The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-11-15
RAILROAD RACKET.
Items of Interest ALI Along tba
Great Lines.
American Locomotives to Be
Shipped to Japan, and Other
Matters of Importance.

AO"N NOhPohJ oAo soiAAhs OuOusdnQ mila
tickets for $25.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and 3,
Louis is having built four consolidataS
freight and three passenger locomotive
at the Rogers Locomotive works.
The American Association of Railvs,
Chemists will hold its next meeting i
Baltimore, Md, January IA, Is and 16.
Frederick Gerhard has sued the Fri.
for $4,000 damages for horses and
other property destroyed at the Shooa
accident last summer.
Joseph W. Reinhart, who has been an
pointed general auditor of the Atchion
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad companv
has been in service since 1869. Mr. Rein
harris headquarters are in Boston.
On the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy.
near Dubuque, Ia, last Sunday section.
master took his wife, three children and
young man for ride on hand car. Thew
were overtaken by train and the woman
and two boys were killed.
After close competition with English
and French manufacturers Il. K. Porter L
Co, of Pittsburgh, have received an order
from the Japanese government for two Of
their Mogul 42-inch gauge Locomotives, to
be used on the Paranai railroad in the
island of Yesso.
At Headlingly, on the Canadian Pacific,
last week the employees of that road tore
up the frogs of crossing which the con-
strnction forces of the new provincial road
had laid. At the same place on Monday
night Canadian Pacific bridge was satu.
rated with oil and set afire, but was saved
VIM. O'Herrin who has been general fore.
man of the Missouri Pacific shops at
Parsons Kas., has been appointed master
mechanic of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas, with headquarters at Parsons, Kas.
Robt. Walker, who has been appointed
master car builder of the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas, has been general foreman
of the Missouri Pacific shops at Sedalia,
Mo.
Mr.. j. P. Nelson, chief engineer and
superintendent of the Arkansas Pass rail-
road, was in Houston the other day. He
states that they have laid track to the
crossing of the southern Pacific railroad,
distance of three miles. The bad
weather has put stop to any further
work. As soon as the weather clears up
he will commence and will lay about two
miles of track day.
A British board of trade return shows
that on June 80 last 81 per cent-an ad.
vance Of 3.5 per cent since the last return
of engines and tenders in the united
kingdom were fitted with continuous
brakes, while the proportion of passenger
cars fitted was 76 per cent, an advance Of
per cent. The mileage run by trains
fitted with these brakes is 66,053,727, OF
SO per cent of the whole passenger train
mileage. The tIains RAINING without
continuous brakes are chiefly short trains
on small branches. The brakes chiefly
used are the automatic vacuum, and ihe
Westinghouse automatic.
The Southern Paciff company has filed
for record at San Francisco q mortgage
for $3S, 100000, given to the Central trust
company of New York. The deed Of trust
declares that the branch roads have
turned over all their property to the
Southern Pacific, and the latter ASSUMES
all debts and liabilities, and to secure psy.
ment of these debts the Southern Pacific
company will create a sinking fund, and
after the year 1898 will pay $4,000 per
month out of the net income of the rail-
road and continue so to do until the debt
is paid.
The roads composing the Southern rail-
way and steamship association have been
called to account for delaying to con-
form to the long and short haul clause
The condition of traffic in the south have
been such that compliance with the re-
quirements of the act was much slower
than in any other part of the country, eI-
cept perhaps on the trans-continental
routes.
The International railroad convention
at its St. Louis meeting passed a resou-
ton to the effect that cotton destined for
st. Louis, Hannibal or st. Joseph must
not be compressed. This 10 thrust at
the fast freight lines, as cotton cannot DO
conveniently shipped unless it is COM
pressed and the effect of the resolution
will be to direct the staple via Galveston
or New Orleans, and put stop to the all
rail shipments via New York.
It is claimed that an Inter-Ocean special
train over the Louisville, New Albany and
Chicago ran from Rensselaer, to Monon,
making an intermediate stop, in incredible
time. The report in the Office of the train
dispatcher showed that the special made
the sixteen miles in fifteen minutes, and
that included in the fifteen minutes was
stop made to take coal. The usual time
required to take coal is about three
minutes on an ordinary passenger train
stop. On the special Engineer Klein
stopped No. q exactly under the chute,
and before the weeels had ceased revolving
the rope was pulled. The train was again
in motion, and the bottom of the chute
nearly struck the top of the car as it went
back to its place, though it is said that no
coal was wasted.
Few people have any correct idea, say
the Railway Age, of the amount of rail-
way construction which has been in prog
ress in the United States SprIng the pres
ent year. The impression. which widely
obtained at the commencement OF the
year, that railway extension had oee9
practically suspended, and 1855 wou,o
show very little addition of railway trace,
seems to have continued, although inc
statement published in this journal fol
the first six months showed that neariy
1000 miles of track had been laid. 1ns
fact that the great companies which adoe eS
thousands of miles of new road IN 100,
practically ceased construction at the emu
of that year, for the time seemed to wal
rant the impression that railway building
had practically come to a stsndstill. bu'
while few of the principal companii:s,s,
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