Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-08-06
Rail Road Intelligence.

ed through the active competition Of the railNa,
companies, who have spared no expense in re
warding constructors for costly experiments.
ATLANTIC ASDsr. LAWRENCE Raj RoAD.--
The first train from MontreM arrived at Port
land, Maine, on the evening Of the 18th. ult., q
a quarter past seyenao' clock, and was welcomed
by salute Of thirty guns, and the ringing o
bells. The Mayor welcomed those of the trafl
in brief speech, and was responded to by Hon
Mr.. Pennoyer. The band played g God Saw
the Queen, 4 e Hail Columbia Sc. The i'm
mense crowd which filed and surrounded tn.
depot, rent the mir with loud cheers for the con
summation Of this great work:
DIvIDENDs or RAIIRoADs.-Hunt's Magazine
giFes the per centage dividends Of fifteen rail
roads in Massachusetts during the last fivt
years, and the total cost of said roads at the be
ginning Of eSch year These are the only roads
that have been in operation 50 long, except some
Of the short lines. We give The following re
@bnlts:
y january i, 1913, the fifteen roads cost $s4
855, 800; January /, 1853, 81 BOO, 500 Theil
net earnings il 1547 were$2, 680,674; in 1862
So, 9O4, 1874.
q. The average per centage Of dividends for the
last FIVE years are as follows: Boston and Prov,
idence, 81; Boston and Worcester, Z Boston
and Lowell, Z O.; Taunton branch, s; Nashua
and Lowell, 81; New Bedford and Taunton, 8;
Western, Z; Eastern, 8; Boston and Maine
s s.; Fitchburg, b; Connecticut rivers
Fall river, s.. s>$
RAILWAY TRANspoRTATIoNs.-W gather ,
number Of estimates as to the cost Of transpor
tation on railways from the American Railway
Times which win be found interesting. Tit
Times says they were prepared by one Of thu
most experienced and intelligent managers ane
Hunts magazine adopts them on this authority
Gast of RHn,ing Passenger Irafa acsM Forty Passes
~ II gers, One Hundred Ailes.
Locomotive power ut 40 cents per mile. $50 y
One luggage cts. per mile, too high) 9
One condact5s Per day ]: one brakeman $1-.... y
&27 O
Receptson 40 passengers, at ~ cs per mle 100 O
Net income ~. ............ ...$'2
The cost ofa nth eighty-two passen
gers ut one am arents per mile, isesti
mated at iasethe cost Of one additional car, Al
81 being the receipts at ss102 so makes
the net profit $73 so. The cost of train witt
one hundred and twenty passengers, is the samt
with the addition of one car, at So, making $31
theareceipts, at one cent per mile, making the
net profits $3.50.
OPENING OF THE FIRST RAILRoADIN AFRICA
Accounts from Alexandria, Egypt, of June 81
state that the Cairo and Alexandria Railway had
been partially opened. Azletterdated the 2lst
ssays:-
"a 1.-The first railway ever constructed in Africa
has been, for twenty-five miles from Alexandria
traversed this day by locomotives, and in the
land Of the Pyramids one more monument has
been added to the abiding splendor of the nest
There is to be more formal opening in asew
months, when the first section to the Nile il
completed. s..=
A LONDON PRINTING OFF1cE.-By eight o CLOCK
the whole body had arrived. Many of then
costumes resemble common laborers, others are
better Clad several are well dressed but all beal
in their countenance the appearance of men Of
considerable intelligence and education. They
have scarcely assumed irrespective stations
when blue mugs, containing each pint or hall
a pint Of tea or coffee, and attended either by 9
smoking hot roll, stuffed with yellow butter, OIL
by a couple Of slices of bread and butter, enter
the hall. The little girls, with well combed
hair, and clean, shining faces, bring their re
freshments, and carry them to those who have
not breakfasted at home. Before the empty
mugs have vanished, a boy enters the hall at q
fast walk with bundle under his arm, of morn
ing newspapers. This intellectual luxury, thu
compositors, by friendly subscription, allow
themselves to enjoy. From their connection
with the different presses, they manage to Obtain
the very earliest copies, and thus the news o.
the day is known to them; the leaders of the
different newspapers are criticised, applauded
or condemned-an hour OF two before the great
statesmen Of the country have received the OBJ
servations, the castigation, or the intelligence
they contain.
One would think that compositors would b.
as sick Of reading as grocer's boyis Of treacle
but that is not the case; it is proved that they
not only willingly pay for their newspapers, but
often indemnify one of their community for giving
up his work, and reading the news aloud to then
while they are laboring at their work; they viii
moreover, even pay him to read to them any
new book which they consider to contain inter
esting information. 1t of course requires very
great command of the mind to give attention to
what is read from one book when men are con.
stantly engaged in the creation Of another. The
apprentices and inferior workmen cannot attempt
to do this, but the great number, astonishing as
it may sound, can listen without injury to Their
vocation. Very shortly after 8o'clock the whole
body are at their work, at which, it may be OBJ.
served, they patiently continue, with only one
hours interval, until o'clock at night
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