The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-02
RAILROAD NOTES.

The Mount Holly and Smithville bicycle rail-
way will be opened for travel on July 4.
The summer change on the Lackawanna went
into effect on Monday.
The Dover car shops of the LackaWanna ap-
pear to be busting with work
New signal frames and towers are being
erected at Communipaw for the handling of the
joint traffic now concentrated at that point.
One of the least enviable positions man can
assume is sitting in metal box on the cylinder
of lightning express and taking indicator
cards with an instrume mt designed for register
ing the action of the steam on the piston. Such
test was recently made on the new compound
flyer on the Central.
The change made by the Lehigh Valley trains
from the Pennsylvania road to the New Jersey
Central was made without much trouble and
without attracting much attention. The trains
now run out of the big shed at Communipaw
ferry, and new station called Lehigh junction
has been established on the line of the Newark
& New York branch just below Brill's station
The change on the Greenwood Lake railroad
puts on two Sunday trains each way They
leave Newark at 9;35 and 1882 A. NJ, and the
lake at 539 and 7:s3. Then there is fast ex-
press on week days in each direction. Going up
it leaves at 4:39 p. NJ and reaches the lake at
5:46 Coming down in the morning IT leaves
Sterling Forest at sos and arrives in Newark at
9l0. The new schedule went into operation on
Monday.
The new railroad being constructed between
Morristown and Mendham has reached Brook
side From that place the railroad line will
follow the Whippany valley until Morristown is
reached The road will be in operation by
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is in an
enviable position in having the parts of its
engines standardized so that they, are inter
chaugeable and new parts can be made to replace
broken ones without delay Roads which have
engines of several makes can not do this.
1t is announced that the Susqnehauna intends
to build a branch from its line to Englewood to
compete with the Northern for the trade of that
district
The Erie men have secured permission to wear
black silk caps this summer in place of the
white caps which were so difficult to keep clean
on this smoky road.
The Port Reading order forbidding passenger
train employees smoking or chewing does not ex-
tend to the engine men. They will continue to
use tobacco In spite of orders
Rumors of the absorption of the Susquehanna
by the Pennsylvania were given color last week
by a whole train of Pennsylvania cars going
over the line and was followed by an observation
car containing directors Of the Pennsylvania
road The Pennsy lvania is after mora coal and
it is just possible that il will get the Susque-
hanna road. In fact there is reason to believe
that it will be officially announced this week that
the Pennsylvania has leased the line.
Frank j. Griffith is now one oil the busiest
men in the Lackawanna service. He is acting
superintendent of the Morris & Essex division
in the absence of Andrew Reasoner, who is
taking a well earned rest and will probably
never return to duty. Mr.. Griffith has a natural
faculty for hard work, and his added duties d o
not seem to ruife his temper. Ha is extremely
popular all along the line, and has the respect
and regard of all OF the employees. This makes
his duties much smoother than they would other
wise be.
Since the consolidation under the Philadelphia
& Reading, the engineers and firemen of the
Lehigh Valley and Philadelphia & Reading have
come TO an understanding of the more enviable
condition of the Central men. 1t is said that
the Central engine men make more money than
those on either of the other lines and have less
dridgery. A Central fireman stepping down
from his engine at the end Of his run knows that
q man employed by the company will clean the
fire, wipe the engine and house IT,
He has nothing to do but break coal and
fire his engine while running He finds a
good fire when he is ready to start, and, more
over, receives from twenty to fifty per cent.
day more than the men similarly employed on
the other lines of the same system, who have TO
attend to their own fires, clean their engines
and must not leave it until it is safely stabbed
1t las been predicted that the new management
will eQualize The pay on the several lines If
they Try to do It by scaling down the pay of the
Central men, they W II have a bigger fight on
hand than they ever tackled before. it is said.