The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-16
RAILROAD T

George D. Porter, of Elizabeth, is a
popular young baggage-master running
or the Central Railroad. His friends
will be pleased TO learn that he has re-
turned to his duties after a long and
painful siege of rheumatism, which lie
bore with a cheerfulness and fortitude
characteristic of the a However
black the cloud, George always looks on
the other side and finds sunshine. The
boys think that George has missed his
vocation and that he was cut out for a
Methodist Divine. He Will now run on
the day time as he is not strong enough
for night work.
For some time past there has been a
shadow OIL the faces of the regular pass
engers on certain trains of the Newark
branch of the Jersey Central. The ia
miliar figure n pleasing countenance
Of their handsome conductor, Minard A.
Knapp, is lost to them for q time. He
has been given q three months run on
the Newark special for Long Branch as a
reward of merit, and naturally feels
rather elated that his efforts TO do the
polite" by his passengers Especially those
of the gentler sex), have met with this
return. But cheer up, ladies, it is whis-
pered that when the three months run
is up he will once more shed the light of
his countenance and the perfume of that
carnation (Which is as well known as he
is himself, upon these now so gloomy
P0cotA&CAo WIN tA0NOA w
and New York.
The Central Railroad Company nave
156. 30 miles of tracks in this State. Their
total income last year was 81 ,424, 99l. 04,
and their expenses $4,G65, 1855. 20. They
paid three one and one-half per cent. div
deuds.
John Hallarin, a section boss on the
Freehold and Atlantic Highlands Rail-
road, was killed on the road Sat urday
afternoon. He was riding home on a
gravel train when the cylinder head OF
the locomotive was blown out and Halia-
rim was blown from the car. He was
badly injured about the head, and died
at Bradevelt station. to which he was re-
moved. He was about t~hlrty-1ve years
old and leaves a wife II four children.
Patrick Cation, a well known railroad
man, was Instantly killed at Washington,
Warren county. Thursday afternoon. He
stepped out of the way of q wildcat train
and was struck by a passenger train
going in the opposite direction His
body was thrown into q heap OF burning
cinders and was terribly crushed and
burned.
The Philadelphia and Reading Rail
road Company is making ARRANGEMENTS
trip from New York to Philadelphia, q
distance of e~ighty-nine miles, in 102 min
utes. Between Plainfield and Elizabeth
the train will go at the rate of seventy
miles an hour. A single engine will be
used, which will make no stops for water,
taking its supply from tanks between the
tracks at G~reenbrook while running.
The family Of Everett Gordon, an engi-
neer on the New Jersey Central, who
lives at No. ISL Franklin street, Eliza
beth, last Sunday We're poisoned by eat
ing some meat cooked In a tin pail. Mrs.
Gordon and a son became ill first. Mr..
Gordon FASTENED after q physician and
Reports read at the meeting of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Relief Associa-
ton, at Long Branch, showed an increase
in the membership of the association of
about 2, 5000 since January l, making the
total number OF members "a, 600, or about
thirty-fiye per cont. of the eligible en-
ployes of the Pennsylvania system. ALI
applicants must undergo a medical ex-
animation, m Assistant Controller
Riebenack said on Wednesday that not
| lnore tnan half the employees could pass
this. From January l to July / the num-
| Der of deaths in the association was 19l, as
| against 154in the same time last year. The
nImber on the disabled list rose from
5000 during the last half of 1889 to 10, 600
in the first six months of the present
year. Concerning the retiring of EN-
| nloyes on a pension, of which there has
been much talk, Mr.. Riebenack said
"We nave been discussing that ever since
| the association was organized in Feb
ruary. 1885, and at the October meeting
this will be the especial subject for con-
sheraton. 1t nay be that within a veal
the system of retiring and pensioning
employees will go into effect. OF course,
this only refers to members of the associ-
alton. Every year the association sets
aside its unused money for the pension
fund. we nave $751;, 600 that was con-
tributed during the first three years.
The second three will not make such d
good showing, for the claims to be paid
are much greater.