The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-20

dent and Speaker to and including
the messengers, have received time
passes, good for sixty days, over the
Utah Central and Utah division of
the Denver s. Rio Grande.
The highest point on the North
ern Pacific is at Bozeman tunnel,
being $685. feet. Sherman is the
highest point on the Union Pacific,
S,242 feet, and the Summit, near
Truckee, is the highest point on the
Central Pacific, being 7,O17 feet.
Officers of the Denver & Rio
Grande say that more special per-
mits for half-fare and other reduced
rates are issued from their office In
this city than FROM the general Office
in Denver, which looks IS though
Utah patrons expected and obtained
many privileges.
The following freight rates are
now in effect between Chicago and
Salt Lake: First class, $1.15; second
class, 81; third class, 75c fourth
class, &C.; fifth class, &c.; Glass A.
621ac.; Class B, &c.; Class G, 4Sc.
Class D, 4Sc.
Through way bills of freight from
Chicago are being received at the
Utah Central Office in this city, and
IS this avoids the necessity for re-
checking freight at Council Bluffs
it comes through in about two days
shorter time and is less liable to
damage from handling.
There has been tracklaying in
forty one States and Territories the
past year. Montana heads the list
with Alb miles, Dakota next with
4oS, Michigan next with 405. New
Jersey had the smallest number,
there being only seven miles laid in
the State. Utah is credited as be-
ing eighteenth on the list with 16G
miles.
PERSONAL.
Mr.. F. M. Jenkins, of the world.
wide known firm OF Cook, Son &
Jenkins, died in New York, Decem-
Der 18th.
Mr.. l.. j. Kraemer has been ap-
pointed general baggage agent for
the Denver s. Rio Grande. with
headquarters at Denver.
Mr.. J. F. Ladle, an old Salt Lake
telegraph operator, is plain de.
spatcher for the Atchisor, Topeka &.
Santa Fe RAILROAD at Hermosilla,
Mexico.
Mr.. Henry Wood, formerly sup.
erintendent OF the Utah division of
the Denver s. Rio Grande, is now
general manager Of the Little Rock
s. Fort Smith railway.
Mr.. J. H.Pynchon, who has been
travelling auditor Of the Union
Pacific for many years, has been
appointed commissioner to settle
cl. inns for damages to persons, stock
and property, and Gen. r. II. IT.
Mintz, of the auditors Office, has
been appointed to succeed Mr..
Pynchon. The change is necessi
tated through the great increase OF
business, ,as heretofore MIR. Pynchon
had charge of both departments.
BUFFET CARS.
Pullman buffet cars, which have
recently been put on the d. s.. r.
e., are also to be put on the Union
and Central Pacific roads between
Omaha and San Francisco, and be-
tween st. Louis and San Francisco
on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe, and Atlantic s. Pacific. This
is a new invention on the palace
cars, and is sort of travelling lunch
counter. Passengers occupying
them can procure lunch. both solid
and liquid, at any time by only
punching q little annunciator bell.
which calls the waiter.
PASSENGER FARES.
Tickets for first class fare from
Salt Lake to New York via Kansas
City only can be had for So, 40, and
second class s65 40, q reduction of
81 on first class and So on second
class, but this applies to New York
only, and must be via Kansas City.
This reduction is caused by the cut
rate from Kansas City, and Is the
lowest fare yet resched from here to
New York. These tickets are sold
by the Union Pacific and Denver s
Rio Grande.
NOTHING BUT A CLUB WILL DO IT
A big clock hangs above tive head
of the ticket agent at the 125th
street station of the Third avenue
elevated ROAD. A placard on the
pendulum Gays: "Yss cir! I am
right"
A passenger gazed at it yesterday
and starteu to inquire, "What is-?"
But the agent cut him short and
| ye led:
"rhat's there to keep people from
asking if that's the right time.
Questions used to range from 100 to
500 q day. Now twice IS many ask
what the placard's for, and the
things worse than ever. Keeps me
talking nearly all day."-F1.
FORMING A POOL.
"Some folks is jist too smart to
live" said the old man, as he puffso
hard at his clay pipe. and wiped 9
tear from the end of his nose.
"Anybcdy b. en- trying to swindle
your"
"Wall, il locked that way. A
New Yorker csme down and bought
a farm next to me, and he hado'
bean thera q week tffora he Dro