The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-05
RAILROAD NOTES.

Railway travelling in India Is the cheap
est in the world.
A locomotives strength equals 900
horses.
China has forty miles of railroad.
The Southern Pacific is compelling
telegraphers to take oath that they are
not union men.
Secretary Fleming of the Telegraphers'
Mutual Benefit Association reports an
increase of 1000 in membership during
the last year.
The PENNSYLVANIA Iron Works Com
pany, at Philadelphia, Pa, is construct
ing the driving machinery for the new
cable system of the New York Third
Avenue Railroad Company.
Edison says he will drive all the street
cars in New York with electricity. 1t
Will cost fsom $50 600 to 100000 per mile
of double track. The existing cable roads
cost from Sl50,000 to $300.0O0 per mile in
that city.
A good'many locomotive engines are
being compounded, and all railroad man
ayers expect to have to use the COM
pounded engine. The Reading Company
mas ordered twenty-one.
If all the locomotives in the United
States were coupled together they would
make Il train 200 miles long. Add the
passenger cars and we would have q
train 1000 miles long. carrying 1,50O.00O
passengers.
sioners report that during the year $3.50
persons were killed and 29034 were in-
jured on the railroads of the United
States OF the killed 2.451 were en-
ployes.
An Italian engineer has originated a
system by which he proposes TO utilize
the power of trains running down grade;
that is, he has devised machine for
COMPRISING air as the train goes down,
which can be used TO actuate Il motor at
the will of the engineer, and to assist the
| locomotive on up grades.
Compressed air is used in the Union
Pacific Company's shed at Portland for
| removing dust on railway cars. 1t is de-
| liyered from q flexible hose with small
nozzle at pressure of fifty pounds to tn e
| square inch. 1t Is very effective in clean
| ing plush cushions.
| The Pennsylvania Railroad has sent q
| train of three cars and an engine from
Jersey City to Washington, 22S miles, in
| four hours actual running time.
The fastest regular train in the world
is run between Hamburg and Berlin,
Germany, making fifty-two and one
| third miles per hour, including stops.
| The longest and heaviest tram ever
carried over any railroad in this country
| consisted of 225 loaded four-wheel coal
cars on the Lehigh Valley railroad.
| English locomotives have neither bells,
| headlights nor cowcatchers. Warning is
| gwen Dy Lne SlTllleSI VI WuiSllcS.
| The Susquenanua has ordered 200 coal
| AMI freight cars.
| The Lehigh Valley has placed orders
| for twenty-five new passenger coaches
and nearly three thousand freight cars.
| George Meeker, who was station
agent on the line of the Lackawanpa.
has been appointed yardmaster at Ho-
| boken.
The operators and dispatchers along
| the Air Line and Michigan division of
| the Lake Shore have circulated a petition
to the company asking an advance in
wages. The petition has been signed by
| the dispatchers and operators and Will
soon be ready for presentation to the
company 1t is thought that unless their
demands are acceded TO strike will be
| inaugurated.
A locomotives strength equals 900
horses.
Ice eighteen inches thick will support a
| railroad train.
Depot Master Hall and Assistant Depot
Masters Dusenbury aud Wheaton, of the
Erie Railroad, are arrayed In very hand
| some uniforms of a military pattern, the
design of Division Superintendent Fitch.
| The change is made so that the travelling
public can at a glance distinguish those
in authority from the traiumen and at
teudants around the station.
PENNSYLVANIA and the Atlantic Coast
line will put in service January an ad-
ditionnl fast train to Florida, leaving
New York at 9:30 a. m. Washington 4 p,
M, auh arriving at Jacksonville at p.
m. next day. This train will be daily,
except Sundays. On January is the
New York and Florlaa vestibue limited
express, leaving New York tri-week ly.
and running direct to st. Augustine, will
be put on
1t took 10000 cars to TRANSPORT the
grapes of the United States to market
lasI year. The VINEYARDS of this country
represent an investment of $l55,000, ,00I
| and OVar