Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-03

Railroad Items.

Railroad Items.
Knows ExoUGH TO Go IN WHEN IT RAINS.
The Dubuque, Iowa, Herald, says the
Illinois Central always stops delivering
freight when it rains.
MUTUAL UNDERsTANDINe.-Ihe English
shareholders of the Great Western Railway
of Canada, at a meeting in London, ratified
the agreement with the Atlantic & Great
Western and Erie & Niagara Railways, for
the joint occupancy of the latter line, and
the running arrangement between the sew
eral parties to the agreement.
WxrER-BURS1xo FuRNAcEs.-Thsr New
York Central Railroad Company have six
locomotives on their road, the furnaces of
which are built on the WITHDRAWING plan
invented by DR.. VIM. E. Hagan of Troy.
The invention will soon be applied to TWEEN
ty-three more locomotives on the same road.
One pound of coal converts thirty pounds
of water into steam, and adds about fifty
per cent. to the heat generated by the coal,
A PAYING 0PERATIoN.-James I. ewett
received $5S from the New York Contra
Company, at Rochester, last week, for being
nut off the cars. Mr.. J. had stopped over
one train, and when he presented his ticket
the conductor refused to take it, and de-
manded pay for the trip. The law seems
to be different in the Canadian courts, for it
was decided the other day that even on a
ticket given for twenty days the holder had
no right to stop over at intermediate sta
tions.
GETTING "BLowED."-In London, on the
| 10th ult., a goods train was blown two siles
through a pneumatic tube in about five
minutes. The Duke of Buckingham and
several directors Of the company were blown
through in the same length Of time. Addi-
tional lengths of tubing are about to be
opened. A circular disc or fan twenty-five
inches in diameter is made to revolve rap
idly by steam power and can be used either
for propelling the laden trains by atmos-
pheric pressure behind them, or for draw
ing them back through the tube by forming
a partial vacuum before them.
REPORTED DIFFIoULTIEs."-We learn from
an exchange that the reports in relation TO
difficulties" with the Atlantic & Great
Western road are still i'll circulation. The
Erie road has no difficulty with the Great
Western, and simply refuses to surrender its
management to any other corporation, and
will in the future, as in the past, give the
Atlantic & Great Western all the counte-
nance to which it is entitled as a connect
ing road of similar guage. The private in
terests of prominent managers of the At
lantic & Great Western road may be served
by a separate route from Corey eastward
but its innocent shareholders may not be sc
fortunate.
ATLANTIC & GREAT WESTERN LOCOMOTIVE
MANUFAcToRY.-Eight locomotives are COM
pleted every month at the works of the At
lantic & Great Western railway in Jersey
City, besides the iron work for over one hun.
dred and fifty cars. The establishment in
addition has an extensive tire-rolling mill
where the locomotive wheels for a large
number of roads are prepared. 80 extern
sive has the branch of the locomotive man
ufacturing art become in this country that
the demand is now fully supplied at home
and importation is at all end. In the va
rious departments Mr.. McHenry employs
the services Of over seven hundred men.
New DEPoT IN DErRoIT.-Since the late
destruction by fire of the Michigan Central
railroad depot in Detroit, a new depot, about
so by $50 feet has been erected, and is being
daily extended in dimensions. The docks
in connection Herewith have been thor
oughly rebuilt. These improvements at
ford every necessary facility for the read!
dispatch of all freighting pertaining to tn,
interests of business men, importers, export
ers, and the company. Several hundrej
laborers are now at work in getting material
removing rubbish, &c, preparatory to tn
erection of another substantial and FIR
proof depot on the ground occupied by tn
former building.
EnrB A=,D pDrItsrDrArIa RAThROAD--1
!, Philadelphia paper speaks Of the rapid in
crease Of business of the Erie & Pennsylva