Show RAILROAD NOTES J J. Harr Harry Carson managing editor of the tho H Railroad Red Bed Book the official publication of the Denver DeD Rio Grande is 15 a visitor to Salt Lake Gin CUr City C. C B. B Prout traveling freight ht gent for the Chicago o Milwaukee il St. St Paul has gone FOfe to to V tt tJ investigate ate the wool situation I. I C S The last of the thc fifty cars ordered b by tho the L Light ht nu and Railway com company pan several months ago were received yes afternoon The Sll Sugar ar House and Ashton avenue lines Jines are ure being bein put into shape shapo for the new cars ears The rhe Ore Oregon on Short Line has announced U teachers teachers' rates rates' for the east Tho Tue rates rutes will vill be in effect on all of the tilt Harriman lines an and undoubtedly also on the other systems interested In in n tho same territory Tho The schedule includes includes' rates as folloWs folloW's To Missouri f river rh-er points including Omaha and Kansas City 40 to St. St Paul laul and nd lis us lis 5 32 j to St. St Louis 49 an and to Chicago 5 55 Tickets will wiH bo be sold soil June 1 6 6 S. S 12 13 antI and J 15 5 The They rhey are arc aregood goo good lo going ll within a day ten ay limit hunt and m I good returning until October 31 n. Tho The new v rates are arc somewhat in advance ad of I those to St. St Louis when a reduction of I 50 cents cent as compared with the fares of last year is lS made The basis on which the lares ares has been calculated is 2 cents I a mile which bich is the basis provided for regular faro fare in some of the states the passengers will pass through V I A wireless truck is t the e latest development de do- in wireless transmission Jn of clec electrical power It is 38 in operation in n the tho yards of the Union Pacific's Omaha Oma ha shops an and is run on ou a a. t narrow gau Ct track 11 It t is used to haul a atrium of I f smaller trucks loaded with material I from one point to another The Tho source soure I I of power is a wireless station on oil tho the center of If the shop hop plant Tho The truck huck I is the tho invention of pf Dr Frederick H H. I diener J electrical cn engineer an and W W. R n 1 Jr superintendent of mot motive mote e I I power and machinery who brought rou ht out outa outI I a gasoline motor car that has undergone undergone under under- I gone gono constant improvement It weighs I nearly nearh three tons aD anti and is capable of 1 I hauling at t a cd of six miles an hour houra a u load lead of ten t ns on its own frame I I and ami an m equal load on tho the small cars carl f which are included in tho the equipment I Ii i Including n its own weight it hauls a i I load of nearly twenty live tons The I truck carries i feet of copper wire made into a I wireless s wing winA and antI antennae an an- I about tw two tv feet hi high h from which I the electric waves wn arc are picked up and I transmitted to the machinery b beneath I the platform of the tho truck Similar lU at- at atI I built like liko a cylinder and aud at ut tuned to the electric Je car swin Swing froma from fromn n a f foot sixty yag pole at tIme the central cen station and from these antennae antenna flOWs Hows tho the power waves which control the movement ement of the truck Incidentally it may be e mentioned that this is the first fir t tune time mo wireless antennae have been built in the shape of a cylinder Another feature of tho car in It th tIm the tra traveling elin cling ground j something for which electricians have b been en searching for a R IO long loner time tUne The rho application of the tho cylinder principle to lu the tho antennae and I the discovery of the traveling tra ground round makes possible wireless connection dion I with moving moin trains trains In Jn operating tIme tho wireless truck It is s customary to h have th tIme wireless s waves picked up when when- 1 lover over er it is iR n necessary for the car to move around the shop grounds At such Uch time timo V the truck is it attached led to the tho train of cars on which the tIme machinery to tobo bo moved mo has been loaded the wireless waves are arc picked up an and the tho little train silently moves mo down time tho narrow Ral gauge e track Iron which it runs lUIIS Whon its destination cst nation is reached a switch sNitch breaks brcak th the connection tho wireless wa cs arr stopped d and the thie car promptly prompt prompt- I ly h comes come to a standstill S S I last Thursday th the Wabash ab canceled its it car oar rental charge har e as is s per por perthe porI the time recent or order oriler er or of the tIme state railroad I commission an and announced th tho et o J of If now new twitching switching rates rate's s between between be be- tween industries situated in Kansas Cit Cit- which will increase the old rate ruto where cars are loaded in excess of oC the minimum wei weight ht of In tho the majority ma ina of eases cases this thi rate will make tho the switching llin char charge o considerably higher his V even en than titan it w wits 9 before tho car rental i charge was abolished II H. G. G Wilson commissioner of the transportation on buI bu bu- I roan wired to the slate state commission to toI I order tho time suspension of tho the now tariff I i until upon by hv the latter hatter body horh I The fhe shipping interests will proba probably ly make maliC u il fight n against amt tho the I new rate S f fI It ha ban I been ben announced at ut Topeka I Kan l Rock ock Island rB thud that telephones will h bo ho in installed to displace I operators over ovel tho the entire system nilI nil Bis- j I will ho bo maintained nt divi- divi 1 emit points The Tho Kansas l ll division ision will willI willbo willbe bo be first lirt liv In 1 Hie Ilie cost coston I on oil this division i will he be S It S S T J. II Jr Highland third vice president I and P. P A. A Miller filler general pas passenger cn lr agent of oC time tho Milwaukee Who have I been abroad arranging an oriental I steamship service for the tho company have advised that they will be bo in San Francisco on May y 1 on their return trip S It 5 Canadas Canada's 6 d commission ion is iR disposed dig dis dIe dIe- posed to require the tho u use e of electric headlights on locomotives but before taking definite action has baa in invited the tho Cnn Canadian dian roads to file in writing any o objections they may have havo to the to-the tho S It a Time Tho Burlington has bas abolished the tho of of- B flee fice o of foreign freight ht n agent nt in Chicago Chi Chi- ca cago o and ana Mark fark Ford who has been in chr charge e of that department has haR been beon app ap ap- ap p pointed commercial n agent at at- Dallas Tex rex to succeed R 0 a. W. W Andrews who has bas resigned 9 If p I- I Transcontinental lines Jines have havo author author- the publication o of the tho rato rate on 1 agricultural ag rig- implements carried carriell in westbound west west- bound transcontinental tariff No L I. G G. to exclude hand hana implements gasoline engines farm wn wagons ons and trucks This is in 10 the tho interest of tho the Pacific coast jobbers S S S Tho The Burlington's traffic shows that that- time the movement of live livo stock and ancI ain gi-ain rain is almost as large ar e as a 3 year ago ao but merchandise miscellaneous tonnage is fallin falling further behind Tho operating r ratio tio is iR sli slightly worse worm than thau a month ago Maintenance is being kept up S S C According to railroad men who have hn been through h the tho California cherry district his dig triet tIme tIle crop bids fair fair fajr to be tho the largest largest larg larg- est st on record With mth just a l little more rain now that all aU d danger of frost is passed away m tho the fruit will be large age and early Tho The Oregon Short Lino Line employees havo ItaYo perfected arrangements emonts for a a a. bir big excursion and dance danco anco at Saltair May l S. S A band of tw pieces has been lieen engaged ge and t e boys boj's promise all who ho attend a good g time A special train will leave len the Saltair depot at 8 S o o'clock clock at night ht H. H B. B traffic Toker manager er of the Nevada Nc Northern is in iu the city on busi ness V V J. J II ir Burtner district frei freight ht and passenger agent for tho Salt Lake route went down own the tho lino line last night on a bus bust busl- inC i- i nC nets flees B trip S S S Fred Ired l A A. Waun Wann traffic manager f for r the time Salt Lake route returned to tn Los An- An I geles last night after a four days days' busi husi 1 ness trip in title this city |