Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-06
Personal 2No GENERAL.


The Little Rock and Fort Smith road
wants bridge at Little Rock By all means
lie. i -bshailt
PREPARATIONS for the Rsilway Exposition
at Chicago are going rapidly forward. There
is every indication OF its being a success.
OK and after January 18th the East Ten.
nessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad will
run third passenger train between Knox
vile and Cnattsnooga, 10 be styled the
Nashville accommodation"
The Natchez, Red River and Texas road
is being constructed IN quite a rapid man
ner. Messrs. Rogers & Ballentine, contract
ore, have force of 200 men at work on the
line, and the grade will be completed to The
town OF Trinity, west Of Vidalia, by the 18th
., January.
THE Emory Gap railway charter has been
transferred 10 the Knoxville and Cincinnati
Southern Railway Company. The latter
company is said to embrace many OF the
most enterprising citizens OF Knoxville, and
the result OF the transfer is that the charter
Of the Emory Gap ia now beyond the reach
Of any company which may desire 10 get con-
troll Of the right Of way fer the purpose of
choking of the road or killing the enter
prise.
A FINE iron bridge is being erected over
White river for the Eureka Springs rail
road which will be swung into position on
the 10th instant, by which date the entire
road will be completed and trains will be
run few days later. A large party of Chi
cagoans passed through ST. Louis Tuesday,
en- route for the spring, X G. Kerens, presi-
dent OF the road, has contaminated arrange
ments to have a through Pullman sleeper
run from S.. Louis direct to the springs on
each night train.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Aberdeen Miss.)
E1dmineT, writing from Durant under date
December z9ib, SAYS: THE Illinois Central
railroad takes direct control of this the
Chicago, st. Loui. and New Orleans] on
Monday, the lst, and it is thought thai, al
though the road now is and has been for
some years in a most prosperous condition,
under the new adm nistration it will be even
more go, if that were possible. 1t retains
all the old officers at New Orleans-Mr. J.
G. Clarke remaining vice-presldent and
general manager Of the whole Illinois Gen.
trial system, which l. in itself a very cure
guarantee that the consolidated company
. will succeed heySnd almost any ones ex-
EaGct atoms"
HE system Of lighting railroad carriages
by electricity Seems, says the New York
Tribune, as far as it has been tried, to be
fairly successful. On the Eastern rsilr5 ad
Of France there is a gramme dynamo ma.
chine driven by the locomotive and Faure
accumulators. To these has recently been
added an automatic interrupter," the action
of which is to break all communication be-
tween the graunme machine and the accu-
mulators when the speed of the train de-
sends below the normal. Further, if the
lamps are lit at such time, or when stop
page occurs, the automatic apparatus subsIi-
tutes the accumnlators for the machine, or
reciprocally; the moment of change is not
peroeptible. When the train is running
without the lsmps being lit the gramme ma
chine charges the accumulatcrs exclusively;
when the train is lit the machine feeds both
the lamps and the accumulators. II is DOLLY
when the illuminated train slsckens speed
or stops that the sceumuIators supply the
current required by he lamps, and this is
restored when the train has resumed its nor
NAL speed. Thus the accumulators are not
30 cumbrous as If they had sufficient capac-
ity to feed the lamps curing the whole jour
ney. There is Swan lamp in each COM
partment. The train is lit by the guard on
entering tunnel. The COS for an ordinary
train of thirty six lamps is about l2f. a day,
whereas the lighting with oil cost S6f., and
was very impeTfect.