The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-13

with less risk Of accident than by
stoves or any other system yet pro-
posed. -
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers has a membership of
Is 600, an increase of thirty-nine
divisions during the year.
The railroad mileage completed in
the United States in 1883 was 1900,
against 1851 in 1882.
FOREIGN ROADS.
The local passenger traffic of
| Vienna is about 5000, 900 annually,
or little over half that of the New
York elevated roads.
The total railway mileage in
Japan is 155 miles, III miles being
owned and operated by the govern
ment and the other thirty eight
miles belongs to a private company.
The average rail- DAD passenger
rate in Turkey is 3.4S per cent. per
mile, while in Utah it is cents and
vet in Turkey they make 81. Alb per
mile.
RAILROAD LAW.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has
decided that: l. A railroad COM
pany may charge higher price for
carrying passengers when the fare
is paid on the train than it does at
the ticket Office, provided the price
thus charged is reasonable and the
fare charged on the train does not
exceed the maximum allowed by
law. 2. A person entering the cars
without having purchased ticket
and presistently refuses to pay the
the usual and reasonable fare may
be lawfully removed from the t1ain.
3. The expulsion of such person
may be at place other than a rail-
road derot or usual stopping place,
provided care is taken not to ex-
pose him to serious injury or dam
ger. 4. Such person acquires no
right to remain on the cars by Of
fering to pay the usual fare after the
train has been stopped for the pur>
pose Of ejecting him.
SIGNALLING APPARATUS.
An invention of great interest to
telegraphers and railroad men
generally has been patented by
George ri. Bedinger, of Erlander,
Ky. 1t is an electric signalling ap
paratus for telegraphing between
moving trains, or between trains
and stations, thus keeping all trains
in direct communication with the
train dispatcher and with one
another. The invention consists of
jOinted conductor, which breaks
connection by pressure, the current
icing carried through the car by
means of brushes. Each train car
ries IT'S own operator and instru-
ments. The invention can also he
used to advantage in connection
with block signal.
KATE SHELLY.
The Iowa legislature is to present
Kate Shelly, January 18th, the day
on which it will take pos
session of the new capitol at Des
Moines, with handsome medal of
the value of $3.50 and 5000 in money,
in recognition of her heroic act 10
preventing, the night of July 9th,
1881, at the risk Of her life, disas-
ter on the Chicago s. Northwestern
Railroad, near Moingona, Iowa,
which would have resulted, but for
her, in an appalling loss of human
life. The medal has been prepared
by Tiffany & Co., of New York, and
represents Kate in the act Of cross
ing the railroad bride over the Des
Moines river. Above are the words:
"Heroism, Youth, Humanity" on
the reverse of the medal is the fol-
lowing inscription: "Presented by
the State of Iowa to Kate Shelly,
with the thanks of the general as
Sembly. In recognition Of the cour-
age and devotion of child of Is
years, whom reither the terror of
the elements nor the fear of death |
could appall in her efforts to save
human life during the terrible storm
and flood in the Des Moines valley
on the night of July 9th, 1881"
Congressman Holmes, to whose |
efforts this action of the Iowa legis-
lature is largely due, hopes to Sc |
cure, in addition to the small sum |
voted by the legislature, enough
money to pay for the education Of |
Kate Shelly. Her family is poor. |
The father, who was a section fore
man of the Chicago & Northwest |
ern railroad, was killed in an acct |
dent ten years ago. The mother |
has since then endured many hard |
ships and privations in the endeavor
to bring up her five children. An
effort will be made to relieve them |
as far as practicable, and an appeal
is to be made to the public for that
purpose.
FREIGHT COUPLERs.
The public gets off burst of vir-
tuous indignation every now and |
then, about the danger to life and |
limb of brakemen, from the existing |
type of link and pin coupling; and |
calls out for something which |
should be safer, alleging that mer
cenary reasons only prevent the rail
road companies from adopting
which shall make coup
ling cars at night as safe and easy
as drawing molasses In the day
time. We venture the state
ment that the railroads are as