The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-21
The Major Fails to Put Up
His Bond.
RAILWAY NEWS IN GENERAL;
Test of The New COg-geare Engine
A Daily "GOIden Gate Special"
General Notes.

required by the conditions of the fran
chise granted to him by the city to eg-
tablish and run an electric railway on
certain streets of this city Recorder
Wells was seen shortly before midnight
last night and said that the MAJOR had
failed to show up.
According to the terms of the con-
tract made with the city this failure on
the part of the major to meet the sub
stan tlal part of the agreement vitiates
the contract and leaves the matter Just
where it was q year ago. When Major
Wilkes was last seen he said he ex-
pected to be on hand with the bond in
due time and no reason for his failure
to appear could be found last night. A
HERALD man was out looking tor MIN
yesterday, but he could not be found
and his explanation, should be choose
to make one, will have to be given later.
The City Council has already al
lowed two extensions of the time
stated in the original agreement, and
it is not likely that f1rth-r time will be
given if asked for. This leaves the
field open to Mr.. Remington. Mr..
Young and others, who were shut out
by The Wilkes franchise, and DOUBTLESS
one of these parties will now come for
ward and apply for the privilege of
establishing ar electric road.
THE NEW ENGINE TESTED.
The final test of the little giant engine
recently received by the Salt Lake &
Fort Douglas Railroad, was made yes
terday. This engine is new invention
and anovelty to this region. 1t differs
from other engines in several respects;
it has eight wheels, each of which is q
driver. The tank and engine are both
on one channel iron frame, and there is
no dead weight. lthas three cylinders,
10x10 inches, all on one side, and the
boiler is consequently not placed over
the center Of the track. which makes the
engine presenta rather odd appearance.
The shaft which connects the drivers is
all one piece, being make flexible by
togel joints, in order to admit of the en-
CINE turning sharp curves. The trucks
are also placed on swivels for the same
purpose. Another advantage over
other engines is the small size of the
drivers-onIy twenty-eight inches The
engine is equipped throughout with all
the modern appliances. The weight is
t g -ty- eigI tt ms and the cost at the
factory 81 700.
Yesterday afternoon party consist
ing of some of the officials of the road,
the master mechanic and few others
left the Salt Lake & Fort Douglas depot
for Red Butte Canyon with tour cars Ct
rock and a caboose, making a gross
weight of sighty-one tons. The
heaviest grade on the road begins at
Fort Douglas and continues to the Red
Butte quarries, it being a 6 per cent.
grade, or BIG feet to the mile. The en-
CINE was stopped several times along
the route by means of the steam air
break and started up again ss smt o bly,
as if it were on a level. It is claimed
that the engine will pull lis loaded cars
or l, 722 tons On level, and will pull
thirty nine tons up 10 I er cent. grade.
Robert Croft, the master mechanic,
says it is a remarkable piece of
machenism, and is just what is needed.
He is we'll satisfied with the test, it
being all that was claimed by the COM
pany. Mr.. Williams, the gentleman
sent out by the factory, will return
home to Lima, Ohio, this evening.
FRANCIS Cope, of the Utah Central.
has returned to the city.
S. f. FENToN, of the Utah & Nevada,
returned home yesterday after an e1-
tended tour of the east and west.
G. NJ. CUNNING, general manager of
the st. Joseph & Grand Island Rail
road, has been appointed superiutend-
ent of the Wyoming division of the
Union Pacific.
The eighth annual convention of the
National Association of Baggage
Agents will be held January Is. 1889
A large attendance is expected, all the
leading railroads in the country being
in the association.
The current issue of the Railroad
Gazette describes the palatial cars of the
new Golden Gate special at length. and
adds: IA report that may not be all
fiction is to the effect that the Pullman
Company has orders to continue build
ing cars until there are enough to run
train every day. This would require
from fifty to seventy-ive cars. At
present the weekly train allows passen-
gers to leave the Atlantic seaboard
Monday morning and reach the Pacific
Friday night. The time between Chi
cago and Council Bluffs will probably
be shortened when the present agree-
ment between the competing roads ex-
pires, a month or two hence; it will
then be possible, by slight accelera-
ton west of the Missouri, to save an
other day at the starting point. The
additional lines now in the field con-
trolled by single company from Chi
cago far beyond the Missouri, change
conditions materially, and that river is
slowly but surely becoming way sta
ton. The rumois that the Union Pa
ci6c will make an arrangement with
one of the roads to run its passenger
trains into Chicago will probably come
true before long, whether they have
any basis now Or not"
The Omaha Herald gives Harry Gil
more, of the Missouri Pacific, as au-
tnority for the following story:
Ill tell you story, which although
not new, is tip-top: On some roads in
Wayback they attach passenger to a
freight train and call it linked" 1t is
not in the order of things that such
trains should travel very rapidly, and
sometimes there is considerable growl-
ing among the passengers. On one of
these trains a nervous man asked for
the hur6 edth fine ga re we most there