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Exceedingly
Pliable.

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QUARTO SERIES, VOL. XXXVII., No. 25.;

EALTH OF RAILROAD MEN.

be purpose of studying the effects of Iriving upon engineers and firemen Hert made frequent trips on a loco(his longest uninterrupted journey bemiles) and from his experience and ted the following causes effecting those usly employed upon engines: First, lent concussion; second, the uninterstraining of the eye and ear; third, the air (less noticeable on the engines proith a protecting roof); fourth, the conerect position; fifth, the frequent of temperature. The occasional trou

e or noxious influences are dust and irble and poisonous gases. Hirt observed self and young firemen an increased cy of pulse and respiration, pain in the

by the Scientific American as follows: Loco- Captain as being according to the propriety of
motive engineers, firemen, and conductors, he things. He frequently encountered a fracti-
said, are liable to affections of the ear, with ous passengers who insisted on riding without
decrease of hearing, such deafness appearing to paying his fare. As there was no way of sig-
be, in his estimation, more dangerous than nalling the engineer, and the passenger could
color blindness as regards the signal code, be- not be thrown from the train while it was in
cause the latter is usually a congenital defect motion, the conducter in such cases had no
which can be defined precisely before the indi- choice but to let him ride until a regular stop
viduals are placed on active duty, while the was made. Capt. Ayers finally determined to
deafness is an acquired disease, but slow in its institute a new system in the running of trains.
approach and sometimes unknown to the per- He procured a stcut twine, sufficiently long to
son affected; and a cold or injury diminishing reach from the locomotive to the rear car. To
the hearing more and more, or destroys it the end of this string next the engineer he
completely, if it is not properly treated. Dr. fastened a stick of wood. He ran this cord

Turnbull recommended that all candidates for back over the cars to the last one. He in-
railway service should be examined by a com- formed the engineer, who was a German,
petent physician, who should test them with named Abe Hammil, that if he desired to have
special reference to their hearing. He also the train stopped he would pull the string and
advised that the company's physician should raise the stick, and would expect the signal
report to the superintendent of the road every to be obeyed. Hammil looked upon this inno-
case of deafness discovered in trainmen, pro-
vision being made for the transference of men
of impaired hearing to other positions where
perfect hearing is less vitally important.

THE RAILROAD BELL-ROPE.

vation as a direct blow at bis authority, and when the train left Piermont he cut the stick loose. At Turner's he told Capt. Ayres that he proposed to run the train himself, without interference from any conducter. The next day the captain rigged up his string and stick of wood again.

and the calves of the legs, exhaustion. ess and excessive thirst, and nausea, however, soon disappear. Whenever he ed thirty five to fifty miles without a stop, o was perceived, associated with violent g in the ears, and he felt the urgent of something to cling to. In addition to symptoms, we have in the case of engi- In the early days of the railroad in this and firemen the mental exertion of the country the locomotive engineer was the mascareful watchfulness and uninterrupted ter of the train. He ran it according to his "Abe," said he, "this thing's got to be setHon of the higher organs of sense. Re-judgment, and the conductor had very little tled one way or the other to-day. If that ng the results of long years of traveling voice in the matter. Collecting fares, super-stick of wood is not on the end of this?): e engine, Hirt says that, taking all in all, intending the loading and unloading of freight, when we get to Turner's you've got to lick me gineer who averages seventy-five miles and shouting "All aboard!" were all that or I'll lick you.

, or, in round numbers, 25,000 miles a the conductor was expected to do. The Erie The stick was not on the string when the may be as sound and robust after twenty Railway was then the New York and Erie train reached Turner's. The Captaiu pulled 'service as he was in the beginning, pro- Railroad. There was no rail connection with off his coat, and told Hammil to get off his enng he was then healthy and that he has Jersey City in 1842. Boats carried passen- gine. Hammil declined to got off. Capt. with no accidents. If we examine, says gers from New York to Piermont-on-the-Hud- Ayres climbed to the engineer's place. Ham, a large number of engineers who have son, which was then the eastern terminus of mil started to jump off on the opposite side. long in the service we find that a major- the road. Turner's, 47 miles from New York, The conductor hit up under the ear, and saved of them are robust, sunburnt men, with was as far west as the railroad was in opera-him the trouble of jumping. That settled developed faculties, good digestion, and tion. One of the pioneer conductors of this forever the question of authority on railroad excellent state of health. The minority, line was the late Capt. Ayres. He ran the trains. Hammil abdicated as autocrat of the wever, in whom we see the disastrous re- only train then called for between the two pioneer Erie train, and the twine and stick of ts of their calling, must not be forgotten. terminal points. It was made up of freight wood, manipulated by the conductor, controlDr. Lawrence Turnbull of Philadelphia re- and passenger cars. The idea of the engineer, ed its management. That was the origin of tly read a paper before the Pennsylvania without any knowledge of what was going on the bell-rope, now one of the most important edical Society, relating to deafness among back of the locomotive, having his way as how attachments of railroad trains. The idea was road men, and his opinions are summarized the train was to be run, did not strike the quickly adopted by the few roads then in op

1880.

11

1,060,133 4,5 1,899,522 3,706,056 5,

eration, and the bell or gong in time took the Adriance Bush, Henry Clausen, Alden 8. Barnes,
place of the stick of wood to signal the engi-
neer. Capt. Ayres continued a conductor on
this road under its different managers until he
was superannuated and retired on a pension a
year ago. He died a few months ago in Owe-
go at the age of 78 years-[New York Times.

Charles McDonald, J. S. T. Stranahan and Otto Domestic produce.....$149,954,069 $148,4
Foreign free goods..
Witte. A special committea was appointed for
Do. datiable ...
the purpose of considering the best mode of tran-
sit across the bridge, viz: Erastus W. Smith, J.
8. T. Stranahan and Thomas C. Clark.

Specie and bullion...

Total exports....$156,619,780 $160. Do. exclusive of specie. 152,913,724 155,6 A resolution was then passed calling upon the comptrollers of both cities for the final $1,000,000 York to foreign ports for eleven months The exports (exclusive of specie) from New York and Brooklyn Bridge. granted by the Legislature, according as the fiscal year: At the annual meeting of the Trustees of the New trustees might require the same for the work on York and Brooklyn Bridge at their office in Brook-the bridge. One-third of this amount is to be Six months ending

Jan. 1....

lyn on the 14th inst.-all the Trustees being pres- paid by New York and the remainder by Brook- January

Commerce of New York.

of May, 1881, are officially stated as follows:
The foreign imports at New York for the montb

......

....

1880.

1881.

February

.....

....

....

.....

Boston and New York Air Line Rai The report of the directors of the Bost New York Air Line Railroad Company sh Entered for consumpt'n.$17,796,044 $16,008,186 gross earnings of the company for the y Do. for warehousing.... 14,278,907 8,471,679 ing April 30, 1881, to have been $281,569 Free goods..... 11,115,579 9,048,828 operating expenses $125,806 06, and the se Specie and bullion. 547,797 1,409,578 ings $155,763 84. Out of the net earl Total entered at port...$48,738,327 $34,938,276 following expenditures were made: Const Withdrawn fr, wareh'use 5,325,501 9,070,526 and equipment, $19,648 27; interest on firs The foreign imports at New York for five gage bonds, $35,000; taxes for 1880, $14,7 months from January 1, were: cost of exchanging and printing bonds, During the year 800 tons of rew steel rail $88,595,499 laid, and 15,000 new cross ties. Contract 87,505,950 been made whereby the company will i 51,079,878 29,419,949 continuous track of steel rail between its t at New Haven and Willimantic daring the

ent, including Mayors Grace and Howell and Con-lyn.
trollers Campbell and Semler-Henry C. Murphy From the report of the Secretary, which was March....
was re-elected President and William C. Kingsland read, it appears that the cash receipts since the April.
May
Vice-President, for the ensuing two years. Pre-beginning of the work were $13,009,315 20 and
sident Murphy, upon taking the chair, gave a expenditures $12,884,437 23, leaving on June 11,
short sketch of what had been done on the bridge 1881, a cash balance of $124,877 97, with liabil-
during the last year and what yet remained to ities amounting to $85,155 08.
bring it to completion. The iron foundation of
the roadway has been laid for a considerable
distance on both sides of the river, and the ap
proaches to the bridge both in Brooklyn and
New York are rapidly being put in condition for
pedestrians. On the New York side there yet
remains much work to be done in the bridging
over of Franklin square, but he was happy to en-
nounce both to the trustees and the public that
the money necessary for the full completion of
all work on the bridge is at the disposal of the
board. The bridge, therefore, would be soon in
a fit condition for passenger traffic. Something
more, however, remains to be done, in removing
obstructions from the bridge and preparing the
way for the approaches. For this purpose ho bad
prepared a bill to bring before the present Legis-
lature. It authorized the trustees to acquire land
at both termini of the bridge, to develop it prop-
erly and give room to persons desirous of cross-
ing; the land thus acquired to be beld by both
cities. For this purpose the bill asked for an
appropriation of $1,000,000 one-half to be raised
and expended in each of the two cities. The
trustees are to expend it in acquiring land, both
public and private, and streets needed for proper
approaches, and to require all railroad tracks in
the way to be removed and relaid in suitable
places. As far as the elevated road is concerned,
the matter is to be adjudicated in court, and if
decided against the trustees, they are to pay an
equitable amount for the removal of the obstruc-
tion. The trustees are to be likewise authorized
to complete the arches of the bridge and to lease
them and such other property as they may deem
proper, and take any other measures needful to
promote the use of and travel on the bridge.
After considerable discussion the whole matter
was referred to the Mayors and Controllers of
both cities, with full power.

MI. A. P. Qaintard, was then re-appointed Secretary of the Board, and Mr. John T. Agnew, was re-elected Temporary Secretary.

1880.

1881.

Total entered at port. $218,103 857 $206,601,276 ent fiscal year. The general balance sh
Withdrawn fr. wareh'se 32,879,645 39,368,737
May 1, 1881, shows, on the debit side, the
The foreign imports at New York for eleven
ing items: Cost of company's property,
months ending with May, were:
000; expended on construction and equi
$280,770 515 $560,000; material, &c,, on hand, $57,000
36,085,359 $41,000; uncollected earnings, $29,000.
34,157.263 credit side the following appear: Bonds of
48,580,761 road convertible into stock, $252,000;
52,839,617
stock, preferred, 82,800,000; do, common,
34,938,276
000; scrip, $28,000; first mortgage bonds,
$484,332,458 $487,371 791 000; current liabilities, $23,000; proft an
82,343,501 100,014,485

6 months ending Jan. 1.$266,228,601
January
February..
March....
April..
May

....

.... .......

.... ....

40,897,154
40,165,384
45,598,729
47 704,263
43,738,327

The President appointed the following gentleDomestic produce. men as members of the Executive Committee: Foreign free goods... John T. Agnew, John G. David, Robert B. Roose- Do. datiable.... velt, Erastus W. Smith, William Marshall, Wil- Specie and bullion. liam C. Kingsley, Henry W. Slocum, J. S. T.

....

$184,000.

The Canton Company.

At the annual meeting of the Canton Con in Baltimore, Maryland, on the 8th inst 1881. report of the Treasurer was presected sh the financial condition of the company at the $69,593,542 80 10,572,559 15 of the fiscal year, May 31, 1881, to have b 11,217.766 87 follows: Balance on band June 1, 1880, 18,122,964 03 40; rents, $89,126 79; sales of real estate, 11,678,760 93 049 86; Union Railroad on account of 11,055,935 39 $80,600-total, $402,979 05. Disbursem Repairs to wharves, streets, salaries, taxes $38,949 76; trustees Canton Company pro sales of real estate, $184,174 86; rebates all Northern Central Railway Company, $16,76 $34,681,661 $29,161,091 interest on bonds, $99,407 27; settlement of 638,364 784,110

1880

106,308 522,034 473,769

1881.

tested claims, $10,000; purchase of real e 573,358 $526 85; balance in bank May 31, 1981, $ 10-total, as above, $402,979 05. 30,586,565 A special meeting of the Canadian Pacific

Stranahan, Comptroller Semler, of Brooklyn, and Do. exclusive of specie 35,310,003

Total exports..... $35,783,772 $31,159,923

Thomas C. Clark. The Finance Committee was The exports from New York to foreign ports way Company will be held in Montreal appointed as follows: Comptroller Campbell, J. for five months from January 1, were:

18th of July,

3 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass.

$5.00
6 00

side of the country is increasing, the Chinese on its coming. The Scotch farmers want inhaving come fifty per cent faster during the formation of undoubted reliability concerning early months of this year than last season. the different sections of our country and when this is furnished them and they have studied out the localities best adapted to their wants their is little doubt as to their coming over in large numbers. Alexander Sinclair, Editor of the Glasgow Herald, has been making a tour of the United States and doubtless the results of his studies of the different sections visited will be of interest and value to his countrymen, to whom he bas just returned.

THERE is a probability that the Government of Nova Scotia may sell the entire railroad system of the Province to an English corporation, which is said to have made an offer for it, such a transfer to be made upon certain terms fixed in the charters of the different roads. The matter is soon to be considered by the Provincial Legislature.

THEY have it in mind to try a line of Brazil- THERE is a difference of opinion between ian steamers at Boston; and they will prob- some of the officers of the Treasury DepartMr. FREDERIC ALGAR, Nos. 11 and 12 Lane, Lombard Street, LONDON, E. C., Eng-ably keep it in their mind for some time be- ment and experts concerning color blindness. the authorized European Agent for the fore much money or the required guarantees The former in examinations made of pilots last

and Dividends...

Union Telegraph

vania Railroad

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concerning outward cargoes will be forthcom-year came to the conclusion that color blinding. There needs to be some enterprising ness was not an acquired disease but herediwork done at the Brazilian end of the line, in tary. To this theory certain experts are op.673 the interest of American commerce before posed, among others Dr. Jeffries of Boston, 674 shippers can have a view of the subject much who is quoted as saying in a recent address, .674 different from that which New York's experi"Color blindness, boside being congenital and 674 ence would naturally present. hereditary, may be acquired. It is a symptom of some disease of the brain and the optic ..676 ONE of the uses that the electric light may nerve. Men, after any exhausting disease, 677 possibly be put to is that of lighting railroad like typhoid fever, should be tested before 77 tracks in such a manner as to do away with again resuming their duties.

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.678

The necessity 679 headlights. At least the feasibility of using of periodic examinations, for instance with rk, Susquehanna and Western Railway...679 the light for such a purpose has been suggest-pilots, as often as they are relicensed, is thus ing in the Clouds.....

ake and Ohio Canal,

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York, Saturday, June 18, 1881.

Class Mail Matter.

692 ed to railroad men, the idea being to utilize readily understood; this quite aside from the .....692 the existing telegraph poles as supports for necessity of testing their visual power, which electric lights which should make a continuous may have decreased from many causes during illumination along the entire road. Should it the preceding year. Injuries about the head, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as Second seem practicable after careful investigation such as sailors and railroad employees are parand tests are made, the additional security ticularly subject to, may cause diminished from accidents and the convenience of the plan color perception. Alcohol and tobacco proIBINING midsummer pleasures with bus-would doubtless bring it into prompt and duce a deterioration of the vision and color he bankers are to meet in a convention careful consideration. held at Niagara Falls on the 10th of Auunder the auspices of the American ers' Association.

sense."

WITHIN a few weeks another cablo will be The Parentage of the Railroad. completed between Europe and America, one It was a singular procession that was withalf of it having been already laid with its end nessed by thousands at the centennary of the LDERS of coupon five per cent Govern- now resting on a buoy about nine hundred birth of George Stephenson, at his birthplacebonds should remember that the time miles from Nova Scotia. The Canadians are near Newcastle on the 9th ; a long line of rail, heir extension at three and a half per talking up a purely Canadian Trans-Atlantic road locomotives moving like things of life in will expire July 1, and that while they cable and there seems to be much interest stately dignity over their iron pathway and this week been quoted at 103, after manifested in the matter. Initiatory steps illustrating iu their beautiful mechanism and 1 they will naturally be worth but par have been taken looking toward getting the display of almost human powers the creative project under way, and it is said that one of skill of man and the progress of a century. the objects of Sir Hugh Allan's present visit Nearly every railroad company in the United EW YORK will have a direct connection to England, is to consult with capitalists about Kingdom was represented in the line by its the Hoosac Tunnel by means of the ex- the desirability of laying a cable that should most powerful engine. Following this wonderion of the New Haven and Northampton be in management and operation distinctively ful display came an equally significant and fittroad just being completed. The extended Canadian. has already been connected with the State at Bardswells' Ferry, near the tunuel, through trains over the new route will bably soon be announced.

mccrued interest.

ing one a procession of trade societies in which 100,000 persons are said to have participated. THERE is an increasing desire among the At Vienna the Society of Austrian Railway farmers of Scotland to immigrate to this coun- Officials celebrated the day by unveiling in try, doubtless growing out of the agitation their club house a portrait of Stephenson, over the land laws and general dissatisfaction whom they called "The Father of Railways." There has been in these celebrations

x idea of the vastness of the tide of im-with the agricultural prospects of their own gration flowing westward is seen in the esti- land as compared with what America is offer- strange overlooking of the important part perte that four railroads carried to Chicago in ing in that direction. The Scottish element formed by Oliver Evans in starting the idea of ly, over 35,000 immigrants, and this in ad- will prove of great value in the development of using steam on railroads. While Stephenson tion to the many thousands who sought the our agricultural resources, but it must be at-was absorbed in contemplating locomotion est, without passing through Chicago. tracted and directed in the most sincere chiefly from his mother's arms, Oliver Evans, eanwhile the immigration from the other and the wisest manner to prevent a chock up-of Pennsylvania, in 1784, conceived the idea of

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the best Portland cement.

The rule of best lubrication is to use an oil that has

Mining.

share payable on the 30th at No. 2 Nassau St.

The superintendent of the Satemo Gold Quartz Co. Clark & Bothwells' Nova Scotia mine, reports that by the time the new mill is ready he will have plenty of rich quartz to work and prophecies a boom in Nova Scotia.

The wife of Sir Hugh Allan died suddenl stroke of paralysis at Montreal last Saturd She was a highly esteemed lady and of wide generosity to the poor.

Jacob Hennessey is to be chief clerk fa M. King on the Baltimore and Ohio Rai formerly held a similar position in Mr. Kin on the Allegheny Valley Railroad.

Vice-president J. T. Gause of the Harl lingsworth Company, Wilmington, Del, an Victor sailed for Europe last week on a ple business trip combined, expeeting to be g or four months.

his high pressure steam engine and the em ploy- tion of a pure, white cement of greater strength than of the Eastern division of the Canadian Paci. way from Lake Superior to Ottawa. ment of it for moving carriages on ordinary roads. During the following ten years he It is prophecied that Albert Fink, Railres urged the adoption of railroads with steam the greatest cohesiveness to metal surfaces, and the missioner, will be chosen president of the N least adherence as to its own particles. Fine mineral Pacific Railroad Company in September next engines as superior to canals. In the winter oils stand first in this respect, sperm second, neatsCaptain RS Hayes was elected first vice-p of 1803-4 he exhibited a steam carriage suc- foot third, lard fourth. Cast iron holds better than of both the Missouri, Kansas and Texas ara cessfully in the streets of Philadelphia, an in- any other metal or any alloy, and is the best metal to and Pacific Companies, Monday, at Palestin vention of his own over which he had expend-use for light bearings, perhaps for heavy. It has been vice Major F. S. Bond, resigned. ed about four years cf work, in which he had proved by experiments that a highly polished bearto overcome almost insurmountable obstacles. ing is more liable to friction than a surface finely lined by filing. This invention, which was really a locomotive,| was intended for a trial on a railroad which it was understood should be built for it. But The Starr-Grove Silver Mining Co. has declared the railroad was not built and Evans' locomo- its eighth regular monthly dividend of ten cents a tive was designated a street carriage. Twelve years before Stephenson had demonstrated the feasibility of steam railroads, or about 1810, Evans was advocating in public addresses and other ways the building of a railroad between Philadelphia and New York without Reports received last week from the manager of receiving much encouragement, though offer- the Hite mine indicate that affairs are in good shape E. L. Lomax, formerly ticket agent at St. ing to apply the whole of his fortune to the at the mine, with the mill running uninterruptedly. the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern enterprise. It is fitting that among these tri- The miners have of late been driving the lower level has been appointed general passenger age butes to the inventor of the locomotive a fair- and they are now 300 feet east of wings and 90 feet Toledo, Delphos and Burlington railroad, a er portion of recognition should be given to west of tunnel line; the ore body is said to be hold-Ohio. the labors and inventive achievements of Oli-ing good, running from 7 to 15 feet of pay. ver Evans, of whom it may be said that the world witnessed in him the first enthusiastic champion of the utility of the locomotive. No time has been assigned as yet for the celebration of the birthday of the "iron horse"; the centennary of the birth of the idea may be placed perhaps in 1884, though the centennary of the trial of Evans' first locomotive would come twenty years later. It would not be unfitting that the land of the most marvelous railroad achievements should in some man

Railroad Earnings.

Charles Burleigh, of Fitchburg, Mass, i have contracted to build an air locomotive long which it is expected will be more powe The earnings of the Indiana, Bloomington and a steam locomotive, for use in the projecte Western Railway for the month of May were $102,-ground railroad in this city. 630 53; for corresponding month last year, $85,733 25. Col. Francis D. Grey, of London, preside The earnings of the Chicago and Grand Trunk Great Western Railway of Canada, and Railway for week ending June 4 were $31,651 as McDonald, of Chicago, general Western freig compared with $19,890 for corresponding week last have gone on a trip to the Northwest and a year. to study the railroad system at that part cft

The earnings of the Flint and Pere Marquette Rail-try.
road for week ending June 7 were $38,384 80; cor-
responding week last yoar $25,895 30.

ner do public honor to the memory of the
pioneer of her most important element of inter-03; corresponding week last year $62,249 85.
nal improvement and progress.

Manufacturing.

The Blair Iron and Steel Works at Glenwood, near Pittsburg, have been put in order by William McKinney & Sons, and will soon be operated.

The Southern Car Works Company was organized recently at Knoxville, Tennessee, with $100,000 capital and orders for a year's work. Within 60 days the buildings will be finished and 200 hands will be employed.

A system of lighting railroad cars with gas has been tried on the Baltic Railway. The gas is made on the

cars by the action of sulphuric acid and zinc, the resulting hydrogen being carbureted by being passed through naptha vapor. It is said that this gas has very little odor, that its flame is bright, white, and constant, and that it is cheaper and gives better results than stearine candles)

Blast-furnace slag, that most hopeless of all waste

William H. Browns' position with the Pe nia Railroad is now that of chief engineer c The earnings of the St. Paui, Minneapolis and Man-owned, leased or controlled lines of the Pe itoba Railway for week ending June 7 were $89,859 nia Railroad east of Pittsburgh and Brie. Wilson and Robert E. Pettit have been appoi Ths earnings of the Denver and Rio Grande Rail-sisstants to the chief engineer. way for first week of June were $124,533; corresponding week last year $54,637; miles now operated 690; operated last year 422.

Personal.

J. B. White has resigned as comptroller &
tary to the Receivers of the Philadelphia st
ing Railroad Co., the resignation to take effe
21, D. Jones, for some time the Mr. White
ant, is mentioned as his probable successor s
troller, and J. Y. Humphreys as secretary.
Ex-Senator John B. Gordon, president of th
gia Pacific Railroad Company recently o
Sir Henry Tyler and Sir Charles Young have re-to construct a railroad from Atlanta to the Mi
tired from the directory of the Hamilton and North-river was given a banquet at the Kimball
western Railway of Canada.
Atlanta last week. In a speech he said he
Senate for a fixed purpose, the building of

N. L. McCready, president of the Junction and
Breakwater Railraad Co., is to sail for Europe July

6.

Robert Garrett of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Company will occupy the Brinley cottage at New-to the Mississippi, and he felt that the purp port this summer.

Strickland Kneass assistant to the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has gone to Europe on a three months vacation.

complished, as tho road will be built just as an abundance of means and laborers can pu Under the orders of Mr. Wilson, the superin of the Delaware Division of the New York, La and Western Railroad, the ground about the Ex-Governor Morgan has purchased the real es-at Lackawaxen and Hancock have been encle substances, 18 now utilized to a great extent. It is con-ity of Broadway and 178th st. this city, for $450,000. character along the route are proposed. tate known as the Cheesebrough farm, in the vicin-much beautified, and other improvements verted into sand, mixed with a certain proportion of Mr. Vennor, is about coming to New York and son, while incorporating changes for the better possess many advantages over the ordinary bricks of Washington to secure the copyright in the United general features of his department, believes t commerce. By reducing the slag to a fibrous cendi-States of his weather almanac. tractive surroundings to gratify the public ta not inconsistent with a healthy balance sheel,

scienitic lime, and manufactured into bricks which

tion a material is produced which is usefully employ- Wm. Seligman, banker, of this city, now in Eu-
ed as a nor-conductor of heat in clothing steam pipes rope, gave a dinner in Paris last week in honor of
and boilers. It is used in the manufacture of glass the delegates to the monetary conference.
bottles and glass railway sleepers. But the most Archer Baker formerly general manager and secre-
recent invention in slag utilization is in the produc-tary of the Canada Central is now goneral manager

James H. Hopkins, of Pittsburg. Pa., presis the Pittsburg Southern Railroad Company, ex himself as confident that the road will be sp built, so as to form connections with the Ri