Part 31 (1/2)
THE LADY AND HER LAP-DOG
The following scene occurred at the high-level Crystal Palace line:-”A newspaper correspondent was aainst the porters who interfered to prevent her taking her dog into the carriage The lady argued that Parliaes for sht to be further cos, and it was perfectly scandalous that they should be separated, and a valuable dog, worth perhaps thirty or forty guineas, should be put into a dog compartment I have some of the B stock of the railway, upon which not a penny has ever been paid, and I could not help co my experience of this particular line of railith that ofwhat sort of a train that would be which would provide accommodation for all the wants and wishes of railway travellers”
WHAT IS PassENGERS' LUGGAGE?
A gentle took with hi of six pairs of blankets, six pairs of sheets, and six counterpanes, valued at 16, belonging to his household furniture They were in a box, which was put in the luggage van and lost The question at lahether these articles cae,” for which, if lost, the passenger could claies of the Court of Queen's Bench sitting in Banco have decided that such is not personal luggage
”Now,” (said the Lord Chief Justice) ”although we are far fro that a pair of sheets or the like taken by a passenger for his use on a journey e, it appears to us that a quantity of articles of that description intended, not for the use of the traveller on the journey, but for the use of his household, when permanently settled, cannot be held to be so”
-_Herepath's Railway Journal_, Jan 10, 1871
CONVERSION OF THE GAUGE
The conversion of the gauge on the South Wales section of the Great Western railway in 1872 was of the heaviest description, the period of labour lasting frohteen hours a day for several successive days It was the greatest work of its kind, and nothing exactly like it will ever be done in England again The lines of rail to be connected would have th, the number of men employed was about 1500; and the time taken eeks nearly
Oativen to thethe day I had not a single case of drunkenness or illness I have often heard thesepower of oat_, _CE_
FOURTH-OF-JULY FACTS
At a banquet in Paris attended by Americans in celebration of the late Fourth of July, Mr Walker's speech in reply to the toast of the material prosperity of the United States and France, and the establishment of closer co and interesting He re food and merchandise between the Western and Eastern States was from a cent-and-a-half to two cents a ton a mile I well remember a conversation which I had in 1870 or 1871 with Mr Willias of that priden exclaiht froo to New York at a cent a ton a mile!' 'Perhaps so,' I replied; 'but I fear this result will not be reached in hths of a cent a ton a h this price was not rehest authorities in railway hths of a cent would be perfectly satisfactory The effect of this reduction in the cost of transportation is precisely as though the unexhaustible grain fields and pastures across the Mississippi had been itude of Ohio and Western New York It is estimated that it takes a quarter of a ton of bread and rown man in Massachusetts for a year The bread and meat come to him from the far west, and I have no doubt that it will astonish you to be told, as it lately astonished le day of this man's labour, even if it be of the co his year's subsistence for a thousand miles”
TAY BRIDGE ACCIDENT
Dec 28, 1879 A fearful disaster occurred in Scotland As the train froe, two th, which spans the e, about four hundred yards of which ith the train, dashed into the sea below About seventy persons were in the train, of whom not one escaped, nor, when the divers were able to descend, could a single body be found in the carriages, or airders, and some days elapsed before any were recovered No conclusive evidence could be produced to shohether the train was blown off the rails and so dragged the girders down, or whether the bridge was bloay and the train ran into the chasht was intensely dark, and the wind more violent than had ever been known in the country
_Annual Register_, 1879