HON. S. H. BLAKE, Q.C., and ROBT. MCLEAN, Esq., Sec. of the Canadian Fire Underwriters' Association, VICE-PRESIDENTS. Apply to Investments in Canada for Sole Protection of Canadian Policy-Holders, chiefly with the Government, $700,000. The ROYAL has the largest Surplus of Assets over Liabilities of any Fire Insurance Company in the World -HON. SIR W. P. HOWLAND, C.B., K.C.M.G. Vice-Presidents.-HON. WM. MCMASTER, WM. ELLIOT, Esq. ALFRED G. GOODERHAM, Esq. 99-173150 A NUMBER of roads now in the hands of re- ceivers will be shortly turned over to the stockholders. Among these are the Denver and Rio Grande, Philadelphia and Reading, 2-3 Jersey Central, Nickel-Plate, Wabash, Toledo, A RAILWAY "BOOM" is among the probabili- ties in South Carolina, where, it is stated, several new lines are under contemplation, most of which are expected soon to be also under contract. The state is steadily advanc- ing in material development and possesses the 8 elements of still greater achievements. With this advancement it is natural and necessary A very large number of the "threatrical' people are travelling westward now. The THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY, it is said, THE fine hotel of the Oregon Railway and Navigation company at Walula, W. T., was recently destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of A NEW STEEL BRIDGE of three 165-feet spans has been constructed across Green river in THE engine "Chief," purchased by the Madison and Indianapolis railroad company thirty-eight years ago, is still running, doing service on the Rockport and South-Western road. It is said to be the oldest engine now running west of the Allegheny mountains. THE Railway Men's Christian Association held its annual meeting a few days ago and the report read by Mr. Burford, the efficient gen- eral secretary, showed that the associotion was in a very flourshing condition. bright little paper, called the Railway Signal, is issued every month by the association. ANOTHER narrow gauge road, the St. Louis ANOTHER horrible murder in a European railway carriage-this time in Italy, and the object being robbery, easily accomplished- emphasizes one of the great objections to the compartment car system, namely, the danger liable. Whatever may be urged by Europeans to insult and violence to which passengers are against the American plan of day coaches and sleeping cars, it cannot be asserted that in and will have his headquarters in the Forrest Buildings. It is also understood that instead of allowing the president a salary of $30,000 per annum, as Receiver Keim has allowed to him- self as president, Mr. Gowen will be offered A NEW invention, now being put on the market, is a head rest for travellers. It consists of a plush cushion hung upon strong white wires, and made so that it fits over the top of the seat back. Upon this soft, shapely cushion the tired traveler may rest his weary head without getting cramps in the bones and stop- ping the circulation in his veins, as is invari- ably the case when a man "scrooges" down into a car seat in order to rest the back of his head upon the upholstering. The contrivance can be taken apart in half a minute and packed PETE WILSON, an old railroad engineer, is known as a great blowhard. "I tell you when THE railroad and warehouse commissioners of Illinois have completed their annual report of the condition of 54 railroads of the state. Western Colorado Railway Association, his is- year of $16,531,000. The funded debt is re- sued his "Black List" for January, February ported at $725,696,000, and the floating debt at the names of no less than 223 persons who and floating debt is $1,454,785,000. The total ings for Illinois business amount to $56,- 961,000. The total operating expenses and taxes paid in Illinois during the year was 331,000. The aggregate gross profit on THE receivers of the Philadelphia and Read- ing Railroad Company declare that they will ignore Mr. Gowen as far as they can now that he is elected president of the corporation, Personals. A. G. JONES has been appointed assistant to B. Dunham, general manager of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway. WE are very much pleased to see Mr. W. R. Callaway, district passenger agent of the Canada Pacific Railway, able to resume his duties after his recent illness. MR. D. MCNICOLL, general passenger agent of the Canadian Pacific Railway, who has been on a visit to England, returned to Montreal last week and was in this city on Sunday and Monday. THE ever popular MR. H. B. Jagoe, travelling passenger agent of the West Shore Railway, is about to leave Toronto to take charge of territory of Michigan in the interest of the same company. MR. W. F. MCMILLAN has resigned the assistant general freight agency of the Union Pacific to go into private business in Chicago. Mr. H. A. Johnson, formerly Chicago agent of the Missouri Pacific, is mentioned as his MR. W. M. SAGE, general freight agent, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, has been appointed general traffic manager of that road, and Mr. J. M. Johnson, assistant general freight agent, has been promoted to the position vacated by Mr. Sage. route. He is enthusiastic in praise of all the arrangements for the comfort of passengers and says: "I fancy if people knew more of the advantages and conveniences of travelling by this road few would go by any other route, as there are so many changes and transfers to be made and troubles with customs officers to be overcome. All it requires to make this an extremely agreeable trip is pleasant company." MR. J. E. DAWSON, late assistant superintendent of the Great Western division of the Grand Trunk, was the recipient on Friday night of a well-deserved complimentary ban quet in London. After dinner, an address and purse containing about six hundred dollars, the gift of the employees was presented to Mr. Dawson. This spontaneous parting gift from the men with whom for over twenty years he has been associated, is proof positive of his popularity among them, and of his fitness for a position higher than that he has just left. Appointments, Resignations, &c. PENNSYLVANIA COMPANY.-The following changes and appointments are announced by assistant general passenger agent Chesbrough: Thomas H. Thorp is appointed south-western passenger agent of the Vandalia line-Pennsylvania route with headquarters at Dallas, Tex., vice Geo. A. Knight, resigned to accept the presidency of the Pecos Valley Land and Irrigation company. Charles Conklin is appointed travelling passenger agent for the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburgh, with headquarters at Denver, Col., vice J. Good Ruple, transferred to other territory. CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILWAY.-Vice-president T. J. Potter announces THE position of superintendent of the eastern that W. D. Sanborne has been appointed division of the Erie Railway, made vacant by general agent of the Chicago, Burlington and the resignation of E. O. Hill, has been filled Quincy; Burlington and Missouri River; and by the appointment of J. H. Barrett, now Hannibal and St. Joseph roads, for Calisuperintendent of the Dayton and Union Rail-fornia, in charge of both freight and pasroad, to take effect January 27. MR. P. J. SLATTER, city passenger agent of the Grand Trunk Railway in Toronto, has moved his headquarters from York street ticket of fice, to the one at the corner of King and Yonge, where he may be found daily by the patrons of the road among whom he is so popular. MR. FRED. WARD has resigned the general southwestern agency of the Rock Island at Kansas City. This position has been abolished, and Mr. F. M. Day has been appointed contracting agent, with headquarters at Kansas City. Mr. Day will have charge of the commercial interests of the Rock Island at Kansas City, Atchison, Leavenworth and St. Joseph. C. J. IVES, president of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway Company, has issued the following announcement: Mr. J. E. Homagan having conducted the passenger department of this railway since the death of Mr. B. F. Mills to the entire satisfaction of the management, he is hereby appointed general ticket and passenger agent of this company, to take effect January 1, 1886. MR. J. E. DAWSON, who lately resigned his possition as assistant superintendant of the Great Western division of the Grand Trunk Railway, was probably the most popular and one of the most efficient superintendents in the service of that road. We hope the rumour now current that he has been offered and accepted an important position on another railway will turn out to be true. His many friends in Lonon, and the whole of western Ontario, will ice to hear of his assuming more important munerative positions than those he has fore. D. EDWARDS, writing to Mr. nger agent of the Canada erborough, gives an acby the North Shore senger traffic with headquarters at San Fran cisco. Mr. Sanborn announces that Mr. T. D. McKay has been appointed Pacific Coast pas senger agent of the above named roads, with headquarters at 32 Montgomery street, San Francisco. Mr. E. E. Fayerweather has been appointed assistant auditor in charge of freight claims. Mr. H. C. Orr has been appointed general agent of the passenger department of the Burlington at Kansas City. Mr. Firth, who has been agent at Kansas City, will have charge of the business in the territory west of that point. THE NEW YORK CENTRAL SLEEPING CAR Co.-General superintendent C. D. Flagg has issued the following orders: of this company, has been and is hereby apMr. Oscar Eastmund, heretofore conductor pointed an agent for the same. He will be stationed at and have charge of the business of this company at Weehawken. at Detroit, having tendered his resignation, Mr. Wells Dygert, district superintendent same is accepted, to take effect January 1, 1886. Mr. J. A. Baylis, heretofore a conductor of this company. is hereby appointed district superintendent, vice Wells Dygert, resigned. Mr. Alfred White, special agent at Detroit, having tendered his resignation, same has been accepted, to take effect January 1, 1886, and on that date the office of special agent will be abolished. Ohio division the following appointments are announced by general superintendent G. J. Foreacre. Mr. T. J. Frazier now acting as assistant road master of the Chicago division, is relieved of that duty and appointed assistant engineer of the trans-Ohio division, with headquarters at Newark, Ohio. Mr. Thomas Fitzgerald, now master of transportation, is appointed division superintendent in charge of the Central Ohio, Lake Erie and Straitsville divisions, which are known as the Ohio divisions. Mr. F. H. Britton, now superintendent of transportation, is appointed division superintendent in charge of the Chicago division, with headquarters at Garrett, Ind. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.-The following circular has been issued by this company: "On and after 1st January, 1886, the railway west of Toronto will, in so far as the traffic department is concerned, be operated in two divisions, to be called the southern' and ' northern' divisions. The southern divisions will include the following: Stratford to Black Rock, Black Rock to Buffalo, Port Dover to Stratford, Suspension Bridge to Windsor, Glencoe to Fort Erie, Toronto to Hamilton, London to Sarnia and Petrolia, London to Port Stanley, Brantford, Tilsenburg, and Welland. Charles Stiff takes charge as superintendent, with headquarters at Hamilton, and R. Larmour, assistant superintendent, with headquarters at London. The northern division includes Toronto to Port Edward, Stratford to Wiarton and Durham, Stratford to Goderich, Hyde Park to Wingham, Harrisburg to Southampton and Kincardine, London Branch, and Galt to Waterloo. James Stephenson is in charge as superintendent, with headquarters at Montreal, and W. R. Tiffen, assistant superintendent, with headquarters at Stratford." NEW YORK, LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAIL WAY.-The following circular has been issued by Comptroller S. Little, dated January 1, 1886: The offices of auditor, assistant auditor, auditor of freight receipts, auditor of passenger receipts, superintendent of station accounts, assistant superintendent of station accounts (New York, Lake Erie and Western Road), assistant superintendent of station accounts (New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Road), having been abolished, the following appointments are made, to take effect on this date, viz.: A. J. McDowell, auditor of traffic; E. P. Campbell, assistant auditor of traffic; W. Farrington, assistant comptroller; A. T. Cuddenback, traveling auditor, in charge of the stations on the New York, Lake Erie and the Buffalo and South-Western divisions and Western Railroad (except the Western and the stations on the New York, Pennsylvania the Bradford branch), and the Tioga Railroad; C. W. Cone, traveling auditor, in charge of and Ohio Railroad, and those on the Western and the Buffalo and Southwestern divisions and Bradford branch of the New York, Lake Erie and Western. The and conductors will report to, and receive their In all matters pertaining to accounts, agents instructions from, the auditor of traffic. travelling auditors will also report to and receive their instructions from him. Mr. J. H. Barrett, who has been superintendent of the Dayton and Union, has, it is said, been appointed superintendent of the eastern division of the above road, with headquarters at Jersey City, N. J. WEST SHORE RAILWAY.--General Manager J. D. Layng, makes the following announcements: Mr. William Buchanan is appointed superintendent of motive power and rolling stock. His office will be at the Grand Central depot, New York City. Mr. James M. Boon is appointed assistant superintendent of motive power and rolling stock. His office will be at Frankfort, N.Y. General auditor J. W. Rheinhart has issued the following: On and or equaling this. The net earnings are not GRAND TRUNK.-The traffic receipts of the Pas'ng'r Freight train train Total Ernings E'rng's after January 1, 1886, the freight accounts, UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY.-General passenger agent J. W. Morse announces that Mr. F. L. Lynde, formerly in the service of the company at Denver, Col., is appointed travelling agent in charge of passenger district No. 14, vice R. P. Rollins, transferred to district No. 21. Mr. T. P. Vaille, who has been passenger agent at Buffalo, N. Y., has been transferred to Philadelphia as travelling passenger agent. The following appointments took effect January 1, by order of general superintendent S. T. Smith. Mr. C. N. Pratt, assistant general storekeeper, with office at Omaha., Neb.; Mr. J. H. Stafford, division storekeeper, Nebraska divisions and branches, with office at Omaha, Neb., vice C. N. Pratt, promoted; Mr. C. H. McKibbin, chief inspector of supply department, with headquarters at Omaha, Neb.; Mr. E. H. Barnes, division engineer, Colorado division, with office at Denver, Col., vice J. H. Collins, resigned. The following changes heretofore referred to, are thus officially announced: Mr. P. P. Shelby is hereby appointed assistant general traffic manager of this company, with headquarters at Salt Lake City, Utah. His authority will rank that of the general and assistant general freight agent. Mr. J. A. Munroe is appointed general freight agent, with headquarters at Omaha, Neb. Mr. J. S. Tebbets is appointed assistant general freight agent, with headquarters at Kansas City, Mo. Mr. E. H. Barnes, of Bedford, Pa., has been appointed resident engineer of the Colorado division of this road at Denver, in place of Mr. Collins. Gross earnings 1885. Estimated. $10,755.000 8.005,000 $2,750,000 targetman who drew two men's pay also did two men's work. For four years he has lived in that little shanty, night and day. Not ten hours in all that time has he been farther from the crossing than the little frame house where he ate his meals. Twenty-four hours a day and 365 days a year he has been on the lookout for approaching locomotive head-lights and smokestacks. Of course he could not have performed such service as this without assistance, but all the assistance he had was that of an automatic signal rigged up by himself during a few of his many leisure hours. Stretching an old piece of telegraph wire half a mile up the track in each direction, he drew it taut and affixed a connecting trigger to the surface of the rail, so that the wheels of every apstate-proaching engine would pull the wire and drop an old hat into his face as he slept in his shanty. By this means he was enabled to secure plenty of sleep between trains, and at the same time be sure of being awake and on duty whenever needed. Every pay day he presented at the car not only his order, but that of the imaginary night targetman, properly indorsed, and thus received the pay for two men's work. The story is told upon the auwho adds that the question now is whether the thority of an official of the interested company, man shall be compelled to give up one of his salaries or be permitted to continue his little scheme. It is admitted that his duties have always been faithfully performed.—[Chicago Herald. 1884. $2,699,945 increase of $21,657. One third of this by Balance, 1885, $83,000; 1884, $61,343; an NEW YORK CENTRAL AND HUDSON RIVER. 1885. 1884. Surplus Balance.. $519,000 $35,659 Earned on Stock. .....1.6 per ct. 1.53 perct. NORTHERN PACIFIC.-The earnings for the six months ending December 31 were divided as follows: July.. October.. November.. Weighing Freight Cars. COMMISSIONER J. R. WHEELER, of the Western Railway Weighing Association, has just completed his statistics for the year 1885. It is shown that during the month of December 54,907 cars of freight were weighed, against 45,053 during December, 1884--an increase of 9,854 cars, and against 42,746 cars in December, 1883. The following table shows the number of cars weighed during the year just ended as compared with the preceding year: MONTH. January . $1,022,438 -$22,427 February 1884. -61,313 March. +60,774 April.. 1885. Inc. or Dec. 970,289 1,032,602 +135,683 May. 758,239 +43,593 June.. December...... 801,823 Total 6months.$6,772,425 September 12 months.......11,387,855 12,613.915 -1,226,060 August.. Double Pay But No Sinecure. Four years Not many miles from Chicago lives a target November December.. Totals.. As each car weighed represents a gain of $5 they saved $3,392,395 by means of this assoto the railroads it will be seen that during 1885 ciation. The inspection bureau has also done good work during the year, saving the roads no less than $250,000.-Chicago Inter-Ocean. ALTHOUGH reports to the contrary have circulated, there is quite a boom at present in the construction of railway equipments. Only a short time ago representatives of the different car and locomotive construction companies were competing strongly to secure new contracts, and at low prices. The number of contracts now offered is so large that some of these construction companies have found it to their made. Barney, Smith & Co., of Dayton, Ohio, interest to cancel some propositions recently have all they can do for months to come while the Pullman company has contracts on hand to last until the end of May. Among the lines about to give new contracts is the Northwestern Road, which is about to build twenty firstclass cars, for which the contract will be let in a few days.-Chicago Inter-Ocean. |