The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-02-07
RAIIMNN ITI,Nis.

IFttlNttk NlNhtFSnlt tl tue AtAlCAn Cen
tral railway comp my, has issued n circular
asking for subscriptions 10 81 OCOOOO loan
Tor one year 10 complete the main lire The
circular says the Coz Of Ito southern eui
largely exceeded the ESTIMATES. ana the
company has paid .or supplies now ON hans
necessary 10 operate tue rnsd.
Az ox'conGGcior tells Leaiville Chron.
icic reporter how some p1rtega in sleeping
cars accumulate wealth: "a pullmau pas
scnger jumps aboard lHte NJ some ir,eTme.
j'Aic station. He 10 tired and sleepy. lie
wants TO 20 TO Bad ~ once. ususliy the
berths are made up why, certainly the
porter says, tumble right IN. Just give ms
yOur iGTs and when the conductor comes
along ] viii turl IL over to him. The pas.
saT gee i delighted with the courtesy. He
pryc the Pullman aud car fdre-$l0 ~ $2I
~ che ease may he-and rPtires Tor the
night. Meanwhile the porter has got n
number o! trip chec&s, most Likely from tins
haia Of some fellows who are doing away
IN he smoker, and presenly returning, he
inserts one uDder The rim OF tho beiatcd
traveller. The train CONDUCTOR comes around
in the morning, takes up his checks and
every body is. happy"
General Manager Robertson has sent for
experienced bSiige-builders from the
northern end OF the Mexican Central and
will put large force upon tae iron bridge
at Egcarnacion at once, pushing work day
and night, Sundays and holidays, until the
bridge IS finished. Work will probably be
carried on at night by the light OF locomc-
tive head.lamps. The bridge will pro oabiy
be finished within six weeks.
The Mexican Central is trying the exper.
iment OF building its own freight cars, the
framework being Of oak from the compa.
ny's forest at n irdo, while the pine com es
from the forests near Patzcuaro, In Michoa-
can. whence Il is hauled 10 the Mexican Ma.
tionsl at Morella and delivered 10 the Cen.
trail at Celaya
Here is the first incident on record within
the memory OF the present generation
where railway company advances wages
OF employees, clipped from the Chattanooga
Democra. Of TUESDAY. speaking Of the Al.
ALBANIA Great Southern railway; Local con-
ductors will have from SO to Sic
per month added to their pay
and brakemea from So to $40 tc
theirs. The increase is made in order to
secure and retain first class men, in the
hands Of whom SO mucn property is in
trusted"
The concession TO Ignacio Alas and
Thomas Rogers for the lower California
United States frontier, to u junction with
the Sonora railway, by way of Punts Isa.
bel, las lapsed.
The recent measurements OF the main
line OF the Mexican Central show that il is O
little longer than was at hrst supposed the
distance between Ell Paso and the capitol
oeing 1868 4 kilometres or l .224 miles.
The report Of the government directors
of the Mexican Central shows that the
track laid up to November Both amounted
10 l 759 kilometres and sos metres.
A very large douole c Al.stsckng trestle,
9, 100 feet long, has recently been completed
at Buffalo, for the Lehigh Valley railroad.
Cars are to be run upon it and their con.
tents dumped on an elevated platform, I'm.
der which is q tunnel 1856 feet long. There
ere 2i5 gates in the platform, and when
these are opened the coal is to be spOuted
into cars running through the tunnel.
There is room, for 90 coal dumps in the
tunnel, and il 10 estimated that one can be
loaded every five minutes. The platform
hiss . capacity for holding Goo IONS ot
cool ~ ore time, and the company Will
thus he able 10 keep large supply on
hand 10 meet auy emergency.
She chairman Of the Mexican railway, o;
tLr recent meeting ~ London, said that he
had Il on good authority that it would take
tiva gears TO bull! the line OF the Mexican
UnuS~ai from Tampico 20 Ssn Luis Po'os
She EOnG authorities on Mexican affairs
wnich they fad il England must be re
| Variable Characters, for We have it on the
h.st authority that the line can be built Il
tht junction VIII the main line a. hGuAS
c9!ien;es within two gears.
Do freight and passenger traffic on tht
| northern line Of the Mexican Central ars
increasing.
concession has been granted to Mr.
Jose M.,ide Aicocer for the construction
| of rail way from the port of Celesium, il
| Yucatau, through Merida and Hunucma
| to sotuta, with a branch to Teabo, with
| subsidy Of 50 800 Il kilometre.
| A rev kind Of railroad ticket is coming
to the front. IL is best explained by taking
the Grand Trunk .s an example. THAI
| rosG prins a book Of tickets containing
| coo or 500 or 100 or so tickets on page
each ticket good tor ooa mile. These little
ticket, are smaller than postage stampe
twenty on sheet ard perforated. Yot
Gun bay two twenty or = thousand of them
ut ii iyPd rate. and the company or its part
| is bound TO accept ope of them for every
mile you travel. You will not be required
| to tell the ticket seller where you want tC
go, you will say give me 1C0 miles or TWEEN
| ty miles or 900 miles, and get on boare
ana give the conductor enough OF the little
| squares to carry you to your desti
| tioD. There will be no such thing as lay
over tickets or trouble of getting tickets ex
changed or loss on through tickets not used
These little tickets Will be as good as money
and always current. The road on its par
| will be duly protected from scalpers ant
| the like. The new system has received thu
Endorsement of the better class of passen-
gers, agents and travellers. and has beer
adopted on several of the western roads.