The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-23
NEWS OF THE RAILROADS.
IMPORTATION FOR THE PRESIDENT
md THE BRAKEMAN.
Tho Court OF Appeals says that Property
on tho Line Of Railroads IL Not SUBJ
lrct TO Reimbursement Tor nnmnEes.

Tho Court OF Appeals Says that Property
on tho Limo or Railroads IL Not Sub.
| Ject TO Reimbursement tor Damages.
An important decision affecting railroads
has just been banded down by the Court Of APP
peals in Syracuse case to tho effect that
troporty on the line OF railroads Is not subject
| TO reimbursement for damages In tho
| Special Term in Syracuse on Saturday an
order was granted making the judgment Of
! the Court OF Appeals tho judgment Of tho
| formor court in tho cuse OF phander w.
| Fobcs Of Syracuse against tho Romo. Water
town and OrdensburG Railroad. Tho Court of
| Appeals decision in this case has attracted
wide attention among property owners who
| enjoy bringing suits against railroads. Here
| tofore the Court Of Appeals has held that while
citizen owning property to tho gutter line of
| the street may recover damages from an
| elevated railroad passing in front Of his
premises he has no cause Of action against a
surface surface railroad onerated by horses, In the
that he cannot recover when tho railroad Is n
surface one and 9perated by steam power. Mr..
| Fobes has owned u lot on North franklin street
since $40. In 1872 tho Syracuse and Northern
Iailroad Company's rack was laid through
| after Tho syracuse ana Northern had passed 10
tho control OF tho Rome. Waertown and OG-
densburg, Mr., Fobes brought suit for damages
against the latter corporation. His counsel
won the case in the lower courts, but lost it in
| tho Court OF Appeals. according TO the decision
Just handed down.
The stockholders OF the Buffalo and Geneva.
the Geneva and Van Ettcnyilie and the Lehigh
,nalley met in BuiInlo on saturday. and voted
elected as follows, !. T. ,wiib1r Charles
Hses0 H john f%nsf M
ton, William i;rockio, ". Stevenson. George NJ.
nGEn m % i n'i i WbH TS Gsn 4d aw
elected +. z. Wilbur President the other Of
nbcers chosen being tie same as those OF the
Several Pullman, parlor cars arrived for the
them will be used on tho limited train which
viii DO put on next week between Long Island
| Hamptons. 1t is intended to make the trip in
about two and half hours There will be only
the island.
| These nremen on the Long Island road have
CHANGED their uniforms for those OF engineers:
a fSPkM3S rray GnR W Gg Anasw M WnsT
| Rooney, Charles McKeover. Frank Charlick.
and Edmund Murphy. james donaldson. who
used TO be freight engineer has been put in
charge Of q passenger tIai n to Manhattan
Beach, Engineer Bruce who came from the
New Haven road, has Rockaway Leach train.
A, H. Barnes, formerly freight yardmaster OF
tho Delaware, Lacknwanna and Western Rail-
road in Hoboken has been trying his hand as
passenger conductor. He has charge OF trains
one Of the oldest conductors on the road, went
into business FOR Q time, but no has returned
meriy q baggage master has been promoted TO
extra conductor.
These appointments have recently been
made on the Long Island Railroad; c. r. Kins-
late Of the express ONCE in Long Island City.
station agent and 4. ID. Flanagan, operator at
Manhattan aL Beach: /; h. no7t; agent at Long
Fosters Meadows and F. u. BliGh at the
Manhattan Beach race track.
The road lrcmen on the Delaware. Lacka-
wanna and Western Railroad made Il stand ro-
Grievance Committee Of the brotherhood Of
Locomotive Firemen called upon tho manager
OF the road, and they got their demand of So q
month Increase. This doesn't INCLUDE yardmen.
The summer schedule of tho Manhattan
Beach division, which has lust gone into effect.
adds about 1870 trains to the Long Island Rail-
roads big list OF trains: When the summer
daily on all the divisions exclusive OF the rapid
transit trains.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has opened new
freight yard at Waysrly. where the Newark
and empty cars from Newark are handled there.
". Simmons has been placed in charge as
yardmaster.
The new depot Of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
1t Is north OF the present tracks. When the
Sd STATEN is te na afks Will be
A needed improvement on the Central of
being built at the Point OF Rocks. near Green
Vile. The road is being Strengthened at that
point.
The ferryboat New Brunswick OF the Penn
syiyanla Railroad: whose housing WAS burned
decked. in South BROOKLYN. 10 DO used when
the new elevated station in Jersey City ID
ready.
The West Shore has recently appointed these
George NJ. Colburn. Clifton House. and Andrew
Murray, International Hotel, u: Niagara Falls.
feature OF the new West Shore time table,
which goes into OBJECT on Juno %. wi be the
through drawinE-Ioom car service hetween
Washington and tho summer resorts in GEN.
trail New York.
The Morris and Essex Employees Mutual
Benefit Association has received 200 new mem
bers since the beginning Of tho wear. 1t now
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Charles Davis, who ran drilling engine. and
James Miller, a freight engineer on tho Deg-
have been promoted to the passenger service.
John Birmingham. brakeman on the Long
Island road has been promoted to conductor
Of a Manhattan Beach train; brakeman Charles
Middaugh has been made Collector on the
North Shore division.
Several Of the superintondcnts Of telegraph
on the roads out OF New ork nro away Mt the
annual convention OF tho Association of Rail-
way Telegraph Superintendent this week at
Niagara Falls
Mr.. C. NJ. Bisse Superintendent OF the Mo-
hawk and HUDSON River division Of the New
York Central, goes to Europe. Mcssrs. Phyfe
and Phillips, his assistants, will be III charge
until he returns
The Central Railroad OF New Jersey is having
q line brown-stone station built ut Somervile.
No Wonder He Is Wanted.
From the Galveston NcnrS
ALBuouERQUE. y. NJ, Juno IA Chinese
detective Is here looking for Foo Choo who is
wanted In China for IN awful murder, Foo
Choo loved a maiden named Nankin Pan Yam.
Iler father forced her to marry u rich old man,
b un Lung lung ie to piGhIS aier the Wedding
dered he couple After binding and Raggng
the, victims he deliberately murdered them BY
brides hands and then tho t0es. Yhen he dis