The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-12-03

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ID the silver medal.
I Some of the changes that are likely
% occur in the new time table of the
Valley are spoken of as follows by the
White Haven Journal; "The Lehigh
Valley will issue a new time table on
Dec. 4th by which time the new Buffalo
extension will be completed The
trainmen say there will be a great
shaking up of crews and runs, and are
ali sorts of things. One of
these is that there will be a new vesti-
bule train, to run from New York to
Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in ten |
hours. II will make five stops-Eas-
ton, Bethlehem, Mauch Chunk and |
Sayre, besides water stops. Some have
it that the train will go over the cut off
to L. & B. Junction and thus save to
10 miles, and a local train will run
ahead and pick up passengers. The
caboose committee has many changes
in view, among them being the making
of through trains of present local ones,
and changing the runs so they will be
from Jersey City to Easton, Easton to
Sayre, and Sayre to Buffalo. Accord
ing to the same authority all Worlds
Fair trains will go over the cut off,
skipping Wilkesbarre, and making
White Haven the dining station again.
But as the committees plans meyer
materiali2e in the schedules, we will
have to wait until the time tables APP
pear to see what, if any, changes are
to be made"
/ Harry Blank, of town, who was dis
charged from the Lehigh Valley SER
vice as engineer, has been reinstated
and will 90 back on his old run about
January lst, 1893
I By recent decision Of the Read
ing management all the old style black
coal cars must be done away with be-
fore January l, 1894, to be replaced by
self coupling hopper cars. As the old
cars become damaged they ara con-
demned, side-tracked and destroyed.
What railroaders would like to have IS
coal cars of uniform size There is
many a manned hand that silently tes-
titles to criminal negligence on the
part of the railroad companies, be-
cause of the practice of making up a
coal train in which there are cars of
different size and styles.
! An order was posted on Sunday at
the d. L. &. W. station in Scranton to
the effect that all conductors promoted
within the past four years will have to
go back to braking and the brakemen
who were recently appointed will be
laid off. About dozen conductors will
be affected by this order, A lull in the
coal business, which makes it neces
sary to take off some trains, is respon
sible for the setting back of the con
ductors. Scranton Republican.
I The New York Sunday Advertiser
of a recent date, contained the follow
ing: II was only few months ago thu
country learned with astonishmen
that the Philadelphia a Reading Rail
road Company had combined unde
one management all the roads in tn
anthracite coal region and its outlet
to New York, Philadelphia, and mino
cities. The intelligence seemed Il
strike those most interested with
sort of bewildering effect, and the frs
figures put out were that the combina
tion embraced a capital of SG0O,OO0,00(
The figures were really much beloN
that, but still big enough to scar
small capitalists. Now the combin
has taken in the Boston & Maine Roa
and its related lines, and is taking al
b things into consideration, probabl
3 the greatest corporation in the worlC
; Vanderbilt System has more miles q
4 4 roads, ,24S-a and has 125,OOO employee
and the Atchison System embrace
. lO,1OO miles and 5000 employees, bu
the $1,000 men, or thereabouts, in III
Readings coal property put it ahea,
= The system, as now organized, has s3E
e miles of road, $1,000 acres Of Lam
l. about 53OO,UOO,OOO in bona flde. capita
- aud 10000 men in its emploY--ov'
five times the standing army of II
- United States. AT the head of tn
IL wonderful combination, as presidel
.o Of the principal roads and trustee
" lessee for others, is man only 45 yea
'e old, who began his career as a roadml
&c on the Northern Pacific line. Archiba
D Angus Mcleod, this new monarch
= the rail, is Of Scotch parentage, but
9 American birth, born in ls47. Beginnh
h while but a lad in the lowest walks
' railroad life, he rose so rapidly that
II 1856 he was called from the northwC
" by parties Interested i'm the Readil
81 Road, and made its general manag
" He rapidly renovated the entire Lin
le inaugurated a new and more efiicie
train service, and had already acquir
er high standing as a practical railro
h- man when he astonished the world
engineering the great combine Of Ii
wiuier