The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-01-13
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boken in the spring and the old office
building will be torn down.
It is understood that the d., L. u W;
r. r. Company is ordering double-decked
ferry boats and that Mr.. Sloan favors
bridges across West street.
Fifteen miles of the roadbed Of the new
Philadelphia and Seashore Railroad is
finished. The company have ordered six
camel-back~ locomotives from the Baldwin
Works, in Philadelphia, for use on the
road.
The Philadelphia and Reading Co.. will
begin the construction of about sixty
miles of new road early this year. The
line will start at Lofty station, on the
Catawissa branch, n will extend
through Hazelton, reaching Drifton,
Gowen, Beaver Meadow, Tomhicken and
Green Mountain. The proposed route
will give the Coke Brothers another out
let for their coal. They are the largest
individual shippers in the anthracite re-
gion, and are now compelled to ship their
product over the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
The firm, it is said. is friendly to the
Reading.
An officer of an accident insurance
company asserts that the records show
that every freight brakeman in the
United states stands one chance IN three
of being killed within a year. The New
York Sun thinks, if this be true, il is
time that some public expression of popu-
lar feeling on the subject should be
made.
The monument to ~perpetuate the Cam
den and Amboy Railroad, one of the first
in this country, is about to be erected near
the High Bridge, about a mile north of
Bordentown. The massive blocks of stone,
the original rails, spikes, plates, etc. used
in 1881, on the occasion OF John Bulls"
first trip from Bordentown to the High
Bridge, in the presence OF the New Jersey
Legislature of chat day, all were carefully
preserved and stored away and it was
not until last week that some fifty of the
spikes, which had been driven into locust
plugs inserted in the OLD stones which
had been dug up, were obtained TO
complete all that was desired for the
monument.
The fifty men employed in laying the
tracks of the Camden and Atlantic Rail-
road between KirkWood and Berlin are
on strike because their wages are not
forthcoming. The contractor secured a
carload of Italians to take their places,
but upon learning the true state of affairs
the natives of sunny Italy refused to
work.
The first train over the new Raritan
River Railroad was run on Monday from
Midtown and South Amboy. The resi-
dents of Midtown made the event a
memorable one by gathering at the
rather crude depot n cheering the con-
ductor and engine men. Prominent
members of the railroad and
many officials made the trip from Mill
town to New York, which was accomp-
lished in less than an hour and a half.
A train will be run between these points
daily hereafter.
The Erie Railroad Company has made
a reduction of three cents per can in the
rate of freight on milk. The old rate
was 35 cents per can. The new tariff will
be 80 cents, with a proportionate reduc-
ton on other dairy products. The new
rates are:-Milk in cans, SO cents; in
bottles, 81 cents per case; cream in cans,
AZ cents; cream in bottles, 40 cents per
case: pot cheese. 81 cents per Fan.
The Susquehanna Railroad Company
also announces that hereafter all excur-
sion tickets will be good over that road
until used, regardless of the date on the
ticket.
The Morris and Essex Railroad EN-
ployes' Life Insurance Association, at the
annual meeting last night, elected the
following oficers:-PreSident, Harry
Schermerhorn; first vice president, Albert
e. Vanderveer; second vice president, a..
G. Baker, of Dover; third vice president.
A. Fl. Roberts, of Port Morris; finance
committee. Il. M. Condit, chairman; B. e.
Chapen and William Bowen.
The company has paid out for death
claims during the year $3.50.
The Morris and Essex Railroad Com
pany has given notice of intention to re-
pair its drawbridges across the Passaic
and Hackensack Rivers IN the main and
branch lines between January % and
March l.