The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-17

the road being limited. Great interest is
week.
The evil of deadheadism ON railroads has
been turned TO personal profit by some OF
the western conductors. The masses are
sometimes lent by the persons 10 whon,
they are issued The conductor may take
advantage of this in the manner described
by one OF them as follows: "A man
handed me senator's pass. Now,
sald l, you are not Senator -
could see that he wouldn
have the thing get out for hundred dol
lars. lie tried to smile, but looked deter
mined. Then he began to enter into a long
explanation OF how Senator - had pressed
the pass upon Lin, and wound up by hand
ing me twenty dollar bill to paw his fare
When told hun that would have trouble
TO get the note changed he smiled, and
said Never mind, so | kept the whole
blii "A detective has caught several con-
ductors at this trick.
Twelve thousand shares of stock of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton Il DAYTON railroad
company were represented in meeting TO
consider the best interests of stockholders
III was agreed to prepare paper for sigma
lures agreeing To surrender the stock TO
Three trustees, with power to act in leasing
the road FOR u term of years William
Hooper, Henry Hama, and Nj. Work were
agreed on Us trustees, in case the majority
OF stockholders sign the agreement
force OF l2,OOu men are at work on the
New York, West Shore d Buffalo railway,
says New York newspaper, between Corn
wall and Syracuse, and the contracts call
for the completion of the grading to the lat
ter point by September list As this road
| pursues the course of the New York Cen
tral u Hudson River railroad very closely
except that IT runs along the opposite side
OF the Hudson and Mohawk rivers il will
naturally be the greatest rival of the Van.
derbill line in New York state. The proiec-
tors claim Tor the road a shorter route
! lighter, grades, and fewer curves than the
central The tunnels at West Point and
HaVerstraw, are approaching completion,
and the Athens branch, purchased Il short
time ago from the Central, is being
converted into double track road.
Inc route west of Syracuse,
with the exception of n stretch of fifty or
sixty miles, has been laid out. Rights of
way have been secured rs far west as a
point nifty miles beyond. Syracuse, and the
/ construction company is preparing to let
the contracts through to Buffalo. The road
/ will be doube-tracked, and the work of
laying the iron will begin in the spring.
The projectors expect that the road will be
( completed its entire length and cars run
ming before the end of the present wear.
The North River construction company, OF
New York, is building the road. The roll.
ing-stock has been contracted for, and la
engines and large number of passenger
and freight cars are being built. The
Pullman Palace-Car company is construct
ing the passenger equipments, East o.
Syracuse the West Shore runs parallel fol
five or six miles with the Syracuse, Che.
mango 4 New York railroad, which is forty
four miles long, and which extends south
easterly from Syracuse to Earlyi!le, where
it intcrsects the New York, Ontario & West
ern-the old Midland. The West Shore
and the Midland are closely allied, and the
Chenango Valley road, as it is known
would have afforded n short cut between
the two a. an important point An officer
of the West Shore, in explaining why hi,
road did not attempt to secure il, said il
was road OF heavy grades and not we'll con
structed. Besides, il owned no property il
Syracuse of value, and il was involved il
, litigation which might last for years ant
} make it cost more than it was worth. Al
though the distance was little longer, In,
connection with the Midland ut Oneid,
would afford ample facilities.
FREGGuTs.
, On cotton, from Dallas, are as follows:
Per 100 Pounds. Per 100 Pounds
St Louis .,.....S IS New York ...,S 81 /
Boston .,..,,,,,,.. l 10 New Orlcans.... S