The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-04
in RAILWAY CIRCLES.
A Review of the Local FieId-Gen-
eraI Notes.


General Superintendent Bancroft re-
turned from Montana yesterday
Travelling Agent Warren. of the
Santa Fe. came in to Sunday over,
and went out again last night for Ne
vada points.
The Union Pacific will today load
twelve cars of cattle at Oasis for the
Chicago market.
The Santa Fe company is now en-
gagged in "spotting' their trainmen all
who frequent saloons are being
dropped from the payrools in every
instance.
The earnings of the Missouri Pacific
Iron Mountain for the third week in
October amounted to $3.50, 600, an in
crease of $21, 900 over the corresponds
ing week in 1894.
Under the improved method of bal
ing cotton it is now possible to load
5O,oo0 pounds in a car in lieu of 1900
pounds. Superintendent of car ser
vice are very much interested in it.
j. W. Allen, general freight agent
for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
railway of Texas. has resigned, eff
fective November 1, and w. B. Gros-
close, commercial agent for the COM
pany at Houston, Tex, has been pro-
NOTED to the vacancy.
The government has awarded the
fast mail contract from New York to
the Erie railway, to take effect
November 4. The mail will be carried
from New York to Chicago and north
western points, including Minneapolis
and st. Paul. Connections for Cali
fornia will be made with a new flyer
on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad
1t is probable that a. new bureau
Will be formed as a part of the West
ern Passenger association. to have the
handling of the clergy permits alone
The work is sufficient to keep a force
of clerks busy throughout the year It
is proposed to make the new bureau
self-suprorting by calling upon each
applicant to pay SOC. at the time of
receiving his permit
Mr.. j. W. Dalbey having resigned,
Mr. R. E. Cahill is appointed superin-
tendent of the Kansas City, North
western and Kansas City Sc Beatrice.
with headuarters at Kansas City,
Kan.
Earnings of the Chicago. Milwaukee
& st. Paul for September are highly
satisfactory, the net gain for the
month over last year amounting to
SS3s.157 The net increase for the three
months ending September 80 amounts
to sS95,293 At this rate of increase
for the next nine months the st. Paul
will make a better showing at the end
of its fiscal year than it has been do
ing for some years.
Freight Brakeman Thomas McFar-
land. of the Panhandle, met with a
shocking experience recently, when he
found a snake in his pocket. He had
oeen lying down when the reptile
found its way into the place where he
kept his wealth.
Conductor William Burchnel. on the
Long Island road, was dismissed the
other day for declining to haul the
presidents car beyond the point to
which he had been ordered to take it,
attached to his train. The car was
occupied by the presidents wife, who
requested the conductor to take it
some distance beyond the point his
orders designated.
A recent examination of trainmen of
the New York Central developed the
fact that five engineers of that COM
pany could neither read nor write AS
they are among the Oldest engineers
on the road, they have been given one
year in which to learn to read and
write, If they fail 20 do this they will
be dismissed.