The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-03-17

it Is expected that all of them Will be de-
livered and in service.
The annual report of the Susquehanna
showed that last year the gross earnings
we're 81. Csc, 522, an increase of s64, 439; the
operating expenses were 1907, 1888; the net
earnings, S74S. 7SS; other income, $4,000;
total income, SITS, 900; dividend of N per
cent, on the preferred stock. S643.360; sur
plus, $135, 400. The total cost of the West
End Improvements up to December 81
was $147, 960.
V-shaped contrivances, to be placed on
the front of engines of fast express trains,
are the latest schemes to get more speed
by overcoming much of the natural re-
~sistance of the air to the front OF the
locomotive, says the English Mechanic,
The pillow extends from few inches above
the track to the top Of the smokestack,
the sharp edge. OF course. III Iroae,
'Shoveling fog' Is a common expression
among railroad men, but blowing wind
is a new thing in railroad agriculture.
The Railroad Gazette says that the
new engine, No. 1856, on the Central has
broken all previous records by making
on February 30 a mile in 39A seconds,
which is at the rate OF 9l.7 miles an nour-
1t says:-''The timing was done by two
persons with stop watches, n we have
good reason to believe that there is no
mistake in it. We have received indicator
diagrams taken during the run and shall
publish them in u next issue. Ihey
show the action of the steam at speeds OF
from So to 91.7 miles per hour"
From the following extract from the
Argentine Railroad law it is evident that
Argentine proposes to grant abundant
protection to passengerS:-"The traveller
who. for want of room in the coaches. IS
obliged to travel in a superior class TO
that for which he has taken O ticket,
must not pay excess to the railroad Tor
making use of the higher class. When
for the same reason a traveller has had TO
occupy a seat OF inferior class to that
specified in his ticket, the company st
at the end of the journey refund to MIN
the entire amount paid for his ticket. III
all the seats corresponding to the class
for which a ticket has been Issued are &C.
cupied, and thereby a passenger Is COM
PEELED to stand, he can demand that me
half OF the price of his ticket be refunded.
unless there be a special agreement to
the contrary"
The Railroad Gazette says:-The Penn
sylvania Railroad is trying to get together
for purposes Of comparison a number or
locomotives OF different types. The COM
PAW has ordered therefore from the
Baldwin Locomotive Works q ten wheel
passenger engine compounded on the
Vauclain system; from the Schenectady
Works a passenger engine compounded
on the Pitkin system and from the same
works a simple engine with 19X
"a cylinders and 615 foot drivers. weighing
about 1913. 900 pounds. All of these engines
are ordered simply for purposes ofiinvesti-
cation ana comparison. 1t is pretty well
known that the Baldwin compound No.
50 master Mechanics Association en-
gine) has been running on the Pennsvl-
yanin Railroad and on the Pennsylvania
lines west of Pittsburg within the last few
weeks, and it is supposed that she has
-rI les, nav n An nn8 w.
believe that the experimental engine or
dered from the Baldwin is prac ticelly a
duplicate of this one"
Engineer Walter Richardson, the young
est man at the throttle OF the Green wood
Lake road, Is recovering from a severe
wound on the thigh which he received
last month when his engine jumped the
track zeal Ringwood Junction and rolled
down the bank thirty feet. He had a
miraculous escape from death and aside
from a few bruises his only injury was
caused by a bolt which ran into his thigh.
A commuter on the Morris & Essex
road remarked n day last week that it
seemed to him that scarcely a day passed
that he was not invited to purchase a
subscribe for some fund by The employees
OF the road. This is, of course. an exag-
geration. but there is altogether too much
of this kind of begging, and a really good
object suffers from 1t by reason of the
character of some Of h enterprises for
which support is solicited.
Great progress is being made with the
new ferry arrangements of the Pennsyl-
vania on both sides OF the river. The big
waiting room in this city is nearly COM
pleted and galleries have been suspended
over each of the ferry BRIDGES to give in
gress and egress to the upper decks oil the
boats. Three of the boats are double
lonlyorc nnu aud nfhnrs nrn hGInp
changed. The Chicago is the last one ell
tered and is o in commission, but the
approaches to the upper decks front the
ferry slips are not yet ready. When
everything is completed, which will be
before the first or April, passengers can
leave the trains and walk directly into
the upper saloon of the boat without de-
scendlug any stairs until they cross the
river and reach the far side of West
street. On the New York side the ferry
bridges are being equipped with the new
raising and lowering devices. such as are
used on the Central ferry.
A force of men are actively at work at
Corson's Inlet putting in a switch to con-
meet the West Jersey Railroad Company's
line with the Pennsylvania and Seashore
Railroad, recently purchased in the West
jerseys interest. 1t is rumored that con-
nection will be made with the Camden
and Atlantic road at WinSlow Junction,
and at Corson's Inlet another connection
will be mad for Ocean City, the main
line running through Sea Isle City and
Avalon to Stony Harbor. The West Jer-
sey Railroad bridge across Townsend's
Inlet will soon be completed and the road
across Avalon is already graded, and ii
will take but a short time to lay the rails
after the completion of the bridge. AT
the Stony Harbor terminus a lasge hotel
will be erected, plans for which ara out,
an q It will be ready for ccuDanc before
the season opens.
An investigation of the recent fires on
the Amboy Division of the Pennsylvania
that the incendiary is a half demented
person who has been threatening venge'
ance against the company because his
brother was killed while making a flying
drill about a year ago. When the pas
senger and freight station at Vincentown
was destroyed it was generally believed tc
be the work or pinehawkers. but since
then there has been discovered evidence
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