Show THE RAILROADS A Healthy Aid Society Personal Per-sonal Points Improvements and Suggestions Notes and News of The Track c MUTUAL AID SOCIETY The ninth annual meeting of the Utah Central Railway Employees o Mutual Aid Society was held in the Fourteenth Ward schoolhouse last night President Swan presiding There was a full attendance and much interest was taken in the proceedings pro-ceedings The secretarys report was rendered ren-dered and showed a total membership member-ship of 183 New members joining during the year sixty and members withdrawing twentytwo leaving an increase over the year previous of thirtyeight Gross income during dur-ing the year S293385 disbursements disburse-ments for current expenses withdrawals with-drawals and sickness 5164801 leaving a net increase of 8128584 Of the percentage of membership belonging to each branch of employees em-ployees and the amounts paid in and received for sickness the following follow-ing table will explain OA Cbs of Em op Amounts Amounts plo ment 8 ContI1bted W1thdtwn < Ie per ct per at Section Men 33 1787 00 81 l01858 Mechanics2 585 50 23 582155 70 Sundries 11 450 601 17 qll0 3 Train Men 13 350 50 14 luj90 13 Engine InH 08 22600 9 59185 C Wareho lIen 07 160 50 0 j 12160 1 Total = 10fl256000 l 100125985100 From the above it will be seen that the mechanics have drawn a higher percentage from the society than any other class of its members while the trainmen who are always considered the most liable class of railroaders to accident are far behind be-hind the mechanics Of the above amounts 103350 was paid by employees em-ployees receiving more than 19 per month 1503 by those receiving receiv-ing more than 37 per month and 2j350 by members whose salaries exceed 56 per month o A dividend of 3376 per cent was declared which amounts to over 1000 payable on the first day of March 1884 The association has 191413 drawing interest at S percent per-cent and 98724 drawing4 per cent interest This is a most encouraging en-couraging showing which few if any other societies of the kind can make A resolution was adopted fixing the rate of interest on loans for 1884 at 10 prr cent instead of the rate charged laat year The following officers were elected for the ensuing year President George Swan vice president George G Bywater secretary sec-retary and treasurer Rodney C Badger directors Joseph Sharp Willard W Bywater James Lat imer Peter Larsen Francis Cope John H Rumel Jr Z Jacob TRAIN SIGNALS Next to the adoption of the standard stan-dard time system comes the uniformity I un-iformity of train signals and the I same gentlemen who so successfully placed the former in operation are now laboring to establish a general system of train signals which for years has been considered of a great necessity At present there are some ten or twelve different classes of signals and a train man leaving one road to work on another is often compelled to learn a new class of signals which may entirely differ from those he has been used to and it is to thi that a great many accidents are attributed The committee appointed by the standard stan-dard time convention are to report shortly and a strong effort will be made to have the system proposed generally adapted STANDARD TIME Judge Holmes Boston recently decided that the new standard time having been adopted by a general usage all business transactions must be regulated in accordance therewith The question came up in a bankruptcy case where the petitioner appeared according to the hour by the new standard time and was declared to be in default by the officer before whom he appeared It is supposed that the twenty four hours system of time will soon be again agitated and a strong effort be made to force its adoption MISCELLANEOUS NOTES The Mullan tunnel on the Northern North-ern Pacific is 3850 feet long A car wheel foundry in Albany turns out twentytwo wheels per dayThere There are pixtyfive railroads in Illinois and their total earnings for 1SS3 were 21414691555 The D R G main line is 1317 miles long and with a leased mileage mile-age of 368 miles makes their total 1685 mile The Michigan Central Railroad has distributed 5000 annual passes for 1884 The entire number of passes issued ty this road last year was about 80000 The Missouri Pacific company claims to have earned over 14 percent per-cent upon its 30000000 capital stock on 1895 miles of road or about 16000 per mile The aggregate cost of repairs to the Fall River steamer Providence this season will exceed 575000 This Is considered the finest excursion excur-sion vessel in the world Every member and officer of the Utah Legislature from the President Presi-dent and Speaker to and including the messengers have received time passel good for sixty days over the Utah Central and Utah division of the Denver RIo Grande The highest point on the Northern North-ern Pacific Is at Bozeman tunnel being 5565 feet Sherman is the highest point on the Union Pacific 8242 feet and the Summit near Truckee is the highest point on the Central Pacific being 7017 feet Officers of the Denver d Rio Grande say that more special permits J per-mits for halffare and other reduced rates are issued from their office In this city than from the general office in Denver which looks as though Utah patrons expected and obtained many privileges The following freight rates are now in effect between Chicago and Salt Lake First class 5115 second class SI third class 75c fourth class 57c fifth class 53c Class A 62c Class B 57c Class CJ 4Sc Class D 48c Through way bills of freight from Chicago are being received at the Utah Central office in this city and as this avoids the necessity for rechecking re-checking freight at Council Bluffs it comes through in about two days shorter time and is less liable to damage from handling There has been tracklaying in forty one States and Territories the past year Montana heads the list 1 A J L 1 with < ± JO miles Dakota neat with 408 Michigan next with 405 New Jersey had the smallest number there being only seven miles laid in the State Utah is credited as being be-ing eighteenth on the list with 160 miles PERSONAL Mr F M Jenkins of the worldwide world-wide known firm of Cook Son Jenkins died in New York December Decem-ber 15th Mr L J Kraemer has been appointed ap-pointed general baggage agent for tne Denver Rio Grande with headquarters at Denver Mr J F Ladle an old Salt Lake telegraph operator is plain de spatcher for the Atchison Topeka lj Santa Fe railroad at Hermosilla Mexico Mr Henry Wood formerly superintendent sup-erintendent of the Utah division of the Denver Rio Grande is now general manager of the Little Rock Fort Smith railway Mr J HPynchon who has been traveling auditor of the Union Pacific for many years has been appointed commissioner to settle chime for damages to persons steel and property and Gen R H T Mintz of the auditors office has been appointed to succeed Mr Pynchon The change is necessitated necessi-tated through the great increase of buslneesas heretofore Mr Pynchon had charge of both departments BUFFET CARS Pullman buffet cars which have recently been put on the D R G are also to be put on the Union and Central Pacific roads between I Omaha and San Francisco and between be-tween St Louis and San Francisco on the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe and Atlantic Pacific This is a new invention on the palace cars and is a sort of traveling lunch counter Passengers occupying them can procure lunch both solid and liquid at any time by only punching a little annunciator bell which calls the waiter PASSENGER FARES Tickets for first class fare from Salt Lake to New York via Kansas City only can be had for 8240 and secondclass X65 40 a reduction of 54 on first class and 53 on second class but this applies to New York only and must be via Kansas City This reduction is caused by the cut 0 rate from Kansas City and is the lowestfare yet reached tram here to New York These tickets are sold by the Union Pacific and Denver RIo Grande 1 NOTHING BUT A CLUB WILL DO IT i A big clock hangs above tire head of the ticket agent at the 125th i street station of the Third avenue elevated roaJ A placard on the pendulum says Yes sir I am right A passenger gazed at it yesterday andstarteu to inquire u What is V But the agent cut him short and yeled I Thats there to keep people from asking if thats the right time Questions used to range from 100 to 500 a day Now twice as many ask what the placards for and the things worse than ever Keeps me talking nearly all dayEx FORMING A POOL 11 Some folks is jilt tco smart to live said the old man as he puffed hard at his clay pipe and wiped a tear from the cnd of his nose tc Anybcdy bt en trying to swindle you youWall it looked that way ANew A-New Yorker came down and bought a farm neat to me and he hadat been there a week before he proposed pro-posed a poll 11 On what On mi k and butter He proposed pro-posed to put in fifteen head of cattle agin fifteen of mine hire the milking milk-ing done and divide even on the sales of butter That looks fairS fair-S > it doas and I was ready togo to-go into it when my old woman hinted that Id tetter so over and see his stock I went Well Wall there was fifteen head Jist as he said but bless my stars if he hadnt counted in a bull two old stags and a steer to offset four of my cows which aveiage fourteen quarts of milk apiece a day Ive read a heap about pools but this is the nighest I ever come to having one bife meWnU Street News > ti i |