The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-22
THE RAILWAY WORLD.
The Rio Grande & Utah
Coming This Way.
JNION PACIFIC CHANGES.
The Pay Roll of the "GoIden Gate
SpeciaI' Personal aEd
General Notes.

J. V. PARKER and Hoyt Sherman, Jr. ,
returned from the north last evening.
J. H. BENNETT, of the D. & R. G., is
expected home to-day, accompanied by
Mrs. Bennett.
The Union Pacific has placed an order
with the st. Charles Car Works for
fifteen chair cars.
The Chicago & Northwestern has
placed an oroer for 5000 tons of rails
at so at the works.
THERE are nineteen men on the pay
roll of the Golden Gate special" and
their average pay is So day. The
electrician and chief cook are the high
est paid of the employees.
YESTERDAY afternoon, at Pocatello,
Idaho, 12-year-old boy named Orma
Tolmie was run over at the railroad
depot, by car, and had his left arm
aud leg cut off. He is so horribly in
jured that he clnnotlive.
AGENTS of the Union Pacific and
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul roads
were chasing after reporters yesterday
with the information that their roads
had successfully carried the big panes
of glass for the front of the Scott-Auer-
bach building. Nothing was broken on
the way and nothing was broken By the
agents on the success of the shipment.
A BUTTE paper says local shippers
have been notified by the Union Pacific
that all special rates heretofore quoted
have been cancelled, AMI that regular
tariff rates from the Atlantic seaboard
to Chicago will go into effect again.
This order is the outgrowth of the
recent peace made between the eastern
roads and consequent restoration of
rates.
THE Order of Railway Conductors
has divided. The western trainmen
Wheaden, and have perfected an or
ganization known as the brotherhood
of Railway Conductors" There are
now 10S members equally divided be-
tween the Southern Pacific and Santa
Fe Railroads. The initiative of the new
organization was made in Omaha. Can
Vassers are now at work among rail-
road conductors throughout the
country to build up the society.
UNION PACIFIC CHANGES.
1t was known to a very few persons
that Vice-President Holcomb, of the
Union Pacific, visited San Francisco for
the purpose of making changes in the
company's agents there, and now comes
the positive information that several
heads went humming into Mr.. Hol-
combs basket one day last week. D.
W. Hitchcock, general agent, and Carl
Clark, freight agent of the Union
Pacific, as well as William Bedell of the |
Oregon Railway & Navigation line, are
the unfortunRtes. Besides these the
new administration may see fit to re-
move, as it is quite likely, a half dozen
assistants and clerks. Mr.. Hitchcock
will be superseded byJ. Q. Kirkland, of
the Pennsylvania line, and S. w. Eccles, !
of the Mexican Central, will probably |
get the position of general freight agent. |
The three agencies of the lines mem |
tened, now maintained in San Fran
cisco, will be combined into one. Mr.. |
has been offered position |
by the Union Pacific in The east, but he |
has not yet determined whether or not |
he will accept it..
THE BIO GRANDE & UTAH.
The Rio Grande & Utah Railroad, the
new line recently located from Albu-
querque by way of Durango 10 Salt |
Lake, is making active preparations to
commence the work of construction by !!
the beginning of the year Lands have |
been purchased for depot purposes, and |
the parties who are to have charge of |
the work are already arriving. The
line will follow the river from this city
to BernRlIlto, thence north to Jemez
Strings and Conner CitV
THAT NEW ENGINE.
Ovar the signature of Park City"
the following was sent to The HERAl D
You are mistaken in your
notice of the new engine used by the
Salt Lake & Fort Douglas Railroad. 1t
is not a new invention, having been in
use for many years on Michigan log |
railroads, and known there as the Shay |
having been invented by a |
Michigan man of that name who then
resided at Cadillac, Mich. Nor is the
novelty in this region,
as in 1885 Frank II. Dyer put seven
teen ton locomotive of the same pat
tern, built by the same parties, at |
Lima, Ohio, on the Crescent ore rail-
road at Park City, since which time it |
has been continuously used without
accident. The Crescent railroad has an
average grade of 400 feet to the mile.
Its highest grade is $50 feet, and no
trouble has been experienced in using |
the locomotive on the highest grade
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