The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-11-05

short Paragraphs That Wii be of Interest
to tho Railroad Boys


Valley Road, lie made is nust trir
successfully on last Friday
Charley Weinlond Is on engine %
Lehigh Valley, in the Packerton yards
I t"Dora" Fenuer is back on the road
after recovering from severe injury
sustained some weeks since at Mahon.
ing Siding.
7 Nathanal Ruch, of town, has sue.
ceeded Geo. Reichard at Packorton
and Ed Ditterline has been promoted
TO the position occupied bo Mr.. Rnch.
+ Elmer e. Hufford has returned
from st. Louis, and is again at his old
post, running the Lehigh Valley flyer
between White Haven and Avoca. lie
went West to take situation as engi-
neer, but feared he would be unable to
retain permanent position, so he re-
turned as stated His friends are glad
TO have him back again
i The Central Railroad of New Jer.
sey will in few days test the new
Boluss air brake. After repeated con
fereuces with the officials of that road,
the inventor has succeeded in having
trial Of his patent granted. Unlike
the ordinary air brake, very little of
the compressed air is wasted when in
use, the surplus being exhausted back
into the receiver. This will make it
particularly effective on steep grades
At recent test train of three cars
running at the rate of IS miles was
stopped in 10 seconds. in distance of
63j feet
( Attorney General Stockton, in be-
half Of the State, appeared before
Chancellor McGill in Jersey Thurs.
day to argue for the State in the mat
ter of an application for "a receiver for
the Lehigh Valley, New Jersey Central,
Eastern & Amboy and Delaware and
Bound Brook railway companies. The
action is brought TO enforce the in
junction regarding the coal combine
arrangement Chas Gorbin, counsel
for the Lehigh Valley company, asked
for an adjournment because the law.
yers for the accompanies concerned
were unable to appear on account of
having other important engagements,
and also because of the illness Of ex.
Chancellor Williams, counsel for the
New Jersey Central. Chancellor Nc
Gill granted the application and fixed
November II as the day on which the
defendant corporations should file
their answers, and Nov. - as the time
when the preliminary hearing will be
had. On that day the time will be set
for the final hearing.
/ Hon. Hugh Ferry, the Democratic
member of the Legislature from Car
bon county, was the first man to intro
duce bill in the Legislature to compel
railroads to adopt a uniform coupler
This was to save the lives and limbs of
railroad men. Mr.. Ferry worked hard
to have it become a law but failed. W.
f. Biery, the present Democratic can.
didate, will take up Mr.. Ferry's work
and try to make this a law. Railroad
men, vote for your interests Vote for
Biery, who is a friend of the Railroad
men. Do not be fooled in voting for
the monopoly party against your inter.
est,or for its representative, Ben Kuntz
/ The statement of the Philadelphia
x Reading Railroad Company for Sep
tember, 1892, shows: Gross traffic re.
ceipts, S2,l64,922.56; traffic expense
sl,O73, HOOP; profit in operating, 81 ,O9l,.
1924; receipts from other sources
$40, $50 l3; making the total profit fol
the month, 5l,ll2,33252. Against this
is charged 89,7l757 expenditures fol
permanent improvements, and SG25,OOC
as one-twelfth of the current years
fixed charges, leaving "a surplus for the
month of si77,71495. The surplus fol
September, 1892, was s423,887.96. The
surplus for ten months of the current
fiscal year is S2,5S4,SO3,93, an increase
of ai76,47S.G2, compared with the cor
responding period of the last fisca
year.
I Master Mechanic Richards, of the
Philadelphia * Reading Railroad
claims to haye invented a locomotive
that will eclipse anything ever atemp
ted in this line heretofore. The loco
motive is to be constructed for the
Worlds Fair at Chicago, and will MAKE
its trial trip from Philadelphia to New
York, which distance it is expected tC
cover in less than one hours time
Following is a description of the uev
locomotive: In outward appearance,
the new locomotive will not differ ma
terially from the speedy ones now uset
by the company. The driving wheel
will trihe larger, being six fee
high in place of five feet eight inches
as at present, and the engine will weigl
fifty tons, "a small increase over tn
present weight. The popularity o
construction lies in the fact that in
stead of the two cylinders as now used
there will be four. One cylinder will
be located on each side Of the locomo
tive frame as at present, and the othe
two will be cast on what is known "A
2 the cylinder saddle. The inside cyliu
ders are to be cast in one piece an
will be horizontal to the outside one.
The four cylinders will entirely over
come what is known to engineers a
the dead centre, and the engine will b
perfectly balanced without an
, coInterbalance in the driving wheel
, This latter improvement will be th
means of saving from soto 80 per cen
of the present wear and tear of tb
3 road bed, as it will do away with tn
' vicious pounding which has proved 5
, destructive to modern road beds. III
i engine will glide smoothly and easil
e along, and there will not be any of ii
sudden starts and jerks so notieeab
p, in those of the present time. The,
;. are especially noticeable in the star
ing when it is necessary to reverse Il
IS engine before start can be made.
p this invention, owing to the perfe
v balance, this will not be necessary, Il
engine starting forward as soon as Il
>. valve is opened.
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