The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-07-12

OF the Lehigh Valley Railroad RAINING
FROM 15aGdsadwn 10 PittstUwn q dlstance
of about six miles, was OPENED Tor triitie
I he right OF way was procured ny tAe
citizans of Pittstown, aud the roaa was
built bv the Lshi9iI Valley Railroad Cotn-
pany- The company expect 10 40 very
large peach freight business this yefsrs as
the orchards promise well now,
In less than five years Newark VIII
nave two rapid transit roads TO New
York" said a real estate dealer who Is In
the confidence of many railroad officials.
t'Thev will be roads upon which no tickets
will be taken M except at the gates ana the
fare will be ten cents. The schedule trans
will be something less thar ID minutes.
The Lackawanna has ab last determined
to get nearer the social centre at Lake
HopAtcong than its present station AT
Landing. The company has secured the
right OF way along the shore of the luke at
the lower end, and Will pass through the
property now occupied by the Forclte
Company The new road will start at
Shippenport, aud will probably end at
Van Every's cove. opposite Nosan's Point.
1t is limited that the new move was IN
spired by fear that the extension or the
Caldwell road would cut into the COM
pany's Hopatcong business. Ii the work
had been begun ten years ago there would
have been some merit in it. Il is under
stood that the work of laying the tracks
will be begun within a fortnight.
Conductor Westfall's train ran over
aud killed a four foot rattlesnake on the
curve below Cooper, on the Greenwood
Lake road, Tuesday morning. The snake
was basking ia the sun and was seen by a
gang of track men just es the train came
III sight In Was augered by the rattle OF
the train aud struck ut one of the wheels.
lis head was taken oil and RoadmAster
Humphreys got the skin and rAttles. 1t
was handsome yellow skin with black
orlrt 1aeya a ms a
necktie.
An electrical railroad is projected in
North Carolina which will run across the
Blue Riuge. For forty miles it will extend
through the richest portions of that State,
and it will penetrate region of rich and
inexhaustable mines. New York and
London capitalists are at the bottom of it,
They expect to operate the longest elect
rical road IN the world, Besides this,
there will be built immense hotels, as the
country is high and the scenery is very
beautiful. There is also an immense
water power along the line OF the pro-
The Firemen's Brotherhood has 22,00
members.
Railway and Brotherhood telegraphers
have amalgamated.
A locomotive on the New York Central
railroad is expected to make ninety miles
an hour
A recent cargo from Baltimore to
Brazil included fifteen locomotives.
Brazilian railroads gets large proper
ton of the equipment from this country.
The Erie is about TO order fifty ten
wheel Wootan engines for heavy freight
and passenger service. They will each
weigh $4,000 pounds The cylinders are
Co be 20x24 inches, and the driver sky
two inches in diameter.
Railroad Crossing; Stop, Look and
Listen," Is the text of the new signs to be
erected at every. road crossing on the
Philadelphia & Reading railroad
Ex-President Hugh J. Jewett, of the
Erie, now living in Maryland, is declin-
ing ia health, and the report has it that
he may not be seer much more away
from his country seat.
Richard Coughlln of Paterson, who WIS
a conductor on the Erie Railroad when
horses were used before the days Of loco
motives, died Wednesday morning at the
age of eighty-two. He had travelled be-
tween Paterson aud New York daily
from 1889 until the present time, for after
his retirement from the railroad be be-
came the messenger of the First National
Bank of Paterson, aud carried daily a
big valise full of securities and cash.
Once he was set upon aud his eyes filed
with red pepper in Greenwich street.
New York, but he hung fast to the valise.
On another occasion he was almost killed
in collision on the Payouia Ferry, but
be chung fast to his valise this time also.
He remained at work until week ago
He is believed TO havs hesn the oldest
railroad conductor In the United Statess
Suit has been begun against the Jersey
Central Railway Company TO recover
damages caused by locomotive sparks.
The insurance companies have been called
on to pay more than SO, 900 recently for
fires started by live Goals from the smoke
stacks of the Jersey Central's engines
passing through Plainfieid. Now the IN
surance people are seeking to recover
their losses from the railway company. 1t
is alleged that the railway people have
been grossly negligent in removing the
spark arresters ( rom some of the freight
locomotives. and thus showering with hot
Goals buildings along the ira ks.