The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-25
MiscelIaneous Notes.

AllsC0haneOuS NOTES.
The Minneapolis, SAINT Ste. Marie & At
lantic will be opened to Prentice the junction
point with the Wisconsin Central, on or before
Sept /.
The Michigan Central has begun to tear down
the old depot at Kalamazoo, Mich, and will inn
mediately erect handsome passenger station
and an extensive freight depot there.
Work OH the new Grand Trunk station at
Montreal has been begun. The building is to
cost $500, 900, and a guarantee has been given
that it will be completed before January, 1888.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad has
opened new line between Chicago and Cairo
via Danville & Cairo, Vincennes d Chicago line.
The fast freight leaving Chicago at 4:l5 p N.
has through sleeping-car, which arrives in Cairo
early the following morning, insuring connection
for Texarkana, Corsicana, Waco and other
Southwestern points
1t is estimated that the yearly loss to German
rail works by the dissolution of the international
rail convention and of the conventions with
England and Belgium will not be less than 1e500.
600, of which about third will fall to foreign
contracts. Already the price of rails has fallen
FL 5s per ton in the international market, and
nearly FL in Germany.
1t is stated that some of tho capitalists con-
nected with the Canadian Pacific will put in a
tender for the carrying of the mails from Can
ada to England by line of projected steamers.
Need is felt for faster service than that hither
to given, and combination of the Dominion
and Allan lines. to bring their faste5t vessels
into use, is also on the cards.
The Kansas City, Springfield & Memphis peo-
pie, who are building an extension from Mem
phis to Birmingham, Ala, have purchased the
Memphis, Birmingham IL Atlanta road of forty
five miles from Memphis to Holly Springs, and
will make it part Of the new line, thus saving
time and, presumably money. while avoiding
cOmD6tltlOn. n ia a wv
line.
Railway men complain of the weight of passen-
ger-cars now built, and show by figures that an
engine hauls between five and six pounds of dead
weight for every one pound of paying passenger
weight, reckoned when all the seats are filled.
The cars in Europe are much lighter than they
are in this country, and 1t IS safe to say that
there is not car in service in England to-day as
heavy as the lightest American Pullman Sleep
ing-car
The Supreme Court of Tennessee has decided
that railroad company is liable for the bag
gage of a passenger when stolen or lost from the
sleeping car of train, even if such sleeping car
be the property of another company. The court
holds that the road is not relieved from its re-
sponsibiity for the protection of passengers oy
turning them over to another corporation or in
dividual who may own or manage the sleeping
cars used in connection with the railway conf
pany's trains.
The Railway Life says: SIT would be inter
esting to trace the relation between rate wars
and strikes on railways. We have no data to
offer, but it seems reasonable to believe shat
the harassing uncertainties of state of war
would lead to actions on the part of the manage
ment which, however necessary or advisable
under the circumstances, calculated to
arouse hostility on the part of the workmen.
Those who camor for liyelier cutting between
the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific should
consider this phase of the question"