Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-10
is.,ILHUAD INSPECTION

Annual Trip Over the Pennsylvania Road.
This forenoon about half.past ten
o'clock the - ''inspectiOn trains" " passed
| east through this city over the Pennsylva-
mia railroad. Each train consisted OF an
open car i'll front of the engiae and three
or four passenger cars behind the engine.
The open cars contained each about one
hundred persons. The party left Pitts
burgh on Tuesday and ran to Altoona on
Wednesday they ran from Altoona to
Harrisburg. aud to-day they run from Har-
provided with, convenicnces fer cooking
and slcep;nr. and the party were very
comfortably provided ios. Among the
| ,,arty " J.; General Manager Frank
| Thomson. Of the Pennsylvan!a railroad
General Superintendents Pugh, of the
| Pennsylvania division Jackson, of the
| New jersey division, and Nelson, OF the
Philadelphia division.
The inspection is conducted BY the gen
| cvai mara.Cr, chief engineer, general
| superintendent and assistant engineers.
| The inspectors, numbering nearly Il hun
,.rcd, ride in four special trains, consisting
of open box cars constructed especially
for the survey OF the read bed, and the
light of WY. The cars arc pushed in
front OF TIE locomotive and travel ut the
late OF ten II twelve miles al hour. The
spectacle of the disn;i:cd railroad mag
mates leaIiu" oil the train 10 measure the
r0ad-bCd, count the number of ties under
each rail, and measures the sizes of ballast
used is presented ON the journey. The
sub divisions are marked by white posts
on the north side Of The way. AS they
ride along cacl. Of the judges makes p:i-
vate memoranda OF the various divisions
| t,>t at thf, nj
Journey these reports are compared and
the inspectors agree upon the foreman
whose track is nearest the desired standard
and who is therefore deserving of reward.
! The prizes arc as follows 500 for best line
of surface between Pittsburgh and New
York $50 second prize 800 for the best
track on superintendent division !; tor the
best supervisor division, there arc four III
each division $50 for the best Sub-divi-
sion foreman. and so for the best sub
division.
There are about one hundred sub-tl;yis-
icIs between Pittsburgh and New York.
Each of these sub divisions has 4 foreman,
and for every forty miles there is a gen
eral supervisor, and by the employment OF
Tic men under these, who in summer are
employed at track repairing, in winter
rs watchmcn, every mile of the road Is
guarded.
The condition of the track is ascertaincd
by means OF a delicately constructed in
strumcnt which is operated by means "f
delicate rods and levers connected with
springs under the car, and the deprcssiOEs'
are recorded upon paper, which moves ut
| the rate Of four feet to the mile by u pc
cular shaped pen.
Another pen worked by an electric
press button is used for marking mile
posts, signal towers, stations, switches,
etc., so that by subsequent inspection of
the diagrams the positions Of faults in the
track may DO exactly located. A pen
worked by the same gearing that drives
the paper moving mechanism makes Il
notch in a line every time the car has passed
over distance of Il hundred feet, SD that
il any popularity is observed in the dis-
gram. the car i.iay be stopped and an in
spcction made OF the particular spot on tho
track, which is located by counting back
the number of notches on the diagram.
Counting tine Vote.
Court met at noon to-day for the pur.
pose of counting and consolidating the
returns of the several election districts of
this county of the votes cast at the elec-
tiOn on Tuesday last.
Judge Patterson presided, Judge Liv-
iESston being Il candidate for reelection,
not being eligible to take part i'll counting
the vote.
J. L. Lytc. J. E. Carpenter and Fra:ci;
kilburn were sworn as clerks.
Prothonotary McNIellen produced the
returns Of the late election and they we're
taken in charge by Judge Patterson.
After transacting some routine business
court rose, to meet az in ut o'clock.
u a. f.x.r Hv.<N
county published yester;i y, that of Little
Britain has been received, which gives
Baiiy 40. Noble 12t, Wolfe 10, Wilson 1.
This makes B.iIy's majority 3,9l1, with
IndiantOwn. Clay and Fulton to hear
from. They may increase it to $50.
\ Lancas,rian at Yorktown.
In the year 1853 the Pennsylvania His.
torical society published volume Of col
lections. In it is contained ." the Journal
of Lieutenant William Feltman. of the
First Pennsylvania Regiment, from May
2G, 1851, to April %, 1882, embracing tic
Siege of Yorktown and the Southern Cam
paign." This very interesting journal
was furnished to the society by the late
Horn X. Kncass. esq, of the Philadelphia
bar, who was Il grandson of Lieut.. Felt
mans sister. Lieut.. Fcltman was Il Ea
| IiNc Ol lIduciiStcF county, duu htS .JoCIhti
is exceedingly minute and accurate. IL
deserves republication in new edition,
which might readily be done, as the vol
umc Of the collections is out OF print and
: was never copyrighted. He describes the
young slaves in Eastern Virginia rs des
titutc of clothing until about fourteen
years Of age. and waiting upon cable
dressed in the same Uniform"
The Virginia taverns in those days were
called '' ortlinaries," by contraction
Orncrics," and the accommodations we're
in general very ordinary.
Our Annable Contemporaries.
! Examiner, Stalwart.
And they are all sick-very sick Who
are sick? Why the sneaks who pro-
tended they would vote for Baily ard
voted for Wolfe, or scratched Baily's
name of and voted blank.
New Era, Half Breed.
The result of Tuesday is the hIndwrit.
ing OH the wall. which such bosses as Cam
erOn. Quay, Hoyt and Palmer will do we'll
to interpret in all the fullness of its mean
ing. Il is a protest against the pardon
board infamy. 1t is protest against every
outrage which the bosses have heaped
upon a patient people. 1t is protest
against the unit rule, which these political
freebOoters have tried to force on the peO-
pie.