Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22
ABOUT RAILROADS.

VI LOCOMOTIVES are now
rare.
Railroad accidents are yearly De-
creasing
The best English railway secpr;t;,.
pay but per cent
Ali the railroads did good businss,
In summer travel.
The SO 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 month
No two engine bells on the Penn.
sylvania Railroad ring in the ssna
tone.
Engines are being made,more DOW.
erful end freight trains longer every
year.
Ticket sealping 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 Ohie Railroad
ran "refreshment cars thirty wears
ago.
Several of the southern railroads
employ colored men as brakemen and
tiremGn.
Collisions on railroads were more
frequent 30 years ago, 1t is said, than
they are now.
The Chinese government is making
arrangements in London 20 float a
large railway loan.
A falling off in the number of cattle
carried has decreased the earnings Of
some of the western roads.
Jay Gould's fsvorite 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
Oorthern Michigan have eau ed 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 a very limited
scale.
There has been 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 the Northern
Pacific railroad to L ondoh and Liver
pool direct.
Since the introduction of the air
brake the wear from the brake,shoeis
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 & Baltimore railroad.
Some of the employees on New Jer,
sey roads nave grown rich by carry
ing packages for people along the line
end making purchases for them III the
city on commission.
In the new private car being built
for Austin Corbin, the New York
banker, there is sofa that raised up,
discloses a bath provided with hot
and cold water and a shower.
During the summer of 1883 the
earnings of the Pennsylvania railroad
were $246 600 a month. During the
past summer the monthly earnings
of the road averaged about $2,226,N
600.
The now Farmonnt, Morgantown
and Pitts5urg Railroad, which IS to
be a short cut from Pittsburg to the
ore and coal beds of Western Vlr-
ginia, Will be completed and open 10
travel as far as Morgantown on the
22d Of October.
Taree great railroads are pushing
farther west - the Chicago y North
western 10 the Black Hills; The Cnlca'
go, Milwaukee and St. Paul into DaN
kota, and the Chicago, Burlington a
@ lincy, by the absorption Of other
roads, into Manitoba.
Work will soon be commenced on
the Philadelphia Midlands Railway
winch is being built mainly for 10
urban traffic and for the dairy trade
of Chester and Delaware counties.
The line follows the West Chester PIKE
closely and is expected TO finished N
the spring.