The herald., 1898-10-26
NEWS OF The RAILWAYS
PRESIDENT RIPLEY EXPECTED
HERE ON SUNDAY
Another Oakland Ferry-Grain Rates
yaikely to Advance-Personals
and Notes

1t was stated at the Santa Fe general Of
| fees in the bradbury block yesterday tha
President Ripley and party would return
! from San Francisco to this city on Sunda.
next. and that they will then make com
| plcte inspection OF the lines in Southern
| California.
The Southern Pacific surveying party
which is running line OF proposed roat
| from Salt Lake City TO this city, is making
rapid progress. The party is headed by j
Long. 1t is now engaged in Creek canyon
making u preliminary survey, and has en-
gagged all OF the available men on contract.
for from six months to a year. The party
is well provided with money, and is spend
ing it freely. 1t is considered in Salt Lake
that the Rio Grande Western is in sympa
thy with the plan, and will have connec
tion with the road at either Richiield OF
Maryvile. 1t is believed that the new
one will follow Il route something like this:
Fremont Pass, Cedar City, st. George, all
in Utah; crossing the state line at a point
near the junction OF the Utah, Arizona and
Nevada lines, southwest to the Muddy pass
to Nevada, and connection with the
Southern Pacific either at Mojave or by
way OF the Morongo pass to Beaumont.
Meanwhile, the projectors OF the Milford
extension are not by any means idle, for
they have completed the first seven miles,
and the end of the track is now at Upton,
the first station on the new road to this city.
ANOTHER OAKLAND FERRY
The Realty syndicate is the corporate title
of a new company formed i'll Oakland to es-
tablish ferry line between San Francisco
and Oakland in competition with the South
cru Pacific. They have acquired 2Uu acres
OF laId III Emeryville, part of Oakland on
tbs harbor front, and will place in service
donble.deck, steel-screw steamers. built eX-
clusively for passenger service. Frank NJ.
Smith, president OF the Oakland Transit
company, is at the head of the affair.
NOTES AND PERSONALS
c. w. Sanford, who has been superin-
tendent OF the KANSAS Llty Gar ussu,-.. ..Y..
has been appointed to the same position
with the Chicago association.
III. q. Barrow has been appointed general
freight agent of the Interstate Transporta-
ton company. Mr.. Barrow was formerly
travelling freight agent of the Illinois Cen
tral at New Orleans.
l.. j. Parks, who has been assistant gen
eral passenger agent of the Southern Pa
cltic railway at Houston, Texas, has been
appointed general passenger and ticket
San Antonio, the Texas and New Orleans.
and the Louisiana Western extension, with
headquarters in the same city.
John K. McDonough, chief clerk in the
freight department of the Mexican Central
at Mexico City, has resigned, and is sue
ceeded by George Dwan of the Mexican Ma
tional. Mr.. McDonough goes to the Mex
leo, Cuernavaca and Pacific as general
freight and passenger agent.
VI. o. Wilson has been appointed general
agent of the O. II. 4 n. Co. at Butte, Mont,
NJ w. Bacon, resigned
On the first half OF the month the North
ern Pacific railroad will reduce local passen-
ger fares throughout Washington and Idaho
from to cents per mile. This. how
ever will not affect through rates from Pa
clfic coast points east.
During the Knights Templar conclave at
Plttsburg the Pennsylvania lines show that
4, ,45S passengers took advantage of the one
tn,e rates made for this occasion. The
figures, however, are not complete, and it
is confidently expected that when all re-
ports are in from agents the total will be
10000 greater at the very least.
The Erie railroad has placed in their ,Jer-
sey City yards an electric turn-table, which
is working very successfully, more than 200
locomotives being turned every day. 1T
IS in effect small drawbridge, the essential
Inference being that the table see-saws over
he center The work was done under the
lrection of the chief engineer of the rail:
road company, Mr.. Charles W. Buchholz.