Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-10-23
ABOUT RAILROADS.

Explosions of locomotives are now
rare.
Railroad accidents ale yearly de
creasing.
The best English railway securities
pay but per cent.
Ali the railroads did good business
in summer travel.
The se-called ''fast freight rates" are
fast going out Of existence.
Few free passes have been issued
this year on any railroad.
The average pay of a railway brake
man in Pennsylvania is $40 a month.
No two engine bells on the Penn
sylvania Railroed ring in the same
tone.
Engines are being madessmore pow>
erful end freight trains longer every
year
Ticket scaIping has been quite thor
oughly broken up all over the coun-
try.
Most OF the successful railroad men
of the country started out as poor
boys.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
ran 'refreShment cars" thirty years
ago.
Several of the southern railroads
employ colored men as brakemen and
fremen.
Collisions on railroads were more
frequent 80 years ago, 1t is said, than
they are now.
The Chinese government is making
arrangements IN London 10 float a
large railway loan.
A falling off in the number of cattle
carried has decreased the earnings of
some of the western roaeis.
Jay Gould's favorlte occupation in
the evening is reading the railway
items in the newspapers.
Owing to the severity of the weather
the White Mountain railroads did not
do much business this summer.
Rumors of the discovery of gold in
OorthGrn Michigan have caused a
lively increase of travel in that direc-
ton.
The experiment of lighting car by
electricity is being tried by the Penn
sylvania Railroad on very limited
scale.
There has beee a great increase dur.
ing the past two weeks in the amount
of coal carried by the leading rail-
roads.
Bills of lading for cattle are now
given at the ranches by tho Northern
Pacific railroad to LondoA and Liver
pool direct.
Since the introduction of the air,
brake the wear from the brake>shoe is
not so great as when the hand brakes
were used.
Automatic couplers are about to be
generally introduced, so that brake,
men will no longer be caught between
the bumpers.
Some of the smartest locomotive
engineers in the country are EN-
ployed on the Philadelphia, Whining
! ton s. Baltimore railroad.
Some of the employees on New Jer
sey roads Have grown rich by carry
ing packages for people along the Inns
| and making purchases for them IN the
| city on commission.
In the new private car beng bull
for Austin Corbin, the New Yorl
banker, there is sofa that raised up
discloses bath provided with hot
and cold water and shower.
During the summer of 1888 tat
earnings of the Pennsylvania railroad
were $246, 600 a month. During the
past summer the monthly earnings
of the road averaged about 81, 226,'
900.
The new Fairmonnt, Morgantowr
and Pitts burg Railroad, which Is Il
be a short cut from Pittsburg to tht
ore and coal beds of Western Vir
ginia, will be completed and open II
travel as far as Morgantown on thu
22d of October.
Three great railroads are pushing
farther west - the Chicago & North
western TO the Black Hills; he Chica
go, Milwaukee and st. Paul into Da
kota, and the Chicago, Burlington 8
Quincy, by the absorption of othet
roads, into Manitoba
Work will ssoa be commenced OF
the Philadelphia Midlands Railway
which is being built mainly for sub
urban traffic and for the-dairy trad'
of Chester and Delaware counties
| Tha line follows the West Chester pix
closely and is expected to finished il
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