Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

The Chesapeake and ONO, Norfolk and
Western, aud Seabosrd and Roanoke Rail
road Companies have obtained control Of the
Old Dominion steamship line.
Certificates have been issued to the Sabine
aud Fast Texas Railway Company on ac-
count OF thirty-two miles, for sixteen sec
tons of land per mile of the road completed.
Rumors that break had occurred on the
Mississippi and Tennes ee railway yesterday
were Investigated and fully corroborated
from reliable sources, to be found on the
local page of this issue.
The train on the Cairo and St. Louis rail
road, last Monday evening was prevented
from entering Cairo by high water. 1t was
compelled to stop outside of the levee and
unload It's passengers, who had to make their
way into the city as best they could. Unless
the river falls considerably soon the Narrow
Gauge will probably be compelled to stop
operations entirely, at least so lar as Cairo is
concerned.
General Manager Scott, of the Cincinnati,
New Orleans and Texas railroad has issued
orders that porters OF the parlor cars will
not be allowed TO receive fees from passen-
gers, a notice to this effect being posted in
the cars. This is 4 move in the right direc-
ton, and should be enforced on the Pullman
lines. The tariff of charges for riding in the
parlOr cars Is fifty cents Tor each passenger
200 for miles or less, and 81 over 200 and
less than $50 miles.
The Brunswick (Gl.) Adcertiser and Appeal
of Saturday, contains extracts from letter
OF Mr.. +. Hubert, addressed TO Mr.. Fred
Wolfe, of the Erlanger system, extolling the
great works destined to result from that
grand Southern railway organization. A
careful perusal of the letter fails to discover
that the Memphis, Selma and Brunswick
"trunk line" is to play any part in the grand
achievements set forth in the picture. But
perhaps
The capacity of American business men
for gigantic enterprises and the tendency Of
American railroad management to deprive
the public of the benefits of free competi-
ton both are strikingly illustrated in the ia
teresting biographies of the late Senator
Wagner, who persisted in the railroad massa
ere on Friday night. In one of them, which
is printed in the editorial columns of the AL
bany Journal, it is auihoritatively said that
ian arrangement was on the eve Of Consum-
nation which would have made him praci-
cally master of the whole railroad sleeping
and drawing room car system of the coua-
try" When the p-odigious extent OF The
airoad lines in the United States is consid-
ered and the fast increasing amount of night
travel, the fact that il is possible for one per-
son to grasp its entire control is worthy of Sc
rious meditation.
The Hon. J. B. Simpson, general attorney
for the Chicago, Texas and Mexican Central
railroad, the Texas Trunk railroad, the
Anglo American Loan and Colonization
Company, and president of the Dallas Car
aud Agriculturi ii Implement Manufacturing
Company, and identified with other rail
roads and industrial enterprises, left Dallas,
Texas, Tuesday for Chicago, ard thence to
New York, from which hs sails for Europe.
He will visit London, Edinburgh, and other
cities in the interest OF the railroad and
manufacturing enterprises OF Dallas, includ-
ing large cotton factory He takes with
him a letter Of credit for 100000 from the
corporations he represents. He will also en-
deavor to harmonic, while East, the con-
hict0g elements in the Texas Trunk, Dallas
and Western, Gull and Pacific, and Texas
and Mexican Central Railroad Companies,
and establish an identity with each corpo-
ration.
New York Sua: ''The method proposed
b. NJ. Ancelin for heating railway cars,
namely, by the use of acetate OF coda in the
fo0t-warmers seems to have proved very sat-
isfactory on some OF the French lines. As is
well known, the substance thus employed has
considerable latent heat; dissolved at a Ger
tain te nperature it alb lorbs large quantity
Of hea, which becomes sensible during crys-
tallization in cooling. All that is required
is to fill the ordinary cases with sufficient
quantity OF the acetate, close them and place
tnCln IN a stove ABOUT 1UO Inc COOiitS Oh
n case thus charged and h9ated takes twelve
to fifteen hours. The warmers thereafter are
taken from the compartments and placed in
a Somewhere the crystals OF soda acetate
are dissolved-and are then ready for fresh
use" To the untraveled it may be we'll to
state that railway carriages in Europe are
heated only by tanks of hot water, which are
place under the passengers fest.
The Western North Carolina railroad has
now a force of between 1000 an1 5000
men working on their Pigeon river
division. This road was recently COM
pleted to Asheville, an old town in Western
North Carolina, and has the Wolf creek
branch running forty miles further West.
through the celebrated Warm SPRINGS, TO a
connection with the East Tennessee road at
Morristown. The Pigeon river division,
being built alongside that and the French
Broad rivers, is designed to be extended
through the Smoky Mountains to a western
outlet at Cleveland, Tennessee, through MUIR
ply, North Carolina, and the famous copper
mines at Ducktown. The road will be noted
for the grandeur of its scenery along the
Frauch Broad river, being fine any ON
the American continent; will prove val
liable connection of the Cincinnati Southern,
and will traverse a fine timbered country,
rich with many varieties of minerals.