The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-29
RAILWAY Notes.

The Milwaukee yesterday had eight
cars of sheep from Manti to Chicago.
General Agent Gray of the Southern
Pacific went UP to Ogden yesterday on
business.
The railroads did big business yes
terday in bringing in delegates to the
Republican convention.
Indications are that President Hill of
the Great Northern will pull off the
consolidation of his road and the Great
Northern.
j. ]. Cox, general agent for the Bur
lington at Lincoln, Neb., with his fam
lily, has been doing Salt Lake for a
few days.
John r. Pott, distributing agent for
the Milwaukee at Williamsport, Pa.
has been doing the city for the past
several days.
I. f. Fitzgerald, coast passenger
agent for the Texas Pacific and Mis-
souri, Pacific railways, with headquar-
tiers at San Francisco, is in the city.
The editors special train for Park
City over the Union Pacific from here
at a. m. this morning will be a
hummer" and the pencil pushers are
Cautioned to tie their hats on.
The Union Pacific has reduced forces
on maintenance of way on its Utah
division, as is done every fall, when
the track is put up in first-class condi-
ton for the fall and winter season.
The Union Pacific yesterday issued
Instructions, per bulletins, to conduc-
tors and brakemen regarding the car
rying in coaches of packages that
should very properly go through ex-
press companies.
1t is currently believed that when
the next opening is presented on either
the Utah or Idaho divisions. Chief
Dispatcher Stewart will so up where
he very properly belongs, and this is
no dream.
Superintendent Butler of the Pull
man Palace Car company at Ogden
was in the city yesterday. Mr.. Butler
is regarded as being one of the ablest
Pullman superintendents when it
comes to looking after and getting
business for his company.
The New York & New England rail-
road will be turned over to the new
corporation next Sunday night. 1t is
reported that j. Pierpont Morgan and
William Rockefeller have 100000 shares
of New York & New England common
stock, and that Cornelius Vanderbilt
has 10000 shares.
j. NJ. Moore and secretary of the
Union Pacific coal department, to-
gether with the local coal men, re-
turned yesterday from the wilds of
Idaho, whittier they have been gun
ming, and brought back 300 chickens
and $50 trout. A ton of such Injuries
should go far towards tiding over a
rigorous winter coming on.
j. G. Miller, assistant general freight
agent of the Atchison, has resigned to
accept the position of manager of the
Chicago department of the Latin Rand
Powder company. ]. E. German, at
present chief clerk of the freight de-
partment of the Atchison, has been
promoted to fill the vacancy caused by
Mr.. Miller's resignation.
General Manager McKinnon of the
Boston & Maine cannot have the
charge of diliatoriness laid at his door
in a notice to employees regarding
the handling of cars not fitted with
grabirons and handholds The inter-
state commerce commission has ex-
tended the time for the application of
these improvements to January l. Mr..
McKinnon's notice is that the Boston
& Maine will refuse after that date to
handle cars without the required
changes.
The Pennsylvania railroad is relay
ing its tracks westward from Phila-
delphia with rails weighing 100 pounds
to the yard. The steady increase in
the size and speed of freight trains
has compelled the Strengthening of the
road bed by the use of heavier rails
and the building of more massive
bridges. The use of 1OO-pound rails
marks a radical advance in track con-
struction, and these advances all tend
to the cheaper transportation of
freight
A new method of constructing street
crossings has been adopted by the
Wabash company A regular 7 rail
is laid upon its side, with the upper or
round surface inserted in the grooyed
side of the rail forming the track.
and the fiat or bottom part being
placed snugly against the plank. By
means of this the snow and mud
which falls upon the track is pushed
out by the fanges of the car wheels.
under the old plan, it was
showed down and under the pIanks,
twisting and pushing them out of posi-
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