, 1872-11-28
RAILROAD MATTERS.
7
Immigrant Abuses to be Re-
formed.
The Great Postal Route---Completion of
a Double Track.


Additional Union Stock Yards
Accommodations.
\ a few weeks ago TEE TRIBUNE made 3 COM
.plete expose OF the Immigrant business, IS car
Tied on IN this city, wherein it showed ts14cgross
abuses and impositions had been for years prac-
uced upon the lmmi grants by ao-ca1led reapecta
BILE corporations, and that the city Was entirely
without public system whereby the inmi grant
might receive protection. The revelations then
made caused much astonishnent. It Was known
that impositions were often practiced. but the
existence OF such system Ut Wholesale abuse,
permitted, and often sustained, by men from
whom the immigrant might reasonably expect
protection, was not suspected; and when
known, caused much righteous indignation
The publication of the charges has been produc-
tive ct considerable good. It has awakened the
foreign-born population Of the city to watchful-
ness regarding their brethren 'just in from
the old country which bids fair to effect a COM
plete reform in the immigrant business of the
city,-a reform devoutly to be wished for, for
the situation Of the Immigrant upon
his arrival in strange land is, at the best,
dreery and discouraging.
Among the reforms recently begun for the
convenience and protection Of Immigrants, the
Lake Shore d Michigan Southern Railroad
Company propose to put on their road, about
the 9th Of December, special train for
immigrants. It Will be run at the ordinary
speed Of passenger trains, and viii consist OF
neat and comfortable enrs constructed M & tor 1 the
,nana1ers OF tie road are determined
hereafter thas no immigrants arriving in
tha e I }1s' to thu. sn they aS7o will Sea ognes
simultaneously with the starting Of this train,
O., ;,nm;rrant bureau which shall offer to i'm
mie1ants efcure protection from imposition.
This action Of the Lake shore Road,, - very
fated by ali he railroad companies Of this city.
Tbev ara largely responsible for the outrageous
treatment that immigrants have received, aud it
lies with them to effect reform OF the present
miserable system
r. ia claimed bv }he Lake Shore and.Mlchigan
sonthern Railway that their road is the greatest
rostal route in tie United States Eight postal
are empioyed o. the cars, and the force will
soon be incresJed. Trains going east carry dali
II an average Of l8o, 900 letters. This does not
include hs large 7g6gts mail mai? heh weh
S east carries tep postal clefRs, who
make up ths mail for $50 Offices along the line.
The managers OF the road have recently put up
oTer o. 5000 each. Superintendent Banks, Of the
nnitea States Railway Postal Depsz.Aaent. has
selected this road Us one Of the proposed roureo
for the India and Asiatic mails soon to be car, car,
led through this country. These mails vii
swell the amount Of mail matter passing over
the Lake Shore road to eight times its present
bulk, and it will be necessary tor the road
II-7ln train composed entirely OF postal ca5s
By thss proposed arrangement India and Aai:t.o
mails III save eight days, and it is therefore
thoughAfhat it will be inargurated as soon as g .
short MSa Of railroad, Es'np1ng from fhe SOUTH
coaFt Of ew Bfuns"lck to TIE in1erao1 % as COIL 9he
spathway\ around the work" :" Will be opened
through Chicago, which Will fx our destiny IS
tie future gEeat city Of the interior.
A HoERLE TRACK COMPLETED.
The lake Ehore Road has completed its double
track from {nicago to Buffalo, 539 miles, with
the e1cepti:tl Of 80 miles between Erie and
Dunkirk, enG. this gap will shortly be filed. OF
this; 400 miles are laid with steel rails, which
nre being rapidly substituted for iron over the
whole route.
now erecting in tbs e't5 By this ROAD, would
partial suspension Of the A,oericaa Bridge Com
pany, who were the coutra.tors for the iron
work of the truss-roof- The york has been re-
sumed, and the compsn. expect to
iii far surpsss the old one in architectural eIe
eance and size. It covers over two and . half
scres of ground, and Will cost from $3.50, 900 to
e400, ,o00. It is safe to say that this depat will
not be surpassed in stately appearance By any
similar structure in the United States
STOCK YARD ACCOMMODATIONS.
Long before the completion Of the Union
Stock Yards, the Pittsburgh d Fort Wayne, and
running dummy trains between that suburb and
the city, and for time the facilities for getting
to and from The yards, furnished by these two
routes, proved ample. But the rnpid ex-
the ecnsequent large increase in the number Of
Sisitcrss attracted thither, by business or Gu
rioslty;; called for Increased accommodations,
and, in res1onse to this can in the summer Of
1nenced runIng a line Of buses on Ha1sted
street IRON the :ufas to Twenty-second street.
The Pittsburgh Fu-t Wayne and the State
street dummies Ware also Induced to make more
frequent Trips. ant, up to within comparatively
3 recent period, !.c7o vas no occasion for com,
plaint On aceoont7f lack Of TRANSPORTATION.
4 few months s.he paper numerously signed
vas presented % % %tlmsnagers Of the Chicago
a train for the accommodation Of packers,
commission men. shipnrs. and others engaged
in business at and in the-icnity Of tho Yards,
but their prayer vas not gented. 4 little more
than T. fortnight ago, when he prevalence Of the
eptzootic caused Q; suspension & travel by horse
power, the Lake Shore t. Michigan Southern
Tere importuned to furnish the rnuch-needed
increase in facilities for reaching the yards In
compliance With th1a request an ncconnmodatlon
Harrison street ut 6:1o o. m, 7:S q. m, 2:25 p;
m. $50 p. m., and 1880 p. m, t1py arrive at the
Stock Yards at 6:45 q. m, 4:10 3 m, 300 p. m.,
sos p. m, and 6:o4 p, NJ. To Pittsburgh &
Leave Madison street depot at 6:20, 500 and
1000 3. M; at l201, 2:36, and 80 p. m., and
arrive at the yards at $3.50, $3.50, ind 1890 3. NJ
and at 1880, 500, and $50 p. NJ By the State
stroet line two horse-cars leays Thirty-fourth
street every half hour.
THE CITY IN Brief.
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