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Show RAILROAD NOTES. Oscar J. Freedman, a young man who was injured in an accident on the Wabash Wa-bash and Western railroad fonr years ago, has been awarded SO,000 damages by a jury in Chicago. A Cincinnati railway official risss to remark tliat the timo will come when thorowill be but four or five railway systems in this country. lie says that even now tho Erice-Thomas syndicate controls practically all the railroads south of the Ohio river except the Louis-villo Louis-villo and Nashville. The great St. Clair tunnel of tho Grand Trunk railway between Port Huron and Sarnia will not probably be put in operation opera-tion before May or June next Although the work of piercing the long opening was completed in September, there is yet an immense amount of labor to be done tii put the tunnel iu condition for operation. The snow sheds on the Southern Pacific Pa-cific railroad in the Sierra Nevada mountains mount-ains alono represent an outlay of fully $.'1,000,000 to tho company, and about 2,000,000 feet of lumber were required for their erection. It cost about $J,000,-000 $J,000,-000 to build them in tho iirst place, and about $1,000,000 to koep them in repair during tho past twenty years. Tho average number of names on the pay roll at Pullman for tho past year was 4,582, and the aggregato amount of ( wages paid was fc.'.iu.l.Ultf, making m average for c;ieh ierson omployed of $o!)(i. Tho total number of persons employed em-ployed in tho manufacturing and operating opera-ting departments of tho company is 1C,;!C7. Tho number of persons employed in tho fiscal year of lsSs-89 was 11,003. The Indianapolis Journal says: "C. F, Cox, vice president of tho Canada Southern South-ern road, says that the-fastest timo made on any road in tin; United States is made from Buffalo to Windsor. In t his statement state-ment he is mistaken. Tho Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton train from Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, arriving in Indianapolis at midnight, mid-night, is the fastest schedule! regular train in the United States, all things considered." |