LIST OF TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE COMPANIES NOT IN OPERATION. List of telegraph and telephone companies to whom charters have been granted but whose lines have not been constructed or are not in operation exhibiting amount of authorized capital, capital paid in and amount paid for organization, construction, etc. The following named corporations having failed to make reports for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, as required by law, were duly certified to the Attorney General for the collection of the penalty of five thousand dollars which the law imposes for such failure to report. STEAM. Blue Mountain Railroad Company. STREET. Bloomsburg Electric Railway Company. Brady Street Railway Company. Braddock, Wilmerding and Pitcairn Railway Company. Citizens' Street Railway of Lackawanna County. Collingdale Street Railway Company. Columbia and Marietta Electric Railway Company. DuBois Traction Company. East Reading Electric Railway Company. Federal Street and Pleasant Valley Passenger Railway Company. Jackson and Porter Streets Railway Company. Merion Avenue Passenger Railway Company. Muncy Valley Street Railway Company. North End Street Railway Company. Norristown and Perkiomen Creek Electric Railway Company. People's Street Railway of Chester. Philadelphia and Ardmore Passenger Railway Company. Philadelphia and Trenton Street Railway Company. Philadelphia and Rosemont Passenger Railway Company. Pittsburgh, Allegheny Valley and Manchester Passenger Railway Company. Pittsburgh and North Side Traction Company. Pittsburgh Union Passenger Railway. Radnor, Haverford and Philadelphia Passenger Railway. Sanatoga, Royersford and Collegeville Electric Railway Company. Sheridan Terrace Passenger Railway Company. Slatington Street Railway Company. United Traction Company, of Pittsburgh. Valley Electric Street Railway Company. CONSOLIDATIONS, REORGANIZATIONS, &C. The following named corporations have been reported as consolidated with other corporations. STEAM. Altoona, Clearfield and Northern Railroad Company, sold at judicial sale and re-organized April 17, 1897, as Altoona and Beech Creek Railroad Company. Buffalo and St. Mary's Railroad Company merged into the Buffalo, St. Mary's and South Western Railroad Company January 29, 1897. Butler and Pittsburgh Railroad Company merged into the Pittsburgh, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company December 22, 1896. Carbon Limestone Railroad Company merged into Mahoning State Line Railroad Company. Emporium and Mt. Jewett Railroad Company merged into Mt. Jewett, Cleremont and Northern Railroad May 26, 1897. Falls Creek Railroad Company merged into Reynoldsville and Falls Creek Railroad January 11, 1897. Hanover and York Railroad Company merged into York, Hanover and Frederick Railroad Company January 7, 1897. Little Saw Mill Run Railroad Company merged into West Side Belt Railroad Company July 6, 1897. Mifflin and Centre County Railroad merged into Sunbury and Lewistown Railroad. Mount Jewett and Smethport Railroad Company merged into Mt. Jewett, Cleremont and Northern Railroad May 26, 1897. Olean, Oswayo and Eastern Railroad Company merged into New York and Pennsylvania Railroad September 10, 1896. Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company sold under foreclosure September 23, 1896, and re-organized as Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company. Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Railroad merged into Pittsburgh, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad December 22, 1896. St. Mary's and South Western Railroad Company merged into Buffalo, St. Mary's and South Western Railroad January 29, 1897. STREET. Dunmore Street Railway, People's Street Railway Company, of Luzerne county, Scranton Passenger Railway, Scranton Railway Company and Valley Passenger Railway were merged and consolidated into the Scranton Railway Company December 18, 1896. Uniontown Street Railway Company sold at judicial sale and re-organized as Uniontown Electric Railway July 12, 1897. Glenwood and Dravosburg Passenger Railway, McKeesport and Reynoldton, Railway, Pittsburgh, Glenwood and Homestead Passenger Railway, Second Avenue Passenger Railway, Second Avenue Traction Company and the Turtle Creek Valley Passenger Railway were consolidated and merged into The Second Avenue Traction Company. Pittsburgh Union Passenger Railway and Pittsburgh, Allegheny and Manchester Passenger Railway consolidated and merged into Pittsburgh, Allegheny and Manchester Traction Company. Central Passenger Railway consolidated and merged into the Central Traction Company. ROADS STRICKEN FROM THE LIST. The following named roads have been stricken from the list by reason of abandonment by decree of court, forfeiture of corporate rights, annullment of charter, etc. Bloomsburg Belt. Bridgeport. STEAM RAILROAD COMPANIES. Chartiers Connecting. Cleremont and Marion Creek. Conshohocken Connecting. Easton and Philadelphia. Essington and Chester. Langhorne and Bristol. Monongahela River and Snowden. Moosic Mountain and Carbondale. Philadelphia, Honesdale and Albany. Pittsburgh Connecting. Redstone Connecting. Reynoldsville, Warren and Buffalo. Schuylkill Junction. Schuylkill River West Side. Scranton and Bald Mount. South Easton and Philipsburg. Streets Run and Dravosburg. Susquehanna. Tylerdale. Union Transfer and Exchange. Washington Connecting. Wilcox. Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport. |