The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-02-11
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SHOWERS OF BRIGHT SPARKS
FROM THE LOCOMOTIVE.
Trains on the Central and Austin q
Northwestern get in on time.
The south bound International contin-
ues to arrive some three or four hours be-
hind time.
The freight business is dull, but passen-
ger traffic is better than usual for this sea-
son of the year.
The Kansas City & Southern road will
hereafter be operated by the st. Louis d.
San Francisco road.
The Wheeling g. Lake Erie railroad will
be sold at Cleveland, Ohio, March 3lst.
| The minimum price is $50O,00O.
The Western Equipment & Car cCm-
papy, indianapolis, Indiana, has capital
stock of $4,000. William r. McKeen and
others are the incorporators.
All railway men are glad to see the
New York journals take up the subject of
railway wars and in the name of the pub
lie demand that peace prevail.
The North Chicago Rolling mill com
pany manufactured $4,000 tons of steel
rails last year. President Potter says
that he expects to turn out 100000 tons
during the coming year.
The Baltimore & Ohio will establish
new division from Wheeling to Charleston,
West Virginia, under the name of the
Wheeling Junction railroad. The scheme
has been talked of for years,
The Stemton, Pa, car works, which
have been lying idle for some time, have
received an order from the Bethlehem Iron
company for one hundred ore cars, to be
used by that company at its mines in
Cuba.
In addition, the railway companies lose
money, being less able to pay their bills
and keep their properties in thorough re-
pair; and their stockholders, deprived of
their expected dividends, are smaller
buyers and so tradesmen generally suffer.
In time another connection or cut off
must be built from Fort Worth to Alex
andria, so that the western traffic, bound
to Galveston and New Orleans, may have
the shortest possible route, and addition
al feeders be provided for the main line.
The Millerton, New York, Iron COM
pany has nearly completed its new fur
mace at Irondale, which takes the place of
the furnace destroyed by fire some eight
months ago. The new furnace is ffty-hve
feet high and nine feet six inch bosh and
will use charcoal as fuel.
The only people who gain by these
!, strifes are the ticket brokers and some
: times a few travellers. The business men
prefer higher rates with peace, for they
} know that railway wars mean discrimlna-
tions of the worst sort because the prices
of transportation fuctuate widely and are
uncertain from day to day.
Judges Baxter and Drummond, sitting
on the motion for receiver of the Mem
phis, Birmingham 81 Atlantic railroad
company, on the showing made by com
plainant in the original and amended bill
without argument decided that no CASE
had beer made for the appointment of {
receiver, and denied the motion.
The Baltimore g. Ohio and the Pennsyl
vania are vieing with each other to maxi
=. the lot of the New Jersey legislator I
happy one. Such opportunities for pleas
: ure do not come often and the Jerse.
statesmen will probably make the most o
them. Meantime the Staten Island pro
iect will be discussed at intervals.
Prof. Alex. Hogg, superintendent of tn
public schools at Fort Worth, has pub
9 lished pamphlet entitled "The Railroad
!. as an Element in Education" The pub
n LEGATION is an address delivered by Prof
Hogg at the worlds exposition in New
Orleans. 1t is favorably mentioned b.
n prominent railroad men, staticians an
4 educators.
s The several states are moving in tn
il matter of compelling railways to adop
s an automatic car coupling attachment
o In Michigan, Connecticut and Massachu
a sets action has been already taken, Blu
: it would seem that the advantages O
: automatic couplers ought to be so thol
s oughly known that legislation should nc
y be needed to bring about an adoption O
f the life saving appliances.
The Spring Grove, Avandale & Cincir
natl railway company, more genero
= known as the Avondale branch "a
Cincinnati Northern railway, was I'd III
y ceiver Ezekiel l.. DeCamp, under an orde
e of court, in foreclosure proceeding
d wherein the Central Trust company, @
New York, as trustees for the bondholder
was the complainant. There was Sigh
# competition, and the bidding was &C
Is vanced to $1,000, at which price it wa
D. knocked down to Mr.. Harrison and assC
ents ates.
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