The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-28
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RAILROADS.

WITHIN six months 1913 car.coupler pat
ents have been granted.
The Carson IL Colorado railroad track
IS being laid at the rate of one mile per
day.
The Railway Age believes that the work
OF building railroads IN this country has
only just begun.
The first streetcar line in the world was
the Fourth avenue line to Harlem, opened
in New York in 1882
Surveyors of the Erie railroad are now
running a line tor proposed railroad
through the salt fields recently discovered
in the vicinity OF Warsaw, N. Y.
The earnings OF the Union Pacific for the
first eighteen days of March were $685.
3d. increase, Sl05, 15l.
The entire roadbed OF the Alabama Great
Southern railroad will be balIasted Work
has already begun. and will be pushed for
ward as rapidly as possible.
Mexican papers OF recent date say that
kilograms from San Bias, the Pacific termi.
nus OF the Mexican Central railroad, state
that the company has suddenly suspended
all work there,
The conductors, baggagemen and brake
men on the New York, New Haven 4
Hartford railroad will be uniformed May
| They will wear different shades of blue
with hats as distinguishing features of The
UNIFORM.
~ me fastest tlhe ever MADE on the New
10Th Eentlui 10 salu TO nave oeen IN 300
wheh the engine hamilton DAVIS drew al
express tTalh OF SIX cars fourteen miles IL
exactly eleven minutes.
| The railroads guarantee Chattanooga
such rates Tor carrying fruits and vegetable
as Will enable them to compete with any
other point in the state; less than carloads
from AZ 10 ~ cents car-loaus, ~ TO 70 cent
per ~ pouhHs.
Mheh she new orleahs " Nortneasteri
rallroau rom MeTluiah 10 new orleans Il
competed, couple ually trains VIII prob
AMY De put on the Alabama Great south
erh, anu ore OF the fastest schedules IN thu
south VIII be made from Cincinnati to New
orleans: Inc distance OF 63O miles will b'
run IN 70 hours;
l., Tue run when tne Clnclhnatl, New UT
leans leSas racine railway. proposes u
make between CINCINNATI and New Orleans
| Will DC one OF the fastest made IN thls coun
Try Inc distance is so miles, ana the RIM
nlng tlme including stops, will be twenty
hVe hours. III is understood the run be
tween CINCINNATI ana Chattanooga will b'
MADE IN nine hours. >, .
There are said to be conductors who blusl
TO own that they ever twisted brake. |
there DC such they disgrace one OF the mos
honorable professions IN the world. TIT
successluImanagers III America, men whos'
names are as familiar as household word
wherever the whistle OF the locomotive en-
gine is heard, nave risen from the ranks
ahu are proud OF !helr records,
Chattanooga Times, Thursday: "Ther'
seems 10 be some prospect that the new
company recently organized to build an eN
tension 81 the Western North Carolina rail
road TO Chattanooga, means business; 1t wa
chartered last week. MS previously noted
Ihere are moneyed men among the incof
porators and The company is backed by TIN
wealthy North Carolina combination. /
would prove one OF Chattanooga most i'm
/ portant railroads"
The chicago q Northwestern has giver
notice that seed,corn Will be carried ovel
that road until June free. 1t consigned
TO alers at stations 1t must be IN CARLOAD
lots, and the dealer or conslgnee must civ,
guarantee that II viii be sold Tor seeding
! purposes, and at q price not exceeding II
per cent above cost per busnel. That is
| generous and sensible order, for speculator
III seed-corn are already in the marke
with extortionate prices.
Says the American Register Of Washing
| ton City;
/ The beneiicenCe OF railways is not to be
! questioned and prejudices of legislature.
against railway |reckers and speculator
should never be suffered to intervene wher
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