The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-01-09

Jay Gould is expected in Galveston about
this time.
r, T. Wilson says the Macen e. Brunswick
railroad will be completed in the near future.
Waco has raised enough to secure depot
grounds in the city and the right Of way
through the county for Gould's NJ, X. & 7.
extension, and is happy.
An appraiser is new inspecting tho prop.
erty of the Railway Express company, visit
ing the Offices along the line of the company
for the purpose of fixing the value of the
property, preparatory to its transfer to the
Adams and Southern.
1t is only two or three years since Mr..
Vanderbilt, during the scramble among tie
railroads for the limited amount Of business
then offered, remarked: "Four trunk lines to
the east and not business enough for one ~
Now Mr.. Vanderbilt is unable to take care of
the traffic which ia poured upon his great
four-track line, while all tho oihsr roads arc
similarity blockaded with business.
The Massachusetts, railroad commissioners
have, for the second time, refused to grant
any routes for the proposed elevated railroads
in Boston, and seem to consider the proposed
schemes impraetieabe, on account Of the
damage to property if the roads were built.
Philadelphia does not consider elevated roads
good things either, in consequence of the
damage to property and fear Of passengers of
accidents.
A Providence citizen on bcard'of a Boston
and Providence railroad train refused to give
up his ticket because the conductor did not
furniEh him with suitable seat. Upon his
arrival q. Providence he was arrested, and
spent the following night in cell He
afterwards brought suit against the company,
and the court awarded him $3.50 damsges,
and the supreme court has now affirmed the
decision.
The Atlanta Constitution wants tho Geor-
gis Western road, and wants it bad, but it
does not believe any of the corporations now
"fooling" with it intend to build it. The
Constitution says conhdentiSlly: at never
will be bull. if we await the action of eorpo-
rstions whose axes are not our axes. We
have got TO build the road, and we should
buill il, because we would be its great bene.
ficisries. And the sooner we get down to
business-that is, the sooner We go down to
cur own pockets instead OF those of the PEG
pie Of Duluth or SkowhOgsn better"
Colonel McGhee, vice president and mana
ger of tho Wilson e. McGhes systems, 10 dis.
cu,sing the condition OF the south, said 81
never saw such prosperity as we have in East
Tennessee at present The whole country
is teeming with produee Of oil sorts, and it
looks as if the material wealth of that favored
ssctio2 were exhaustess. Our trains are
loaded to their capacity all the time. Ia
deed, il would be impossible for our roads to
earn another dollar than they arc now earn
ing with their present rolling stock. They
are carrying all that tho cars will hold and
the engines can pull"
The trouble between tho Baltimore g.
Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads on the juno
ton line to Philadel phis has been adjudi-
Gated by both the United States and state
supreme courts in Pennsylvania, and the do,
cisions, taken together are explicit, TO the
effect that, while the Pennsylvania company
is technically and legally the owner Of the
middle section of ths junction roaa-for that
section lies in the Pennsylvania yard, was
constructed by its men, and has never been
conveJed-yet its ownership is subject 10 a
clear and permanent right of the junction
company to run connecting lines back and
forth.
A granger member of the Illinois legisla-
turs his prepared and will introduce bill
in the legislature at the coming session to
prevent discrimination in passenger fares.
He calls attention to the fact that from where
he resides it costs him FIVE times as much to
go to ST. Louis or Chicago as it dees to go
from one end of the state TO the other. He
claims that after an excursion rate has lasted
beyond one week it becomes discrimination,
and he wants it stopped. The bill provides
that whenever through excursion rates are
established all intermediate poiats shall have
the privilege Of prora,e or proportional
reduction. In another provision of tho bill
all drawbacks or rebates after one week
are to cease and become void. This
patriotic granger, it is stated, is provided
with passes over all the roads, but never uses
them.
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