passengers, so that one first-class passenger
would pay the haulage of the carriage. If the attractive power of the
carriage brought more than one first-class passenger it would of course
pay itself.

_Herepath's Railway Journal_, Jan. 23, 1875.

PROFITABLE DAMAGES.

The Springfield _Republican_, of 1877, is responsible for the following
story:--"The industry of railroading has developed some thrifty
characters, among whom a former employe of the New York, New Haven, and
Hartford road deserves high rank. He was at one time at work in the
Springfield depot, and while taking a trunk out of a baggage car from
Boston he was thrown over and hurt, the baggage-smashing art being for a
time reversed. The injured employe suffered terribly, and crawled around
on crutches until the Boston and Albany and the New Haven roads united
and gave him 6000 dollars. He was cured the next day. Shortly
afterwards a man on the Boston and Albany road was killed, and the
Company gave his widow 3,000 dollars. The former cripple, who had scored
6,000 dollars already, soon married her, and thus counted 9,000 dollars.
He recovered his health so completely that he was able again to work on
the railroad, but finally, not being hurt again within a reasonable time,
he retired to a farm which he had bought with a part of the proceeds of
his former calamities."

RAILWAY ENTERPRISE.

It would be difficult to close this series of Railway Anecdotes more
appropriately than in the words of George Stephenson's celebrated son
Robert at a banquet given to him at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in August, 1850.
"It was but as yesterday," he said, "that he was engaged as an assistant
in tracing the line of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Since that
period, the Liverpool and Manchester, the London and Birmingham, and a
hundred other great works had sprung into vigorous existence. So
suddenly, so promptly had they been accomplished, that it appeared to him
like the realization of fabled powers, or the magician's wand. Hills had
been cut down, and valleys had been filled up; and where this simple
expedient was inapplicable, high and magnificent viaducts had been
erected; and where mountains intervened, tunnels of unexampled magnitude
had been unhesitatingly undertaken. Works had been scattered over the
face of our country, bearing testimony to the indomitable enterprise of
the nation and the unrivalled skill of it