The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-03-28
R.;lroad Notes.

1t is rumored that the New Jersey Cen
trail railroad shops will be moved from
Manchester to either Red Bank or Eaton.
town.
The eighth anniversary of Camden Di-
vision, No. 10, Order of Railway Conduc-
tors, was held at Morgan Hall, Camden,
Sunday afternoon. The committee in
charge were Messrs. l. D. Peck, John G.
Clark, ]. A. Connell, David Elms, Fill
more Lewis, J. P. Ancker, Harry P. Dill
and Samuel w. Davis. The afternoon
was spent in singing. speaking, Rotations
and social intercourse. A fine lunch was
served, which was thoroughly enjoyed by
the large number of persons present.
The annual report of the Pennsylvania
railroad for 1892 shows that the road did
an enormous volume of business at phe-
nomenally low figures. The freight re-
turns from this road may fairly be re-
garded as exhibiting very high develop
ment of land transportation, both in re-
gard to quantity and to cheapness. The
road last year carried no less than 14l,
81 ,S46 tons of freight for an average dis
lance of 95 IS miles. This is equivalent to
the moving of Is, 457 ,037. 1866 tons one mile.
The charges amounted to only 6.26 mills
per ton per mile. The system under
which this enormous freight business was
done is simply perfect, and the great cor
poration is no less perfect in its system
of passenger transportation.
The mixed Union Transportation Co.
passenger and freight train which leaves
Hightstown for Pemberton at 10 A. NJ,
was wrecked when about a mile from
Hightstown on Tuesday morning. The
accident was caused by a broken rail.
Two freight cars and one passenger coach
jumped the track and ploughed along the
ditch on their sides. Fortunately no one
was seriously injured, although the de-
rallied passenger car contained five per-
sons who were thrown in heap together.
The passengers were Mrs. Thomas Burns,
her mother and baby, of Sharon, Trick
Burtis, of Hightstown, and VIM. H. Reed.
of Englshtown. Baggage Master Edward
Jones and Brakemen John Compton and
Gordon Guie, however, who were in the
baggage-car, were considerably bruised.
The train was in charge of Conductor
Henry Rogers, with Andrew Jones, en-
gineer. and Alfred Powell, fireman.
One of the most interesting of the ex-
hibits to be made at the Worlds Fair by
the Pennsylvania Railroad will be the To-
connective John Bull and a train of cars
such as were used on the old Camden and
Amboy Railroad in 1885. The original To-
connective, built in England by Stephen
son, shipped to this country and put up by
Isaac Dripps at Bordentown in 1881, has
been for a number of years in the
National Museum at Washington. The
engine and two of the old passenger
coaches have recently been transferred to
the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
where they are undergoing such repairs
as may be necessary to fit them for the
trip to Chicago. The company proposes
to run this train of locomotive and two
cars from New York and Philadelphia To
Chicago at date previous to the opening
of the Fair. The train will be run over
the Pennsylvania Railroad by easy stages,
with frequent stops at prominent stations
on the line to afford the public an oppor-
tunity of seeing how their grandfathers
The entire trip will be made in
daylight and three and half or four days
will be allowed. A number of passengers
will be carried from point to point on the
line. 1t is claimed that the antique
with its two coaches, can
make 80 miles per hour on easy grades,
and. while no spurts Of speed will be at
tempted, it will be run at very creditable
rate of peed throughout the entire 9l2
miles.