The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-02-06
RAILWAY ITEMS.

President n Ckcr.uu, OF the mexican Ntn'
trail railway company, has issued circular
asking for subscriptions to a 81 OOO,uuO loan
for one year 10 complete the main hue This
circular rays the cost Of the sugthetn ont
largely exceeded tho estimates, and the
company has paid for supplies now on hans
necessary 90 operate the rosd.
AA ex.conduolor tells a Leadvlllo Chron-
icle reporter how some portcrs IN sleeping
cara accumulate wealth: "a Pullman pss
senger Jumps aboard late NJ some uterine
iiate station. He 10 tired aud sleepy. lie
wants % 10 10 bed nj once. Usually the
berths gre made up WAY, certainly, the
porter snys, tumble right In. just give me
your fare end when the conductor comes
along | will turn IL owr 20 hiw.. The pas.
spuge. is delighted wish tho courtesy. lie
pnvs the Pu'Iman aud car fare $40 or 50
as the case may be-and rCtiivi Tor the
night. Meanwhile the porter has got e
number ul trip checks, most likely from TIE
hats OF some follows who are doing say
in the smoker, and presently returning. lie
Inserts ono under the rim OF the Ue.t'ed
traveller. The train Conductor comes around
ia the morning, takes up his checks and
every body IS happy"
General Manager Robertson has sent for
experienced brdge-huiiders from the
northern end OF tho Mexican Central and
will put a large force upon tho iron bridge
at EncarnaCOn Gt once, pushing work day
and night. Sundays and holidays, until tie
bridge 10 finished WORK will probably pa
carried on 90 uignt by the Hight Of locomo-
tive huGdlGmp5. Ihs bridge viii rolably
be finished within six weeks.
The Mexican Central is tryin, the expT-
iment OF building is own freight care, the
framework being 81 oak from the compa.
ny's forest at il lrdO, white The Pine comes
from the forests near Patzcuar0, ia Michoa-
can, whence Is il hauled 10 the Mexican Ma
| t.unal at Noteis aud delivered 10 the Cen
ral at Cesyn,
Here is tho fret incident on record within
| the memory Of the present BcntHtio1
whore u railway company advances yi.e.
| Of employees. clipped from the Chatt iu1oPa
| Democrat Of Tuesday, gpeaNgg OF the All
ALBANIA Great Southern railway Local con
ductors will have from 50 70 81.
per month added to THAR pay
| aud brakemea from s. 70 $40 {
! theirs. The increase is made in order ,t
secure and retain first class men, in th'
hands of whom 80 mucn property is ir'
trusted"
me concession to Ignacio Alas anc
! Thomas Rogers for the lower California
and Sonora railway, from Tijuana, on tn
United States frontier, TO a junction witi
the Sonora railway, by way Of Punta lisa
bel, lgs lapsed.
The recent measurements OF the mail
line of the Mexican Central show that IL is
little longer than was at first supposed, thu
distance between III Paso and the cnpito
being ,0GS 1 Kilometres or 24 miles.
The report OF the government directors
of the Mexican Central shows that tn,
track laid up to November Both amounted
10 ! 1850 kilometres and Cos metres.
A very large double clal'stecking trestle
. 100 feet long, has recently been completed
at Buffalo, for the Lehigh Valley railroad
Cars are to be run upon II and their con
tents dumped on an elevated platform, un
der which is n tunnel 3sj feet long. Their
are 2i5 gates IN the pat form, ana whei
these are opened the coal IS to be spouteI
into cars running through the tunnel
There is room for 96 coal dumps in tn
tunnel and IL 10 estimated that one can b.
! loaded oyery five minutes. The platform
has capacity for holding 10000 tons 0
coal Mt one time, and the company vii
thus be able 10 keep large supply OF
hand to meet any emergency
The chairman of the Mexican railway, q
the recent meeting in London, said that b
had it on good authority that 1t would tax
five years to build the line OF the MeXical
Central from Tampico TO San Luis Potos
The good authorities on Mexican atlsir
which they find in England must be re
markabe characters, for we have 1t on On
best authority that the line can be built
the junction with the main line az Agna'
+ calientes within two years.
Both freight aud passenger traffic on Ia
northern line Of the Mexican central ~
increasing.
A concession has been granted 10 MI
lose Matilde Alcocer for the couetruclio
= of railway from the port of Celes'um, J
= Yucatgn, through Merida and HunucmI
, to 5otuta, with a branch 30 Ieabo, With
suhsidy of 50 800 kilomstre.
4 A new kind of railroad ticket IS oomin
to the front. II is best explained by takin
the Grand Trunk as an example. Th'
road prints book Of tickets containin
o 600 or 500 or 100 or 90 tickets on pag,
o each ticket good for one mile. These litt
d tickets are smaller than postage stamp
Q twenty on a sheet, and perforated. Ho
!: can buy two. twenty or thousand OF thei
u at a fixed rate, and the company on its pal
8 Is bound to accept one of them for ever
II mile you travel. You will not be require
Q to tell the ticket seller where you want
60, you will say give me leo mileB or twe'
d ty miles or 1000 miles, and get on boar
To- and give the conductor enough OF the lit'l
squares TO carry you TO your dest
d tlon. There will be no such thing as lal
e over tickets or trouble of getting tickets e.
e changed or loss on through.tickets not use
These little tickets Will be as good as none
e and always current. The road on its pa
Is will be duly protected from scalpers al
10 the like. The new system hasreceived u
p Endorsement of the better class OF passeI
Is gers, agents and travellers, and has BET
adopted on several of the western roads.