The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23

Operator Hulse went down to Oxford,
last week, to supply L. E. Cann's place.
Cam is acting as agent at Danbury.
Conductor Bronson and Engineer
Johnson had the second Knights Temp
lar special from here to Hastings, We'd
nesday morning.
George Fredericks succeeds ohm
Smith as section foreman at BARLEY.
Agent Allen at Stamford is succeeded
by Agent Peckston. Allen goes to Funk.
The Temp1ars all carried a commits
sary department of ample proportions,
fruits and liquors galore, by the carload.
Staid old Boston will likely lose her
head.
Two S-year-oid boys who stoned a pas
senger train on the New York Central,
last week, in New York City, were ar
rested and held in $1,000 bonds, each to
answer for their crime.
Mrs. NJ. o. Mcclure left for Colorado,
Saturday night last. She will visit her
sister in Denver, Mrs. Carmichael, a
short while, and will then go on to Col
orado Springs to spend a few weeks at
that delightful resort.
Preliminary work is progressing on
the great Hudson river bridge, which
will give New York City direct connec-
ton with all the railroad systems of the
west and south. $685. 900 900 is esti-
mated cost of the bridge.
The Baldwin locomotive works of
Philadelphia and the Westinghouse cleo
trio and manufacturing company of
Pittsburg have united to promote the
use of electric power on railroads. The
reign of the steam engine promises to be
short. The age of electricity is dawning
gloriously.
The first Knights Templar special
passed through here, early Tuesday
morning, from Denver, Conductor Bron-
son and Brakeman Wilkinson in charge.
Engineer Fred Hardy brought the train
in from Denver. Conductor Solliday
took Conductor Bronson's regular run
and Conductor Washburn went up to
Imperial for Solliday.
The Michigan Central railroad COM
pany has ordered from the General E1ec-
trio company, two 4S-inch, 100000 can
dle-power search lights, which will be
placed at the Falls View station over
looking the Niagara Falls cataract. The
object is to afford a view to tourists who
reach Niagara Falls at night.
At Sprague, Wash, on Aug. sd, the
Northern Pacific railroad company had
the following losses by a fire, amounting
in all to $4,000: "a locomotives, 81
freight cars, $325,ooo worth of shop ma
chinery, headquarters, passenger station
and freight warehouse, 1000 tons of coal
and 5000 cords of wood. The total loss
by this fire was over 81, ooo, 600.
Philadelphia business circles were
surprised on Monday of last week by the
announcement of the consolidation of
the Baldwin Locomotive Works and the
Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing
Company. By the agreement the two
companies will hereafter work as one,
yet both plants will be retained as they
are at present, extensions being made
as the business warrants. The Baldwin
Locomotive Works were founded by
Matthias w. Baldwin in 1881. and they
now cover Ii acres of ground and there
are about 5000 men employed. The
capital of the firm, the enterprise never
having been incorporated, is placed at
S., ooo. 900. The Westinghouse company
has a capital of $40, 900 900. Mr.. George
Westinghouse said it was not in any
sense a consolidation, but a union of int
erests for the more economical and i'm
proved manufacture of electric 1ocomo-
tives, the demand for which was felt
more and more every day. Secretary
Terry, of the Westinghouse company,
stated that there was a constant inquiry
for electric locomotives, and although it
could not be said that there was a mar
ket now, the market would be found as
soon as the engines were ready. The
recent successful operation of electric To-
comotives had convinced the members
of both companies that a union of inter-
ests for working purposes would be adj
vantageous and the contracts had just
been signed.-Electrica1 Review.