The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-31
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The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
has put its train hands in new uniforms.
The conductors and baggage masters
wear the regulation blue cutaway with
brass buttons and have on the lapels the
letters 1. Y. Il. r. in gold. Two heavy
bands of gold lace run around the cap on
front of which is the word conductor. The
brakesmenS uniforms differ from these
only in the buttons and trimmings, which
are of silver.
The Erie Railroad Company has ar
ranged for a cheap autumn excursion to
and from Niagara Falls and Rochester, to
start from the Erie Railroad depot, this
city, Saturday, November ., at quarter
past six p. M. All tickets will be good
for return trip. by any regular train, up
to and including Tuesday November 8.
TIL round "trip to INC from the Falls will
cost only $5.5 D and to and from Rochester,
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The steamer Flushing, of the Thirty
fourth street ferry, has been chartered by
the Erie Railroad Company while its
boats are being oyerhauled and repaired.
The boy locomotive wipers at the Lee
high Valley round house in South Easton
have a practice of initiating every new
boy that Joins their ranks, Henry, son of
Jonn Mates, became a wiper last Friday
night. Early yesterday morning they be-
gan initiating him by tying a o around
his legs and dragging him over the floor.
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stopped. 1t was then discovered that his
leg had been broken. The injury is worse
than the boys supposed. Mates leg is so
badly swollen that up to yesterday after
noon the doctor had been unable to prop
erly attend to it. Worst of all, it is feared
the injury may cause the boy to lose the
leg.
On Tuesday I. N. Smith, track super
visor on the New York division of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, between New
Brunswick aud Deans, was awarded $3.50
as first prize for best section of track on
the Pennsylvania Railroad lines. The
second prize Of 500 went to Z. N. Wilson
for the best division on the main line be-
tween Harrisburg and Columbia.
Passengers on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western Railroad complain
of the nuisance from the train boys, who
come through constantly with books,
candy packages, etc. They are unceri-
m~oniously thrown into the laps of the
passengers, who are expected to take
care of them until the boy returns to
| gather them up or to sell them. An ex-
change says.--sThe m~onopolistic Morris
and Estex newspaper boy is rarely met
on those trains that travel during re-
duced fare hours. One explanation given
is that there is not enough trade on the
trains to warrant placing the bows on
them. Another explanation given is that
the workingmen are NOT so meek as the
midday passengers. They think nothing
of sweeping all the papers and books off
the seat usually occupied by the boy. and
on occasions they have been known to
yank the boy off the seat when they
could procure no other"
No doubt d great many people who
have business in the Central Railroad
Depot and some who don't, have noticed
the clock faces, with which the leaving
time Of each train is marked. Now, it
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age q person would not know what these
were for, but, nevertheless, there are
people seen in there every day setting
their watch by the supposed time piece.
An attache OF the depot, in conversation
with a reporter, said:-"I see people of in
telligent appearance every day or so set
ting their watches here, who, not seeing
the large clock in the entrance, naturally
think that these dials contain correct
railroad time, and | nave as many as five
or six people ask me every day if that is
the correct time"
And til is the nineteenth century.
Owing to the damage to the railroad
track from Seabright to Sandy Hook by
the late storm, the Central Railroad
Company has decided to abandon that
part of the road and win build a spur
from Seabright to connect at Atlantic
Highlands. The latter place will be the
terminus of the New Jersey Southern
road instead of Sandy Hook,
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
making experiments with q iireproof rail
way car. The distinctive feature of the
car is that it is all iron and steel The
roof, sides and ends OF the car are made
of boiler plate riveted together. The car
is somewhat in the shape of a horseshoe,
the round part being the top. In the bot
tom are several steel girdlcs placed in
cement, much the same as in Pullman
cars. Along the sides is an array OF win
1 dows, precisely similar to those of ordi-
nary passenger coaches. The top of the
car is destitute of heavy roof and venti-
lating arrangements that are seen OIL
ordinary cars. 1T is said that ventilation
is secured by pumping air into the cars
through pipes. These pipes in winter are
arranged so as to furnish warm air. 1t is
claimed that it will not burn, will last
forever and viii not telescope or break up
in a collision. II, on testing il, the com
pany finds that It will run smoothly and
be comfortable for the occupants, it viii
be adopted,