The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-22
RAILROAD NOTES.


to the Railroad Boys.
t"Jack" Walters, Valley engineer,
is enjoying months rest and recu-
peration.
/ tCharley Meyers, of Packerton, is a
new Valley brakeman on what is known
as the "rip-rap."
/ The Central pay car will leave Eas-
ton to-day friday and pay as far as
Mauch Chunk.
tJohn Esrang, of Franklin, is back
on the Valley road where he handles
a throttle.
I Engineer Henry Turner will run
one of the Central's fast freights be-
tween Scranton and Mauch Chunk.
/ The Lehigh Valley Railroad report
for July shows sS6, 1880 increased net
earnings, and for the eight months end
ing with July sS1s,231.76 increase.
/ The Lehigh Valley Railroad Com
pany has adopted a new style of smoke
stacks for its locomotives. 1t is a cast
iron stack and does not look as we'll as
the old style, but will be cheaper on
account of not having any lining to
wear out.
towing to the break between the
Reading and Pennsylvania, the latter
will get five coal trains a day from the
Delaware, Lackawanna j. Western at
Manunka Chunk. Heretofore the coal
used to be delivered at Phillipsburg by
the Central and Lehigh Valley.
! Harry Blank, an engineer on the
Valley, is "off'' for running in the hind
end of another train. Luther CHASER,
who was pilot for Blank, is "of" also.
Blanks dismissal may cause some
trouble as it is considered by many TO
be an imposition.
I Some surprise was created Thurs
day by the election of eX-President Il.
P. Wilbur, of the Lehigh Valley Rail
road Company, to the Board of Mana
gers of the Reading Company, vice
Thomas Cochran, resigned. The object
in making this change, it was stated,
was due to the desire to give the Lehigh
Valley representation in the Reading
Board, and thus solidifying existing
arrangements between the two com
panies.
The statement of the Philadelphia
and Reading Relief Association for the
month of September shows payments
aggregatlng s19,50l.2O. On account of
deaths S9,5O0.0O was paid; on account
of accident disablements, S5,l9iOO, and
on account of sick disablements, a,
SO7.20. The total number of cases was
735. There we're twenty three death
claims paid-nine from accident and
fourteen from natural causes.
The announcement mas been made
at Pottsville that the main line en-
ployees of the Philadelphia a Reading
system in that district, commencing
with the month of September last, will
hereafter be allowed extra for all the
time spent on the road over twelve
hours. A committee of the men waited
upon the company's officials some time
ago and we're promised pay for over
time, commencing with last month
The men we're paid, prior TO the strike
of 1887, for all time over l2 hours, but
this was disallowed when the strike
was lost.
New York, October Attorney
General John P. Stockton, of New
Jersey, and EX-Judge Frederick W
Stevens appeared in the Chancellor,
chambers in Jersey City and asked
that a receiver be appointed to tax,
charge of the New Jersey Central Rail
road, the Easton and Amboy Railroad
and the Delaware and Bound Brool
Railroad Company to enforce Tia,
Chancellor's injunction against all tn,
railroads in the coal combination il
New Jersey. The Chancellor granted
without hesitation the prayers In botl
and made the rules reJurnable on Octo
Der q. The promptness with whiel
the prayers were granted is, to lawyer
familiar with the court procedure, al
most positive indication that receive
will be appointed, particularly as tn
Attorney General has filed with hi
papers a mass Of evidence showing tina
the temporary and permanent order
Of the court forbidding increases in tn
price of coal have been ignored an,
violated.