San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-11-05
RAILROAD LoCALETTEs.

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| The S. p. has made a one-fare rate
with the Maximum six dollars for the
Galveston jubilee.
| There was dearth of news at the
various depoJs yesterday, due to the
election.
A number of Sunset specials came
in yesterday, and number more
| passed through this morning. 1t
takes all of the locomotion power and
crews available, to haul out the east
bound freight.
Third Vice President III Walter
Webb, of the New York Central, has
decided to make a regular weekly
trip over the road.
The trunk line passenger commit
tee has again asked the transcOnti-
| mental lines to recognize differentials
tor through business.
The gross earnings of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio for September show
| an increase of $l3l ,247, while net earn.
ings show gain of but $5,O76.
1t is stated officially that it costs ST
per mile to run the first-class passen-
ger trains which are in service be-
tween Pittsburg and indianapolis.
A special car carrying a party of
New York capitalists on the Missouri
Pacific made the run from Pueblo to
Eads, Cole, distance of ITO miles In
III minutes.
tits understood that II. NJ. Orr will
succ sed J. L Galbraith as Traffic Ma /.
aser of the International and GREAT
NnPfhnpn pnt 90
Mr.. Galbraith's retirement is Ill
health.
Mr.. James NJ. Barr, late superinten-
dent OF the Nebraska division of The
Union Pacific, has been made Super
lntendent OF the Chicago. Milwaukee
and st. Paul from Chicago to Marion,
Iowa.
Commencing on the 18th the Wa
bash will run a through car from st.
Louis to ST. Paul, to connect with the
Northern Pacific fast train at that
point.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
will hereafter have q commercial
agent In Fort Worth, Mr.. 8. A Debolt
having been appointed to that po-
sitiOn.
The Great Northern has placed an
order with the Baldwin Locomotive
Works of Philadelphia for fifty loco
| motives, to be used OH the Pacific coast
extension.
The petition of crookery and glass
ware importers of New York and
Philadelphia, asking the trunk lines
to make reduction in west-bound
freight rates for that class of goods
has not been considered favorably by
the official classification committee.
The Lehigh Valley road is building
one of the largest coal storage stations
in the world at South Plainfiald, N. J.
1t will accommodate l rs 1000 tons.
The station has an area of 400 acres
and will include lbs miles OF track.
1t Is expected to reduce the cost OF
handling coal from l3c to SC q ton.
The visit of Leslie Farmer, Com
missioner of the trunk lines in the
West, has been q very satisfactory
one, and will doubtless put stop to
the present decentralization In emil
grant rates. Nearly all the General
Passenger Agents of the Western
lines have assured him of their will
ingness to cooperate with him in the
matter.
rhe Board of Vermont Railroad
Commissioners, In their report just
issued. recommend the adoption of
automatic freight train couplers and
brakes and better system of venti-
lating passenger cars than that now
In use. The reduction of local pas
senger fares Is also recommended by
the Commissioners.
Engineers are at work surveying
the route for the Nashville and Mis-
sippi Delta railroad from Okolona 10
Grenada, Miss. This road will run
through and develope one ofthe finest
agricultural territories In the state.
This line was partly surveyed years
ago and entirely graded through the
entire portion of Grenada county.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad Is converting Its
palace cars into vestibule sleepers
The patent folding doors and gates are
being attached and the interior re-
modelled. 1t was rumored in Chata-
| nooga that this system had made
smother big scoop of Kentucky rail
road. but the officials had not con-
| firmed the rumOr.
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