The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-09
RAILROAD RACKET.
The Iron Horse and Those
Who Ride Behind 1t.
Personal Points-Local Notes
Foreign Paragraphs-The
Baldwin Apprentice
ship System.

Trains on all roads " Ill probably
be on time to-day.
These cars are soon to be placed
on the Pennsylvania & Baltimore
& Ohio roads.
The veteran Conductor Jacobs
pulled the bell cord for the Maple.
son special while on the Utah Cent
raj road.
The two Mann boudoir cars which
also accompanied the Mspleson
Company, We're not the property of
Patti, as believed, but belong to the
Mann Boudoir Company, and are
operated and controlled by that com.
pany.
On Thursday the Central Pacific
train was twenty hours late, and on
Friday ten hours late, owing to
washouts this side of Blue Creek.
The Utsh & Northern ira ms have
n arly all been delayed this week
from the same cause.
Leather wheels sFe made in
Frame for railroad cas-. The in
ventor of the process is NJ. de ls
Roche. Unframed buffalo hides are
cut into strips, and these are built
up into solid discs, which are
strongly held together by two iron
rings, after they have been SUBJ
jected to hydraulic pressure.
"Hitch your Chariot to Star
You may not be able to act literally
on this advice of Thoreau, but you
can approximate it closely by max
ing an overland journey via the
scenic route Of America" Is the
heading OH a new dodger lately re-
ceivcd by Mir. Mudgett at the ID. 6
r. G. Office in this city.
| Owing to the serious washouts on
the Southern Pacific and Atlantic
and Pacific roads, passengers fo1
the west are being taken through on
the Denver g Rio Grande road
which gives them full trains from
the east Of late. Passenger travel
east from this city ia very good, a
great many going to the Mud Creek
mines near Lamen Crossing.
/ Mr.. f. G. Minis. General Passen-
/ ger and Ticket Agent Of the D. 6
| r. g., passed through Salt Lake on
his way to San Francisco on Fri
day, whittier he goes to open sep-
arate Office FOR his road. Mr.. V. M
Minis, his brother, accompanies him
and will have charge OF the passen-
ger business of the D. 81. r. G. il
California.
The passenger cars OF the Phila
delphia & Reading road are Lighted
with gas made from naptha, or gas
oline. This has been found to b'
preferable to coal gas, for the reas OF
that under compression 1t does mo-
lose nearly as much candle>poweT
Coal gas, when compressed, depositI
a carbonaceous substance in con.
siderable quantities, and to this the
loss of Illuminating power is sup
posed to be due. Naphtha gas doe:
not make such deposits, and henc,
gives a better light. The compan,
j have gas works at Reading, which
they have used for twenty years.
The Adelina Patti car, which
came with the Mapleson com any
was not the finest car ever brough
to Salt Lake, as great many sup
posed, but was probably the mos
comfortable for real ease and plea
sure. The car in which the Presi
dent Of Honduras travelled whe,
visiting this city in 1882 was thu
grandest in every particular Of an
car yet brought TO Salt Lake; We
this car will not compare with thu
one presented to Mr.. Talbot, edito
OF the Halliday Age, by railwa.
supply manufactures.
The manner in which Georgs
| Stevenson, the famous engineer, bl
upon the standard gauge OF four fee
eight and a half inches is said to b.
as follows: When about to build tn
first railroad the question of how
wide the rails should be apar
troubled him somewhat, and he tool
a rule and measured an ordinary
wagon track. The tracks were lalt
| four feet eight inches apart, bu
when the cars were placed on tn
rails 1t was found that half an lncl
would have to be added to the Width
in order to allow for the lateral mo
ton OF the wheels, hence the stand
ard gauge Of four feet eight and
half inches.