The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-01
more troublesome than the peace was for some
weeks past, because the low rates are now made
openly that formerly were quoted secretly"

weeks past because the low rates are now made
openly that formerly were quoted secretly"
Introducing the Burton stock Car in Europe.
The Furness line steamer Durham City sailed
from Boston Saturday morning for London, car
| rying full cargo of beef cattle for the English
| market. A peculiar interest attaches to this
| trip of the Durham City. inasmuch as she takes
to England two cars of the Burton Stock Car Com
/ pany, being the initial step of general intro
| duction into Great Britain and Europe of these
| vehicles for the humane transportation of lire
| stock The Boston Advertiser says: I'm this
move the Burton company is being heartily Sec
onded by the house of Prius q zwanebure, OF
| Holland. which controls the entire expectation
| of the celebrated Hostein cattle, and also the
Durham, Jersey, Guernsey, and other favorite
brands of blooded stock In the
two cars shipped were several recent
| improvements. They are built to carry sixteen
head of stock. At each end. at about three feet
from the floor, is a swinging trough of zinc, set
In wooden frame. In the outer rim Of the
frame, at intervals of twenty-four inches, four
stout IRON rings are set, to which the cattle IN
transltu are tied. The car is divided In the CEN
ter by partition of wood, running from
the roof to Gwothirds the depth of the car. Be-
meath 1T Is trough similar to those at each
end. with the single exception that 1T is made to
do duty for eight animals, four on each side OF
the partition. Over each trough a trap door In
the roof permits the insertion of feed, obvating
any necessity of entering the car for that pur-
pose. An ingenious device also secures water to
the animals. just under the roof a large
cast iron pipe runs the length of the
car. At each end, and in the center,
smaller pipes tap the larger pipe and discharge
their contents into the troughs. Water is poured
into the larger pipe from the roof of the car, and
from 1t is distributed to the troughs through the
small pipes The ventilation of the IS
thorough Two grated doors on each side, and
two interstices running the length Of the on
each side, give free access to the air; and the
doors are SO arranged that in severely cold
weather they can be converted into solid barr-
ers to wind and wet The cars now employed in
Europe are the common box with open top
and many shipments of valuable cattle have
been ruined by their use. In one instance an
entire shipment of Holsseins, en- route from Hol
land to Italy, was lost the animals perishing of
had been used Mr.. Prius is satisfied that not an
animal would have died from the cause cited
Through Business Cuts Small Figure.
The opinion that the earnings from through
business east and west lines is overesti-
mated is gaining favor every day. Below is
given statistics taken from the Railroad Gazette
bearing on this matter which will be read with
interest The Gazette demonstrates. what, of
course. was known by traffic men, that great
reduction in the price of ticket to Chicago does
not increase the travel enough to prevent a
large decrease in gross not to say net. earnings;
but it shows definitely what was rot very widely
known among railroad men even before. what
increase in travel was caused by very large re-
duction in rates on route like this A reduc-
ton of nearly onehalf in the price of tickets
more than one half by some of the lines-was
followed by an increase of 20 per cent. in the
travel and by decrease of 81 per cent. III
the gross earnings. During the whole year
1888, when rates were maintained, there
were sc. 1914 passengers; during 1885, with eleven
months of very low rates, there were 104, APP
per cent more Another portant fact is shown.
and that is that this travel which is by far the
most important long distance through travel in
this country if in the world, is after ali but
small item IN railroad earnings. In 1883. when
rates were maintained, the trunk-ine earnings
from this travel frstclass to and beyond Chi
cago were 1888. 800, and from second-ciass
passengers in that direction $l63. 657, or a total
of 1852 547. and all the other travel from all the
sea board cities that go beyond the western ter
minus of the trunk lines is estimated to yield lit
tie than half much more, and their
whole through travel in both directions, at full
rates, about So 100000, which is only about 10
Der cent. of the total passenger earnings of the
New York Central, the Erie and the Pennsyl-
vania in 1883.
A Notable Example of Engineering Skill
While much has been said about government
jobs and political fraud attending the completion
of the Canadian Pacific road, it still remains an
example of notable engineering skill and bust
ness energy. To join Montreal to Vancouver by
rail it was necessary to cut through more than
300 miles of solid rock. to turn fourteen streams
| from their natural beds, to build hundreds of
| iron bridges one being over | 900 feet long and
another some 286 feet high. and to keep an army
| of men sometimes as high Is. 900 continually
| omnIovAd The cOSt of the road Diant and
branches secured. has been $72 500, 900, which is
somewhat cheaper than our transcontinental
| lines. The present debt of the Cana
| dian Pacific is $50, 000,0 600. which looks
| small beside the 5000. 900. 900 and
| some of Unicn Pacific liabilities. But the bur-
| den of debt depends upon the money-earning
capacity of the property and for this the friends
| of the Canadian Pacific must watch and wait.
| With the opening of this newlroute Canada gets
1 to the Pacific coast by travelling BIG miles less
| than do Liverpool freight going via the
! United States to the Pacific coast goes 100 miles
more than it would be compelled to go the
! Canadian route, and the advantage of the latter
| route over ours in the transshipment of goods
| from Liverpool to Yokohama is $50 miles. 1t is
| therefore pardonablein the Dominion papers mt
this time to celebrate the opening of their great
road by visions of great commercial prosperity.
Miscellaneous Notes.
The Savannah. Florida & Western is neco-
| tiating for the purchase of the Brunswick g.
| Western road.
! The old story that the Lehigh Valley will go
| into New York over the Jersey Central is re-
| yived. There is no likelihood Of any change.
The new line of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, paraleling the Reading railroad
through the Schuykill valley to the Wyoming
anthracite region, will be completed by Oct /.
The passenger agents at San Francisco are
displeased with the action of the Atlantic &