The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-09
NOTES.

The Susquehanna is building a yard at
Little Ferry near Hackensack, for hand
ling its coal trains, Which will ultim ately
be sent through the new tunnel The Goa
Is now transhipped to the Lackawanna
at West End. The Susquehanna will
1t will cross he West Shore and Northern
roads 10y means of bridges.
II anything causes s.the financial
failure Of the Chicago Fair, it
will be the determination of the
railroad companies to keep the
rates up to the mark decided upon. 1t is
scarcely probable, however, that they will
be sustained. Clever railroad men say
that before the fair opens the price of an
excursion ticket will be less than the one
way rate at present.
There are all sorts of reports about
Lackawanna extensions. One is that the
company has decided to extend its line
westward to Toledo from Buffalo. and
join b Toledo, Ann Arbor and North
Michigan Railroad. Then, it ia said, the
Wabash will build from Montpelier, Ind,
TO Toledo, and give the Lackawanna a
short line to Chicago n make the Wa
bash and Lackawanna a strong trunk
line between Chicago and New York.
Then 1t is reported that the Lackawanna
is surveying for a line through the Scno-
harie Valley, which will connect at Rot
terdam Junction with the Hoosac tunnel
road 10 Boston.
Work mas been resumed upon the spur
of the L. ckawauna which is to end III o
picnic grove or something else at Lake
Aopatcong. The Forcite Powder Com
pany started this branch several years
age. and the railroad company took the
job of its hands and has allowed the work
to languish since. It starts at the old
S~hipningport Forge and runs almost to
the Forcite Works.
Moses Taylor Division is composed of
conductors of the Morris & Essex road
who withdrew from the Order of Rail.
way Conductors when that organization
became a striking order. They at once
affiliated with the Independent Order of
Railway Conductors, which is the only
non-striking railway order in existence.
Moses Taylor Division is three years old,
and is in a f1ourishing condition.
The members of Moses Taylor Division.
Independent Order of Railway Conduct
ors, held its annual meeting at Hoboken
on Thursday, and elected the following
oficers:- President, John M. Kase: Vice
President, George H.. Taylor; Secretary.
aud Treasurer, S. d. C~hittenden; Marshal,
George Paugh: Chaplain. Joseph Hough:
Inside Guardian, David Sanderson; Out
side Guardian, Abram Ball; member of
Executive COMMITTEES for three years,
Jerry r. George; delegate to Grand Divi-
sion, j. M. Kase; alternate, George H.
Taylor. The Grand Division will meet in
the hall of Moses Taylor Division. in Ho-
boken, the second Tuesday in February,
when it is expected that a large body of
conductors will be present. representing
railroads in many sections of the country.
Conductor Minard Knapp, or The Cen
trail, has been running the pay train dur
ing the early part OF the mouth, aud has
been doing extra work since the paying
was completed.
Assistant Superiul endent Frank J..
Griffith. OF the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western Railroad, who went to Fortress
Monroe for the benefit of his health, re-
turned home on Thursday night.
Asbury Park will have a practically
new station next season. The work of
remodeling aud enlarging will be begun
early III the spring, aud the result will
be the finest railroad Station on the
coast.
The Lackawanna is preparing to build
ice house at Kingsland for icing re-
trains. It will be 203 feet long
and 50 feet vile. constructed in three
rooms. 1t will have u capacity of $500
Superintendent Frank ]. Griffith of the
is ut the Hygeia Hotel, OLD
Point Comfort, with Mrs. Griffith.
the Pennsylvania is surveying In At
hubIC COuhby lOk q tbLOO-hih0 ohtNhSA ~
the West Jersey line between Mays
and Weymouth.
On February l, MIR. Otto Betticher,
civil engineer of the Lackawanna. will
nave completed a quarter of a century III
the employ of the road.
Hackeusack is to have an electric rail-
way from Fort Lee through Leonia and
The Field Engineering Com
pany of New York has the contract for
building it.
1t is understood that the Erie will drop
It's Niagara, Shohola and other popular
next summer because all of
It's passenger coaches Will be needed for
Chicago traffic.
The exhibit of the Pennsylvania Rail
road at the Chicago Fair will cost $40. 900,
and will cover three acres of ground.
It begins to look az III it would be some
time before the Pennsylvania puts on
that promised fast train between Indian
apolis aud Louisville.
JOHN C0ONEY'S BLUNDER.
John Cooney got the idea some way at twenty