. Railway age . Three-Position Hiijinit hrithjfn in Fig. 2—Broad Street Station Looking West;Signals, Upward Inclination.(mill iinv liiiilinitrril niintnl-iinii >iii inch imsl. On ihiIhi tlinlanif Ihi olil siiiiiiila iiri ulill in «»S trains each week day. lu the Inst five years the trafficat this station has increased S per cent, annually, and in IHOT thenumber of passengers, in and out, was 21,318, Fig. 3—Nine Tracks on Viaduct Leading to Broad Street Station,Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia,^iru lodilcis cunncctinij ciuht ul the trucks; duublc sUp» at all crossinua. GENERAL NEWS
. Railway age . Three-Position Hiijinit hrithjfn in Fig. 2—Broad Street Station Looking West;Signals, Upward Inclination.(mill iinv liiiilinitrril niintnl-iinii >iii inch imsl. On ihiIhi tlinlanif Ihi olil siiiiiiila iiri ulill in «»S trains each week day. lu the Inst five years the trafficat this station has increased S per cent, annually, and in IHOT thenumber of passengers, in and out, was 21,318, Fig. 3—Nine Tracks on Viaduct Leading to Broad Street Station,Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia,^iru lodilcis cunncctinij ciuht ul the trucks; duublc sUp» at all crossinua. GENERAL NEWS SECTION NOTES. The Erie lanal Is to be opened May 5. F. A. Delano, President of the Wabash, has been chosen Presi-dent of the American Hallway Association. At Chicago last Wednesday Judge Kohlsaat in the United StatesCircuit Court enjoined the,five principal express companies fromissuing franks or carrying interstate commerce in exchange forIran its. At a hearing before the State Tax Board at Indianapolis. 15, an officer of the Standard Oil Co. lestifled that in the lastyear the business of the Union Tank Line had resulted in a netloss of $169,073. A Chicago preas despatch says tliat the Chicago Subway Com-pany has lost the mail contract, and that the government will re-store the old system of horse and wagon transportation between thepost ofllce and the railroad stations. The New York
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