Show Personal and General George Swan of Mr Cummings office l has boon summoned to Omaha Ho loaves this morning J J Burke a popular Rio Grando engineer en-gineer and member of Division 1W5 B of L B died at his residence in Denver lately The returns of earnings for the Denver ik Rio Grando for the third week of October Oc-tober are 177000 against 5169700 for October Oc-tober 1688 The increase is 7300 The recent introduction of gas on the Wagner palace cars has proved so successful success-ful that the New York Central has determined deter-mined to equip its passenger coaches in a similar manner About a hundred of such coaches are now in activo service TheDenver Rio Grando has just completed com-pleted tbeiriron viaduct across the Cascade canon near Osior Colo on the fourth division It is 129 feet high and 410 feet long composed of seven sets of fiftyfour feet and ono set of thirtytwo feet iron girders resting on iron columns at either stds The Pennsylvania railroad company Is making experiments with a fireproof railroad rail-road car Tho distinctive feature of the carts that It is all iron or steel Tho roof sides and ends of the car arc mado of boiler Plata rivited together Tho car is somewhat in the shape of a horse shoe tho round part being the top It Is said that ventilation is secured by pumpingairinto I tho car through pipes The now traffic consolidation between tho Union Pacific and the Northwestern has placed theMilwaukee in a different position Heretofore the road has been receiving a good share of tbo traffic coming in from the west over the Union Pacific but now it is cut off and the unccnsigned freight is turned to tho Northwestern The Milwaukee Mil-waukee still has a dead cinch on tho Union Pacific because tho latter road must turn seer to tho former all consigned freight aid under the interstato commerce law the Union Pacific csanot mate rates over the Northwesternand not over the Milwaukee Rock Island and ether eastern roads The Milwaukee will probably haul all the Pacific Paci-fic coast bound freight into Kansas City and tui n it over to the Santa Fe and arrange ar-range with the Burlington and the Missouri Mis-souri Pacific for handling its freight out of Omaha Omaha Republican |