The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-29
RAILROAD NOTES.

The Central Railroad authorities think
they have the Dunnellen train wrecker
lodged in the County Jail at New Bruins
wick. The officials are reticent as to what
evidence is in their possessi on against the
prisoner, whose name is Reed, but hint
that interesting developments may soon
be given to the public. They say that
from the suspected mans previous bad
reputation he is capable of committing
any crime.
According to the statistics collected by
the State Bureau of Labor and Statistics.
so, 900, 600 passengers were carried on the
New Jersey Railroads last year. Only
III persons met with accidents, q of
which were fatal. The total number of
accidents was 1,407, the largest number
vet reported. OF this number $40 were
employees, the rest track walkers, tres
passers and Others crossing tracks; num-
Der of fatal accidents, 326; train and track
hands killed, 21S.
The recently published report that the
Orange branch of the New York, Lake
Erie and Western Railroad is to be
abandoned for the present, On accoun of
lack of patronage, is without foundation.
The traffic over the line in question is said
to be satisfactorily heavy.
Alarming ~depredations by tramps are
reported along the line of the New Jersey
Central Railroad. During the past ten
Gays uSbtCblNCo III ulC CLlpIOy VI lHt COIlt-
pany have arrested and Jailed sixty
knights Of the road' between Phillips
burg and Jersey City. So bold and daring
had the tramps become that they thought
nothing of stopping freight and coal
trains, terrorizing the crews, and some
cases attempting to takecomplete control.
Two of them tried this a few nights ago
with Conductor Schoppe, of P~hillipsburg,
who has charge of q freight train. The
conductor drew his revolver and blazed
away at them, which caused the tramps
to beat a hasty retreat, not, however,
without returning the conductors shots.
The conductor thinks he hit one of the
tramps.
The Central Railroad has now one con-
| tinuous route from Sandy Hook to Ches-
tertown, Del, a town located only about
fifteen miles from the city of Baltimore.
At present the road runs no further than
Chestertown, but it is hardly probable
that it will stop there but will run on to
the city, only fifteen miles away, to con-
| meet with the main line of the Baltimore
and Ohio and to catch the great travel
| from the South to the Jersey shore. BY
this new route o passenger from the
South could be in Cape May or Atlantic
| City before he is now in Philadelphia and
it is given out ON good authority that this
was the idea of the Central Railroad
Company in making connection across
the Delaware n that to catch the peach
CROP to carry it to New York was only a
blind.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey has
recently constructed a new engine on the
most improved patents that were obtain
able. The result is that the new engine
is one of the finest and feetest now being
run on any railroad in America. The
boiler is a very peculiar pattern, resemb-
ling a double-barreled breech-loading
gun. The engine, it is claimed, consumes
less fuel and gives more speed than any
so far heard of, A test brought to light
the fact that seventy miles can easily be
covered in one hour.