Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-18
RAILROAD NOTES.

RAILROAD NOTES. The People Travelling A&ain-A Sure
 Sign of Reviving Confidence-What
 Manager Platt Says Regarding the
 Consolidated-Chaun M. Depew
 on the Subject.
 General Manager Plstt says there is large amount of travel over the Consoli- dated road of people bound to the great fair, but the exact figures were not handily obtainable, as so many go on through tick ets Still the Consolidated was getting its share of the business. The travel and freighting on the Consolidated road is picking up again. The road is beginning to feel perceptibly the effects of the bright ening of the financial horizon.
 The New York Tribune quotes from Chauncey Depew on the subject of the in- crease of travel on the railroads since the psnicky feeling passed away, as follows: "A significant sign of returning confidence Is the passencer travel from the east to the worlds fair. Our flyer has been carrying up to its full capacity, and our limited trains were crowded up to the day of the great slump in Wall street, which was sim ply reflection of conditions all over the country. It brought home to every man that which only people with wide opportu- mites for observation already knew. The next day the flyer carried twelve passengers and the limited trains on both the Penn sylvania and the New York Central fell off nearly one half. It was four weeks before theee trains worked up to two thirds of their usual complement. between New York and Chicago; and we were obliged to take off four trains. One week after the passage of the silver repeal bill through the house we were compelled to put an additional car on the flyer two additional cars on each of our limited express trains, | and, to accommodate the excess, to re- store one of our limited trains It dem onstrates how much more sentiment than distress has to do with tho pres- ent business condition of the country. With the restoration of confidence there is nothing to prevent the New England mills, the Pennsylvania furnaces, the coke ovens l and the iron foundries from starting up into full activity. None of them are bank rupt, the capital and plant of all are intact; they only need bank accommodations as | usual, and a market. It seems to me, | therefore, that the whole question is at Washington, and with proper legislation there, and as speedily as possible, the country will at once. and with unprece- dented quickness, resume conditions of normal prosperity. The purchasing clause l of the silver law should be repealed, and | the national banks should be allowed to 1 issue currency up to the full value of | their government bonds. It is an insult l to the government bond to say that 1t will sell at less than par if it has to be scld to | redeem the currency; and the president and the secretary of the treasury should be authorized and directed, whenever the ne. | esssity requires it, to sell government bonds sufficient to keep on hand at all times the gold necessary to maintain oul currency, of all kinds, on a parity with l gold. Then give us 8 restl"
 l A BIG PARTY.
 | Says the Boston Herald: "Passenge, travel still continues to increase toward the worlds fair. MT. Jordan, agent in l this city for the New York, Lake Erie and
 Western railroad, received telegram yes
 terday from his company saying that ths
 Erie line had just sent out an excursion
 party of ], ,S43 passengers, in five sections l of day coaches, from New York, bound te | the fair"
 OF INTEREST TO RAILROAD MEN.
 The Boston and Maine Railroad com | pany seems to be determined to give it
 patrons all 1t can in the way of con
 veniences and improvements in connec
 tion with it's new union station in thii
 city. It has just closed contract for a1
 extensive power and electrical equipmen
 for this station. The plant represents an
 aggregate capacity of 1100-horse power i,
 the engine room, with corresponding
 equipment throughout. There are foul
 Westinghouse generators coupled direct t, l anmnnrn6 condenc cfno of C00
 horsepower each. Two of these gener
 ators supply some 4000 incande.cen
 lights for the interior service of the build
 ing, head house, etc. The other two fur
 nish power to the various motors opera ting drawbridges, turntables, elevators coal handling machinery, etc. Beside these, there are two more compound en
 zines, respectively of 200 and 100 -horee
 power each, driving alternate current ma
 Point and East Semerville, together witl
 the track lighting and signal towers.
 Each of those engines exhausts into al
 Independent condenser, using salt water
 A battery of twelve horizontal return tupu lar boilers supplies steam at 125 pound 1 pressure.
 , A striking feature of this plant will
 the system of mechanical draft, whic , takes the place of chimney 200 feet higt which would otherwise be required. h } stead of this steel stack rising only fifty l fl ve feet above the ground level deliver
 the hue gases au 6 height sufficient to clea
 the roof Draft is furnished by two lere , fans, each driven by small independer
 engine, and each is capable of performin 7 the whole service when required. The he fue-gases are drawn through economizel f and the heat extracted returned to the fee t water.