THE ELEVATED RAILWAYS OF NEW YORK.

But few persons who have not been in New York since the construction
of the elevated roads, and witnessed their equipments and operations,
can have any adequate idea of the extent of them, and of the people,
machinery, and appurtenances required in working them. A recent
inventory discloses the fact that there are 32 miles of roadway, 161
stations, 203 engines, and 612 cars, while 3,480 trains a day are run.
There are 3,274 men employed on these roads, 309 of whom are
engineers, 258 ticket agents, 231 conductors, 308 firemen, 395 guards
or brakemen, 347 gatemen, 4 road inspectors, 106 porters, 33
carpenters, 27 painters, 69 car inspectors, 140 car cleaners, 40 lamp
men, and 470 blacksmiths, boiler makers, and other mechanics employed
on the structure and in the shops. Most of the ticket agents are
telegraph operators, but there are 13 other operators employed. There
are four double-track lines in operation. The aggregate daily receipts
vary from $14,000 to $18,000; and as many as 274,023 passengers have
been carried in one day. Engineers are paid from $3 to $3.50 per day;
ticket agents, $1.75 to $2.25; conductors, $1.90 to $2.50; firemen,
$1.90 to $2; guards or brakemen, $1.50 to $1.65; and gatemen, $1.20 to
$1.50. The above items do not include machinists and other _employes_
in the workshops, or the general officers, clerks, etc.

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AMERICAN ANTIMONY.

A Baltimore dispatch informs us that a carload of antimony, ten tons
in all, was lately received by C.L. Oudesluys & Co., from the southern
part of Utah Territory, being the first antimony received in the East
from the mines of that section. The antimony was mined about 140 miles
from Salt Lake City. The ore is a sulphide, bluish gray in color, and
yields from 60 to 65 per cent. of antimony. All antimony heretofore
came from Great Britain and the island of Borneo, and paid an import
duty of 10 per cent. ad valorem, and there is also some from Sonora.
It is believed that with proper rail facilities to the mines of the
West there will be no need of importations.

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SOME OF THE DEVELOPMENTS OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DURING THE
LAST HALF-CENTURY.[1]

[Footnote 1: Paper read in Section G (Mechanical) of the British
Association.]

By SIR FREDERICK BRAMWELL, V.P. Inst. C.E., F.R.S.,
Chairman of the Council of the Society of Art