The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-11-01
RAILROAD NOTES.

son county, will be opened Novembe
| lst.
Three or four years ago there were onl.
fifteen electric roadsfn this country. Nov
/ there are over 400.
| The Greenwood Lake Railroad hi
never had d more popular superintendent
| than b. K. Moodey.
The block system is being EXTENDED
westward on the Erie. 1t is now beinl
| put in between Hornellsville and Sala
manca.
The Florida limited will be put on til,
Pennsylvania road early next mouth.
will be a solid vestibule train through
to Jacksonville, same as last season.
There are 1865 lodges of the Swftcnmen
Mutual Aid Association, with member.
ship OF 7,453, an increase OF 2, 453 ovei
last year.
Il is stated that the Nickel Plate. West
Shore, Hocsac Tunnel three fast lines
are to be consolidated under new uame,
and the Toledo, st. Louis 81 Kansas City
IL to be made the road for entrance into
st. Louis.
For the beneficiary fund Of the Broth
eshood of Locomotive Firemen Secretary
Debs received 43,79S last month, aud his
disbursements TO- sick aud death claims
were $4,000. The Brotherhood has at
present 40 local branches.
The Lake Shore Is embedding the
tracks i'll the yards northwest of Union
station In asphalt. 1t is thought that this
will make u better ballast rhan stone aud
gravel as well as producing smoother
and more slightly yard.
Circulars have been issued calling at
tention TO the penalties prescribed for nm
lawfully riding on train. 1t will be
urged upon railroad officers TO use more
stringent rules to prevent this practice,
which seems to be on the increase.
The representatives of the brotherhood
of Railroad Conductors and the Order of
Railway Conductors ia conference at Co.
dar Rapids, Ia, decided to consolidate
both organizations under the name OF
the latter, and TO work for the general
federation Of all train service organiza-
tious
Grand Chief Clark of the New ConsolI.
dated Order OF Railroad Conductors is
trying TO federate the various associa-
tions of railroad employees. the slate as
thus far made up comprises the Brother
hood OF Locomotive Firemen, the Order
of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen, the Order of Rail
way Telegraphers and the Brotherhood
of Station Men. This federation will rep
resent 70, 600 members.
The big power house of the Lacka-
wanna at Hoboken is rapidly nearing
completion. The boilers will furnish
steam for heating the cars standing In
the passenger yard and power for com
pressing gas for the new lighting system
Probably a dozen or twenty engineers
or arcmen lose their lives every year
from their habit of sitting down ON the
rails while their engines are idle. 1t is
strange that men VINO know their danger
so well should indulge in this practice
but they will be seen doing it all over the
Union wherever several engines are
standing in yard.
On the Central road an examining
board has been busy for about week Ia
curing into the ability of conductors
brakemen and engineers on passenger
trains. The board consists of Asst tam
Trainmasters G. III. French and w. E
Bailey aud Travelling Dispatcher Johu
Cassidy. The men were questioned as *
their knowledge of the new rules adopted
by the company short time ago, and In
structed as to their enforcement. The
company expects beneficial results from
these examinations, and may possibly ex.
tend the system to the freight and Goa
divisions.
The Lackawauna has at last put the
Sunday trains over the Morris and Essex
| division on the public time tables. Why
it should not have been done years ago Is
a mystery.
There is no Sunday train to Greenwood
Lake now, bnt the winter timetable II
much better than it was last year, two
trains running each way over the road
every week day.
There were two wrecks of coal trains
last week. One in Newark was small
affair. and it required only an hour 10
clear the tracks. The other was at Bound
Brook, on the Central. and while no lives
Were lost, the damage was prodigious
Coal jimmies, or four wheeled cars, were
probably the cause of both accidents
| When Jimmy goes of the rails It is often
a serious matter, for the whole train Il
| likely to pile up in heap. That is wnat
happened at Bound Brook, andt thousand.
OF tons Of coal was piled up on the tracks
making a big blockade. The coal jimms
is a doomed vehicle. Brakemen hate
them. and unless they have confidence Ii
the engineer in charge will not rid
on The cars. A careless engineer can nil,
up a train OF jimmies by a too aprup
stop. and this means certain death to tn,
brakeman on the bumpers. And yet Goa
jimmies are such uncertain things tina
sometimes one OF them in the middle of
| train will jump the track. run half mil,
on the ties and then get buck into lin,
again. They have been known TO g
nearly all the way across tht bay bridg,
| on the ties. and come out all right whel
they struck solid ground.
/
| "Hats on"
! One of the simplest instincts of good
| mn arc won III Saar.. RI nc that