The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-12-13
RAILROADS..

The earnings Of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad last year aggregated over $2O,
600, 900.
No passenger trains will be run on the
Pacific branch of the st. Lonis and San
Francisco road until January ].
A nsrrow-gauge railroad is to be built
from Bakers bay 20 Gray's harbor, in
Washington Territory.
At the close Of the war Arkansas had
80 miles frail way, As late as 1868 there were
but Sc m les Now there are Compiet d With
in the state ,55i miles. Nothing could bet
ter show progress.
The Prussian government finds that the
ownership of railways Is not only not i'm
possible as a problem, but is profitable,
and it proposes 10 own more of them.
Ii was stated yesterday that the Union
Pacific had made twenty-five years. con-
tract with the St. Paul & Rock Island to
give them I'LL it's east-b0und traffic. The
contract, made as alleged, will leave the
Chicago, Burlington d Quincy and the
Northwestern "out in the cold" and will
prevent an amicable settlement OF the
Iowa pool troubles.
The Vienna Metropolitan Electric rail.
way, the constructing and financing Of
which is to be undertaken Jointly by Messrs.
Siemens and Hslske, of Berlin, and the
Austrian Lander bsnk, is estimated to cost
f6OO, coo in round figures. A preliminary
condition for tbs project is that the NUM-
cipal council OF Vienna shall grant the
requisite land for the portions OF the line
which will be above ground, as well as for
the subterrauean portions, cost Tree.
The statement of the business of all the
lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany east OF Pittsburg and Erie for Octo-
Der /, 1888, as compared with the same
month in 1882, shows an increase in gross
earnings of $2l5, 292; an increase of expenses
OF S36 $50 and an increaee in net earnings
of $l7S 43S. The ten months OF 1883 as
compared with the same period in 1857.
show an increase in groes earnings OF 81
$3.50, 423; an increase in expenses OF 81
500 939, and an increase in net earnings OF
$3.50 ,48i. All lines west OF P;ttsbuTg and
Erie, for the ten months oil 1888, show
surplus over all Liabilities OF 81, 1853, 503 be-
ing decrease as compared with the same
period OF 1882 Of S4l2,47
The Georgia supreme court has just held
"death warrants" Of employees to be void.
Death warrants, as our readers understand,
are agreements signed by employees, to as
sumo all risks of occupation and TO waive
right OF recovery in case OF injury nom any
cause whatever. The court holds that al
though an employee can waive this right
where the injury does not result from
criminal negligence, where the negligence
was criminal such waiver is contrary 10
public policy, and therefore void.
The numDer of trains TO and from Chi
cago daily is something to thiHk about.
The Railway Age says more lines diverge
from that city than from any other in the
United States. Twenty roads to whom cir
culars of inquiry were sent reply. From
these responses it appears that 2lS sub
urban trains arrive and depart at Chicago
daily. Ofother passenger trains LIS arrive
and depart. OF regular freight trains, l6Z
The total of trains arriving and departing
daily is $780, The illinois Central runs "a
suburban trains daily, and Of all kinds 40.
The total number is said n exceed that ~
the trains arriving and departing In any
other city in the world, excepting only Lon
don. The data given refer only to ROADS
which have their own tracks into the city.
Several enter on the tracks Of others, and
these are not counted.