. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ght carbolster springs, coil and volute springs,and a standard safety spring intendedfor the protection of passengers on ele-vated roads. Springs, heavy and light,are enumerated in this catalogue andat the back there are several very con-venient dimension sheets, which aresupplied to customers to facilitate or-dering. The catalogue, however, willbe sent to any one who applies directto the company, Harrison Building,Philadelphia, Pa. The philanthropic arrangement thathas lately been made by th
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ght carbolster springs, coil and volute springs,and a standard safety spring intendedfor the protection of passengers on ele-vated roads. Springs, heavy and light,are enumerated in this catalogue andat the back there are several very con-venient dimension sheets, which aresupplied to customers to facilitate or-dering. The catalogue, however, willbe sent to any one who applies directto the company, Harrison Building,Philadelphia, Pa. The philanthropic arrangement thathas lately been made by the SouthernPacific lor the distribution of second-hand magazines and newspapers in thelonely regions along the companyslines in the Southwest is not confinedto the employes of the company, butis intended for the benefit of the peoplein general. Mrs. Rosine Ryan, the cus-todian of books and papers in the gen-eral passenger agents office, reportsthat during the first week she sent out1,500 papers and pamphlets to 32 sec-tion foremen, and that the foremenhave distributed this matter among Old Tremendous it takes a traveler by rail about36 hours to go from New Orleans toWashington. A book on internal improvements of theUnited States, published in Philadelphiain 1835, says concerning railroad projectsin Louisiana: In the Legislature of thisState a bill was lately introduced in whichthe most magnificent scheme of internalimprovement ever contemplated was sub-mitted. The bill proposes the incorpora-tion of a company with a capital of $20,-000,000, to construct a railroad from NewOrleans to Baton Rouge, St. Francisvilleand Clinton, thence eastwardly to theboundary line of Mississippi. It is recom-mended as part of a great route throughMississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North andSouth Carolina and Virginia to Washing-ten City. One of its advocates affirms that ifthese States will pass laws to authorizethe construction, companies will beformed for continuing th
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