Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-08
RAILWAY RECORD.
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRAINS

Chesapeake, Ohio and sOathH esferu-
Trains move as follows: Mail Leaves dsiIy. ex.
cept Sunday. at 400 pm; freight leaves daily at
$50 am. Mail arrives daily. except Sunday, al
sam; freight arrives daily at $40 pm
Memphis and Little RoeEETTains move
as loHoWs; Passenger No leaves daily at 10
an. Passenger No. arrives daily at 6:4O am. ;
freight aFEyes aaidy' except sunday at 90 pm;
as follows, city time; Mail and express leaves
daily at II ~ pm; fast mail and express leaves
daily at 1923 an somerville accommodation
leaves daily, except sunday, at Is pm. Mail and
e1psess arrive dalIy az 8;2o am; fast mail aud
express arrives daily at $40 pm; somerville
eommodaton arrives daily, except Sunday, al
Louisville and NsshyIIIe-TIains move
a. follows: Fast mail arrives daily at 10 a.
am: Brownsville accommodation leaves daily.
except sunday, 4;55 pm; mail arrives daily at
$50 pm; Brownsville accommodation arrives
daily, except Sunday, at S:35 a.m.
mississippi and Tennessee Trains move
ssrdis accommodation leaves daily, except sunday,
II $50 pm; freight leaves daily, exceTt sunday
at G.2j m. Mail arrives daily al 900 am Sardis
accommodation arrives daily, except Sunday at
$40 am; freight arrives daily, except sunday al
$50 pm.
injunction Against the Grand Trunk.
MONTREAL, February An injunction
has been applied for by the shareholders to
restrain the Grand Trunk railway from
guaranteeing the bonded debt and interest OF
its new western connections until the liabili-
ties under agreement are ascertained and
determined.
Gable street iIroads-DescrIption OF
the Chicago Enterprise-
Chicago Tribune.
About year ago Superintendent Holmes
conceived the idea OF constructing in Chicago
a system of cable street railways, and with /
this plan in his mind he went out TO San |
Francisco to look into the workings of the |
road there. Alter carefully examining the |
system, he returned to Chicago, consulted |
with a number Of practical engineers and I
mechanics, and one day he dropped into |
Mayor Harrison's office and submitted to him /
plans Tor the proposed new road. The |
mayor looked over the plans carefully and |
expressed it az his opinion that if carried |
ont the enterprise would be, unqualified |
success. With this assurance ordinance
10 build the road was introduced into the
council about ten months ago, and was passed
without the opposition which was expected
il would meet. The real work on the road
begun about August 18th last, and the
street was virtually flashed by December
9TH. There were nine miles of track laid
during these four months. The amount of
material used in the construction of
the road was az follows: 100000 pounds of
iron, 500 tons OF steel rails, 100000 feet of
lumber for stringers, $1,000 wagon-loads of
crushed stone gravel and sand for the con-
crete, several thousand barrels of cement,
81 ,945 square yards OF paving stone, 100000
bolts, 225,000 brick and $50 cords of rubtle
stone IN the excavations About 1900 mon
and $50 teams are employed in the WORK
Everything except the Jokes and the iron
which forms the slots was prepared in the
compaDys shop ia this city. The whole
work was carried on under the immediate
supervision of Superintendent Holmes, to
whose energy and industry the success of the
enterprise Is due great measure. From
time to time the Tribune has printed descrip-
lions OF the workings of the new road, but
brief sketch of the way it is operated may
be OF interest at this time. The engine | :
house, where the power which runs the road
is generated, is situated at the northwest COR
ner OF State and Twenty-first street, and was
constructed expressly for this purpose
In it are four 250.horse-power en-
gnes and four boilers, and the !
cable now in working order is operated by
one of these engines and one boiler. The
cable is composed of the best quality OF
Swede's iron, with ia strands OF {
wire in the rope-six large strands of {
nineteen wires each. Attached to each
engine are two large winders, around which {
this cable passes, and two large cog-wheels. {
minute, the cogs SO and the piston I
r. The cable passes from one of the /
winders out to large set-Rheel under
the street and around that to the small pull I
ley wheels in the cable chamber on which it /
rests. 1t runs down the east track to the !
wheel under the track at Madison street, and Il
to the engine-house over the second rudder, +
and out again the same way. Just back of | =
the engines in the house two machines i
operated on narrow-gauge tracks, and these |
by means of weights keep the cable taut, 40 1
that there Is no slack Electric lights are to I
be put on the engine-house and arrangement
has been made whereby any imperfection in
The cable will be brought to the notice of the
engineer by the ringing OF a bell. In
Ease of the strands breaks ont the
bell will be rung, the engines stopped in q
stantly and the break mended before the
cable leaves the house for the street again.
The water for the boilers Is drawn from cs- =
erns under the house, and is heated before -
passing into the boilers, thus saving an i'm L
nense quantity of fuel. The Al grip-cars to .
De used have been built in the company's +
hops, and very neat aft airs. About the n
zs of the old bob-tail cars, they are open q
ll around. In the center is compartment +
or the engineer and in the center OF this the
grip is set. Ca either end of the cars are
mall headlights Tor use at night, which 81
throw light on the track about so feet r
ahead OF the car. Just above the engineers r
is a gong bell for his use, and o
IL the center of the car is a large shade 81
amp. The regular passenger-cars OF the
ompany are to be attached to the grip-cars d
q such numbers as travel requires. TIE grip r
: connected with the cable by a sh ank which T
uns down through the slot between the 81
racks. BY means of long lever the en- NJ
,ineer throws the grip on, the cable is NJ
lasped with a vise-like grip, and the car is G
pulled along. Starts and stops can be made Il
mich easier and quicker than with horses
" means of a brake, which rs worked in the
anne way as the grip. The cars will be run -
lowly at first, until the people get used to !,
hem, in order to prevent accidents. 1t is 81
that this enterprise has cost the
ompany about S., 100000, and the success of N
he road is a source of great qualification to l.
he officers and TO the public 81