The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-16
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The Chambers street bridge, roo fee
long, oveI the Pennsy lvania Railroad a
Trenton has been finish ed. 1t cost $64, 900
of which the county and the railroad
company each paid one-half.
The Morris and Essex Railroad EN-
ployees' Mutual neutrality-suspicious., dur
ing the last three months has paid 49,
216. 81 for benefits, and still has $7,221.4 Al
in the treasury.
Ground has been offered to the Della
ware. Lackawanna and Western Railroad
for the erection of a new depot on the
Bloomfield branch between Park and
Springdale avenues. Superintendent
Reasoner is in conference with President
Sloan over the acceptance of the offer.
Sixty feet more will be added to the
length of the Hoboken passenger train
sheds in the spring, and the old Office
building will be torn down.
The Central Railroads sidings at juno
ton n at Clinton are flied with coal,
the company being unable to have it I'M
loaded at Elizabethport and Port John
son.
A railroad meeting was held 1T Mend
ham, Morris county, last week, and the
many promises of the D., l.. & w. was
to cast their lot with ex-Congressman
Pidcock's branch of the Jersey Central
the Rockaway Valley road.
1t is stated that the new ferryboat Ber-
gen, on the Hoboken line, while a distinct
success in economy as well as in comfort
to her passengers, has taught engineers a
lesson IN the characteristics of triple-ex-
pansion engines for which they We're not
prepared. The third cylinder, it appears,
is of no use in so short a run as that from
Barclay street to Hoboken, for it does not
get warmed up to an efficient working
heat after leaving a slip until it has
reached the other slip, and must be cooled
off Inv fhl Gh1Iftjn o. off nF tho Stnom Two
new ferryboats, having propellers at each
end, as the Bergen has, but with modified
engines, will be built next year by the
company.
The workshops of the old Camden and
Amboy Railroad at Bordentown, N. j.,
which were abandoned when the Penn
s~ylvania Railroad absorbed the Camden
and Amboy nearly twenty years ago., are
about to be reopened. The original plant
was built in 1881. There are nine brick
buildings. A. II. King, of New York,
has been using one OF the buildings for d
couple of years as a store house. He has
leased the whole property for twenty
years, and in the spring he will have the
necessary repairs made and machinery
put in for building locomotives and cars.
1t is SAID that he intends principally to
continue on a big scale his particular
business of buying up. repairing and SELL
ing secondhand rolling stock. There is
a good deal of profit in this business, and
Mr.. King has few competitors. The King
Locomotive and Car Works is the name
of the new concern, and it has a capital
stock of 81, 200, 900. 1t will give employ
menr to 500 or 600 men. John Hedding,
who was recently superintendent at the
Rogers Locomotive Works in Paterson,
and for a long time Master Mechanic of
the New Jersey Railroad and T~ransporIa-
tion Company, will have charge of the
works.
Engineers in the employ of the Dela-
ware, L~ackawanna s. Western have re-
Gently surveyed three routes for q rail
way between Caldwell and Il point on the
BoontOn branch.
The Central Railroad Company has
commenced to erect a new ferry slip at
Pier IA on the New York side.
Contractor Kelly, OF Jersey City, has
begun work IN one of the new tunnels to
be built under the canal at Greenwood
avenue, Trenton. Two new tunnels are
to be built, one north and the other south
of the present tunnel. The north tunnel
is the one on which work is to be begun.
Excavations will be made and the work
forwarded as rapidly as possible during
the next two weeks. Then navigation in
the canal will close. and it is intended to
have the work finished BY spring. When
the new tunnels are completed the two
new tracks through the city will be
built, which will about finish the four
tldCh SJSbSAh VI thG tuuSy Afdhtn Vim
pany between Philadelphia and New
York.
1t is rumored that the n. Y. S. 81 w.
r. r. Co. intend to build q new line to
shorten the run of their coal trains. The
new line, as the survey runs now, leaves
Butler and runs across the mountain. at
the point known IS the Gap, and from
there in n direct line to Paterson, thus
saving the long run through Bergen
county.
Edwards Men in the Union.