Show Railroad Notes W C Critzer returned from the north yesterday v Division Engineer Barlow is down from Pocatello I The fast freight lines are to go via the same route as the ticket commissions commis-sions V The Southern Pacifics absorption of the Carson Colorado is causing considerable con-siderable talk among railroad menThe men-The report is revived that the near future will demonstrate that the Illinois Illi-nois Central has a very close traffic arrangement ar-rangement with the Union Paclllc i Workmen engaged In excavating the I foundation for the Lackawanna railroads I rail-roads new warehouse In Wallabout l basin which Is to be the largest In j Brooklyn I have found the bones of a number of men who were burled there I during the war of the Revolution They I I are supposed lo have been killed in the I battle of Long Island and to have been burled there during Washingtons re treat to New York They were turned over to the commandant of the navy yard and will be burled In one of the I national cemeteries I Chicago Record Concessions to ship pers are destined to the same fate as that which befall passenger commissions commis-sions within the next fortyeight hours Western railroads soon will meet It is said for the purpose of extending the recentlylaunched moneysaving re form to Include all classes of freight business as well as the various kinds 1 of passenger traffic They believe that in reforming present freight methods by abolishing all classes of concessions I and inducements of the confidential variety freight rates will be permanently perma-nently maintained V Chicago Tribune lam sorry to disappoint dis-appoint you young man said the great railway magnate to the reporter who had called for the purpose of writ ing him up but I did not begin at tile bottom and work my way up I never blacked the boots of the enginewipers and never carried beer for the janitor of the roundhouse I was kicked through college by my father Inherited i a fortune which I Invested in railroad I shares and I hold thin job because I have enough votes to control It it Is I too bad my young friend but we cant I all be selfmade men We would become be-come tiresome And he bowed the caller outLast out-Last week Aguste Falire chief clerk of President Cowen of the Baltimore Ohio delivered a lecture In Baltimore on Passes to Politicians Among j other things he said Why do railroads rail-roads give politicians passes anyway I You may ask which Is the most to blame T should say it IB six of one and I half a dozen of the other When you ask who gets the most benefit I should say the railroad gets the worst of it four times out of five When a railroad rail-road gives a pass to some ppor person for charity it is all right When you give a pass to a minister Of he gospel Lhe railroad may get its reward In the sweet byandby When you give It to a business man it is an investment but when a railroad gives to a politician politi-cian It invests It I in the sinking fund and a fund without any bottom at that The Government allows Congressmen Con-gressmen so much per mile for traveling I travel-ing expenses and I have not heard of any one falling to collect It The political politi-cal pass system In an insult to the American people and hap become an Instrument of degradation Tf the political parses remain In use they I i I should be legalized |