The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-16
Personal and General.
Travel is reported very heavy.


The vestibule is catching on in England.
The Cheyenne fast freight met with a
bad accident, caused by the breaking OF an
axle. At the time the train was going at
full speed and the rails were torn up for
made almost total wrecks, but the contents,
grain and merchandise, were not damaged
to any great extent.
The Missouri Pacific directors have pre-
pared "A circular to be issued from the New
York Offices giving terms of subscription to
the new collateral trust bonds. The
amount of bonds TO be issued is about seven
million dollars, which will be offered to
stockholders of record on May Is at 95, and
a bonus of one share of stock will he given
with each bond.
The New York Central railroad has is
sued an order that all its trains hereafter
must be provided with fusee signals for
night use and topedoeS and flags Tor the
day time The fusees burn eight, ten or
twelve minutes, and in case train Is los
ing time and there is danger of another
train coming up behind aud collidlng with
it lighted fusee is thrown from the plat
form of the rear car.
The boldest project for an electric rail-
way yet named is under consideration in
Russia for line from st. Petersburg
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a distance of over 500 miles. 1t is proposed
to furnish the electric current from
a series of generating stations distributed
along the line, and the cost of the under
taking, including rolling stock, is estimated
at only about 900 per mile.
Referring to the recent order of the
Santa Fe to cut salaries of employees pro-
NOTED January /, at the same time demand
ing refund of that overpaid, the Chicago
| {atl oil IN
alton of the case: ats the only thing that
saved wholesale resignation" said one OF
the employees. II received a note saying
that | had been overpaid, and that the
amount would be deducted from my salary
AS consequence / received only Sill last
month" The officials say that the trouble
is that some of the heads of departments
raised salaries without consulting the pre-
siGent, and that his signature is required
before any increase can be made, conse
quently salaries had to be dropped back tt
their original figures until MIR. Manve
could pass upon the merits of the cases
His secretary is authority for the state
ment that the increases will probably al
be approved and put in force.
The Great Erie railway have placed in ser
vice three splendid Pullman trains, taking
effect Sunday, May 4. The fast limited ex-
press by and Chicago & Grand Trunl
railway VIA INltiSdTd ais, leaving SHiCd
90 at 10: 80 a. NJ, arriving in New Y FORK a
5:15 the next day, having splendid view
1, of the falls in the morning. This train ha
q through connection to Boston. The Pull
man palace vestibule train, operated by thu
Chicago s. Atlantic railway. which for
merly left Chicago at 10 :25 in the morning
, will on and after May 18th leave Chicag
at $3.50 p. m, arriving in New York thu
nextevening at OBS p. N. This train ha
l +h,,o,, rrh DILL t,,nn fr Pncfnr
train, Atlantic express, will leave Chicag
, as usual, at 7:55 p. m, arriving in New
York at 80 a. m. This train has through
! Pullman car to Boston, in connection wit
the Chicago & Atlantic railway. Fo
tickets and sleeping car reservation, appl,
to all ticket agents in the west and lob an
107 S. Clark street.
A w. BAKER, General Pass. Agt.
519 Chicago opera house Erie Railway
building, Chicago.
It is stated that the plans for the altera
tions of the Grand Central station, Ney
York cisy, have been under considerable
, for several months, will soon be finall
settled and the proposed changes be cal
ried out The station, which now consist
of a train shed, with headhouse for tn
+ New York, New Haven g. Hartford an
the Harlem division of the New York Ger
, trail, with a side station for the Hudso
l River division of the latter road, will b
. changed to large single headhouse static
3 to be used as an outward bound station fo
all the roads together. The space occupie
!, by the Aarious rooms of the New Have
road will be enlarged by taking in POI
ton of the space between the rooms an
the tracks to make one large waiting rool
: about 75x200 feet. The tracks will b
y shortened about forty feet to enable tn
e to be done and still leave sufficient plat
: form space. The space now occupied
the waiting rooms on the side will be use
. : for baggage rooms, telegraph Office, static
i masters office, etc. Inward trains are q
commodated IN the annex, on the east sid
huiIt in 1881