The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-11-27
Railroad Notes.

On the new railroad just opened which
extends from Jaffa TO Jerusalem all OF The
engines are or American manufacture.
The Union Pacific people are anxious to
apply winter excursion rates throughout
the Trans Missouri association territory.
The rumor now comes that the Phil
adelphia & Reading Railroad company will
soon assume control over the Baltimore a
Ohio.
H.B. Beers, travelling freight and pas
senger agent of the g. & n. w. Ry., sew
cred his connection with that company last
evening.
The funeral Of Birks, the Union Pacific
brakeman, who was killed at Provo on
Friday, will occur at Pennington at
O'Clock this afternoon.
A general manager of an important east
ern road says the reason that the lines are
not able to make an agreement on traffic
that will stand is because all Of them are
such liars.
The Pennsylvania management is re-
ported to be making schedule for their
express train between New York and
Philadelphia, q distance of ninety miles,
the time TO be in ninety minutes.
A statement from the Northwest comes
that the Great Northern will complete the
Portland 81 Puget Sound branch COM
menced by the Union Pacific over year
ago, but upon which all work ceased. II
viii then be used jointly by the two COM
panies.
Several of the Chicago lines have in
formed their connections that they will 40
cept tickets sold over their line at cent
per mile for the Worlds fair. If this
cheap rate ex tends to Salt Lake we will be
able to take along the entire family next
year.
One OF the iEsues in the recent election
in California was whether or not the state
harbor commission should issue bonds to
the amount of $780, 900 10 build railway
station In San Francisco to take the place
of the miserable affair which stands st the
foot Of Market street.
The report just received by the New
York railroad commissioners shows thai
for twelve months the railroads in thai
state killed 900 and injured 3.052 persons
The damages for personal injuries ano
deaths against the lines amounted to G
round million and q half Of dollars.
| George B. Roberts, president of the
Pennsylvania railroad Is out in lengthy
article advocating the stamping Of this
price of railroad tickets on their face. anc
the unused portion be redeemed at its face
value instead of being placed in the hands
of scalpers as the plan now in vogue.
The Wabash system offer annual pre-
miums to their track men for the highest
general average on each division and sec
ton. The points TO be determined are
line and surface, points, drainage, policing
which includes repairs to feuces, condition
of sidings, and last but not least, expense
of labor.
The Milwaukee and Burlington roads
are ordered by the Iowa Railway commits
sion to erect new depots in Council Bluffs,
the former to be commenced within sixty
days. 1t is doubtful if these two roads
will comply with the boards mandate,
still the way that the Iowa board did re-
duce freight rates should convince them
that what the board says it means.
Railway labor organizations are agitat-
ing scheme to have a CO. operative or
profit sharing on the railroads. Each
member in the order to pay an annual
assessment of one dollar and this to be
used in the purchase of railway stock, thus
giving the organizations b voice in the
operation Of the lines and with such plan
inaugurated it would not take them long to
become the owners and then strikes OF
employees would be thing of the past.
Without doubt the present stockholders
of great many of the incomp etently man
aged lines would willingly give way to the
bone aud sinew crowd.