The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-24
RUMBLINas OF THE RAIL.

THE train for Birmingham on the Kan
sas City, Memphis * Birmingham Rail
road leaves at 10 o'clock am. Instead OF
$50 o'clock am, as formerly.
The Louisville x Nashville Railroad
has sent out circular announcing the
appointment OF l.. T. Peck rs travelling
agent for emigrant business with head
quarters in Chicago.
| WILLIAM NowLAND, formerly assistant
city ticket agent Of the Louisville x Nash
vile Railroad. has gone into the scalping
| business, having formed partnership with
| Webb x Co., who have opened an ollice IN
Sol Coleman's cigar stand.
COMPLAINTS OF unjust discrimination in
rates against this city have been liled with
| the Interstate Commerce Commission by
| the Memphis Freight Bureau against the
Missouri Pacific Railway Company, the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Com
pany and the Southern Railway q Steam
| ship Association. The specific grounds
for the complaint are not known.
A PARTY OF prominent railroad officials
and capitalists passed through Memphis
| yesterday morning in special car en-
route TO Mexico and California. Among
those aboard the tram were Q. i. Hunt
| ington and wife, Gen. John Echols and
officials OF the Newport News d Missis-
sippi Valley Route. The party was joined
here by Nice-Prcsdent aud General Man.
ager Edwards, his private secretary, Mr..
William Smith, and Land Commissioners
| liillhouse, all OF the Louisville, New Or
leans d Texas Railroad.
A LIVELY war in live stock rates was
| opened Thursday in shipments from Kan
sas City to Chicago and was participated
in by all the roads. The cutting was Sc
cret and the exact extent of il has not
been learned, but the fact OF the cut being
made comes from an authentic source, rs
well as the information that IL was met by
all lines The rates on packing-house
products were also cut and the war in the
two classes OF shipments kept shipping
matters at white heat in Kansas City and
! promises TO create considerable trouble in
railroad circles.
TnE stock transfer books Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad Company closed on
February O for the annual meeting OF the
stockholders for the election OF directors
on March ~, and proxies arc now being
distributed 10y the management among the
1000 or more stockholders Of the com
pany. AZ TO the powers conferred these
/
! ity Is that the attorneys are not named.
! They have always heretofore been printed
! in the Missouri Pacific proxies, and for
| that matter II Is customary in power OF
this kind 10 give the name OF the attorney
and his substitute. The purpose in this
| case IL doubtless 10 conceal, rs far rs posi-
BILE, the fact that the proxy Is in the inter
est OF the present management, that is, OF
Mr.. Jay Gould and those whom he con-
trolls.
AMONG the fast train projects II Is pro.
posed 10 extend the run OF the Montezuma
special from New Orleans to Washington,
ID. g. At present the Monlezuma makes
three trips month each way between
New Orleans and the City OF Mexico. An
arrangement will be- made at no distant
date 10 run IL from Washington over the
Norfolk * Western, the East Tennessee,
Virginia x Georgia, the Louisville &
Nashville and the Southern Pacific 10 the
City oi Mexico, aud 1t will DO known as
the International Express. Additional
rolling stock will bc required for this cx-
tended service, and the trains will be
identical In design and equipment with
the Montezumn special from New Orleans.
The demand Tor through service with first
class hotel accommodations ON wheels has
taken hold Of the travelling public and the
supply will have TO follow.
ACcoupiNo to the New York World, the
combined Vanderbilt wealth amounts To
! S2i1 10000 and the estimated income
from IL per anuum il Sl3. SOL, 100. No other
single family Ia the world IL ~ rich. II
Kept intact the total fortune nj the end OF
twenty five years will almost reach : !, Co.,
OOJ,OOO, and this result will be attained by
ihe simple arithmctical progression Of
compound interest A careful calculation
ol the wealth Of individual members Of the
Vanderbilt family makes the following
exhibit Cornelius Vanderbilt, $4,000
900, VIM. X. Vanderbilt, 81. OOD, 900:
Frederick w. Vanderbilt, slG.OOO.OlO.
George ". Vanderbilt, Sl5.OOO. 900; Mrs.
Elliott 4. shepard, Sl2,OOO.OOO Mn.
William u. Sloan, $1,000, coo. Mn. W.
steward Webb. sl2,OOO,OO1. Total. s27i,-
OO0,OOO Mrs William II. Vanderbilt has
no fortune IN her own name. contrary 10
the general belief. She has an annuity OF
| s2uu, 900.