The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-14

worked by horsepower, and some OF them
have been IN existence long time"
1t is believed the Canadian Pacific rail |
way will have forty miles OF track in run. |
ming order on the Yale (B. C.) division By |
the list of July. These forty miles are con- |
fined to the most difficult work through |
the canyons. The road is being pushed
with great rapidity under the new manage
ment.
Tb e.sWestinghouse Air-brake company
has Just sent around checks in payment OF
| its semi annual dividend of 80 per cent, or
| SIS per share. There is talk Of another
special dividend in the course of a few
months from the fund derived from the
English company. This seems to be equal
to Pullman stock.
The death of Mr. William Mason, the
veteran locomotive builder, at the age OF
| rs years. suggests a reflection on the won
derful growth of the railways covered by a
part only of single lifetime. The first
locomotive in the United Ststes began to
turn its wheels when MI. Mason was hardly
20 years old. He lived not only to build
hundreds of locomotives himself, but to see
the day when no less than 10000 were in
operation in the United States, our first
mile OF railway having increased to well
nigh lis, 600 miles.
At the recent meeting Of the Milwaukee
the Wisconsin Central, said there was a
fallacious idea prevalent as to railroad men:
The general public seemed to be imbued
with the idea that to be railroad man was
equivalent to being reprobate. This was
untrue. No nobler. high-minded, truer
men exist than railroad employees. And
the community is beginning to recognize
the fact, and they entrust their lives to
them without a tremor, and with the speed
/ 90 ,-Lt ke,l Nd tahn far
the knowledge is strong that railroad men
never sleep. No greater deeds of heroism
: are to be found inscribed on the pages OF
, history than those of railway men. When
the moment of danger arrives and unforeseen
! and in spite of precaution and watchiul.
ness an accident takes place, the alternative
stares him in the face, fly or lose your life,
, he sezes the lever or throttle and the
answer is firm: II die" When the dread
full conflagration of the Newhall house took
place what nobler deed Of heroism was
there than that of David Martelle, the rail
l road man, who dashed into the flames,
, when hope seemed almost gone OF safe re-
turn, to save his friend, and seizing him in
| his arms died with him in the flames. The
0 railroad work OF the y. M. G, a. was worthy
of encouragement, its main object being to
raise the social standing. cultivating the
\ moral and religious growth of that par
) ticular class OF men. and enabling them to
e acquire q sterling Christian character.
In reply to the rumor that the New Or
> leans & Mississippi memphis, Vicksburf
) & New Orleans) railway would use tele
# phonic instead of telegraphic communica
ton between stations, the Vicksburg Her
aid, of recent date, says, For the intorma
ton of the Times and the world at large
the Herald states that the management o
J. the l.. N. o. & n. railroad, formerly known
/. as the New Orleans, Memphis h Vicksburi
Q railroad, is constructing telegraph line o
t the most substantial character. Alread,
u some sixty miles have been completed, ant
II by July let the line will be completed from
s Port Gibson to the north boundary o
Q Sharkey county, distance of about ninet.
miles.