The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-04-21

No. b. local passse eDger. .......... IL 100 p N.
| Mrs ]. F. Kenyon returned from her Iowa
| visit, close of last week.
Henry Davidson is back from his visit in
various eastern points.
Station Agent Peckenpaugh of Max was
Sunday visitor at headquarters
| Dennis Cullen has purchased the George
| Laverty place on north Monroe street.
| Claim Agent Tomlinson went down to Ok
| ford on E, Saturday. to spend Sunday with the
| family.
The Burlington is in the market for shop
machinery to the extent of forty thousand
J dollars.
Engineer George Johnson enjoyed brief
visit from his brother, the Curtis banker, Sat
urday.
Brakeman Albert O'Niel has resigned and
will start tank line in Goodland, Kansas,
next week.
Superintendent Campbell went down to
Lincoln on Monday night, returning home on
Wednesday morning.
Mrs. c. w. Bronson arrived home, first of
the week, from briefly visiting Conductor
Bronson's mother near Minden.
ans-Mississippi Commercial Congress,
Ogden, Utah, April a. Fare one and third
rate for the round trip Tickets on sale April
2i-24
Conductor Solliday is adding large porch
to the east front of his residence, which will
be comfort of his residence as well as an
ornament when completed.
1t is reported in the papers that the Q sur
veyors are inspecting the different Cascade
mountain passes with view to extending this
line to the Pacific coast.-Alliance Grip.
Pullman's people are turning out three
sleepers day to meet the rush of Worlds fair
business. They are SO arranged as to be
easily convertible into day coaches next year.
J. S. Hale of Yuma county. who was charged
with placing distractions on the B. & NJ. track
| near Platner last fall, was discharged from
custody last Saturday, the jury bringing in a
verdict of not guilty.-Akron Press
The western passenger association has made
rate of twenty dollars for the round trip
from the Missouri river to Chicago during the
worlds fair 1t is not such a reduction as was
expected nor such one as the roads them
selves ought to have made.
| The employees of one great railroad have
been treated to surprise at once novel and
agreeable. The wages of the baggage mast
ers, agents, porters and ferry engineers of the
| Pennsylvania Railroad company, working in
New York and Jersey City. were materially
increased the other day without their asking it.
| A railroad company has just been ordered
| by an Indianapolis court to pay $1,000 to a
| man who lost an arm while coupling cars in
| the company's service. If the injuries received
by employees were in all cases paid at this rate
| the railroad companies would comply with
| the provisions of the new car coupler law
without waiting for the time when it is to take
effect Safety appliances will be profitable to
the companies in the end.
| The queerest railroad train seen in many
long years drew out of the Pennsylvania de-
lot in New York city, at 10 o'clock Monday
morning, amid the cheers of big crowd of
curiosity seekers. The train consisted of
engine No. I, of the Pennsylvania railway,
and cars Nos. 2 and S. The engine is the
first railway locomotive used on this side of
the Atlantic. 1t is called the "John Bull" and
started Monday morning to puff its way la
loriously to the Worlds fair, where it will be
IN object of wonder to millions. The coaches
look like stage coaches on railway wheels.
| The engine driver, A. S. Herbert, drove the
John Bull in 1852. J. w. Sanford, the fireman,
was such in 1856 Other railroad men on the
train are equally ancient.
The Indianapolis Journal says there is a
disposition to complain that the roads have
united in charging 81 a meal on dining cars.
When dining cars were first introduced, 75
cents was the price per meal. The Pennsyl-
vania, when it put on its various lines of din
ing cars, soon found that it could not furnish
satisfactory meals at that figure, advanced the
price to 81, and has maintained that price,
except for short time on its New York and
ST. ous line. Most western lines have ad-
e., to IS cents until the present agreement
was entered into. A general passenger agent
id yesterday: "The result of several years
exper ence has proven to the satisfaction Of
railw companies that they cannot furnish
6rst-class meals at less than 81, and at that
price there will be no money to the roads,
For years the dining car department has
shown defect at the end of each year which
has been charged to. the advertising expenses
and in some cases it has been very import
ant item in showing the cost of the advertising
department, yet in some measure good din
ling car line is good advertisement for road. u