The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
NOTES.

The recent report that the Central Kali
road car shops at Elizabethport were to
be removed to New Hampton is denied.
1t is now said that the company viii en-
large the shops at the Port and will build
some huge coal pockets at New Hamp-
ton.
The Chambers street bridge, 200 feet
long, over the Pennsylvania Railroad at
Trenton has been finished. 1t cost $64, 000,
of which the county and the railroad COM
pany each paid one-half.
1t is a fact worthy of notice that there
is no better paying railroad in the whole
country than the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western, and there is no road that
fights so hard against paving It's honest
taxes, It seems about time that Presi-
lent Samuel Sloan's was eff
fectually kicked aside.-JerSey City Her
aid. And, besides this, we bear testimony
to the mean and stingy way this road
treats Dover, as is fully evidenced by the
ramshackle old barn called a station. A
nice advertisement it is for Jul town to
be sure, and q fine return it gives u
people for the business OF Sl50,OO0 a year
they give it in their freight and passenger
traffic. OH for that Compromised new
passenger station for Dover.
The Iehigh Valley Railroad Company
has ordered ZOO eight-wheeled coal cars,
CARRYING twenty-five tons each.
A New Yorker, who recently travelled
on a railroad in Honduras, says that the
trains average three and a half miles an
hour.
The Lackawanna Railroad Company,
which has heretofore used the electric arc
system in its train sheds in Hoboken, has
decided to substitute incandescent lights
like those in use in its passenger station,
believing that there is much less danger
of accident in the incandescent system.
The building of a bridge over the North
River between Jersey City and New York
is being seriously discussed by the New
York newspapers. 1t is held that the
travel is already too large to be handled
with convenience by the ferries. and that
a bridge or a tunnel is now a necessity.
Engineers have been surveying for an
air line railroad between New York and
Chicago, and are now crossing Morris
county. The route surveyed is nearly
one hundred miles shorter than the short
est line between the two great cities.
They are said to be following the old lines
of the Continental Railroad.
]. H. Olhausen. General Superintend.
emit of the Central r. r. of N. j., has is
sued circular No. 60, appointing A. Lin
coin Woods agent at Three Bridges, on
the New Jersey Division, vice A. @.
Rynearson, resigned. Henry E, Engle-
hart is appointed ticket agent at Jersey
CITY, vice J. e. Smalley, resigned. L.
w. Freeman is appointed night ticket
agent at Bergen Point, vice Nicholas
Phees, resigned.
The new private car of Cornelius Van
derbilt was built in the Wagner car shops
at East Buffalo, and cost about $39, 900. 1t
has no name, being simply numbered
403.
The Morris and Essex Railroad En-
ployees Mutual Benefit Association, dur
Ing the last three months, has paid
S3,216.3 81 for benefits, and still has $7,221.41
in the treasury.
The new round house of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad at East Conemaugh is
now we'll under way, and will be entirely
completed this month. 1t is a little more
than a semi-circle, and will have stalls
for nineteen engines.
1t is said that the d. l.. and w. Railroad
Company is not well pleased with the
Rockaway Valley Company's invasion of
the Peapack Valley, and will take imme-
date steps to build a line of their own
from Bernardsville to Peapack, and
attempt to divert the traffic over the Nor
ris and Essex division.
IL is rumored that the N. Y, S. & w.
r. r. Co. intends 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 them mountain. at
the point known as the Gap, and from
there in q direct line to Paterson, thus
saving the long run through Bergen
county.