The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-04
THE RAILWAY WORLD.
Items of Interest Concerning Railway Affair;
at Home ana Abroad

The business men of New Orleans have
q movement on foot which will make that
city formidable rival OF New York City
ers TO Europe haze been established, and
with these it is claimed New Orleans is in
a position to offer cheaper rates between
the western states and European ports.
Heretofore the exports TO Europe from the
western states have practically all gone by
way of New York 1t is now proposed by
the business men in New Orleans to change
all this and take away the shipping from
the eastern metropolis. The frat steamer
will leave some time during this month
ana there will be ct least one per month.
1t is expected several of the western rail-
way lines will divert their business in that
direction.
FOUR TRACK TUNNEL ROAD.
About two years sgo the New York leg
islature appointed commission TO exam
inc IN to the practicability of providing the
city OF New York with an underground
railway system aud the committee has just
completed its report. II proposes that
road fifteen miles long should be con.
structed. From the Battery TO One Hun
bred and Sixty-fifuh street the road is to
pc underground, but beyond that it is to
come to the surface and be carried across
streets either on vieducts or through cut
tings, but IN no case is any street to be
crossed at grade. The tunnel through
which the trains are to run will be forty
four feet wide and about twelve feet high,
with numerous entrances. The plans con-
template a four-trsck road, two Tor pas
sengers and two for freight, the train to
maintain uniform speed of thirty miles
an hour. Passenger fares are 20 be fixed
at cents for the highest. Freight rates
will also be prescribed by the state.
AMERICAN COACHES THE BEST.
In a railway accident which occurred re-
Gently in England the passengers in the
solitary Pullman car were the only pas
sengers uninlrred; of those occupying the
English style g great number were killed
or seriously injured. The American coach
costs money but is safe, which can not be
said of the fragile English coach.
CUT RATES IN THE EAST.
The railroad lines between Chicago and
Louisville and Cincinnati are now induIg-
ing in q passenger war in which the bottom
has already dropped out A person can now
go from either of the two cities to Chicago
Tor $3.50 and it is almost as cheap for per-
son to travel as to stay at home. Rates as
far east as PItts0urg and west to the Mis-
souri, river are affected.
AN EXPRESS WAR.
The Burlington road substitutes the
Adams express for the American over
their lines on January l. The American
express does not like being replaced and it's
territory encroached upon so il will change
attitude and become more aggressive,
which Of course means that express rates
ia competition territory will be slashed.
T,r-,-r-. IT cons M
R. j. Duncan, formerly superintendent
of the gulf division OF the Union Pacific in
Denver, has accepted like position On the
Southern Pacific in California.
THE POOL AMENDMENT.
The questions which ara being sent out
by the interstate commerce commission to
prominent railroad men, traffic managers
aud numerous ASSOCIATION officers, asking
their statements as TO an amendment they
think of working through the next Con
and allowing this TO be done, provided Of
course that the commission is informed Of
all arrangements, is receiving responses
that should they be acted upon, but short
time would elapse before all the western
lines would he working the same old pool
ing arrangement which the law was
passed to prevent.
THE NORTH AND SOUTH ROAD.
At the recent conference in Memphis Of
the Farmers Alliance people q demand
was formulated to be presented to our gov
eminent demanding that q railroad be built
from British America TO the gulf, passing
through Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, In
dian Territory and Texas; the road to be
chartered by the government, but each
state along the proposed line TO lend assist
ance in convict labor.
AMERICAN MODELS IN GERMANY.
The two models OF our postal cars which
were made aud sent by the United States
to Germany have arrived at Berlin and are
placed on exhibition in the postal museum.
The postofice department has received
from Berlin a grateful acknowledgment of
the courtesies Of The United States in the
matter.
AN OLD KANSAS CITY LANDMARK.
An old landmark familiar to all of those
who struck Kansas City in her earlier days
is soon to be- torn down, and that is the
old two story frame depot used by the old
Kansas Pacific railway, now Union Pacific,
the down stairs for passengers and the up