The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-05-01
RACKET ON TIE RAIL
Items of Interest Picked up by the
BaZoO in Railway Circles.

irCm business tour west. yesterday.
- Uarder Cumming, Superintendent, OF
the Missouri Pacific, came up from ST
Louis yos.erdsy.
The removal Of the X. & T. machine
shops to the Missouri Pacific shops IL is
thought will take place in about week
The excavations for lie new union
depot are almost Completed, AMI work viii
BE- commenced laying tie foundation thi-
week
-Chss. S. Wilson returned Yesterday
frcm his vi>i. - Omaha. anu reSuined his
ruD a. cabo Jse bra ,ernsn OH the Missouri:
Pacific
The girlers for the roof ii the new
Missouri Pacific ro:tni ho,Ise were nearly
al raised ye.,srdey, and the building is
r'pidiy approaching completion.
Chas. Hoxie, pre,ideut OF the Chica-
60 Union Stock yard, and brother OF
Vice Presiden. OF the Missouri Pacific rail
road, was I'm the ctv yesterday on his way
home from an extended tour III Texas.
Missouri Pacific passenger conductor,
James lioJten. who for several days past
his been layirg If Oh account of sickness,
pas Ell rhrol-n here yesterday evening ON
has regular run, hriEg himself again.
The Narrow Gauge track having be N
completed to the new union freight depot
the freight department Of that road was
yesterday transferred to the latter point,
and he rpafter all freight Tor the Marrow
Gauge viii. be received at and delivered
from tine union depot.
L. L.
ment Of The X. II t shops in this city, has
acted rs superintendent, If the black smith
department, has been assigned to a similar
position in IN. Missouri Pacific shops, and
will take charge Monday morning. Be-
sides being II thorough mechanic. Mr..
Mills is gentleman of excellent admin
istraIive qualities, and enjoys the confidence
Of his employers and respect OF bis em-
pioyes.
There was even half dozen admis-
sions to the hospital YESTERDAY. They were
A. McCane, section laporer, Keller Sta too,
Texas James G. Clark, section iabOrer,
Hi isboro, Texas; VIM. Richardson, sec
ton laborer, ROanoake, Texas; Pat
Sweeny, section labOrer, Carondelei. and
Solomon Dever. Sedalia, suffering from dis
eases, ard Jno. Friday, section labOrer,
Hugh's Springs, Texas, who had his hand
mashed by hand car.
The Highleymap excursion party,
which was composed of Sedalia's best citi
Gems, which left here by special car, last
evening. for the principal cites of Texas
and Old Mexico. was the joIiiest crowd Of
tourists that ever started off on pleasure
bent In addition 10 the list OF names
published in yesterdays BAzo< X. B. Hos
teller and Charlie Yeater Joined the parry.
The palace car "Pa,apsco" will be occupied
by the excursionists during the entire jour
ney. and will feel like home TO them before
they return.
Freight men on all sides are complain
ing OF tn almost unprecedented dullness
of the business Just now. April and May
are always counted on as dull months, but
the present is said to be duller than any
for years. This is contrary to all exnecta-
tiOn, as March wss unusually heavy, and
it was naturally supposed that the decrease
during April would not carry it below the
average. Especially have the past three
or four days been noticeable for their ex-
IRENE dullness, and as result it will not
be surprising to learn Of cutting on the sly.
The Missouri Pacific system now C sn-
tains 1858 miles of railway line. Very
few people, railway men included, compre-
h nd the magnitude of this corporation. In
the United States, according to the b st
authorities, there are $4,000 miles of rail-
way. The Missouri Pacific, therefore, has
more than one twelfth the entire milesge
of this country. In Cansda there are 8 500
miles, Mexico 200 miles and South Amer
lea 1000 miles; or a total of 10000 The
Missouri Pacific has, therefore, nearly one
thirteenth Of the entire mileage of the
of the Western hemisphere. 1t has 1888
miles more road than all of Asia, and
four aud one-third times as much as Ill
Africa The world has 243,OO9 miles, and
the Missouri Pacific, therefore, has less
than One-twenty-sixth OF the total mileage.
The BAzos learns that sweeping
changes are contemplated in the damage
ment Of the H. & ST. road, and among
those who it is said, will suffer decapita-
ton is w. X. Woodland, the general super
intendent He will be superseded by j. F.
Barnard, general superinte ndent of the X.
c., st. j. & c. B. who will have the super
inlendency Of both roads. Some of the
proposed changes are received with doubt,
bu; it is generally conceded that Woodard
will have to go He hss been connected
with the Hannibal in the capacity of gen.
eral superintendent for q number of years,
and is one of the most efficient officers con-
nected with any road in the vest. He had
done the Hannibal good service and his
removal will be matter of general regret
Mr. N r. Warwick has been appoint
ed southeastern passenger agent of the
Gould lines, with headquarters at Cincin-
matt. Frank A. Palmer has been appointed
general agent of the Gould lines at In
dianapolis. Capt. B Wsdleigh, who has
been acting as travelling freight agent Of
the Missouri Pacific system in Texas, has
been appointed division freight agent with
headquarters at Little Rock, and j. B.
Wilson has been appointed to the position
rac.tal hv Cant oAlos~h W.l