The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-28
Railway Notes.

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General Agent Gray, of the Southern
Pacific, is doing common points UP
north
The Louisville, New Albany & Chi
cage has recently ordered 100 new
stock cars.
The Southern Pacific will require
passenger conductors to give bond
of $1,000 each.
General Superintendent Bancroft has
gone to Omaha and will remain on the
river for several days.
The railway people appreciate what
The Herald is doing for the mining
industry in Utah-what builds up
Utah adds to their well being.
The Wabash earnings for the third
week of December amounted to $780,
697. 65, an increase of $14,67S.75 over the
corresponding week of 1894.
The Portland & Rochester has let
the contract for fifteen gondola coal
cars of $4,000 pounds capacity to the
Laconia Car company, Laconla, N. H.
From July to December IA the To
ledo, ST Louis & Kansas City earned,
gross, 1894, 1852 an increase over the
corresponding period of 1894 of $751;
S6O.4S.
The New York, New Haven & Hart
ford has increased the wages of freight
brakemen west of New London from
81. 80 to 50 a day and firenen from 81
to $210.
w. H. Fem, station agent at Boul-
der, Colo, for the past seven years,
has resigned and gone to Denver to
be soliciting agent for the Southern
Pacific.
The motion to advance the hearing
of the Nebraska freight rates cases
was granted by the supreme court and
the first Monday in March fixed for
argument.
The Canadian Pacific earnings for
the week ending December q We're
s4O2, 900, as compared with $4,000 for
the corresponding period last year, an
increase of $4,000.
Major Hooper, of the Denver & Rio
Grande, announces by circular that
the opening of the Leadville ice palace
will be on January 4, instead of Janu-
airy 1, as previously announced.
E. Tenney French, at present the
general agent of the Chicago & Grand
Trunk, at Chicago, will be made the
general western agent of the White
Star line on the first of the year
The number of men discharged from
the shops of the Southern Pacific at
Sacramento, December 7, is given by
the newspapers as 400 or 500 which is
about one-fourth of the total force.
The receiver of the Toledo, st. Louis
& Kansas City road has been author
lied by the United States court, under
whose authority the road is being op-
Grated, to purchase 500 gondola cars.
Don Alexander, assistant general
freight agent of the Queen & Crescent,
with headquarters at Chattanooga, has
sent in his resignation, effective Janu-
airy 10, in order to accept service with
another company.
Mr.. w. S. Thorne has been made as
sistant general passenger agent of the
Minneapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste.
at ST. Paul He has recently been local
agent at Minneapolis.
The Western Trunk Line committee
meeting in Chicago accomplished moth
ing. This was the fourth attempt to
adjust freight tonnage percentages.
The failure will be reported to the ex-
ecutive officers and in all probability
the matter will go to arbitration.
Mr.. William W. Wilson. general
manager of the Houston City Street
Railway company, has been appointed
general manager of the Gulf, Beau
mont & Kansas City road a new line
in eastern Texas. His office will be in
Beaumont, Tex. Mr.. Wilson has been
assistant general manager of the road.
Efforts are now being made by
trunk line presidents to bring about
reorganization of the lake lines pool
and place it on a basis with that of
the trunk line presidents agreement,
or in fact, make it substantially sub
ordinate and bring it under their jur
isdiction.
John J. Collister, formerly st. Louis
agent of the Lackawana line operat-
ing over the Glover Leaf, has been ap-
pointed commercial agent of the
Glover Leaf at Kansas City, effective
January 1. William Heyman. former
ly contracting agent of the Erie Dis
patch, has been appointed st. Louis
agent of the Lackawana line.
Colonel Dan B. Honin, of the Rail
way News Reporter, is in the city and
report has it that he is figuring on get
ting up utah" edition of his fam
Gus journal. Should the rumor prove
true, it goes without saying it will be
a. mammoth one replete with half
tone cuts and matter that will speak
well of our new state. Let US hope
the colonel will do it,
Frank Hanson, engineer on the
Union Pacific, came near ''knoc15ing
OUT a man the day before yesterday,
who was standing on the track with
his back to the train and his eyes on
the clouds, while the whistle and bell
were both sounding. Frank put on
his air and stopped the eighteen cars
when within a couple of feet of him
with the stop the man
tumhled over into the ditch. The SUD-
position is he was crazy.
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