & Pacific, now a part of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. In the latter year he was appointed receiver and superintendent of that road. In June, 1880, he was appointed superintendent of the Iowa division of the Chicago & North Western, and in February, 1883, he was made general superintendent of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, becoming general manager of the Chicago & North Western in August, 1887. He was elected fourth vice-president of the same road in November, 1899, and in January, 1906, was made vicepresident in charge of construction, from which position he was retired under the pension rules of the company on June 30, 1911. NEW LINE PROPOSED FOR BOLIVIA.-Preliminary surveys are being made on a proposed line which will run from Cochabamba, central eastern Bolivia, northwest to Chimore, about 200 miles. NEW ARGENTINE RAILWAY COMPANY.-The Corrientes Railway Company was organized in England last May with $5,000,000 capital, half of which is 7 per cent. preferred stock, to build railroads in the province of Corrientes, Argentina, under concession recently granted. Equipment and Supplies. LOCOMOTIVE BUILDING. THE ILLINOIS TERMINAL RAILROAD has ordered 1 mogul locomotive from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. THE POLSON LOGGING COMPANY has ordered 1 mikado locomotive from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. THE SAGINAW TIMBER COMPANY has ordered 1 mikado locomotive from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. THE CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN is said to have ordered 130 locomotives. This item has not been confirmed. THE PHILADELPHIA SUBURBAN GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY has ordered 1 four-wheel switching locomotive from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. THE BRITISH COLUMBIA ELECTRIC, Vancouver, B. C., has ordered five 50-ton electric locomotives from the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company. THE MAINE CENTRAL has ordered 8 consolidation locomotives, two Pacific type locomotives and two switching locomotives from the American Locomotive Company. THE CAMBRIA STEEL COMPANY has ordered 2 six-wheel switching locomotives from the American Locomotive Company. The dimensions of the cylinders will be 21 in. x 26-in., the diameter of the driving wheels will be 50 in., and the total weight in working order will be 145,000 lbs. THE KEESVILLE, AUSABLE CHASM & LAKE CHAMPLAIN has ordered 1 mogul locomotive from the American Locomotive Company. The dimensions of the cylinders will be 16 in. x 22 in., the diameter of the driving wheels will be 48 in., and the total weight in working order will be 96,000 lbs. THE CENTRAL RAILWAY OF PERU has ordered 6 mikado locomotives from the American Locomotive Company. The dimensions of the cylinders will be 20 in. x 28 in., the diameter of the driving wheels will be 52 in., and the total weight in working order will be 175,000 lbs. These locomotives will be equipped with superheaters. THE BRAZIL RAILWAY has ordered 8 Mallet (2-6-6-2) locomotives from the American Locomotive Company, and 13 tenwheel switching locomotives from the Lima Locomotive Corporation. The Mallet locomotives will be equipped with superheaters, will have 16 in. and 25 in. x 20 in. cylinders, 4134 in. driving wheels, and in working order will weigh 157,000 lbs. CAR BUILDING. THE MISSOURI PACIFIC is in the market for 2,000 box cars and 2,000 gondolas. ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS & SAULT STE. MARIE is in the market for a number of mail cars. THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE has ordered 25 cre cars from the National Dump Car Company. THE MAINE CENTRAL is in the market for 6 passenger cars and 2 combination passenger and baggage cars. THE NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD has ordered 50 passenger coaches from the Osgood Bradley Car Company. THE CHESAPEAKE & OHIO is said to have ordered 3,000 coal cars from the Western Steel Car & Foundry Company. This item has not been confirmed. THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD has ordered 3,000 box cars and 1,000 automobile cars from the Pressed Steel Car Company, and 1,000 box cars from the company's shops at Altoona. THE NEW YORK CENTRAL & HUDSON RIVER has ordered 1,000 refrigerator cars from the American Car & Foundry Company, and 1,000 refrigerator cars from the shops of the Merchants' Despatch Transportation. THE NORTHERN PACIFIC is said to have ordered 1,100 refrigerator cars from the Pullman Company, 200 ore cars and 500 gondola cars from the Pressed Steel Car Company, and 250 stock cars from the Mt. Vernon Car & Manufacturing Company. This item has not been confirmed. THE KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN, as mentioned in the Railway Age Gazette of October 18, has ordered 1,000 steel underframe gondolas from the American Car & Foundry Company for February and March delivery. These cars will have a capacity of 40 tons, and the estimated weight is 44,900 lbs. The inside measurements will be 41 ft. long and 4 ft. 2 in. high. Some of the special equipment will be as follows: THE NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES have ordered 100 passenger coaches from the American Car & Foundry Company, 35 passenger coaches and 40 baggage cars from the Barney & Smith Car Company, 25 baggage cars from the Standard Steel Car Company, and 7 dining cars from the Pullman Company. Of this equipment the New York Central & Hudson River will receive 100 passenger coaches from the American Car & Foundry Company, 40 baggage cars from the Barney & Smith Car Company, and 2 dining cars from the Pullman Company; the Michigan Central will receive 20 passenger coaches from the Barney & Smith Car Company, 10 baggage cars from the Standard Steel Car Company, and 2 dining cars from the Pullman Company; the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern will receive 15 passenger coaches from the Barney & Smith Car Company, 15 baggage cars from the Standard Steel Car Company and 2 dining cars from the Pullman Company; the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis will receive 1 dining car from the Pullman Company. IRON AND STEEL. THE INTERBOROUGH RAPID TRANSIT is in the market for 7,000 tons of rails. THE NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD is in the market for 35,000 tons of rails. THE BROOKLYN RAPID TRANSIT is in the market for 20,000 tons of rails. GENERAL CONDITIONS IN STEEL.-Notwithstanding the fact that the presidential election is close at hand and that Europe has been disturbed by the Balkan war, orders in the steel industry have shown an increase rather than a decrease. The heaviest orders are being placed by the railroads and by the equipment companies. A considerable increase in unfilled tonnage is expected for October. It is now predicted that the net earnings of the steel corporation for October will be in the neighborhood of $12,000,000, as compared with $10,157,993 in September. The larger steel companies are trying to prevent an increase in prices, but some of the smaller companies continue to sell at figures above the so-called official quotations on a number of products. ARGENTINE RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.-Construction work on the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway toward the Andes is being rapidly pushed forward and it is expected that by the end of the year the line will be open to traffic as far as Zapala. at the foot of the Andes. This very popular center of the Neuquen territory will then be directly connected by rail with Bahia Blanca, on the Atlantic coast, and it is confidently expected that a new market will be created for goods from Neuquen, which lies about 300 miles east of Bahia Blanca. PROPOSED RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION IN ARGENTINA.-There has been presented to the legislature of the province of Entre Rios a petition for a loan of $6,000,000, bearing 5 per cent. interest and one-half of 1 per cent. amortization, for construction of lines from Parana, in the extreme western portion of the province of Entre Rios, northeast to Concordia via La Paz, Feliciano, and Libertad; from Parana to Concordia direct, about 170 miles; from Parana southeast to Gualeguay, about 120 miles; and branches connecting Villaguay, which is about 100 miles east of Parana, with the last two lines. |