The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-01-13

ers from interfering with the Albro
j. Newton company of Brooklyn. In
maintaining an open shop.
RAILROAD NOTES
The Carolina special Of the South
ern railway which was put on be.
tween Charleston, s. c., and Lexing-
ton, KY, on Monday of this week, Is
first class train in every respect.
From the earliest days of railroad
has been the aim of Charleston and of
South Carolina to obtain n direct
route and through service TO the Ohio
river and the west. This ambition
Is realized in the new service of the
Southern railway.
The Kansas City & Memphis rail.
road has been chartered in the state
of Arkansas, with a capital of $6,000,-
600. Construction work has already
begun. The road is to start at Rog-
ers, Ark, with it's terminal at Mem
phis, and branches will extend from
the main line to Faulkner and Little
Rock, and from Rogers to Sloan
Springs and Eureka Springs, with
Wagner, Okla, as the ultimate termi.
nus. The new road will be $50 miles
long.
Trains are now operating over the
massive concrete bridge of the Balti-
more & Ohio, which spans Brandy
wine creek near Wilmington, Del. 1t
cost $270,000, and it's use permits a
reduction of five minutes in the time
of passenger trains between Philadel-
phia and Washington. Only two of
the four tracks put in are available
at present.
The new shops of the Central C
Georgia, in Macon, Ga, built and
equipped at cost of $2,999,999, and
considered by Major j. F. Hanson,
president of the company as one of
the biggest achievements in the his
tory of the South, are now in opera
ton.
John r. Kirk, passenger agent on
the Santa Fe, living at Las Vegas, N.
| NJ, claims that after twenty-seven
years of study and research he has
solved the he problem of perpetual mo-
| ton and perfected a machine capa-
BILE of a power nothing short of mar
velous. Like others before him who
also thought they had achieved like
result, Kirk has the most visionary
| ideas of what will be accomplished
with his invention.
With it's recent completion the
| Grand Trunk now has at West Fort
William the greatest elevator in the
world. It's capacity is S,250,000 bush
els. 1t is the first of unit of six to
be built with total capacity of TO-
100000 bushels, and which will have
three piers Then it will be possible
to unload 1000 cars a day, and dis.
charge 100000 bushels an hour into
vessels.
With the completion next August
of cutoff between Texico on the
: Belon line and Coleman on the Gulf
line, about 300 miles, the Santa Fe
will reduce the distance between Los
| Angeles and Galveston 500 miles,
making the entire distance 1,S45 miles,
While the route of the Southern Pa
cific is shorter by 200 miles, the San
| ia Fe will have the advantage of low
grades, and become a strong competi-
tor for Pacific coast business, now
monopolized by the Hartman system.
! A locomotive fireman by the name
of Richard Webster, working on the
Union Pacific, and Miss Mabel Pug
mire of Green River, started on a
journey on a pass in favor of "Rich,
ard Webster and wife" and landed In
Jail in Omaha for violating the anti
pass clause of the railroad law. They
were not yet man and wife, but had
eloped with the intention of estab
| fishing that relation as soon as pos.
| olulcb lSlylhB Ou Tic SpoSu VI d Idli'
road train to help things along. A
train auditor caused the arrest. The
young woman's father happened to be
in Omaha at the time, and assented
to the union OF the couple, but they
have yet to effect an adjustment with
the federal authorities.
The Illinois Central, following the
example of eastern roads, has inaug'
urated efficiency or surprise" tests
for the purpose of promoting better
discipline and making men in the
train service more efficient. During
the few months that these tests have
been conducted the number of acct
dents occurring on the road has been
reduced fully one-half. Vice Presi
dent Park, under whose direction the
tests are being made says that they
are intended to determine whether
men properly observe and obey sig
nails day and night. The scheme has
also been successfully tried out on
the Southern Pacific.
The broad street station and ter
minal of the Pennsylvania, within
two years is to be enlarged, in addi