The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-03

On or about May u, there will be several
changes made in the time Of trains between
Salt Lake and Ogden.
The new sleeping cars recently put upon
the D. & r. c., the Poncha and the Plnon,
are said to be beauties in every particular.
1t is quite possible the Utah & Nevada
will put on two trains on Sunday next; one
going out in the morning, the other IN the
afternoon.
A number of surveyors are at work near
the Morgan smelter. They are as mum,
however. as oysters and look as wise as
flock Of owls.
The Union Pacific is advertising for
seventy-five section men to work in Idaho
and Oregon 1t offers S1.45 per day, with
board at S. per week.
E L. LOmax of the Union Pacific, ar
rived in Salt Lake yesterday morning, and
went out TO Garfield Beach in company
with Mr. Fenton in the afternoon.
Rock Island Brown, wife and daughter
are home again, after a visit OF two weeks
to Chicago and other eastern points
Brown says the snow storm mentioned IN
The HERALD of yesterday, as having oc-
CURED in Colorado. extended as far west
as Wyoming, and very close to the Utah
line.
The New York Central has sent notice to
all its connecting lines, stating that after
SUNDAY last. the road would not receive or
deliver freight from am. Sunday TO a.
IN. Monday. unless the consignment Is live
stock This change is an important one, as
it does away almost entirely with the run
ming of freight trains over the New York
| Central on Sunday.
1t is said the railroads of San Francisco
have determined to do away with Sunday
excursion traffic. and that no more picnic
trains will be run out of that city on Sun
day. Such statement, however, must be
taken with the usual grain of salt. 1t is
hardly to be expected that the Wickedest
city on the coast has suddenly become so
pious as to refuse to even allow the resi-
dents to battle upon the Sabbath day.
The Rock Island strikes back at the rail
road commissioners of Iowa by having the
following notice printed on all of its tariffs
within the state: 1.-The rates named in the
schedule are unreasonably low and are &C
cepted only for the purpose of avoiding
harrassing and VeXatiOuS litigation threat
ened by the railroad commissioners OF the
state of Iowa pending the settlement of the
important questions by the supreme court
of the United States"
The long and short-haul system, says
General E. p. Alexander, is daily illus
trated on a summer day on the Hudson
river steamboats, between New York and
a
competitive times. The passenger to
Poughkeepsie pays the same, and the one
to Hudson the same. 1t is worth the SOC.
to either place, and it is no argument to
say that the passenger who goes fifty miles
further is charged no more. 1t would cost
no more to carry all to Albany. In fact, it
is an addition to the cost of the trip to have
to make the immediate landings.
1t is expected that the second bicycle
locomotive, now building at the Portland
(Me.j company's works, will be ready for
trial this month. The new engine will be
very different in construction from the
first. 1t will resemble an iron car sixteen
feet long, seven feet four inches high and
forty-nine inches wide on the tracks. The
door of the cab is midway of the cars
! length. and the top of the boiler projects
six inches above the roof. One man will
act both as fireman and engineer. The
tender is eight feet long, seven feet four
inches high and forty inches wide, and
! the water tank is under the coal space.
This queer machine is expected to show
much greater speed and better results gen
orally than the first bicycle locomotive
which underwent 4 satisfactory test last
winter. and the company owning the patent
| is confident Of creating a revolution IN rail
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