The Jersey City news., 1891-05-14
RAILROAD NOTES

Plainfeld Will have an overhead electric
road.
Mendham will have its railroad before
the middle Of June.
The new time table on the Susquehanna
went into effect on Sunday.
The Erie VIII probably put up large
workshops at Waldwick this Summer
The new time table on the Greenwood
Lake Railroad viii probably go into effect
on May II.
Trains with an inch OF snow on the
roofs of the cars passed through Pater-
son on Wednesday morning.
The Erie Railroad got permission TO
cross Washington avenue at grade once,
but viii never get il again.
The Central Railroad Company is going
to publish list Of boarding places along
its route through New Jersey.
The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
has renewed its offer of areward of S, coo
for evidence that viii lead 10 the arrest
and conviction OF the parties who tam
pered with q switch near Paterson, on
January 1, aud caused fatal accident.
The project of running a branch of the
Lackawanna to lrvington Is again being
agitated, but quite naturally the people
doubt if the company will have enter
prise to do it, and some of them think
that it is the old game to keep some
genuine projectors out of the field.
a freight train piled up as much as was
possible in the Erie tunnel on Tuesday
afternoon. and blocked traffic in both di-
rections for three or four hours. The &C
cident caused Vexatious delays TO all but
the Chicago limited train, which was run
out over the West Shore road to juno
ton.
A petition is being circulated among
residents and property owners along the
line of the Watching road in Orange.
East Orange and West Orange, and also
among residents and property owners of
that village and Orange Valley, asking
the Erie Railroad Company 70 connect
the Watching branch at Newark with
the Newark and Paterson branch. to ex-
tend the Watching branch 10 that VII
lige and to double track II from Newark.
Mr.. Robert Bonner, DR. James McCosh
and Prof MacLoskey. of Pinceton Col
lege: Colonel Alex. X. Mcclure. of Phila-
delphia Times: DIR. John Macintosh, OF
Philadelphia; Or. John Hall, Of New
York, go to Louisville. KY. 10 open the
scotch Irish Congress on Nav Il They
travel By the F. F. V. of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad. Among the promi-
uent members of the society is the
Thomas n. McCar0er. of New York.
At the annual meeting Of the stock
holders Of the Long Beach Railroad. in
Camden, on Tuesday, the following Di-
recfors were eelected:-William J. Sewell,
John p. Green, r. b. Enale, William Bet
tie, R. B. Gowdy, B. +. Archer. W. 4.
Bailey, D. L Culver. c. 5. Ridgway. J.
\. DuBarry. H. D. Welsh, A. R. Little
and Frank Ellmaker. The Board subse-
euently organized by the election of these
officers:-P President. W. J. Sewel; Secre-
tary, F. W. Sehwarz; Treasurer, John NJ
Wood, Jr.
The annual meeting Of the Brigantine
Beach Railroad Company was held on
Monday and the following officers were
elecred:-Pr President. 5. ST. J. McCuichen;
First Nice-President, Phineas Garrett
Second Vice President, Joseph Thompson
Secretary and Treasurer. E Clarence Mil
Ter; Directors, Joseph w. Coffin, G. l..
Cole, Phineas Garrett, William Hacher,
S. 81. J. MeCutcheu, E. Clarence Miller.
j. Washington Miller, c. W. Packer, A
Stuart Patterson, Edmund e. Stout, F.
L. Slffern. Joseph Thompson and J. B.
Van Woert.
TIE stockholders of the Freehold and
Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad Com
pany held their annual meeting on Tues
day and elected the following directors:
w. H. Wilson, John p. Green, J. n.
DuBarry, Lewis Perrine. Jr-, 5. B. Oviatt.
II. Allafre. a. d Welsh, L. K. Simms, J.
B. Mcclure, w. J. Segell and Frank
Elmaker.