The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-01-07
RAILROAD NOTES

TO the hAiirOhu boIb
The Easton Express says: The new
year brings with it good news for South
Easton and the employees of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad CompRny's shops at that
place, and the men who have not been able
to secure employment since the suspensions
some months ago. The shops are running
on full time with plenty of work for each
department, and after the new year, the
present force will be increased by the TAX
ing on of so or 90 more men. This will be
necessary in pursuance of orders from head
quarters, received few days ago. There
is enough material at South Easton to
build 40 or so cars, and; the orders to MIR.
Kinsey the master mechanic, say that this
material shall be utilized in the construc-
tion of passenger cars. To build that num-
ber of cars it will take more than year
I Rollin II. Wilbur, assistant to Second
Vice President Hartshorne, of the Read
ing Railroad, has been appointed general
eastern superip ptendent to succeed the late
II. Stanley Goodwin. James Dennolly, Of
Easton, superintendent of the New jersey
Division of the Lehigh Valley Railroad,
has had the Lehigh Division added to his
jurisdiction.
The Reading and Pennsylvania Rail-
road, which have been at variance on the
question of anthracite coal tolls ever since
September 12, when the Reading withdrew
the Joint tariff rate which had existed be-
tween them, have compromised their diff
ferences and by mutual cession have again
adopted a Joint tariff on coal rates.
| Through schedule of rates is now in the
printers hands, and it is expected that it
will be put in effect not later than January
o. The original joint tariff rates to Phila
delphia were: From the Schuylkill region,
$1.70; the Lehigh region, $1.75; and the
Wyoming region, s1.90. The rates adpoted
| by the Reading and other roads, and In
which the Pennsylvania refused TO concur.
were. From the Schuylkill region, $i.S0;
the Lehlgh region, $1.S0, and the Wyom-
ing region, S1.s5. The new joint rates, as
practically agreed upon at the final confer
ence on Friday, were: From the Schuylkill
region, S1.75 ;Lehigh region, Sl.75, and the
Wyoming, $3.50.
The largest freight car ever built was
turned out of the Pennsylvania Railroad
CompanY's shops in Altoona last week. 1t
is to be used to transport from Sparrow s
Point, near Baltimore, to Chicago the 1874
ton cannon being manufactured at the
works of the Krupp Gun Company, at
Essen, Prussia, for exhibition at the
Worlds Fair. This car practically consists
Of two cars, with eight pair Of wheels each,
Joined BY an iron bridge, thus presenting
the appearance of one long car, with six
teen pairs of wheels. For the transporta-
tion of two smaller pieces Of ordinance, the
Joint weight Of which will be sixty five
tons, and one piece Of armor plate thirty.
two feet in length By eleven feet in width,
also manufactured by the Krupp company
another car has been built. The work wa.
begun in October and the PennsYlVania
Railroad Company was under contrat tc
, deliver the car at Sparrow's Point, neal
, Baltimore, Jan. /, 1898. At that place
machinery has been constructed to hoist
tho guns from the steamer which viii
J carry them across the sea and place then
on the car.
? 1 The Easton Express says editorially
"In appointing Rollin II. Wilbur genera
; eastern superintendent Of the Lehigh Val
, ley Railroad the Reading management die
} something eminehtly wise. Personally
MI. Wilbur is a young gentleman of higl
character, who will do honor TO his exaltSC
place; practically, he has been brought NJ
on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, loves 4
with inherited enthusiasm, and is acQuAint
ed equally with its needs and Its employees
This peculiar fitness of the man for tn,
3 place makes the appointment popula
Throughout the valley, both on the roAS
and on"
John L. C0nOYer, one OF the counse
for the Jersey Central Railroad Company
/ on Wednesday filed his answer to Attorne'
General Stockton's supplementary intor
. nation against the Reading coal combine
The answer denies that the Chancellor
r orders were disobeYed in any respect; nei
!. ther was the price OF coal nor the rate o
. transportation raised 10 consumers in thi
. state and no receiver is necessary 10 pro
j tect their interests.
b The Lehigh and Wiikes-Barre Goa
2 Company, the largest shippers Of coal IL
the Wyoming region, and claiming seven
teen miles of loaded cars awaiting mar
S ket, have decided to cut loose from th
r. Philadelphia & Reading and will sell thei
@ own product TO the agents and consumer
. instead OF 10 the P. & Il. The Lehigh AM
o Wilkes. Barre Co. had q reservation claus
/, in their lease by which they enjoyed tn
i, privilege Of disseminating the eOntTac
\ whenever they so desired. The Company
" employees have become dissatisfied wit
, the enforced idleness since the sale of thei
product 70 he Reading and this, more tha
!, anything else, is believed TO be the caus
. Of the discrimination Of the contract, Oh
10 L. & W. b. preferring this course to
c, LstTike of its emploYees