The morning news., 1892-03-28
RAIL AND CROssTIR.

The London and Northwestern railway.
with its paid up capital Of nearly e523, ,0J0,-
0O0. 10 the largest railway company in the
world, financially speaking. The number
Of passengers carried during the last six
months of 1891 was 1885, 756, the tons Of
freight and minerals 1905. .O36. mileage OF
I passenger trains II, ,562 ,323, mileage OF
freight and mineral trains II, ,5S5, $50.
TIE salaries OF railway men IN this coun-
| try. the RdiIi0av Age thinks. are not too
large, but they are princely as compared
with those paid in Europe. as the following
examples Of the wages OF German railway
employees indicate: Bookkeepers and secre-
! taries, $500 TO $500 year; ticket stampers
and Office clerks, $3.50 10 1878; porters and
guards, 500 70 $500; engine drivers and
machinists, $500 70 $500, or not over $40
week: stokers from Is 70 "a a week, and
brakeman from about a to s6 week.
The Iowa authorities have assessed the
railway property in that state at the large
sum Of S44. .oo6, 1877, an increase of s107 ISL
over the previous year.
The railway companies operating IN Kan
sas paid last year ESQ, Sl2, ,936 in wages and
salaries 70 90,5S4 employees, and Of the total
amount the "a. 749 employees In that state re-
ceived elS,377,2S5
The Railroad Clerk is q paper published
in the interest Of the National Railway
Clerks Association.
The several railroads in Mexico have
united in an effort to secure the adoption Of
national standard time In the republic.
So general is the use Of mileage books that
on some western roads 5S per cent. of the
passenger business 10 done on them.
Another meeting OF the rate committee
or the Southern Railway and Steamship
Association will be held in Atlanta April
IL. At Nashville the committee decided
to hold regular meetings on the second
Tuesday of each month. The meeting which
was set for the early part Of April, is post
poned.
The track Of the Southwestern division OF
the Central railroad at Powersville TWENTY
one miles from Macon, has been under
water for the last two or three days and
trains over this road have ceased to run
until the water falls and the damages can
be repaired.
There came near being a serious wreck
on the Air Line road at Lula Friday night.
The train from Athens had just arrived at
Lula. Inc down passenger from Charlotte
had just come down on the main line and
was standing still. A heavy freight was in
the rear OF the passenger and was pulling
upgrade when a coupling pin broke and the
whole train rolled back, crushing into the
passenger car and badly demolisning II.
No one was hurt, although Fl. K. NIchol-
son OF Athens had a narrow escape.
A question Of some novelty was decided
by the supreme court Of Kansas In the re-
cont case OF Long vs. railroad company, In
which it was held that where a railroads
ticket agent at Q station was afflicted with a
contagious disease, and another person came
In contact with him In purchasing railroad
ticket at the station and thereby contracted
the disease, the railroad company was not
liable In damages therefor, II neither the
company nor any of its superior officers had
any kno"lcdgs that the ticket agent had
the disease. The court said: "It Is the rule
that where the owner Of a house, office, or
other tenement, knowing that It Is 90 In.
fected by the smallpox or any other con-
taglous disease as to be unfit for occupation
and to endanger the health and lives Of the
occupants, and, concealinR this knowledge
from the person invited, induces him 10
hire, occupy or visit 1t, and the person so
hiring or invited takes q disease by reason
OF the infection, the owner Is guilty of ao-
| tionable negligence. In such case, how
| ever, Ii must be shown that the owner knew
! that the house, office or tenement was so in
fected as TO endanger ths health or life of
any person who might visit or occupy 1t.
| Knowledge is an element In the Intent
essential to liability. = The negli.
gent or accidental act, IL any, of the agent In
imparting contagious disease to the pur-
chaser Of the railroad ticket, was not
within the scope Of his authority so as to
charge the company, his master. The
sickness Of an agent with q contagious
disease cannot be presumed to be author
lied or directed by the master, aud is not
an incident in any way to the employment
of selling tickets or acting as agent at a
| station"