The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-11-01
High Rates of Speed on the
Different Roads-An Electric
Railway for Mail Service.

stoves out of the coaches and the text out
of the legislators mouth at the same time.
Sedaiia, Mo-, has made strong bid for
the establishment of the general offices of
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway in
that city, and 1t Is probable that the re-
ceivers will locate their headquarters
there.
A freight train, consisting of eighty
seven loaded cars and caboose, was re-
Gently pulled over the Birmingham Min
eral road by one engine from Bessemer,
Ala, to Thomas, distance of tweuty-six
miles. The length of the train was 1852
feet, and the estimated weight 1929 900
pounds.
Oscar G. Murray has been appointed
traffic manager of the Big Four and the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroads. He will
assume the duties of his new office on
November l, which will yield him salary
more than twice as large as the one which
he now draws as freight traffic manager of
the Missouri Pacific.
From now on the vocation of the
switchman will become more and more
dangerous on the roads that use link and
pin couPlers. Automatic coaplers, were
.
life this winter.
The expenditure of $646, 200 by Receiver
McNulta, of the Wabash railway, has been
authorized by Judge Gresham. OF this
sum 100000 will be devoted to the pay
ment of one six months coupon on first
mortgages and fun led debt bonds, and
the 200 will be used upon bridges and
trestles.
The division Off ,es of the Kansas City
extension of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul railway have been removed to
Chillicothe, Mo-, from Kansas City, and
are permanst=ly located there. II. r.
Williams is the superintendent of the di-
vision, and II. B. Earling, train dis patcher.
One day last week the Manistee and
Northern Railroad company commenced
laying track past the Sorenson boarding
house, in Mauistee, Mich. As soon as
Mrs. Sorenson discovered the workmen
laying the track she, with revolver in
hand, went to the workmen and demanded
that they desist. They refused, where
upon she ordered rocking chair to be
brought out, ard, planting it across two
ties, she occupied the chair throughout
the day, all night and until O'Clock the
next evening, preventing the men from
laying the rails, at which hour she was
arrested and placed in Jail, charged with
obstructing the building OF the railroad.
That is the proposed speed for the cleo
trio postal railroad of the future. An
experimental lice has been erected at
Laurel, twenty miles from Baltimore. A
com promise between the pneumatic tube
he mi
ture train of two cars, solely for mails and
light parcels, without any. attendance.
The road has three rails, one above the
car for carrying the current, and two
below which carry the cars. The cars are
built of sheet iron and are two feet square
and twenty one feet long. Speed will be
regulated and power or brakes applied by
electricity solely. If the experiment at
Laurel succeeds, it is stated that similar
roads will be laid between Baltimore and
/ Washington and elsewhere.
A recent case in Ohio will be of interest
to conductors generally. Some months
since the Valley railway unceremoniously
discharged several passenger conductors
without assigning any reason. One of
them, J. H. Archer, on going to draw his
salary, was told, in effect that he had
stolen more than the amount due him for
service, and that the company, therefore,
refused to pay him. He entered suit and
obtained judgment for his claim and
costs, and higher court sustained the
judgment. Archer now proposes to sue
the company for defamation of character
in discharging him under circumstances
which allowed OF only one Intermediate
he was thief This is said to be the first
time that conductor discharged under
the imputation of theft has taken the
matter into the courts.
The fast train between Jersey City and
Philadelphia performs the journey of
S9.6 miles in hour and so minutes
actual time in motion, l hour and As
minutes; average speed, 49.7 miles per
hour. The weight of the locomotive is
96,7OO pounds; tender, $4,000; six cars,
$50, 100; total weight of empty train,
483, 100 pounds. The consumption of
anthracite coal per mile is 55.5S pounds;
maximum grade, 3S.8 feet per mile.
The limited express between Portland
and Bangor makes one stop, and performs
the journey of 13S miles in hours and
10 minutes; average speed, As miles per
hour. The weight of the locomotive is
80, 500 pounds; tender, 60, 400; cars (esti-
mated, 212,SOO; total weight of empty
train, 900. Coal consumed per mile,
1913 pounds.
The private train known as the Flying
Dude" on the Old Colony road, performs
the journey from Boston to Woods Holl,
seventy-two miles, in one hour and forty
minutes, and makes five stops; actual time
in motion, one hour and thirty minutes;
the average is forty eight miles per hour.
The weight of the locomotive and tender
Is 125OO0 pounds; three cars, $4,000;
total, 100000. Coal consumed per mile,
29.8 pounds. Maximum grade, forty feet
per mile, and none over three miles long.
The weight of these three cars is about
the same as that of the four English cars
above mentioned
The Steamboat passenger train on the
old Colony road performs the journey
between Boston and Fall River, fifty
miles, in one hour and twenty minutes,
making one stop; actual time ia motion,
one hour and eighteen minutes; average
miles per hour, 1874. Weight of locomo-
tive and tender, $4,000 pounds; twelve
cars, GA coo; total, 31.CO0. Coal per
mile, 65.5 pounds. Maximum grade,