The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-24
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RAILROAD ITEMS.

trains in Texas TO at once re-
pair to this state.
Work progresses slowly ON the Jackson
vile, Tampa * Key West railroad, owingto
n scarcity oflaborer..
About sixty men, white and colored left
San Antonio the other day TO work on the
Sunset extension.
The line of the Florida Tropical railroad
has been located to Fort Dade, and the sur
veyors are pushing on towards Tampa with
all possible speed
The It. Augustine Press says the pros
poets for the completion of the Jacksonville
K 81. Augustine railroad by next fall are
good
The iron for laying the track of the A, 7.
Il NJ. railroad has been arriving at Euiaula
for the last week, to be shipped by boat to
Chattahoochee. Mr.. X. J. Woods has the
contract for moving it from the depot to
the wharf, and it is big job of hauling.
There are 10000 tons it.
A further reorganization of departments
of the Wabash is announced Mr.. Jacob
Johann is appointed general master me
chanic of the entire line; office, Springfield,
Illinois Mr.. T. II. Kohler is appointed
general master car-builder of the entire
line office, Toledo, Ohio. The general
master mechanic and general master car
builder will give oil general directions ana
/ instructions regarding the work TO be per
/ formed in their respective departments
| The machinery and car departments are
separated into divisions.
| In an interview Mr.. Pullman was asked |
if he had ever considered the propriety of
running cheaper sleepng.cars, so that less
than two dollars would be fair compensa-
ton for q berth. He replied that he had,
and said 81 have not only considered
that question, but | have run cars
on that principle. When the Pullman
cars we're put on the Michigan Central road
which at that time was the great line from
Chicago to New York, the president of the
road said to me: i see you are charging So
for bed. The Fort Wayne aud the Michi-
gan Southern roads are charging only $3.50.
1t will not do to charge 81 on this line
Said i: These cars are too elaborate and
have cost too much money to charge 81 LOO,
but will build you ears just as good as run
on either OF the other roads and charge the
same price, but ! want also to run my 81
. cars and let the people take their choice.
The American people want the best SO
when the passengers stepped up to the
. train at Detroit or Chicago, there was 81
car and car for Sl.5O The cheaper
car ran empty and the better cars
ran iuIl, Inc The passengers oo would oval wa'
and pass into the 81 cur, and there they
stopped 1t was n practical test of the
} price they would pay for the best thing.
On the other hand" said Mr. Pullman,
1.-THE railroads have to carry 100 pounds
extra weight for every passenger who occu-
pies 81 berth in Pullman car. You see
4 that the space two men occupy in the Pull
d man cars, each having haliseCtion, is
y occupied by four passengers in the ordinary
sitting cars. To ask the railroad comp any
4 to haul that weight for less than 81 is no
=, reasonable
" \ Cincinnati special dispatch to the Phil
d. adelphia Press, February 49, says:
5; The last of the sealed proposals for thu
completion of the Nicksburg, Shreveport 4
or Pacihc railroad for the last iorty-eigh
so miles, from Arcadia to Shreveport, were re
nh ceived at noon yesterday at the office G
General Manager John Scott, Cincinnati
Ohio. The bids are numerous, and most G
them are from eastern contractors. X. q
Huston a. Co. who built the ErlangersysteI
do have put in bid for grading, cross-tie
do and trestling the entire road. The Unto
de Bridge company also have bid on III
~ vS bridges and iron work. Superintendent
sH and ei-Engineer II. y. Delaney, now
Monroe, has orders to employ all the me
he can get, and at receipt of names secu
-. ing bids to turn the entire force over
les them and lush the road along as fast
possible. The road is now completed frol
Meridian, the southern terminus OF Il
Alabama & Great Southern road (Which
also part Oh the f.rlanger SYSTEM 10 MOnrO
10 When the line is completed to Shreve DOR
for a northern terminus of the Texas a. Paciii
,oo this entire southern system will be cor
ny pleted from Cincinnati.
nS The following roads now comprise Il
ne SYSTEM
rst Miles.
so The Cincinnati southern, from Cincinnati
nd; to Chattanooga ,.t.,.,,,,,. .,,,.-..,.. .
nj The Alabama & Great Southern road,
Is from Chattanooga TO Meridian. o.. y
Nicksburg ~ Meridian, between these
q Vicksburg, Shreveport 4 Pacific, compile.
ted between NiCksburg and Monroe,
Incomplete, for which bids are now being
80 received ,,,.,,....... ..,.....,...,. "
The Erlanger system, when Complet,
lch will have the shortest route to Cincinnati
ny and be the direct competitor with Il
No.. Louisville Il Nashville and the Huntin
wv ton system for southern and southwestcl
,rs business, Already the Louisville
ard Nashville system is feeling the results
thus combination, especially on the hi
-, mingham, Alabama business the Erang
ilS, line being twenty-six miles the shortC
~ route to that point, while on New Orlca
traffic the Louisville Il Nashville has HI
to reduce their freight tariff ten per cent.
The Baltimore e Ohio and the Erlang
system will work in harmony on businC