Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-06-25

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and telegraph operators.
An ingenious method of checking re-
suits has been devised, and so system
attic and well regulated is everything
connected with the business that any
or dishonesty on the part
Of the employees that may result in loss
or waste of oil can be promptly traced
to the proper source and corrected.
The business plant of the United
Pipe Lines was formally transferred to
the National Transit Company on
April 1st, but there has been no change
in the officers of the company, who
still remain as follows:
President, j. j. Vandergrift; Vice
President. ID O'Day; General Mana
ger; W. T. Scheide; Secretary, H. D.
Hancock; Treasurer, John r. Camp
bell; Register, A. Pitcairn; Auditor, q.
w. Moltz; In charge of measuring
tanks, James Robson; Telegraph Ship
ping Agent, E. Ford; Chief Engineer,
A. G. Beeson; Superintendent of Tank
age, j. B. Maitland; Superin-
tendent of Construction, A.
Smedley; Superintendent of Machin-
cry, j. S. Klein: Superinten-
dent of Fuel, W. c. Henry; Superin-
tendent of Telegraph, W. w. Splane;
Superintendent Butler and Clarion, c.
A. Hite; Superintendent Middle Divis-
ion, s. NJ Rose; Superintendent Up
per Division, L. A Stanford; Superin-
tendent Running OIL and Pumps, Up
per Division, w. j. Alexander; Super
intendent Running Oil and Pumps,
Middle and Lower Divisions, VIM.
Miller Agents-Pittsburgh, Thos.
Chester; Oil City, o. p. Swisher;
Bradford, +. r. Shepard; New York,
G. w. Stahl Philadelphia, j. b.
Young
THE NATIONAL TRANSIT COMPANY.
The National Transit Company is
the organization engaged in the trans
portation of oil from the regions to the
seaboard and the interior refineries.
1t takes the producers oil from the
tanks of the pipe lines, and delivers to
the New York and Philadelphia export
ers and refneries, and the manutactur-
ers of Illuminating oil at Pittsburgh,
Cleveland and Buffalo.
This company received it's charter
at the hands of the Pennsylvania legis-
lature. 1t holds the original charter
granted to Andrew Howard, j. S.
Swartz and others, under the name of
the "Pennsylyania Company" by the
Act of April 7th, 1870. Four years
ago it absorbed the business and plant
of the American Transfer Company,
corporation engaged in the same line
of business.
The officers at the present time are,
G. A. Griscom, President; Benjamin
Brewster, Vice President; John Bush
nell, Secretary; Daniel O'Day, General
Manager; and James II. Snow, Gen
eral Superintendent.
The approximate cost of its property
was SIS, 100000. 1t owns $4,000, 900
barrels of iron tankage aud several
thousand miles of iron pipes, besides
pump stations, machine shops, etc. Its
six lines of pipe connect the oil regions
with the sea shore and refneries at
New York, Philadelphia and Balti-
more, and with the interior refneries
at Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Buffalo.
The New York division consists Of
two six inch pipe lines, from Olean,
n. Y, to Bayonno, n. j., and con-
Meeting link across Saddle river to the
refneries on Long Island, A third
line is already laid half the distance
between Olean and Bayonne. This
division is nearly 400 miles long and
has eleven pumping stations located at
the following places: Olean, Wells
vile, Cameron's Mills, West Junction,
Catatunk, Osborn Hollow, Hancock,
Cohecton, Swarthout, Newfoundland
and Saddle river Each station is pro-
vided with seven one hundred horse
power boilers and two large Worth
ington pumping engines. The boilers
are in brick houses, each forty feet
square and covered with roofs of cor
rugated iron. The pumps are in separ-
ate buildings of the same class as the
boiler houses. There are two 80, 600
barrel iron tanks at each station, and a
telegraph Office with all the latest elec-
trical improvements.
The Pennsylvania division is $50
miles long, and has but single six
inch pipe, which extends from Cole
grove, in Mexican county, to Philadel-
phia. There are five pumping stations
on this line, viz: Colegrove, North
Point, Pine, Dirnsife and Millway. A
branch pipe extends from this line to
Milton, Pa, where tank cars are load
ed for Philadelphia on the p. & +.
r.. Il.
The Baltimore division consists Of
seventy miles Of ive.inch pipe connect
ing Baltimore with the Philadelphia
division at Millway. One pump sta
tion is sufficient for this line, and it is
located at the last named place.
The Cleveland line begins at Hill
liards in Butler county, and ends at
Cleveland. 1t is of five-inch pipe and
one hundred miles in length. There
are four stations on this line, billiards,
Warren and Mantau.
The Buffalo division is seventy
miles in length and consists of one
four-inch pipe, with its initial station
at Four Mile, Cattaraugus county, n.
Y. There is another station at Ash
ford and one at the terminus of the
line in Buffalo.
The Pittsburgh line is sixty miles
long and extends from Carbon Centre,
in Butler county, to Pittsburgh, with
a central station at Freeport.
The National Transit Company, by
the acquisition Of the u UnitedJ Pipe
Lines, becomes one of the most power
full organizations in the country. 1t
is controlled by men who are entirely
familiar with all tie details of oil trans
portation and storage. It's capital is
amply sufficient for every emergency
that may arise, and the enterprising