The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
TRANSPORTING INTERESTS

A 1Oo-horse power gas engine is being
built for the shops of the Indianapolis
Switch and Frog company, at Indianapo-
lis.
According to the United States consul
general at Cairo, trolley line will soon
be built between that city and the Pyra-
mids.
Parsons glass signals for showing the
number of the train being placed in
the cupolas of the freight cabooses on the
Wheeling & Lake Erie.
Inc entire street railway system of Chi
cago, at present, as given by the Street
Railway Journal, consists of $50 miles of
tracks, of which Sc miles are cable roads,
zoS miles electric, 254 miles horse and &C
miles elevated.
1t is a popularity of Russian railroads
that their stations are generally two miles
or more distant form the towns and villages
count of the danger of fire, the houses in
straw.
The legislature of Tennessee has nassed
bill to enable the city of Chattanooga to
issue bonds to the amount of $2OOOO to any
a ram, company that will locate it's prin-
men. Before this can be done it must be
approved by a vote of the people
me reduction of the speed of the electric
street cars in Brooklyn, ordered by the citv
government, has been thoroughly car
ried out by the companies that passengers
are golnk back to the elevated railroads;
ana they have already gone back in such
numbers that the elevated has raised
wages.
because he was carried past flag station
where he intended to stop, and so had to
walk back several miles, a Methodist min
lister in Oklahoma sued the Gulf, Colorado
& Santa Fe for s., 900 damages, but the court
at Guthrie has given verdict for the rail
road, because the train was not scheduled
to stop at that station.
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whose lines connect the central part of the
city with half dozen large cemeteries, is
to put in the necessary equipment to run
funeral trains Special cars will be provid-
ed and large elevators are to be construct
ed at the stations adjoining the cemeteries
and at certain other stations.
The extended use of bicycles is cutting
into the receipts of number of railway
companies. On the lines Of the Denver
Tramway company, it is said, the gross
earnings per car on a rainy day are nearly
always oyer $50, but on a clear day there is
a falling off of so per cent and similar re-
ports are given elsewhere. The number of
wheels in use in Denver is said to be 10000
A measure fo4 permitting passengers to
retain the places they have chosen in the
consideration by the French minister of
public works. The idea is to pin to the lin
ing OF the carriage a piece of colored cloth
c con as, with another given to the
with them liable to fine of e.
An'express train is to be put on between
Northwestern, to make the trip in three
hours and twenty minutes, making no stops
and making close connection with Transat-
lantic steamers. The distance is POI miles,
which makes the rate of speed 81 43 miles an
hour. The schedule is As minutes quicker
than that of any other train between the
It is said that Henry Schneider of Urich-
vile is having cast a journal and box for
Within the box. are oil valves that by his
system keeps the journal constantly sup
piled with Oil. and it is claimed that car
can run 1900 miles before a new supply is
demanded. Two and one-half gallons of oil
are specified as the quantity needed for
car to make the distance named.
Work is progressing on the Niagara Falls
Lewiston electric railway, which is to
extend along the bottom of the Niagara
river gorge, the railroad being about 20
feet above the level of tine water great
amount of blasting is required to. cut
BENCH for. the roadbed in the steep, rocky
walls of the gorge. The line will be double
track, standard gauge, and will be equip
ped with observation cars, having all the
seats facing the river.
May /, the suit of the Buckeye Coal com.
pany against the Columbus, Hooking Val
ley & Toledo railroad, for damages sus-
tanned by inequtable distribution of coal
cars. was decided by a referee in favor of
the coal company. Tho suit was for $50 O0O
and was based on the claim that in the win
ter of 1928, when coal business was &C
tive and there was a demand for all the
coal that all the mines on this road could
furnish, the arbitrary rule Of the road for
to the injury of the Buckeyes business
In a certain state of the south there is
a railroad which is leased Tor / cent a wear.
and which has only one train which makes
up in accommodation what it lacks in regu-
larity. 1t stops anywhere and everywhere
At a certain crossing it always stopped to
take dozen eggs which a widow sent to
town every day. One morning the widow
came out and said, I'm mighty sorry Mr..
Conductor. but I've got only II this morn
ing" "Never mind, madame" he replied.
cheerfully, well wait"
The shipment of oil in bulk on the great
lakes is to be begun by the Standard Oil
company. which is now building large
refineries at Whiting Ind. This pier will
be form 1000 feet to ] 400 feet long and form
IA to 16 feet wide. 1t will be built of piles
driven in about Is feet of water, filled in
with stone and decked over. Cpecially con-
structed tank barges of 400, 900 gallons ca
pacity are being built to transport the
oil.