The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-10-21
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/ The Lehigh Valley Railroad has is.
sued notices TO ticket agents calling at
tention to the quarantine regulations IN
Georgia, due TO the yellow fever scare.
No person is permitted to enter the
State unless provided with health
certificate or Identification card is
sued by the officers of the city where
such persons reside. Otherwise such
persons are liable to detention for ex-
animation or exclusion.
I The Lehigh Valley Railroad COM
bination car and engine No. 300 has
been named "DorothY," after Gen.
Supt. r. A. Wilbur's little daughter.
The name is placed in the side Of the
car i'll artistic letters in silver.
I The Lehigh Valley Railroad Com
pauy has posted notices along its lines
announcing that hereafter the wages
OF switchmen will be uniform, and Will
be $3.50 per day Of l. hours instead Of
Sl.j5, as heretofore.
I The Lehigh Valleys Philadelphia
offices will not be removed to the
Reading depot, as at first intended,
but will remain in their present loca-
ton on Third street.
/ A new Lehigh Valley Railroad time
table will 20 into effect on the first Of
November. Several changes are ex.
pected
The Tamaqua, Hazleton and North.
ern Railroad, branch of the Reading
system, haS been abandoned It was
built two years ago at great expense
to connect the Reading with d. S. &
S.
4The Wilkes Barre and Eastern Rail
Road has been completed between
Stroudsburg and Wilkes-Barre. It is
sixty-seven aud half miles long and
cost 100000, exclusive of the equip.
ment.
/ The Railway Age says that in the
first nine months of the year over
1000 miles of railroad were built and
possibly 5000 may be built this year.
The Hazelton Sentinel makes the
prediction that EckleY b. Coke will sue
ceed e. p. Wilbur as President of the
Lehigh Valley, and re-asserts its former
statement that Governor Pattison Is
booked for an important position In
the company's management, seven If
he hasn't yet heard of it," Governor
Pattison denied the report some days
ago.
tThe statistics which the Railroad
Gazette has collected of the attempts
made during the first six months of the
present year at train-wreckinR
and train robbing in the United States
show that the greater OF these crimes
have occurred not in the sparsely set
tied Western States, but in the older
and we'll settled states. The figures
show siXty-One attempts to wreck
trains and twenty-one attempts to rob
| NANAAs @Aeh9oANhhoNbho anu
head the list in number of attempts to
wreck trains and Ohio follows. In
these three advanced States were made
more than one-half of all the attempts
to wreck trains, and the State OF New
York comes next in the order. The
only explanation offered for this pre-,
ponderance of train wrecking in we'll
settled and, generally speaking we'll.
governed States, is that the mileage Of
railroads is greater in those States than
in others and that tramps who are re
sponsible for most attempts to wreck
trains flourish in thickly settled re-
gions sixty-seYeD per cent. OF all the
train robberies or attempted train rob
berries occurred in these four States
and two Territories.