The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-25
GuIubiInys Of the Rail.

THE first instalmOnt Of the 800 now
freight cars recently ordered Tor the Mis-
sissippi Valley road has already been
shipped.
g. Il. RYAS, chief clerk OF the passen-
ger department OF tho Chesapeake q Ohio
railroad ut Louisville, Is IN the city on a
brief visit.
Tux Southern Passenger association has
granted special excursion rates 10 the
Southern Dental association, which meets
IN Louisville August - 10 September 4.
THg dalnagc to the track Of the Louis
willie q Nashville in the south, done by tho
recent heavy rains, and which was very
insignificant, has all been overcome and
trains aro running rs heretofore.
BRgNT ARNoLD. Of the Louisville Il
Nashville, at Cincinnati, was Tuesday
elected president Of the Cincinnati Freight
Agents association, with q. q. flutter, Of
the Bee Line, vice-prcsidcnt
Tng monument 10 David Shaw, the
heroic engineer who died 10 save tho lives
oi the passengers ON Rio Grandc train
last winter, has arrived in Pueblo, Col,
aud will shortly bc placed on the cemetery
plot.
TurRE are now q large force Of hands nj
word on tho Tennessee Midland east Of
Jackson, aud that the rad will be- COM
plotcd 10 Lexington, distance of twenty
five miles, 10y November and 10 the Ton
ncssoo rivcr, distance OF twenty-five
miles, by January /, 1859.
FRuGur AND PASSENGER AGENr lIENRY
u. WuSON, Of the Iron Mountain road
was busy yesterday. lie had just received
q large bundle II slip tickets for use IN nm
extension service. On sunday evening
regular through trains, with slccpcs aud
chair ears, will DO put ON that route for
~. Louis direct. This marks another
event IN transportation facilities for Mem.
phis, showing Ia an extent what was really
the benefit conferred 10y the Gould system.
liz view 81 the proposed extension Of
the Canadian Pacific railroad 20 Detroit,
u w announced that the Grand Trunk
railway has made arrangements 10 extend
/ lis Michigan mir line IN order tu form a
| short line between Detroit and Chicago,
/ independent of the Wabash. and Is also
making arrangements 81 at once make
connection between is syslCmof lines aud
the Chicago, II. Louis * Kansas City
rnad, reaching ~. Louis and the south.
west 10y route equal ~ that OF the Wa
| bash.
MAJ. u. NiCgtE, Chief engineer Of the
| Memphis, Oxford Il Tuscaloosa railroad,
| the proposed thougllinc that IN Ia bc built
| from Memphis to Tuscaloosa, las reached
! West Point, Miss, with his surveying
| rorIs. The survey irum Columbus "a
West Point has been completed aud the
old lines from West Point westward will
bc run over again. The authorities ol the
ruad SAY that as soon ~ work begins thg
whole limo irum Tuscaloosa 10 Memphis, d
distance of 20 miles, will bc pushed I,
completion within iillrvn months
niFuE arr over $4,000 railroad men VIII,
are mcmbvrs oi some oi the mutual hcnc
Nc associations which have been cstnb
lishci Ia this country. The Brotherhood
oi Locomotive fiUmon have the larg's
membership, that of the locomotive en-
ginccrs comes second, aud the conductor,
association thirl. Then thcr IN th,
hmkcmcn's, the yarimaslcrs. the switch
mems, and numerous other ailrua,
mems associations more local In thci
character. All of these associations ar
established 10 benefit the membership
injured 10y accident, aud their families
should they meet with fatal accidents
There h no class oi mon ot any special IN
duslry that m well care Tot their lalcmit.
~ DO the railroad mon.
RrrNNr movements tend 10 conNrn IN
belief that the Illinois Central will nu
only invade Nebraska, but also Wyomin
aud possibly Colorado. Tic ohjcCiiy
point will be- either Ogden " Denver, wit
the chances In favor OF the former. Al
tirlrs ui incorporation Of tho Wyoming
Eastern Railroad company have recent
|. been dlvd with the secretary ol the ICrn
tory nj Cheyenne Tho Illinois Central
believed 81 hc backing this cutcrptis,
The capital stock Is sl0.ODO. an, and a.
length oi the mad 10 be- built In the 1ci
a | ritury II 20 miles, Tho initial point {
the new rusd u M W. near Twin creek, q
, the southwestern boundary Of Utah an
. Wyoming whcv 10 !, 10 connect with mi
/, other rDad 90 Ogden and Salt Lake Cts
= The route designated Is casicrly and noril
rasicfly through the valley Of Horn Fork
2 the south rass, the SWcrtWairt aud Mort
.