The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-27
RAILROAD NOTES.

The big train shed at Broad street
station, Philadelphia, is TO be removed to
Camden, it is said, where extensive i'm
provements are to be made.
The annual meeting of the Mount
Holly, Lumberton aud Medford Railroad
Company was held at Mount Holly on
Saturday. The following officers were
elected:-Henry l. Budd. President; Cliff
ford Stanley Sims, Vice President; Isaac
w. Stokes, Secretary u Treasurer ;
Henry c.. Risdon. Daniel Suffer, franklin
B. Lewis and Edward Willis, Directors.
Conductor Abram Ball, of the South
Orange Accommodation, is on his vaea-
ton.
A schedule of four and one-half hours
between New York and the national Cap
ital is contemplated.
A number of trainmen of the PeunsyI-
vania road are investing a dollar a week
in building lots at North Elizabeth.
The whole length of the Erie between
Jersey City and Buffalo, and also to Sala-
manca, is now working under the block
system.
The Erie Is to have a red line to rival
the royal blue line of the Reading. Even
the locomotives will be painted red, like
theS Schenectady engine nov in use
In making railroad tunnels and in
sinking wells and pits in Arizona, Nevada
and Utah, salt strata are said to be often
l oO 000Cos ~ 10 IuIbu6T
stated that hundreds OF fish, perfectly
preserved, are found in blocks of this
pure rock salt. -
People do not seem to get accustomed
to odd minutes in the starting time of the
trains to Newark on the Central after
half past three in the afternoon. The
change is an old one, and yet scores OF
people hurry to catch the four and five
o'clock trains every day, only to find that
the trains started seven minutes before
the hour.
It cost the Pennsylvania. Poughkeepsie
81 Boston Railroad about one thousand
dollars to back up to the Lewisburg
Station recently for three barrels of hick-
DRY nuts. When the freight train ran
past the station and backed up, another
train. which was following, hit it in the
rear. A native who saw the collision
said:-"Thatc comes of runnin' two trains
in the same direction the same day"
On account of the dullness of the coal
trade an order has been posted in the
Delaware, Lackawanna g. Western Sta
tion at Scranton, Pa, saying that all con-
ductors who have been promoted within
the last four years will have to go buck
to breaking. and Jail breakmen recently
appointed will be- laid off.
Since The Philadelphia and Reading as
sqmed control of the Reading road aud
discontinued shipping coal over the Bel
videre and Delaware Railroad, the en-
ployes of the later have had an easy time
OF it. having but little work to do except
when trading off with engineers aud fire.
men of freight trains and shifting en-
gines.
The usual monthly meeting of Newark
Lodge. 219, Brotherhood of Trainmen,
will not take place on Sunday. Being
Christmas Day. the meeting will be held
on the following Wednesday evening,
Deem Der %. After routine business has
been transacted a social session will be
held, duriug which Brother Alfred
Schroeder will give some selections from
Shakespeare.
1t is stated on reliable authority that
the general passenger departments OF the
Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio
roads have already contracted for The
Ira nsnorfation to Washington of between
1860 to 300, 600 persons to attend the IN
auguration of President-elect Cleveland.
The Southern road, principally the Rich
mond & Danville. Chesapeake & Ohio,