The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-09
THE IRON HORSE.
Sentiment CROWN G to Relieve Him
of Sabbath Labor.
Changes in Railway Clrcles-E Earn
ings and Railway Construc-
tions on the Continent.

Mr.. JEFF Chandler, the Cotton Belts
general solicitor, is in New York.
Colgate Hoyt, of New York city, has re-
signed his position as director of the
Union Pacific railroad.
The construction of the new machine
shops of the Mexican National at Laredo,
Texas, has commenced and will be pushed
to completion.
The people of Texas must be careful
not to get into hot wGt,r among them
selves while trying to secure deep water
for their commerce.
California is enjoying boom in rail-
road building, which will add largely to
the transportation facilities and the de-
velopment of the state.
@. o. johnson, late division freight
agent of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and
Gulf railway, has accepted similar po-
sition with the St. Louis, Arkansas and
Texas, with headquarters at Little Rock.
New Orleans wants a direct line into
northwestern Texas, and her business men
are taking the necessary steps to secure
one. The Crescent City must look to her
interests closely, or the seaboard cities of
export business.
The Minneapolis Journals Winnipeg
special says that negotiations between the
Northern Pacific and the Manitoba gov
ernment, including an extension of the
Northern Pacific so as to compete with
the Canadian Pacific at all points, have
been brought to a successful conclusion,
and an extra session of the legislature
will be called to ratify the agreement.
The Kansas and Texas officials at
Parsons, Kan, have received orders from
Missouri Pacific headquarters to report
and treat International and Great North
ern cars as foreign rolling stock. Here
tofOre they have been treated as Kansas
and Texas and Missouri Pacific system
property. This order is regarded here as
meaning that the severance of the Inter-
national from ihe Missouri Pacific system
is an accomplished fact.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers maintains 1000 idle men, at an
expense of 100000 per month, and in
fuences their minds with hatred toward
the Burlington Railroad company. Yet
the Brotherhood protests vehemently that
it must not be held responsible for the
acts of its members. Strange logic that!
The assertions made by the Brother
hood engineers that the Burlington rail-
road sis now doing but one-third" of its
usual business at this season, is very
glaring example of the unreliability of the
strikers declarations. The fact is, as
shown by the official figures, that the
Burlington is not only doing quite as well
as it ever did, but it is also doing fully as
much as its competitors who are expert
encing no labor troubles. The strikers
are not very careful or they would not
make statements that can SO easily be
proven false.
According the engineers, General Man
ager Stone struck several months ago,
and has ever since been oonspiring with
himself to blow up the Burlington road
with dynamite.
Let every common carrier give fifteen
days notice of each proposed advance or
reduction in rates. 1t can do no harm,
and would probably do much good. The
results would appear In the growth of the
net earnings.
The Southern Pacific Railroad com pany
contem plates the construction of a bridge,
to cost $2,000,000, over the Carguinez
straits, which will greatly facilitate its
business. 1t will also enable it to save a
good deal of time and expense in the
operation of its Sacramento division.
George H. Daniels, vice chairman of the
Central Traffic association, says that the
passenger agents seemed determined to
destroy the revenue from the passenger
service by making cut rates to every
hot
practice prevails it seems useless to talk
of profits from such service.
The Baltimore and Ohio shows increases
in net earnings for the month of June and
for the past nine months, but they are
small. The next five months should help
the net.earnings of the company mate
rally.
j. W. Worthington & Co. have been
awarded the contract to build nineteen
miles more of the extension of the\ Bir-
mingham Mineral railroad to Huntsville,
Ala. They have commenced work, and
are to complete it within ninety days.
The Washington and Idaho Tor Oregon
Railway and Navigation company has
let contracts for the completion of the
road to Mullan, the work to be finished by
January 1. The Oregon Railway COM
pany has disposed of bonds sufficient to
complete the road.
The crops in Texas this year are the
heaviest in years, and the railroad com
panles, knowing that after September l
they will be taxed for cars to move the
cotton, lumber, grain, etc, are taking ad-
vantage of the present lull in business to
lay in supply of coal, so that when the
rush comes they can have the use of all
their rolling stock with which to move
the crOpS