Show THE RAILWAY WORLD Items of Interest Concerning Hallway Affairs ut Home nnil Abroad The business men of New Orleans have a movement on foot which will make that city a formidable rival of New York City as a shipping port A new line of steamers steam-ers to Europe hae been ostablished and with these it is claimed New Orleans is in a position to ollei cheaper rates between tho western states and European ports Heretofore the exports to Europe from the western states have practically all gone byway by-way of New York It is now proposed by the business men in New Orleans to change all this and tako away the shipping from the eastern metropolis The first steamer will leave some time during this month ana there will be at least one per month It is expected several of the western railway rail-way lines will divert their business in that direction A FOLIl TUCK TUNNEL ROAD About two years ago the New York legislature I leg-islature appointed a commission to examine exam-ine into the practicability of providing the city of New York with an underground railway system and the committee has just completed its report It proposes that a road fifteen miles long should be constructed con-structed From the Battery to One Hundred Hun-dred and Sixtyfifth street the road is to be underground but beyond that it is to come to the surface and be carried across streets either on viaducts or through cuttings cut-tings but in no case is any street to bo crossed at grade The tunnel through which the trains are to run will be forty four feet wide and about twelve feet high WHO numerous entrances The plans contemplate con-template a fourtrack road two for passengers f pas-sengers and two for freight tho train to maintain a uniform speed of thirty miles an hour Passenger fares are 10 be fixed at 5 cents for the highest Freight rates will also be prescribed by the state I AMERICiX COACHES TUG DEST In a railway accident which occurred recently I re-cently in England the passengers in the solitary Pullman car were tho only passengers I pas-sengers uninjured of those occupying the English style a great number were killed or seriously injured The American coach I costs money but is safe which can not be said of the fragile English coach CUT StATES IN THE EAST The railroad lines between Chicago and Louisville and Cincinnati are now indulging indulg-ing in a passenger war in which tho bottom has already dropped out A person can now go from either of the two cities to Chicago I for f 1 50 and it is almost as cheap for a person per-son to travel as to stay at home Rates as I far east as Pituburg and west to the Missouri Mis-souri river are affected I AX EXPBESS WAR The Burlington road substitutes the I Adams express for the American over their lines on January L The American I express does not like being replaced and its I territory encroached upon so it will change I attitude and become mOle aggressive I Which of course means that express rates I m competition territory will be slashed I DUN CAS GOES TO CALirOKNIA I R J Duncan formerly superintendent of tho gulf division of the Union Pacific in Denver has accepted a like position on the Southern Pacific in California THE POOL AMENDMENT The questions which ara being sent out by the interstate commerce commission to I prominent railroad men traffic managers I and numerous association officers asking their statements as to an amendment they think of working through the next Congress I Con-gress looking to the question of pooling and allotting this to be done provided of course that the commission is Informed of all arrangements is receiving responses that should they be acted upon but a short time would elapse before all the western lines would bo working the samo old pooling pool-ing arrangement which the law was passed to prevent THE JOBT1I AND SOUTH ROAD I At the recent conference in Memphis of tho Farmers Alliance people a demand was formulated to bo presented to our government gov-ernment demanding that a railroad be built from British America to the gulf passing I I through Nebraska Kansas Missouri Indian In-dian Territory and Texas tho road to be I chartered by tho government but each I state along the proposed line to lend assistance assist-ance in convict labor I AMEKIOAX MODELS IN GERMAJT I The two models of our postal cars which were made and sent by the United States I to Germany have arrived at Berlin and are I placed on exhibition in the postal museum The postoffice department has received from Berlin a grateful acknowledgment of the courtesies of the United States in the matter A > OLp KA > SA8 CITY LAMUIAIIK An old landmark familiar to all of those who struck Kansas City tuber earlier days is soon to be torn aown and that is the old two story flame depot used by the old Kansas Pacific railway now Union Pacific the down stairs for passengers and the up stairs for division offices Of late years it has been used jointly by the Missouri and Union Pacifies for yard and trainmaster offices The building became so rickety that the Missouri Pacific abandoned it and now the Union Pacific people are also pro f paring to decamp and will then tear tho building down that is the portion which has not already rotted away Jn its day it was considered the handsomest depot I west of the Mississippi and during the war the building wasused as a headquarters i headquar-ters by some of the army men As soon cs II the new union depot was built some two blocks east the old building was abandoned for passenger purposes It is net likely I that the Union Pacific will erect a nevI building at the same place as the ground I is needed badly for additional sidetracks I II I Railway Irlcf S The English railroads are to abandon the I use of lighting cars by electricity as they I find it too expensive P i The land department of the Southern I Pacific and Houston Texas Central railroad i rail-road was moved on December 1st from Houston to San Antonio I Judge A B Patton president of the Ogden Chamber of Commerce will lesya i t for San Francisco this afternoon to sign the contracts for the removal of the Terrace II Ter-race Utah and Carlin Nevada shops to Ogaen on behalf of Ogden city The Southern Pacific officials have already attached I at-tached their signatures but there are several I sev-eral minor matters which need personal attention |