The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-08-12
ON THE RAILROADS
BRIEF MENTION ORA WEEKS M.
INGs ON THE Rail-.
Short Paragraphs That Will hs Of Intsro.,
TO the Railroad BoVs.

Short Paragraphs That Will be Of Intsres,
to the Railroad Bovs.
tChairman Hughes, Of the press
committee, representing the LehiRh
Valley employees, gave the following
statement of the results Of the confer
enoe with the Reading offici ais at Beth
lehem.
IA satisfactory settlement was reached
by the committee and Mr.. Voorhees,
Thursday. While the men we're not
granted all they had requested they
agree that they have received all that
could be reasonably expected at this
time, taking into consideration the
crippled condition of the Reading
Company's finances and the general
depression in business. Many rules
have been adopted which will be Of
great advantage to the employees"
A peculiar sounding locomotive
whistle has been attracting the atten.
ton of many people hereabouts recent.
ly. 1t is called a chime whistle and
much resembles in sound the whistles
of river steamers. The engine that
boasts of this new whistle is No. Alb, of
the Central Rail Road of New Jersey
and it does the shifting between Easton
and Mauch Chunk.
! Engineer Smith sylvester. with An
glne 625 recently made ss miles in az
minutes on the Lehigh Valley r. r,
between Batavia aud Rochester juno.
ton, N. Y, including two stops.
tH.P. Baldwin, of New York, general
passenger agent of the New Jersey
Central Rail Road, toOk trip mn
along the Lehigh&Laekawanna Rail
Road Saturday, aud made a halt of
several hours at Savlors Lake. Il is
probable that important improvements
viii oe made at this paradise among
the blue hills of Monroe County.
frhe Central has 10 new locomotives
IN use. They are q wheel conneotsd
hogs and the boys say that they cannot
oe beat. They were built by Baldwin.
I Glen onoko is continually growing
in popular favor, and is more extep.
sively patronized this season than ever
This is largely owning to the numb.r
Oh improvements made there this saa
son by Supt, Esser and Supervisor
Morrison, who have taken charge of
The ilen this year for the first tlma
Inc local pee wee train hauled 19OOo
passengers between the Glen and
Mauch Chunk during July, which is
HUI more than the same train baula5
in July of last year.
1.-THE Pennsylvania Railroad has is-
sued orders that all shop and road
men upon its entire system shauun.
I'LL further notice, work but fiys days
per week, of hours each, instead Of
W hours per week as heretofore. The
reason assigned for this step is that the
work on hand is almost complete and
The work required to be done il not
sufhcient to justify the company In re.
tanning the present large force. Bv
reducing the hours of labor Is honrs
per week the company is enabled TO
Keep is entire force in partial employ.
ment, at least until such time as thu
situation briRhtens up.
! The Reading Railroad Company
mas Just completed placing emergency
rails at every mile post from one end
OF their route TO the other. They are
elevated loosely on posts set in the
ground to the height of about two and
half aud are so located that in case
OF a rail breaking along the road at any
point, the engineer knows that at the
turthest he is only half mile either way
from another rail. Heretofore in aeoi-
dents OF that kind the nearest section
mouse, perhaps ten or twelve miles
away, would have to he visited before
a rail to replace the broken one could
De found, often demonstrating a delay
OF hours, but under the new dispensa.
all that is avoided.
7 The Glen Pee Wee, Daniel Miller
hauled 1900 passengers be-
tween the Glen and MAuch Cbapk
during the month of July. This in
cludes excursionsists and local patron.
age, but does not cover the entire traffic
to the Glen, because the passengers are
also carried by regular trains as we'll as
by the trains on the central. Mr.
Miller's train last year in July carried
oOOO
The order to close the Lehigh
Valley Shops on Saturday was followed
with an order directing Master
Mechanic Kinsey to suspend one hund-
red shop hands. The order following so
close on the Saturday suspension order
the men to be not little gloomy
Master Mechanic Kinsey, desiring to
do the best he could for all the men,
ordered an alternate suspension Of one
hundred men for one week. The sus-
pension takes in 20 machinist, 80 car
penters, 10 blaoksmiths, 5foundrymon,
and y from the erecting shop. The
balance include painters, car cleaners
and laborers, employed principally Ia
the yard