The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-01-17
Railroad Notes.

Lewis J. Allen, son of Colonel James
W. Allen, of Bordentown, who has been
Supervisor of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
has been appointed Assistant Engineer
of the Delaware Division of the Philadel-
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad.
An extra freight train ON the Camden
and Amboy division Saturday ran into
the smoking car of passenger train at
Florence turnout. four miles from Borden
town and about half mile below Kinkora
The car was wrecked. and Justice Eph-
rain Woodward, of Ellisdale, received in
iuries which will probably result fatally
Several other passengers were slightly in
jured. The tracks were so slippery that
the engineer of the freight train was not
able to halt his train, though he saw the
passenger train from distance.
Wilson Brown, superintendent Of the
Belvidere Division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad. has assumed charge of the Am
boy Division, with headquarters at Cam
den. The new division of which Super
intendent Ellmaker becomes the head. is
an important one, inasmnch as the en-
tire local train service of Philadelphia is
embraced within its Jurisdiction. When
it is remembered that the number of
trains that daily arrive and depart from
the Pennsylvania station is somewhere
about five hundred, it will be understood
that it requires some careful vancouver
ing to handle the service.
The Mount Holly accommodation as it
entered the Camden yard at o'clock
Wednesday morning was stopped near
the round house. The engineer left the
cab and during his absence the throttle
was thrown open and the engine was pre-
cipitated into the pit. The pilot and
front part of the engine was badly dam
aged. The engine was in charge of En-
gineer Alfred Reynolds. Ali engines en-
tering the yard after the accident were
obliged to use the turn-table in the upper
portion of the yard. The wrecker was
Immediately summoned and had the OBJ
struction removed shortly after noon.
A yellow. time-stained copy of The Sat-
urday Eusning Post, of Philadelphia. dated
May IL, 1927, contains the following lad
which is of interest in connection with
the efforts which the leading railroads are
continually making to reduce the running
time between Philadelphia and the me-
tropolis Fare reduced to 81. Citizens
Line for New York. through in one day,
via Bordentown and Washington. "A
miles land carriage in conjunction with
the steamboats, Pennsylvania and Con-
gress. The steamboat Pennsylvania, Cap
tain Kellum, leaves Arch street wharf
every morning, Sunday excepted), at 8
o'clock A. NJ, for Burlington. Bristol and
Bordentown. Passengers for New York
will take coach from Bordentown to
Washington. twenty-four miles. and there
take the steamboat Congress, Captain DE
Graw, and arrive in New York early the
same afternoon. Fare through only 81
For seats apply to the steamboat Office,
No. 8 Arch Street, corner Of Front, or Of
the captain on board of the boat. or at
Arch street wharf. All baggage at the
risque of its owners.
n B.-Coaches will be in waiting on the
arrival Of the boat at Bristol to take pas
sengers to Trenton and return again in
time to take the boat to Philadelphia.