The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1905-09-07

is fast cleaning out all the pine that is
good for ties.
Within the next five years the Penn
sylvania railroad station in New York
city and its connecting tunnels will be
completed, and the new Grand Central
station will be ready for use a year
sooner, says Karl Decker in Success
Magazine for August.
Four city blocks have been razed
by the contractors in charge Of the
work on the Pennsylvania, and the
great travelling steam shovels are at
work, each tearing away a thousand
cubic yards of earth daily, while a
hundred drills bore into the exposed
rock and heavy charges Of dynamite
rack it into fragments. A great eX-
cavation sixty feet deep in parts must
be dug, and in all 100000 cubic yards
of earth and rock will be carted away
before the work of building the new
station can be begun.
The cost OF this work Will be S60,
100000, to which must be added the
$10,0O0000 spent IN acquiring real es-
tate. Over in New Jersey the work of
boring the tunnel that Is to carry the
tracks of the Pennsylvania into New
York has been begun, and a shaft sew
enty-five feet deep and thirty-five feet
in diameter has been sunk. From this
length, will be bored to the water
front and thence under the river bot
tom 5000 feet to the shaft on the
western shore of Manhattan Island,
where the underland tunnels will strike
through to the station. On Long Island
the shaft work has also been begun,
and before long the work of tunneling
the East river to meet the bores from
the west will begin. The station itself
will occupy a site 500 feet by 1000
feet and will be 500 feet In length by
400 feet in width. Placed fifty feet
back from the building line on all
sides, it will give the effect of being
located In the center of great plaza.
Through a new gear device, which
for the first time iI- the United States
has been attached to locomotive at
the Elkhart shops of the Lake Shore,
an increase in the locomotives speed
Is believed to be insured, says a Spe
cial dispatch from Elkhart to the Gin
cinnati Enquirer. Engine 1860, one
OF the Lake Shores large type of pas
senger locomotives, has thus been
equipped. After a few preliminary
tests it will be tried for speed on
regular run. The device Is known as
the Walschaert valve gear. So far as
is known, the arrangement has never
been tried in the United States on
passenger engine; consequently the ex-
pertinent will be watched with deep
interest by other American roads. Bet
ter distribution of steam and less
strain on machinery are advantages
claimed by the use of this gearing.
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail-
way company has decided to make ex-
ceptional provisions for those Of its
patrons who have been overcome by
thirst, says a London cable dispatch
to the st. Louis Post-Dispatch. The
company will run special trains on
bank and other holidays which will be
reserved for the exclusive use OF pas
sengers whose hilarity Is likely to an
noy more sedate travellers. These
"Bacchus specials" will run between
the large towns Of the two counties
after the ordinary traffic has been
cleared away and will collect and dis
gorge inebriated excursionists at the
smaller stations on their route.
The New York Central railroad Is
building two cars expressly to trans
port automobiles on passenger trains
only. The cars will have a round top
roof and door seven feet wide and
eight feet high and win be placed at
one end