Adams Express Company, rate fifteen cents per hundred weight, and $10.00 per month for messenger service. United States mails, usual terms. The Western Union Telegraph Company and this company own line jointly, the former receiving all revenue. PITTSBURGH, MCKEESPORT AND YOUGHIOGHENY RAILROAD COMPANY. Operated by Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company. Date of organization: August 4, 1881. Under laws of what government or state organized: Pennsylvania, act April 4, 1868, which is a supplementary act of April 19, 1849. If a consolidated company, name the constituent companies: Pittsburgh, McKeesport and If a reorganized company, give name of original corporation, and refer to laws under which it was organized: Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. Date of last meeting of stockholders for election of directors: January 26, 1897. Leased January 1, 1884, for 999 years, from August 3, 1881, by the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company; that company and Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company guarantee six per cent. interest on bonds, and six per cent. dividend on stock. United States Government Postoffice Department based on a rate per mile. Western Union Telegraph Company: Contract made May 1, 1884. Telegraph company to furnish poles, wires and insulators, etc., and railroad company to set poles and collect charges on commercial messages. Agreement made July 8, 1894, between the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, and the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad Companies, and William H. Vanderbilt, providing for an increase of the bonds and stocks of the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad Company. Agreement between the Baltimore and Chio, the Pittsburgh and Connellsville and the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad Companies, providing for a crossing and for a lease of a branch line by the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad Company to the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghicgheny Railroad Company. Lease of the West Youghiogheny branch of the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad to the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad Company, dated October 6, 1882, to which as parties are the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Pittsburgh and Connellsville, and the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghicgheny Railroad Companies. Agreement dated August 10, 1882, between the Youghiogheny Northern Railroad Company and the H. C. Frick Coke Company and the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad Company, providing for the lease of the Youghiogheny Northern Railroad Line to the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad Company. Lease of the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghlogheny Railroad to the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company, dated January 1, 1884. Agreement dated January 20, 1882, between the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Companies, and the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghio gheny Railroad Company and William H. Vanderbilt, providing for the construction of the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad. Agreement dated January 20, 1882, between the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Companies, providing for the operation of the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railrcad in the interest of the two said companies. Agreement dated October 7, 1890, between the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company, providing for the merger and consolidation of the McKeesport and Belle Vernon Railroad Company, with the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad Coinpany. PITTSBURGH AND MOON RUN RAILROAD COMPANY. Date of organization: February 10, 1891. Under laws of what government or state organized: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Date of last meeting of stockholders for election of directors: January 21, 1897. PITTSBURGH AND NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY. Under laws of what government or state organized: General railroad laws. If a consolidated company, name the constituent companies: Pittsburgh and Northern Railroad Company, lessee of Evergreen Railroad Company. Date of last meeting of stockholders for election of directors: January 11, 1897. The Pittsburgh and Northern Railroad (and Evergreen Railway) extends from Bennett, Pa., to Brookfield, Pa.. both in Allegheny county. It is a suburban road, and has no traffic arrangements with any other company, nor track connection with any other railroad. The business is entirely and exclusively local and the stock is owned by the Pittsburgh and Western Railway Company, and the road is under the management of that company. This report includes the Evergreen Railway, which is operated as a portion of the Pittsburgh and Northern Railroad. PITTSBURGH, VIRGINIA AND CHARLESTON RAILWAY COMPANY. Operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Date of organization: October 4, 1868. Under laws of what government or state organized: Pennsylvania, act of incorporation April 8, 1867. Supplements March 31, 1868; April 2, 1869; February 4, 1870; April 6 and 16, 1870; March 3, 1870; May 9, 1871, and February 7, 1873. If a consolidated company, name the constituent companies: Brownsville Railway Company, chartered October 6, 1875. Pittsburgh and Whitehall Railroad Company, chartered November 9, 1882. The McKeesport and Bessemer Railroad Company, articles of association filed October 29, 1888. The Brownsville and State Line Railroad Company, articles of association filed February 6, 1893. Monongahela River and Streets Run Railroad Company, letters patent issued January 2, 1892. Date and authority for each consolidation: April 20, 1880, certificate of consolidation filed May 11, 1880. March 27, 1888, certificate of consolidation filed May 14, 1888. Date of last meeting of stockholders for election of directors: May 4, 1897. Postoffice address of general office: General office Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Philadelphia, Pa. |