| Show RAILWAY NOTES the denver utah pacific will have an extension to laramie wyoming the new buildings at garfield aie are being rapidly pushed to completion the new lake bathing resort at syracuse bids fair to be a strong attraction lor for the people of 0 ogden den vice president potter of the union pacific is expected to arrive in salt lake about tile the end of the week bathing trains will commence running on the utah nevada on may leaving this city at 4 pm and returning at 7 pm HOgden ites do not propose to be left when vice president potter comes into their midst but will take steps to learn something definite about the union depot railway tariffs and other matters of interest to the weber county people T there b ere ha has 8 been con considerable 8 id erable ta talk lk about the Burling tons purpose in connecting with the extension of the denver utah and pacific the burlington is without doubt going to extend its system but whether by purchasing gina some line already constructed or by building a new road is not known it is said in railway circles that the proposed extension of the denver utah and pacific to laramie had mediate acaron by the burlington Bun ington towards acquiring that property and that a bid had been made for it the Burling tons line as contemplated does not touch wyoming at all but branches off at fort collins colorado and runs rans down the cache la poudre into the western martof part of the state and to utah with its terminus at salt lake city the question has been raised as to what extent the interstate inter state law will aff affect act railway building in the west it is stated that the rock island in kansas the chicago northwestern in nebraska the St atchison chison in missouri iowa and illinois will go on with their new lines as projected it is thought however that the atchison will abandon some miles of branches projected and only push through the main line from kansas city to chica chicago 0 C which it regards as a necessity ta the st paul will also complete its extension to kansas city and do some building in the northwest the minnesota northwestern system will also be completed as planned and the illinois central besides its new line from chicago to freeport will build to northern wisconsin and probably various branches and feeders in northern iowa railway news it appears that the proportion of railway servants killed killea and injured through coupling and un coupling vehicles compared with other persons on our railways is tal alarming arming As an instance in massachusetts last year only one passenger in was killed and one in injured this ratio is not an alarming one but when we come to employed emp loyes the r ratio a tio is very different there were casualties to employed emp loyes loTes 63 of which were fatal on the road one employed out of every 31 was injured on the other roads about one in most of these were in co coupling apling or un coupling cars forty eight or nearly one a week were injured in this way on one road one ean therefore deac readily fily believe that on almost any of our large railways of the west a man a day is the earge ratio of the rapacious demon of car coupling it is sad to think that with all the improved ampil appliances ances which would obviate the necessity of men passing between the cars the great companies should allow the question of lucre to indefinitely postpone the introduction of a safe and substantial apparatus railway news |
