Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-31
LIGHTNING ON TOP.
The Pleasant Valley Line Doing a
Rushing Business Since
CHANGING ITS MOTIVE POWER.
The Manchester Railway People Must Fol-
low Suit or Be Badly Left.
AN ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF STOVES

The change of motive power Of the Pleas
ant Valley Railway is bearing good frult.
A gentleman who lives in the lower part OF
Allegheny, and is a patron of the road, SAID
yesterday: "When came in this morning
every car was crowded. I waited for two or
three before finding one in which L could
get a seat. We met several on the way. All
were packed. Many of the patrons OF the
Pittsburg, Allegheny and Manchester line
are deserting it for the Pleasant Valley. L
saw several cars of the former company
going and coming. They were practically
empty. The number Of passengers in them
did not exceed half dozen. The Man
chester people will have to change their motive
power if they desire to retain their business"
President Barbour, of the National Assocla-
ton of Stove Manufacturers OF the United
States. has issued letter to members Oh bhe
association. In it he points out that the ao-
vance in iron. causing large increase IN tne
cost of production, should be taken into con-
sideration before the annual meeting OF tine
association in February. 1t is a fact well-known
to the trade he remarks, that there was but
little profit in manufacturing stoves previous to
profit has become much less. 1t is inevitable,
therefore, that an advance must soon be made
in the price of stoves if manufacturers expect
to continue in business.
An old freight tariff sheet of the Chicago and
Alton Railroad, dated April 70 1853 has Deen
unearthed by an officer of that company. and
the difference in rates between East st. Louis
and New York then and at the present time
shows decrease of from rs TO S715 per cent
since the former date. Freight on -four, per
barrel. was then 81 90, and now Soc; pig lead.
then, &c. and now 29c; cotton, then 2 5O, and
now 3Oc; dressed beef, then, 81 80, and now
55c, and so on. This shows the value Of rail-
road competition.
George h. Watson brought an action against
street-car company in St. Paul for injuries
received while a passenger upon one of their
cable cars He alleged that through the de-
fendant's negligence in employing unskilled
servants, and in not providing proper machln-
cry and appliances, defendants cable train
became unmanageable while descending steep
hill, and ran with great speed to the foot OF the
grade where the car in which plaintiff was nd
ing was thrown from the track, causing the IN
juries complained of. Judgment for plaintiff
and appeal by defendant The Supreme Court
Tho law does not require that such additional
precautions as 1t is apparent after the accident
might have prevented the same should have
been previously adopted, but only such as
would be dictated by the care and prudence Of
a cautious and careful person before the acci-
dent and without knowledge that it was about
to occur"
Statistics of the wool supply in the United
States at the close of 1889 show heavy in
crease over 1855 The detailed and classified
reports from the markets and growers show a
total supply in dealers hands of 100000
pounds domestic and 100000 pounds foreign,
against $1,000 900 domestic and H. 600 900 foreign
in the year last named. The New York and
Philadelphia stocks are less than in 1888 but Bos-
ton shows an increase of L, ,0O0 900 pounds OF
domestic wool, and most of the smaller mar
kets follow the lead of the chief wool markets
of the country. The imports of clothing wool
coming from abroad show decline Of nearly
rs per cent
There is danger that the progress Of street
railway building will be seriously interrupted
by the impossibility of getting cars. A promi-
nent car builder expresses the belief that at
least twice the number of cars will be ordered
| by street railway companies this year, than is
] possible for the car builders to turn out This
conviction is also confirmed by the fact that
the two principal electric railway machinery
manufacturers have orders on their books
which will keep them fully up to their capacity
/ until July or August and that, within month,
they expect to have orders for at least three
times what is possible for them to turn out dur
ing the year.
What is the world coming TOT A New York
| scientist saws that within the next ten years
some of the grandest pieces of engineering
ever conceived will be started. Bridges will be
| commenced which, if talked of now, would be
regarded as chimerical. Houses Is to 20 stories
high will be built. Tunnels are to be built un-
der cities. Pneumatic tubes will be construct.
ed to carry passengers three miles per minute.
| These schemes all exist in the minds Of engi-
neers and are being worked out into practical
| shape.