Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-31
RAILROAD NEWS.

may have justice done him.
RAILROAD NEWS.
Railroad Time Tables. d
MEMPHIS AND LITTLE ROCK RAILROAD.
Through from Memphis to Little Rock in IA
hours. On and after Thursday, the liIh day
OF August, $50, until further notice. trains
will run daily tSundays exeeptedl as follows:
% ARRIyEs: LEAVES:
/ an 500 p m
Freight train will leave Hopetield Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays, at : am;
and Saturdays, as4 pm :
/ FerrybOat will leave the wharfbOat, loot OF
Union street, daily at 800 am.
Baggage checked through to Little Rock on
| ferrVboat. 3. u. WILLIAMS,
3eneraI Agent and superintendent.
B.P. ROBSON, Asst SGp't
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON RAILROAD.
ARRIVES: LEAvEs:
JuHction accommodat'n- s;p am. $50 pm
Somerviile secommod'n- 9:45 am. $40 pm.
Freight, with coach at
921 pm bDO am.
Ticket ofice, rs Main ST., cor. South Court.
MEMPHIS AND LOUISVILLE RAILROAD.
ARRIVES: LEAVE5:
/ Day Express. pm. 400 Am
Mint Express.------- 400 am. l:l5 pm.
Brownsville Accom-. $50 am. 5:5 pm
Railroad time Is minutes faster b city
time. Depot at head of Main street. Ticket
ONCE &7h Main St, one door north JEFFERSON
MISSISSIPPI AND TENNEssEE RAILROAD.
ARRIVES: SAVES
New Orleans Mail. daily 2:5 pm n@ pm.
Express, fs1n- am A~p'm
FFslgne aAiIy s:aO pm. 4:IOam.
6eypof At foot OF Main street. Ticket once,
g7k Main street, one door nerth OF JeGsrsSn
The Green Line Executive Committee
meets in Louisville on the LIST day or Sep
TENDER.
All the conductors on the Erie are mar
ried men. No single men are employed
in that capacity.
The 'dead weight" of a railway train in
the way of engine, water, cars, etc, Is
/ from 1900 to 1900 pounds for each passen-
ger, even in a well filled train.
The Pullman Palace Car Company, or
| 1snized in 1867 with a capital of 81 LOCO, 900,
has now increased it to Sss00O,0oo. IL runs
Its cars over fifteen thousand miles OF
railroads, and employs about three thou-
sand men.
A plumber on the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern has invented a ma
/ chine for supplying locomotives with
water. Also for watering hogs in cars by
means of a revolving joint attached TO
the tank. The cars can be flooded as they
pass and the animals thoroughly cooled.
Although Russia is obliged to import
most of OF its rails, it is the only country
in the world which nearly approaches
| the United States in extent of railroads.
Russia has at this time orders in England
to the amount of e3, coo for railway
materials of all kinds.
Tho Ecuornnr nf GrAnrOIa DrOClalulS a
reward of five thousand dollars for the
apprehension and delivery to the Sheriff
Of Barlow county, with sufficient evil
denee to convict, of the persons who
| DISTRACTED the State road, near Kingston.
about the 14th instant.
The financial agent of Arkansas In New
York saws the completion of the Memphis
and Little Rock railroad is positively as
sured by January LIST. The Little Rock
| and Fort Smith railroad is finished eighty
miles out from Little Rock, n rails Will
be down to Lewisburg in a few days. On
the. Little Rock, Pine Bluff and New
Orleans railroad t~hirty-fve miles are
graded and ready for ties, and lt Is sup
posed trains viii run through TO PIN
Bluff by January LIST.
TIE Mississippi, Ouachita and Red
River road has over 500 laborers en-
ployed, and about twenty miles OF road
bed has been prepared Tor the rails,
which are now on the ground. 1t IS as
serted that in less h twelve months
Arkansas will have over 500 miles Of rail-
road in operation through the richest sec
lions of the State
A meeting of the employees OF the
DAYTON and Michigan railroad organized
an Insurance company among themselves
| against accidents, and for mutual beneht
in case of sickness, etc, limiting pay
ment of compensation to twelve weeks.
| Officers were elected, and the enterprise
starts with one hundred members, with a
good prospect of adding a hundred or a
hundred and fifty more.
The total number of local passengers
carried by the Louisville and Nashville
railroad and branches, during the present
year, IS69-7O, was 375,S90; total through
passengers, SCOTS, making a total OF local
and through passengers OF 4o6,Ooo-snoW-
ing an increase of 81, 25S passengers for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1870, over
1868. Total mileage made by local and
through passengers, 27,SS0,0l5, and b
average mileage per passenger, % 9z-IOO
miles. The gross passenger earnings,
from through business, amounted to $685.
zig II, and from local, S529,2l6 q. Total
passenger earnings, for the year, Sl,OS4,-
ABS 98, showing an increase of $50, i4T AZ
over the fiscal year ending June 80, 1859.
We made brief mention in these col
uL1Lot 5Oni0 Jay oEOY " IAO IL "a
Mr.. Solomon Jones, of New Orleans, in
applying motive power to street cars and
similar vehicles. Mr.. Jones has recently
obtained patent for it, n we make the
following extract from the New Orleans
Republicans announcement of the
fact, and comments on the invention:
AFTER a long series of experiments, he
discovered that the Para rubber was capa-
BILE of stretching ten feet for every one of
its ordinary length, and that the retractile
power was He made q sytem
| of t~urniDgs, windings and twists of this
rubber power which would enable him to
| place it under any car without altering
It's present build, and which would give
/ him a power capable of propelling b a
car through the streets at a rate always at
| the command of the man in charge, and
/ capable of lasting the wear and tear of
| constant use for years. His machinery
was very simple, the rubber was
wound upon a drum, and the drum
once let looseth b car commenced to move
at q speed more than could be desired
were il not that it is under perfect com
mand from a simple system Of coss work
ing under the leverage power in the hands
| of the conductor. His model was sent to
| Washington to the Patent Office, and al
though it was not all he could wish, as
he was compelled to use a common gas
pipe rubber in place of the prepared
uA09OlLa ~ RAOkO5C5 W btOa ~ Roo1l0 WV
rigid scrutiny of office, famous for the
care and strictness of its examinations,
and a patent was issued to him, in con-
nection with Mr.. Bernard Terfloth, one
Of our well-known mechanics, for this
new invention. For street ears two bands
Of the rubber, two and a half inches in
diameter and ifty-six feet in length each,
will be used. Each piece viii be at
tached to a separate drum, and as
the stretch of the rubber will
be ten 70 81 for one, $50 feet viii be run of
the drum before il becomes necessary to
use its fellow drum. In running of this
$50 feet, a distance of 1875 feet, over two
miles, viii be traversed by the cars; the
other drum s then called into requisition,
aud while it is propelling tho car, the ex-
hausted drum is wound up by the same
Leverage which the conductor uses to stop
and control the car. The only trouble the
CONDUCTOR has Is to throw the lever off the
drum in motion, a simple Operation,
which can be reversed in q minute, II it
becomes necessary to stop the cars The
present cost Of running q street railroad
car is over $1,000. a year, independent of
whose value must be between six
and eight or nine hundred dollars.
With the new arrangement, the cars are
put in running order with the rubber mo-
tive owe at an expense Of about $3.50 3
car, and have, while running, only the
$50 q month to pay the driver or con-
ductor, whatever he may be called. The
rub5er will certainly last as long as the
car viii run, and the machinery it moves
is not calculated to wear out fast, as there
oan ha varv liffla friatf0n ~ oOr urhaal.