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Facts and Figures of Modern Rail
road Affairs.
YOUCANTRAVELONYOURTRUNK
An Odd Coincidence 1/csn Risk But
More It < > 8iioii8lbllity A Phenome
nal Ilailroad Year Tha
Duiunud for Gnr .
You Can Travel on Your Trunk.
Indianapolis Journal : "Do you know
that if a man has a heavy trunk he can
sometimes travel a long distance on a
railroad without a ticket or any
mouoyV" said a young mun yesterday
who had recently made his way back
from Texas with but a few dollars.
"When I reached St. Louis I had but 5
cents in my ) x > ckot and I did not know
a man there I could ask for a loan. I
went to the ticket agent , and , making
known my condition , asked him how I
could get to Indianapolis. 'Have you a
trunk ? ' ho asked. 1 told him that 1
had , ana ho said ho would introduce mete
to the conductor. When the conductor
came up I was introduced , and he asked
mo for the cheoic to my trunk , which I
gave him , and ho then gave me a small
ticket which he said would get my
trunk in Indianapolis. I asked him
bow much the trunk would cost me
when I wont to got It out , and ho said
$7. Well. I got through all right , but
when I presented the ticket > for the
trunk it cost mo $9 instead of ST. 1
have boon wondering over since > vhc
got that money , but I didn't care , for I
was glad to got back to Indlanapoli <
ven on those terms. "
Ail Odd Coincidence.
Commercial Advcrtibor : From Birm
Inghani , Ala. , comes a weird story o !
two friondb George White , ongincui
of a fast passenger train , and Boll
White , foreman in the machine shop-
of the Louisville & Nashville road.
They had a habit of making each othoi
small , pretty gifts , nnd this summer the
machinist constructed a clock rathei
out of the common as a present to the
engineer. When finished ho bet it run
ning to insure purfuctness , and foi
awhile it ticked away as merrily as yoi
please. Suddenly , without cause 01
warning , it stopped nt - : ! ! ' , ! a. in. , bu
nothing was thought of it till next day
when naws came that exactly at tha
hour its prospective owner had booi
killed in an accident , and the oddos
part of all is that no amount of starting
or regulation since has ever boon nhli
to make the clock run past that fata
minute.
HUk , Hut More Ite poiitlhillty
Glebe Democrat : The running of i
locomotive is becoming a position o
more responslbllsty , while tlio danger
of the position are becoming less. Ant
with these changes the more itnporta-i
it is becoming to have competent mei
ou the footboard. A few years ago tin
engineer hud no .ilr-brako to take can
of , but ho might gut killed for the wan
of ono. If ho wanted to stop bad h
whistled "down brakes , " put her in tin
"brcoohlu1 " and waited for the brake
moil to got in their work. Now ever ;
Improvement puts moro cares on hi
head and hand. Ho has the care of ani
bandies a complicated brake , he is ro
sponflble for tlio observance of a thou
and signals , tljo heat of the cars ha
boon asked ( rota his supply , and ho wil
soon have another little engine and \
dynamo to care for , yet with all thosi
things to look after , unless one stops t <
think for a moment , an engineer !
ookcd upon as a man who has a soft
nap. _ _ _ _ _
Flattering Outlook.
Globe-Democrat : Tha last quarter of
the year promises to bo a phenomenal
one for the railroads , affording a remark
able contrast to the light business and
neagor revenues of the earlier portions
of the year. They uro now beginning
a handle the largest amount of traffic
, hat was over ottered to them , and with
rates generally restored to a remunera
tive basis , there is no reason why earn
ings for the next few months should not
be equal , If not greater , than any over
recorded for a similar period. All the
roads east and west are short of cars
and every wheel that can be turned is
in motion. Under such circumstances
the companies are not likely to furnish
any motive power for cut-rate competi
tion , if they can possibly avoid it. It is
easy to see that , with good paying rates
and all cutting done away with , a larger
mileage than ever before and all the
traffic that can possibly be handled with
tliis increased mileage , and more effi
cient equipment , the lust quarter of the
year can scarcely fail to be one of unex
ampled prosperity. The railroads have
made the worst showing they can this
year. It must bo admitted , however ,
that , while all iu serene in other quar
ters , the situation east of Chicago is
rather slow in righting itself , and some
of the managers are growing very im
patient at what they call the perverseness -
ness of the Pennsylvania road in refus
ing to restore the rate on gruin. There
is a good deal of doubt as to the atti
tude of the 1'emisylvania , which is just
now moro of an enigma to the other
roads than it over has boon before.
Someof them say it does not know its
own mind. Certain it is that the other
lines do not know what it wanta , and
are somewhat suspicious of its motive
in adhering to the low rate. The curi
ous part of it is that the Pennsylvania
is apparently making no effort to secure
the grain traflic , and other roads are
really carrying the greater portion of
it. Hut whatever stumbling-blocks
there are in the way of full settlements ,
it will be found that bettor rates and
good profits will come with the enor
mous business ahoiul.
The < 'nr Dcm.imt.
Globo-Democrat' There is one great
annual ebb and llo\v in the demand for
railroad pars. The active season gen
erally opuns about September and con
tinues for perhaps six months. During
this period the demand for cars exceeds
the supply , Then comes another nix
months of comparative dullness , during
which side-tracks are often incnmborod
with long lines of empty and unused
cars. It is the movement of the great
crops siimiltaneouly in all parts of the
country that swells the demand of cars
in the autumn to an excess of the sup
ply. In regions where this trafllu of the
earth's annual products constitutes the
main business the difference between
dull and busy seasons is of course most
clearly marked , and in districts ol
heavy miscellaneous trnltlo the lines ol
differeiu'o are often almost % blitorntcil ,
nnd Un approximate uniformity tlioyeav
through takes their place. Hut on an
average the relative demand for cars on
roads in the north varies for the two
seasons as two and three. If 2.000 cars
flufllco to move the freight on u
road In April it may bo expected
that In October 8,001) ) cars will bo re
quired , In. the south , because of the
relative importance of the cotton crop ,
the difference is greater. If 1,000 cart
nro ample in bummer 2,000 will ba
needed in winter. Most railroads have
more cars than thnir minimum require
ment and fewer than their maximum
needs.
The recent failure of the per diem rai
charge and the complete return of all
v _
, incs to the mileage system of rental
'or foreign cars diminishes the chances
of a road keeping its own cars , for the
cost to other roads for retaining them
is less. When n car now once leaves
the line of road that owns it , it never
returns until loaded , and is often de
tained for months for local business.
Southern roads , from their greater
needs , "steal" more cars during this
season than their northern neighbors.
Let a car once get beyond the Ohio
river and it is useless to hope for its re
turn before spring. General managers
may promise to return it promptly , but
once in the southern service it success-
tully eludes all efforts for recapture ,
and the owner must content himself
with the mileage. A car tracer re
cently wont after one of his missing cars
and found it at last down in a remote
corner of Texas , where the enterpris
ing borrower had converted it into a
station house for a new town. A post-
office was established in one end and a
country store for the other. It required
considerable diplomacy to oust the ten
ants , but the car tracer finally won his
point. Under the mileage system the
possessors had no rent to pay.
A Venerable Locomotive.
Kenosaw Ga/.olto : It is not twenty
steps from the leviathan locomotive ,
Governor Joseph E. Brown , now re
ceiving the finishing touches in the lo
comotive paint shop of the Western &
Atlantic railroad , in Atlanta , Ga. , to
another locomotive , dilapidated , com
paratively insignificant , exposed to the
elements , without shelter or care. It
is the North Carolina , and the legend
on its boiler front reads :
M. W. 11ALDWIN ,
lS.7i ,
Philadelphia , Pa.
The North Carolina was built for the
Western & Atlantic railroad thirty-six
years ago , and at that lime rated as one
of the finest locomotives in the south.
Master Mechanic Collier regarded the
old "scrap heap" mournfully , and with
a sigh hixid : "I would regret to see her
broken up. I passed wood on her in
1858 I'll keep her here as long as I can
she'll do to pump water with in case
of accident to the waterworks. " Mr.
Collier says ho presumes the North Car
olina is the oldest locomotive in the
south. She Was used during the war ,
hauling refugees to places of safety , but
hasnotbeun in aotivo service of late
yoara. As compared with a locomotive
she is certainly a curiosity.
Stanford to Uotire.
Globe-Democrat : It may bo stated on
fir t-ruto authority that Senator Leland
Stanford , ono of the four founders of the
Southern Pacific company , will soon re
sign the presidency of the company ,
which ho has hold continuously for a
quarter of a century. The annual moot
ing takes place early next winter , and
it is then that Stanford will rotiro. He
will reach New York next Saturday
from Europe , where ho has been trying
the waters at Hamburg and Budon with
out much otToct. His health and
strength are seriously impaired , and ho
doeires to give his time to the manage
ment of the now university at Palo Alto ,
which is a memorial of his dead son.
This university will probably lie opened
to students early next yoar. Stanford ,
it is said , has only a few millions of
boiuls and stock of the Southern Pacific.
The heavient owner of the heirs
of the original founders is the
CrocUer estate , which is managed by
Colonel Charles Prod Crocker , the man
who is generally regarded as most
eligible ! to the position of the president.
Ho was thoroughly trained by his father
in all the details of railroad , bu.sinoas ,
and ho has dovelopcd executive ability
of u high order. I-'or several years
Stanford has done very little work at
'
the railroad offices. M'ost of his duties
have devolved on Stephen T. Gage , an
old and trusted official , who was lately
made Stanford's assistant in the man
agoment. The Southern Pacific , though
the gross earnings are very largo , does
not pay as good an income as many
eastern roads. The reason is because
the high officers draw unusually largo
salaries , nnd because so much railroad
building is being done. They pay well ,
and the company's salary list includes
some big salaries , the president ( Stan
ford ) , vice president ( Huntington ] , and
second vice president ( Crocker ) all got
825,000 yearly each. Timothy Hopkins
draws $15,000 , Stephen Gage , Stan
ford's assistant , gets $12,000 , whtlo a
half Aoion others , including the counsel
receive 810,000. The business of the
road is growing BO rapidly that the com
pany has been unable to meet the de
mand for freight carriage this year , and
the prospect is that another yoa'r will
witness an oven greater development of
overland trallc , of which this great sys
tem gets the lion's share.
Tabulatinu the Accidents.
In every well-regulated railroad of
fice , says the Globe-Democrat ; there is
a department where an exhaustive rec
ord is kept of every accident , trival or
serious , that occurs on the property of
the company. The record is kept as a
necessary protection against unjust
damage suits. Experience has demon -
stratcd thai quito often a suit will bo
instituted against the company several
years after the in jury complained of has
been received , and at a time when the
witnesses to its occurrence have either
boon forgotten by the company or hayo
themselves forgotten the occurrence in
its essential particulars. In consequence
the defence of the company has been
lame and halting when , in the estima
tion of the company , it might have been
bettor. Now , when an accident occurs ,
be it only the mashing of some poor
brnkoinan's thumb , the unbending rules
and regulations require that each em-
pioyogivo a writton'statoincnt of the
affair , and if the accident be serious
that the names and statements of other
witnesses also bo procured. Those
are tiled for future- reference , to bo
used as circumstances may require. In
a ponderous folio arc carefully indexed
the names of all persona injured or
killed , with their residence , the place
of accident , otc. This-book on a largo
railroad system is rupldly filled with
names , for each day' ' brings a number of
casualties. It is a 'gory record. Per
haps half the total ( iiHihiltics occur to
trainmen while coupling cars , but there
Is a prontiful sprinkling through the
list of tramps fulling bonbath the wheels ,
of passengers injtirdd While alighting
from or boarding a train in motion , mid
many other varieties. ' Some are pecu
liar. Hero is an irfstance : Following
the address of a cdlintfry physician in
the record of a local1 road is the single
announcement. "StoYxl out in the ruin
and caught cold , " etc. , a curious entry
indeed. The history of the case is that
the country physician , ono damp raw
evening in December , tramped from a
patient s residence to u lonely railway
station and arrived in a state of profuse
perspiration. The station was locked
and the passenger was compelled to
await his train by standing out in a
drizzling rain. Ho caught u severe
cold from exposure , sued the railroad
company , and settled UU cat o for $1,500.
A bachelors' club , organised at Heuton-
vlllo , Ark. , Is to iuipo-o a hoary fine on mom-
bora unmarried nt the end of ISS'J , exco | Una
those who can Kivo aatisfoctory evidence
that they have proK | > sod and been rejected
three times during tlio your.
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AMONG THE ELECTRICIANS ,
Development of the Great Agent of
Modern Civilization.
ELECTRIC POSTAL RAILWAY.
Use of the Electric Light in Fishing
Electric Cable Rood Use of the
Phonograph Shocks
and Flashes.
A New Electric Postal Hallway.
Electrical World : The Sprague Elec
tric Railway and Motor company is now
building for the Electro-Automatio
Transit company , of Baltimore , three
twenty-five horse-power railway motors
of a special typo for operating a car on
the last named company's experimental
road. This road has been erected at
Laurel , about twenty-five miles out 'of
Baltimore , nnd carries three rails , ono
above the car for carrying the current ,
and two below , which support the car
and constitute the return circuit. The
motive power for this road will bo sup
plied entirely by electricity , and the
cars will be controlled and the brakes
applied by the same power. Each car
is mult of sheet iron , is two feet squat e
and about twenty-one feet long. Two
cars constitute a train , and when joined ,
they are connected after the vestibule
pattern by a flexible connection the
size of the car itself. The speed which
it is expected to attain is live miles per
minute. It is the intention to boon
build two roads for carrying mails and
other light freight , ono between Balti
more and Washington and the other be
tween St. Paul and Chicago.
UHO of tlio Electric Iilcht in
Manyattcinptssays Knginooring.havo
recently boon made to employ the olcu-
trlc light as a means of attracting fish
to a particular place so as to facilitate
their capture. The arrangement gen
erally adopted has boon to plunge an
incandescent lump in the water , connec
tion being made by loads with some
source of electricity on board the fish
ing craft. When , however , this ar
rangement is adopted in dcep-oea fish
ing , it is found that the mains
to the lump are very liable to foul
the fishing appliances or the cable of
the vessel. In short , it has been found
impossible to maintain a permanent
communication with a lain ] ) plunged tea
a considerable depth bo low the surface
of the water. M. Paul Hegnard has got
over this difficulty by adopting a lamp
worked by a primary battery , the whole
of which can be tossed overboard and
reclaimed at some future time. The
battery used consists of six Bunsen cells ,
in which , however , the nitric acid is
replaced bv chromic acid. These cells
run a small Edison lamp.
Electric Cable Iload.
Electrical World : Reports como from
Switzerland of a novel combination of
the olectrio and cable systems on a road
up the Burgonstock. Current is trans
mitted three miles to the road from a
couple of Uvonty-five-horso-porfor dyna
mos driven by water power , and
the dynamos , charging accumulators
for the purpose , operate two motors stationed -
tionod at the head of the road , which is
OH8 metres in length. The motors are
connected with and drive a rope system
which hauls two cars up nnd lowers
them. Each ear will curry fifty or sixty
persons. It might be mentioned that
the sumo water power furnishes current
for lighting the big hotel and pumping
up spring water by motor , but the chief
point to us lies in the suggostivonebs of
the first application. Such a plan ns
this might well bo adopted on street
car lines which happen to include a
steep grade or two , for it would cer
tainly avoid the necessity of subord-
nating the whole plant to the require
ments of a few short sections.
Use of the Phonograph.
Electrical World : Whatever may
have been the criticisms against
the old phonograph , the conviction
must force itself upon those who
have studied the subject , that with
the rapid improvements that are going
on in the phonograph and graphophono ,
their use will become general in a short
time. The experience of those who
use the instruments for the first time is
no guide in any way as to their values ,
because , as in the case of the telephone ,
it requires a little practice to become
accustomed to interpret the sounds
which emanate from the cylinder.
Once acquired , however , the reading
from the phonograph is as simple a
matter as the reception of a message
over the telephone ; and , indeed , in
some cases far easier.
Electric Tramway a in Salt Mine * .
Science : In the new Stassfurt ( Ger
many ) mine an olectrio tramway has
been in operation since January , 1884.
It wus built by Siemens & Halbkc , and
was a success from the start. The en
gine is of twenty-horse power , and is
placed above ground at the mouth of
the nhaft. The dynamo is compound
wound , nnd give5 * about forty amperes
of 800 volts. The current is taken
through cables to the tram-line , a dis
tance of 410 muters. The motor is sup
plied from overhead iron conductorsm-
sulntod from the ground. The motor is
simply one of the well-known typo of
Siemens dynamos , placed horizontally
on a car to economize space. The dyna
mo supplies about twenty-horse power
of energy , the motor gives about ten-
horso-powcr an olllciency of only 50
nor cent. The weight of the wagons to bo
drawn is about 2,500 pounds , and there
are sixteen in a train. The mean speed
is about six mile.i per hour. This line
is not in any way so olllclent as those
that can bo put up to-day , but some fig
ures as to the cost of working are of in-
tercbt , especially ns the road has been
long enough in operation to allow an
accurate estimate to bo made. In 1821 ,
170,11)0 ) trucks were handled , and the
working cost , including all itemswages ,
fuel , etc. , with 15 per cent for intdrot
and depreciation , was 10.1 pfennig
( about 2Jc ) per truck , while the cost be
fore had been 20 pfennig ( Go ) . In 1887
the figures are still more favorable , as
the underground electric way hud boon
considerably increased. The cost was
H.t ; pfennig ( about lie ) per truck , or 12.02
pfennig per kilometer ton , as compared
with 3-1.2 pfennig per kilometer ton by
human labor , which the electricity dis
placed. If the few olootrlc tramways in
mines that are now in operation in this
country were investigated as to cost , it
would bo found that , their economy is ns
great us that given nbovo , It is only a
question of a few years when mule and
man power in mines will bo replaced by
electric motors.
Machine Telegraphy of To-day.
Now York Sun : Mr. D. JJ. Craig ,
formerly manager of the Associated
Press , "has dovotcd nineteen years to
the development of machine telegra
phy , and claims to bo able to telegraph
2,000 words pur ininuto from each end
of a wire , a total of 4,000 words in sixty
seconds.
The mosxagoi or reports are legibly
nnd uniformly recorded in ordinary tel
egraph characters , which can bo road
by clerks familiar with them at the rate
of about one hundred words per minute ,
Messages , to bo sent over tlio Morsn
lines , must bo written or printed ; but *
message to bo telegraphed by the noW
system must be perforated , for which
Mr. Craig has a beautiful little maj
chine , 8x10 inches , with two bunks ol
keys , called a "composer , " which oven
a child can operate reliably and quila
expertly after an hour's practice , und
after u reasonable atnou nt of pracllu
fifteen to thirty words per minute can
be perforated. Simultaneously with
the perforations the inachino
prints , in plain Roman letters ,
every word of the message , which is re
tained , while the perforated message is
sent to the telegraph cilice the sixmo ai
a message is Hunt in manuscript to bo
telegraphed over a Morse line , with this
difference tho. machine message will
bo transmitted at the rate of 1,000 or
2,000 words pur minute , and be leglblo
and accurately recorded in telegraph
characters , and the Morse message will
be telegraphed by the hand-koy syHtom
nt the rate of fifteen to tvronty-flvu
words per minute and be recorded by
' 'sound" reading in ordinary manu
script. It is claimed that the machine
record is three times moro uccuratu
than "sound" recording.
With the regular olllco perforator experts
ports do , reliably , fifty words per min
ute , or 8,000 per hour , and it is claimed
by Mr. Craig that the actual cost of
transmitting 1,000 words 1,000 miles in
not over 2 cents.
The coot of paper to perforate 1,000
words is 1 cent , and 2 cents for record *
ing paper. Experts , young men or
young ladies , do perforating for 10 cents
per 1,000 words and the saino for copy
ing on the typewriter -total , 25 cents
for completing 1,000 words. On this
basis it would co t for labor and paperless
loss than KtO to tologrunh and complete
forty-eight columns of this newspaper
from New York to Chicago.
Mr. Craig hasnlso devised a new tele
graph wiru'inudu of nuro copper with u
slight mixture of silica , which is said
to increase the tensile strength to twiea
the btrongth of steel of equal si/.o , the
exact tensile strength being reported
as iM,000 ; ! pounds to the square inch.
No. 4 gauge wire weighs over 000
pounds per mile , and has but ono ohm
of electrical resistance per mile. With
such a wire , extending from Now York
to San I'Yancibo ' , the electrical ro-ilst-
nnco would be about ! ! , ( )00 ) ohms , \rhila
a majority of the telegraph wires be
tween Now York and Washington flhow
an electrical resistance of moro than
4,000 ohms thus the now slllconizud
copper wire will bring San t'runcilRoo
nearer to New York , electrically , than
Now York is to Washington.
Mr. Craig's apparatus Is now on exhi
bition at Washington , in a room in the
capltol near the bonato chamber ,
The most efficacious stimulant to or-
cite the uppotitu is Angostura 131 tiers ,
the genuine of Dr. J. G. B. Siogort &t
Sons.
Why They Preferred It.
Minneapolis Tribune : They mot In a
restaurant and fall into convocation
about their lunch. "All me , " said the
first , "tho approach of winter saddens
mo. I would it wore always summor. "
'Now I , " replied the other , "hko tha
winter season , In winter I regain my
health , enjoy life , inoet friondg and
huvo n jolly tune , which I never do in
summer. "
"What is your buinesi ? "
"I am an umpire. What is yours ? "
"I am a snow shovolor. "
"Ah ! "
Ilorflford'H Acid
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