The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-04-22
ON THE RAILROAD.
BRIEF MENTION OF A WEEKS DO
INGs ON THE RAIL.
Short rararr,ph. That viii be Of 1utore.,

short Paragraphs That Will be of Interest
to the Railroad Bows.
I Engineer Herman Blocker Of
Lehigh Valley 800 is off indefinitely. for
burning his engine.
/ John Beaver, Of Franklin, is arinq
for Engineer viii Freeman on Valley
| 4l4.
Big hearted Jack Walters, Of Le-
hightSn, is pulling the throttls on
Valley a. after few weeks vacation.
I Toney Harkins, Of Nauch Chunk is
back On the Valley after long illness.
He pulls the throttle on engine GAO on
the new six o'clock Easton coal run.
Fred Aessmer is fireman, and jolly
Charley Aruer, of Weissport, is con
ductor.
For the big railroad meeting of all
the brotherhoods at Tamaqua on the
Both the Jersey Central will run free
train from Jersey City. The train will
leave Lehighton station at six O'Clock
and returning will leave Tamaqua at
four o'clock. Only railroad brother
hood men will be allowed on the train,
and they must show their card and be
in good standing No women or child
reR will be allowed free transportation.
I The bulk of the Lehigh Valley Haz-
Teton region freight now goes via Pom
Haven Junction. Until few days ago
it went over the Highland branch, but
the Jersey Central's charges tells on
the Upper Lehigh branch consumed a
large portion OF the profits, SO that tho
LehigA Valley decided to use its own
lines, even though the distance is much
greater.-White Haven journal.
t In a late opinion the supreme court
says that If an engineer on = railroad
engine, approaching point where it
Is his duty to soHnd the whistle, as re-
CURED by the statutes, observes near
by on u highway man struggling with
team OF horses hitchsd to 4 wagon
and can soc from the SURROUNDINGS
that sounding a whistle will make the
steam unmanagsable and greatly en-
danger the team and man, it is his
duty to desist until the danger point
Is passed, or If necessary to stop the
the train, and if he does not, but need
lessly sounds the whistle and permits
steam to escape, causing them to run
away, the company is liable for the in
jury.
7 The operation of the Philadelphia
AID Reading Railroad Relief Asseoia-
ton for the month of March shows
payments aggregating s1G,426, of which
there was paid ON account of deaths,
$3.50; on account of accidents dis
ablement s6G66 and on account of sick
disablement, 5000 There we're nine
teen death claims paid, nine frem acci-
dents and ten from natural causes.
The total number of cases reported
during the month was sS5,
Practical railroad men account it
great triumph that they have knosked
out the old theory that every engineer
must have his own pet engine and
must not be asked to run any other.
Until only a few years ago this was the
rule even on the greatest road. Each
engineer grew accustomed to and fond
Of an engine and believed he could get
good work out of it, while stranger to
it would be sure to have the same treu-
ble that we would expect with strange
engine. That issall changed now and
engineers are expected TO leave their
sentimental notions at home and take
out whatever engine they are assigned
ts.-Nsw York Sun.
The United States Express ON
panv on Thursday renewed its contract
with the Central Railroad Of New
Jersey and the report that the Adams
would soon again resume business in
theValley,will no tbe,brought to rsaHza-
ton The U. S. express first gained a
foothold in the Eastern Pennsylvania
territory covered by the Jersey Cen
tral and Lehigh Valley railroads in
1888, and at once built up an enor-
nous business, carrying most of the
heavy goods to and from New York
especially the raw material and manu-
factured products of Pennsylvania silk
mills. In January last it captured the
contract with the Lehigh Valley Rail
road and now has monopoly Of the
express business in the Lehigh Valley
and coal regions.