Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-19

/ The general grievance c0mnitte of the
| locomotive engineers, trsmen, train
4 men. sw itchmen and conductors OF the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburgh.
/ about 100 men, are in Pittsburgh to
present Il new schedule of wages TO
General Manager Wool, aud TO ask the
investigation of complaints against GER
tain division officials.
The Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern has adopted new schedule OF rates
and conditions with its engineers and
! hremen, 10y which the freight men re-
ceive an increase OF wages averaging
! twenty cents per day. The engineers
will now receive about So 10 and the
hremeu about 81 So.
The Central of Georgia is making a
N-Ysw contract with It's locomotive en-
Eiueers. 10y which i: will adopt mileage
rates instead of paving by the duy, as
heretofore. The provision that a candi-
date for appointment shal! be examined
By q committee on which q representa-
tive Of the brotherhood sits will be abol-
ished.
Col. ]. NJ. Eddy. one of the receivers
of the Internar !Oual and Great Northern,
arrived IN Fort Worth yesterday in his
special car, on his way TO California.
Col. Eddy is in poor health and seeks
the Pacific coast TO TecupeTate. He
went West over the Texas aud Pacific.
Col. Eddy has many warm friends in
Fort Worth, where he made his home
for some tins.
An electric railway, l66 miles long, is
about 10 be- opened in South America,
connecting Butuos Ayers with Monte
video. This, however, is not surface
line, - and its object is to carry letter
boxes between the two cities. 1t crosses
tha mouth OF the La Plata where it is
nineteen miles wide, and the two wires
are supported by tower on each side of
the river nearly 270 feet high.
Secretary Mosley OF the Interstate
commerce commission, announces that
the bureau IN charge of the auditor will
hereafter be known rs the bureau of
rates and transportation. Auditor c c.
Mccain remaining at the head thereof.
In view of the Importance of providing
for an exhaustive compilation of
statistics from the annual reports of
carriers. and the great amount of detail
work involved, 4 bureau Of sta istjcs has
been established, which is in charge OF
PROF.. Henry c. Adams, statistician.
The grievance committee of the Broth
erhood of Railroai Brakeme of the Lee
high Valley called Oh General Eastern
Superintendent Goodwin this week with
certain grievances they wished to have
remedlsd, but Mr.. Goodwin, when in
formed by the committee of their being
members of the brotherhood, refused to
receive III IN Is members thereof, aud
told them that had they come as en-
D.oyes Of the road he would listen to their
grievances. He told them, however,
that he would bring the matter of their
having called on him before the board of
directors, ana the action of that body
would he communicated to the commit
tee.
There can be no question that car
works at Fort Worth would be a paying
institution. SAYS a Chicago railway
pnper: The locomotive and car builders
are overrun tn orders, and the new
equipment constructed during the pres
eut year will he remarkable in quantity,
n well OF generally improved quality.
one Western railway company alone is
adding 10 locomotives and 5000 freight
cars. which is equivalent 20 a now loco
motivc nearly every other day and to
more Than ten cars every working day.
Other companies also have been iucreas-
ing their rolling stock all the year 1T a
rapid rats and have every engine and
car in service, and yet the cry ia con-
staptly gong up for more cars to move
the crops aud the merchandise.
The Railway Age has long been an ad-
vocate of safety couplers. In its last
issue it says: The Brotherhood of Rail-
way trainmen, according TO statements
made at the recent convention in Los
Angeles, now numbers II ,057 mernber
an increase of 600 during the past year.
It was stated, however, that the organi-
2atIOu has branches not only in the
United States, but also in Canada, fire.
land aud Sweden, so that the actual
membership in this country does not aD-
pear from the figures abovs. Sad aud
impressive evidence OF the dangerous ma
ture OF the tralumrn's occupation is
given in the statement that during
the year 275 disability and death claims
to the amount of nearly S215 900 had been
paid, and that of the total number Of
claims. over 200, resulted from railway
accidents, and of these 1870 deaths were
caused in coupling cars. 1t IS distressing
10 think OF the suffering ami death daily
occurring o. the result largely
of the great variety of coup
lings in use, and it must lie
admitted there Is CRYING nee. of
rapid Improvement in this matter by the
adoption of some uniform style Of coup
ling, which will be both efficient in SER
vice an safe in handling.
The joint com mi,tee to whom was re-
frrred the recommendation Of the trunk
line presidents restoring rates from Chi
cnSo to the Atlantic seaboard have
agreed that taking effect at all points
within its territory on Monday, Novem-
Der 81, the easthouud through freight
rates shall be restored to the basis of the
tariffs authorized by the joint CON nitteerf
and in force prior 10 those which took
effect May II, 1890, with the exception
that the rate on corn shall be on the
basis OF ~ p cent. per 100 pounds, Chi
cago TO New York. and the rate on
dressed meats. Chicago 10 Boston. shall
be 40 ceRts per 100 pounds. In their ao11f
ton the committee fully carried out the