The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-01-19

RAILROAD NOTES.


begin the construction of about sixty
miles of new road this year. The line
will start at Lofty station, on the Cata-
wissa branch, and will extend through
HaZIeton, reaching Drlfton, GoWen,
Beaver Meadow, Tomhieken and Green
Mountain. The proposed route viii give
the Coke Brothers another outlet for
their coal. They are the largest indfyi-
dual shippers III the anthracite region.
Passenger engine No. 1S3 has been
transferred from the main line to the NJ
& E. road. aud its number changed to 49,
Uncle John Skillman is ia charge, while
mis- horse" is in ''hospital.o
Hot coffee Is now served every day at
the rooms of the Y. NJ. C. A. in the new
Hoboken station.
An electric railroad is to be built from
Clifton, Passaic county, to Passaic City,
Tramps do not bother railroad hands so
much in winter as they do in summer.
They find it more comfortable to keep in
motion. s44..
1t is understood that the D.. L. & w.
r. II. Company is ordering double-decked
bridges across West street.
H. Il. Mason, a brakeman on the New
Jersey Central Railroad, has disappeared
from the sight of his friends, VINO are
hunting high and low for him. The last
tidings of Mason are that he was trans
City, to the City Hospital, thence TO
Snake Hill Poor House. where all clues
end.
The real estate transfers record the sale
of property in the lower and western part
of Newark to people known to represent
the Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley
Railroads. A gentleman familiar with
the operations of these two companies
said TO reporter today that both COM
panies are getting ready TO extend their
lines in the direction of the hill and Irv-
ington. Representatives of the Pennsyl-
| vania Railroad have made considerable
purchases. The line of road will leave
| the main line this side of Waverly, cross
| Clinton avenue near Badger avenue, and
the road will eventually be extended in
the direction of the line between Irving
| ton and South Orange. In time trains for
the accommodation of passengers as we'll
as for freight will be run The road has
not been Incorporated vet, nor will it be
until large part of the necessary real
| estate has been secured.
The Paterson City Railway Company
has decided to give each of its employees
one day out of seven for rest, and the con
ductors and drivers are jubilant thereat.
The Railroad Gazette says that IL re-
| ported ?, lS0 locomotives built by seven
teen firms in 1888. In 1889 it reported
| $50 engines built by sixteen firms.
The Directors of the Rockaway Valley
/
last week. The earnings for December
as well as November show an excess
| above the operating expenses which thew
believe, when added to tue Peapack bust
ness. will so increase as to be able to pay
the interest on July l next, the date the
first coupon will be due on the new CON
! solidation bonds.
A siding over two hundred feet long is
being laid on the Willianastown and Della
ware River Railroad, at Wiliiamstown
Junction. This was found necessary
owing to the increase in the freight bust
ness being done by the road.
The first OF the series OF personally
conducted winter pleasure tours in Flori-
| da, under the auspices of the Ponnsylya-
! MIA Railroad Company, left New York on
! January Z, and Notwithstanding the I'M
favorable weather proved marked sue
cess. The second of the series is fixed for
Tuesday, January 81 The party will
leave New York by special train or Pau
| man sleeping and dining cars at $50
a. m-,. Philadelphia at 11:52 a.
H., and arrive in Jacksonville the
next evening. The special train will be
in charge of the Tourist Agent and Chap
eron who will repder the members of the
party every assistance toward making
! the journey pleasant and comfortable
| Considering the very high grade of these
I tours the rates are exceedingly low
Excursion tickets, including railway
4 tions, and meals en- route In both direc-
tons will be sold from New York at $50
Philadelphia at s4S, and ut proportionarc
| rates from other PRINCIPAL stations on the
special trains in both directions. and are
limited to two weeks in Florida
The Central Railroad has ordered five
4 new passenger engines, eleven consoii-
! dated freight engines from the Baldwin
Locomotive Works; $50 box cars, 800
hopper cars of 1000 pounds capacity aud
| 100 OF 60,000 pounds capacity, and twenty
five passenger coaches from the Pullman
| shops.
Mr.: Simon Borg. the new president OF
! the New York, Susquehanna and West
ern Railroad is New York banker, and
| is one of the heaviest stockholders ia the
road
The Central Railroad is making its
/ four-track system between Jersey City
and Bound Brook as complete as possible,
! by replacing some OF the old double track
bridges win four-frack bridges, One
I was built at Pamrapo some time s-sSssstnd
I the next one will be built at the Point of
+ Rocks The long double track trestle,
work across Newark Bay will probably
not he changed.