The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-18
THE RAILROADS..
Personal Mention of Men Who
Own the Great Highways.
High Speed OF the Wheezlng Iron
Horse, OSh3: Matters Of
General Interest.

from the belts of a number of railroad
companies.
The metal substitute for the wooden
will ultimately prove the solution OF the
ccoss-tie question.
Galveston is to have ietties. This means
that the importance of Galveston as
railway city is destined to be much IN
creased.
Stockholders, as well as the general pub
lie, should demand clear statements OF the
| financial condition of the railway COM
panies as often as once quarter.
A test of an improved electric headlight
for locomotives is to be made on one of
the engines hauling the night express on
the Indianapolis, Decatur and Western.
The Austin and Northwestern TO Burnet
is about ready to change to a broad
gaug., and is advertising for fifty labor
ers
j. H. Best, it,, has been appointed
traffic manager of the Quincy, Omaha and
Kansas City Railway company, with head
quarters at Quincy, Ill.
e. Hartman has been appointed con-
tracing freight agent OF the Grand
Rapids and Indiana road, with headquar-
tiers in Cincinnati.
John II. Evans was on Tuesday ap
pointed auditor of the Fort Wayne, Gin
cinnati and Louisville railroad, to succeed
Charles Hoffman.
General Freight Traffic Agent John S.
Wilson, of the Pennsylvania, is reported
to have resigned his position with that
company, to take effect October 10.
Mr.. Charles S. Churchill, who was ap-
pointed engineer in charge of the West
| Virginia and Iropton branch of the Nor
folk and Western last May, has resigned
that position TO become engineer of
maintenance of way of the Norfolk and
| Western.
The cattle kings having been served with
notice by the United States government
that they can no longer occupy the Indian
Territorywith their herds under their favor
able contracts with the natives, it is proba-
bic that in future their opposition to the
bill for,opening the territory to settlement
will be less vigorous in the halls of con-
g ess.
The Poughkeepsie bridge over the Hud-
son river will soon be done, and its i'm
|
1t is now proposed to throw two more
viaducts over that stream at a total
expense of $25,00O,OOO or S30,OO0,OOO.
The necessity for cheap and speedy com
munication between the coal and cotton
fields and New England factories is behind
all of these movements.
There are indications that the vicious
passenger rate war which has been raging
| for some time on the roads leading from
St. Louis to New York will soon be
brought to close. The Vaudalia, Bee
and Wabash have advanced their rates to
New York respectively to 1923, so and
| S2l, which is within a notch of the old
rates. The special rOund-trlp rates re-
main as before. This is probably q step
| toward q settlement of the difficulties be-
| tween the roads mentioned 4 meeting
will doubtless soon be held at which rates
willie be amicably arranged, and in the
meantime the before mentioned advance
has been made tp something like the old
rate. The Ohio and Mississippi did not
meet the advance, but will doubtless be
brought into line. This arrangement at
present is not an acknowledgment by the
Vandalia of the differential so long con-
tended for, but it is move in the direo-
ton of settlement. If there is no OBJ
s:ruction to the programme as now
mapped out, few days more will doubt
less find affairs on these lines on the old
basis again.
Colonel j. j. Frey, of Se1alia, Mo-, has
been appointed general manager of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas by Receivers
Cross and Eddy. Colonel Frey's reten-
| AZ, ,,,S a.;
and along the line of the road.
The officials of the st. Paul, Minneapo-
lis and Manitoba announce the compile
ton of the Cando branch, an important
extension of their line, in Dlkota. Presi
dent Hill speaks of the new line as fol-
lows: "The Cando branch extends from
Church's Ferry northward in Dakota ter
ritory for distance of little over fifty
miles Something like twenty miles of
this extension, adjoining the main line,
were graded in the latter part of 1856.
Then work was dropped. The grading up
to the fl fly mile limit, however, and the
construction of the whole have been done
| this season. As near as can be estimated
at present the new branch will cost the
company about 100000. This Csndo
branch is the last of the new lines which
this company has in hand, though num-
Der of other branches are being built by
separate companies in which the Mantle.
bs has as much of an interest as any
large system has in lines which are its
feeders"
The highest speed practically attain
able in daily service with passenger trains
has always been point on which much
discussion has been raised. The recent
race between London and Edinburgh
seems, however, to afford tolerably COM
plete solution of the problem. The Of
fetal figures, giving the actual time and
load for each day of the run, when ana
lyzed, give the following average results
for the London and Northwestern route
from August 6 to August 81 inclusive.
During this time the schedule time was
eight hours for the 400 miles. and the
train arrived in Edinburgh ahead of sched-
ule time on twenty-five days, and was
| thirty-seven minutes late on one day only,
owing to fiue on the locomotive collaps-
ing. With this exception, the running
was remarkably regular, the trains arriv-
ing within one minute for eleven days in
succession. The average speed for the
whole period was fraction over fifty
miles per hour including stops, and
slightly under fifty-fvs miles per hour
excluding stops. The average time
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