The age-herald., 1897-11-19
No. 1904 Second Avenue
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travelling public has taken to the nsw idsa and the first stock of the tickets has been exhausted.
 The ticket has been in use only six days. but it appears to have filled long felt want It is not popular with the ticket brokers. One of the strong points in favor of the ticket is that it keeps the broloers at a safe distance. They have failed to devise ways and means of ''scalping" it.
 In Michigan the Central Traffic asso- clation has made many notifications to the original plan. Thsse have proven very unpopular with the traveling men who demand another change. It $ probable the Michigan railltcads will de- wise a scherS to appease the disgruntled drummers that will apply to that state only
 The southern railroads are closely watching the workings of the new ticket. Should it prove entirely successful an effort will probably be made to have it adopted in this section The Travellers Protective association will lead the fight as it has in the west and northwest. Some of the roads complain of the system now in vogue as It allows the brokers too much latitude. They will welcome a change.
 TROUBLESOME GRAIN RATE.
 Apropos to the extremely heavy freight traffic, especially in grain, oyer the Kan sas City, Memphis and Birmingham, is the acknowledgment of a freight war. It has been admitted that they are cut in all directions
 The claim as made by northern roads that the gulf fnes are taking grain from southwestern Missouri river points at 15 cents. 1t is from this section that the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham is handling the bulk of it's grain business. The grain traffic oyer the eastern lines to the seaboard is admittedly very Night. There the shippers are making their own rates.
 The passenger rates In the southwest are sadly demorali2sd and no nearer ad- justment than they were several weeks ago.
 It is said the reads in the west and southwest are about to enter into an agrelsimnt as 10 the grain traffic which, if lobeyed, w'll protect the interests of Chi cago against the gulf ports. The grain rate will be advanced to the basis agreed upon over year ago and which was in effect prior to last July.
 SoUTIIERN'S IMPROVEMENTS.
 Southern railway officials are elated over the rema rkable performances of their new monster passenger loc pm tives, which are now used in connection With the extra fast and heavy trains of that company. These engines are employed to haul the fast mail and Southwestern limited into and out of Washington, and their daily performance shows the re- markable power and speed under heavy load.
 According to Superintendent of Motive Power Thomas, each of these locomotives daily hauls a train of ten cars weighing 992,G00 pounds, or 800 tons, between Alex andrba and Danville at the uniform speed of thirty-seven miles an hour for the distance of 23S miles. That is the weight of the fast mail and it has seven stops between those points. The combined weight of the ten cars on the Southwestern limited is 976,000 pounds, or about 300 tons, and the reg ular speed maintained by means of the big locomotive is also thirty-seven miles an hour, with five stops. In the language of Superintendent Thomas, these leviathans of the rail were not built to break records, but solely to meet the requirements of the Southern passenger traffic to Florida, New Orleans and other southern points, which is very heavy during the winter and spring months. Each of the new engines is now doing the work heretofore performed by | two engines, and that is to haul all the cars in one section. And, what is still more to their credit, they are doing it on schedule time.
 BOYCOTTS IIIJEGAL. The United States circuit cour of ap- | peals, in St. Louis, has just rendered a decisoin declaring boycotts illegal and the introduction of saving devices among employers as perfectly legal. NEW SLEEPING CAR SERVICE. The first through sleeping car service ever operated during the winter tourists season, between Chicago and Jackson vflle, Fla, will be inaugurated November | 2S by the Central of Georgia railroad and | it's connections.
 The first sleeper south will leave Chi cago at D. m. November 2S; the first northwardbound will leave Jacksonville at D. m November 30. The service will be operated daily.
 The route traversed will be via the Illinois Central to Holly Springs, Miss, thence to Birmingham over the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham load.