Part 39 (1/1)

PULLMAN'S CARRIAGES

In the discussion on Mr C Douglas Fox's recent paper on the Pennsylvania railway, Mr Barlow, the engineer of the Midland, observed that there was a certain attractive power about a Pullht not to be overlooked, a pohich brought passengers to it ould not otherwise travel by railway A Pullhed soht was about 1d per mile; that was the sue for first-class passengers, so that one first-class passenger would pay the haulage of the carriage If the attractive power of the carriage brought er it would of course pay itself

_Herepath's Railway Journal_, Jan 23, 1875

PROFITABLE DAMAGES

The Springfield _Republican_, of 1877, is responsible for the following story:-”The industry of railroading has developed so whom a former employe of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford road deserves high rank He was at one ti a trunk out of a baggage car fro art being for a time reversed The injured employe suffered terribly, and crawled around on crutches until the Boston and Albany and the New Haven roads united and gave him 6000 dollars He was cured the next day Shortly afterwards a man on the Boston and Albany road was killed, and the Coave his3,000 dollars The former cripple, who had scored 6,000 dollars already, soon married her, and thus counted 9,000 dollars

He recovered his health so coain to work on the railroad, but finally, not being hurt again within a reasonable tiht with a part of the proceeds of his former calamities”

RAILWAY ENTERPRISE

It would be difficult to close this series of Railway Anecdotes e Stephenson's celebrated son Robert at a banquet given to hiust, 1850

”It was but as yesterday,” he said, ”that he was engaged as an assistant in tracing the line of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Since that period, the Liverpool and Manchester, the London and Birorous existence So suddenly, so promptly had they been accomplished, that it appeared to hiician's wand Hills had been cut down, and valleys had been filled up; and where this sinificent viaducts had been erected; and where nitude had been unhesitatingly undertaken Works had been scattered over the face of our country, bearing testimony to the indomitable enterprise of the nation and the unrivalled skill of its artists In referring thus to the railorks, he ine This was as reantic They were, in fact, necessary to each other The locoine, independent of the railould be useless They had gone on together, and they now realized all the expectations that were entertained of them It would be unseemly, as it would be unjust, if he were to conceal the circuineer could succeed without having ifted as himself By such h he ht have added his mite, yet it was to their co-operation that all his success ing”