Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-12-15
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS.
The New General superintendent of
 the New England Road.

ID, HI. Nichols, for the past few weeks of the western and Springfield divisions of the New York R New England road, will shortly take he position of general superintendent If that line. This office does not at present exist. It will be restored at the same time that orders will go out ap- pointing Mir Nichols to the position thus This change grows out of the recent difficulties under which the line has labored for the past few weeks on account of the great rush of freight, and the manner in which it came about is in itself testimonial to the executive ability of Mir Nichols. On the single | track of the New England road between Hartford and the Hudson there was trouble enough to take care Of the | immense freight business. For several weeks trains have been moved on the ordinarily forbidden hours on Sunday, | the roads overloaded condition appar- ently being construed asa condition ot necessity, for which the Sunday law makes an exception. How great the necessity was is shown by the fact that at one time last week 1000 cars were in the East Hartford yards and 300 on the Consolidated tracks waiting to be trans ferred to the New England. Last week Sunday, in special effort to clear the line, 800 cars were moved on the road. Conditions were made worse by the strike in the East Hartford yards a week ago Saturday. General Manager Howard appeared in Hartford day be- fore yesterday to see what could be done to relieve the pressure. Things were, 1t is reported, all blocked up at East Hart ford, but between East Hartford and Fishkill, or in other words on the vest ern division of the road, the freight had been we'll worked off. This good show ing on Mr .Nichols' division is understood to have been the factor which decided the management in putting Mir Nichols in the place of general superintendent, where he could have an opportunity to do as good work all along the line as he had done in his division. NIT Nichols has been connected with the road only a few weeks. He came here from the St Louis & San Francisco road, of which he had been superintendent for, fifteen years.
 The arguments in the case of the New York City & Northern railway, against the New York 6 New England and | Housatonic railways will be argued be- fore the inter state commerce commis- sion, at Washington to-day. The New York 6 New England road, then, as York City 6 Northern, at through freight rates, and all freight from Dan- bury must be sent by the Housatonic route. The case to be argued is brought to compel the New York 6 New Eng land road to make a through route at through freight rates.
 It has been impossible to find any authentic confirmation of the rumored change of presidency of the New York & New England road. President Bost- wick has before this, while at the head of the road, spent some time in Europe and the fact that he is soon to go across the water again is not in itself sufficient reason to believe that he will give up his office.
 In the disastrous wreck on the New England road, near Tolles station in Plymouth, described in Fridays DEMO GRAF, there was one car full of raw silk, from China-silk and cocoons-cOn- signed to Cheney Brothers, at South Manchester. It was all burned up. Its value was not ascertained, but it must probably have been large. Whatever it was, it was all insured, so the road will not lose on it. Cheney Brothers of course will collect their amount from
 the railroad company, who in turn must look to the underwriters for their re- imbursement. .
 Attorney Richard Gleeson made appli. cation for the appointment of an admin lstrator on the estate of James McDer'
 mott, recently killed on the Meriden,
 Waterbury 6 Connecticut River rail Il road, ill the probate court at Meridep
 Saturday.. The hearing will take place
 December IT, at 9 o'clock. The applica-
 tion is probably the forerunner of a suit
 to be brought against the company tC
 recover $5, 900 damages for McDermott't
 death. Attorney Gleeson visited George
 Fay, the railroads attorney, about . week ago and stated that he had a claim for damages and wanted as much as he
 could get. As that implied the $5.00O
 limit, Attorney Fay said the railroad
 would not pay it. It is not known that McDermott left an estate, and the only ) way to bring suit against the railroad is through an administrator.
 The suit brought by Mayor Grant dated road for $2O, 900 because of injury to his horse Wentworth in a railroad
 accident, is assigned for trial in New
 York tomorrow. The contract for
 transportation of the horse, which was
 in a car when injured, stated the ami
 mal's value to be $10O,O00. James B.
 Houston will bring suit for 1000 in
 juries received by his horse Hades i'll
 the same accident.
 The strike on the Northampton divis. ion of the Consolidated road is still on.
 Yesterday trains arrived from Westfisld
 manned by Massachusetts men. To. day the company has been unable to get any trains out of New Haven. The strikers will not be taken back.
 The 1O:3O train on the Derby road this
 morning struck and instantly killed Dwight H. Judson, near the Turkey hill crossing in Ansonia. Judson was walk. ing on the track and did not hear the approach of the train until it was toe late to escape. He leaves wife and child neither of whom lived with him.