The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-01-28
ON THE RAILROAD.


Short Paragraphs Tint Wi 1T Interest .
to the Builrond a..
IP. y. lleany. fireman un nginc 3l6. /
of the c. R. r., at Silver Brook. has .
been transferred to Mauch Chunk to .
perform similar duties.
+ Monday p trains. aggregating 1884 .
cars. of coal came into Packertou over
the Lehigh Valley coal branches. OF
these 26 trains. carrying 2l,SO5 tons of /
coal. passed east from packcrton for
the furnaces and for tide water.
-+ On and after January 81. the United .
States Express Company will take .
charge Of the Adams Express Co.'S |
business on the Lehigh Valley road. |
President Thomas Platt and the direct /
ors of the United States Express Com /
pany have secured ten years lease. |
Z j. W. Pascoe has been appointed /
Supt. of the Bridge department of the /
l.. V, with headquarters OF South |
Easton. Iie succeeds W. r. Pascoe. !
who resigned to accept the management
Of the National Switch and SipnaI 90.
which Will build large works at South
East0n
+ Theodore voorhees, has been made
second vice president of the Philadel-
phia and Reading Railroad at a salary
of S20,OuO a year. Mr.. Voorhees, has
been lured away from the New York
Central Railroad This means a cur
taiment Of the duties of Mr.. John
/ Taylor aud Mr. Sweigard. who will
both he under Mr.. Voorhees,.
At a meeting Of the stock holders of
the Philadelphia & New England Rail
way Company, held in Milford last
week, the following officers were I'M
animouslv elected: President. Stephen
| Holmes, of Stroudsburg; directors. j
| Ottenheimer, New York City. Z. A. Bell.
Stroudsburg; w. H. Tinsman. Phillips
| burg N. j.; Edwin i. Peters, Bushkill;
| i. f. Fulmer, Dingman's FERRY: j. II.
/ Van Etten, A. ID. Brown, II. b. Wells.
/ A. II. Lewis, Milford; Obediah p. How
ell, Benjamin Ryall, Port Jervis. \. N.:I
Roy Stone. New York City.
1 + Toe New Jersey Central is to abolish
all grade crossings on the main line be-
/ tween Jersey City and Bound Brook.
/ excepting at Ellzabethport, which will
give it free course for the attainment
/ of very high rate of speed with the
/ through Philadelphia and Washington
| trains of the Royal Blue Line. The
total cost will be about SSOOOOO A
| feature of the improvement will be the
/ building Of fences opposite all the
| stations, separating the two east.bouud
rom lhe ,West-ponnd tracks. The com
pauy will also place gates on all its cars,
elevated railroad style
+ The Easton Argus says that Asher
| Sterner. conductor of local freight
train on the Lehsgh Valley Railroae.
and who resided with his wife and two
bright children in EaSton for some
time past, is said to have very roughly
handled his wife The climax was
reached few days ago, whrn he left
the wife and little ones to take care of
themselves He said he was going west
and left suddenly. He was seen in the
vicinity Of Easton the day following
and a warrant was sworn out for his
arrest. tie. however fed Saturday eve.
ming and has not as vet been Located
His wife can assign no cause for his
strange conduct. She has no means
whereby to feed and clolhe her LITTLE
ones
+The records in tI,a Dar,,t,,,,,,t ,c
Internal Affair show tbat i' Pnt,.,,i 'I,v'r, VI
vnnin during the vear o,,,lin,, T,,,ia ,,a'' "a
last there ware lilIod IN, thl ,,,ii,.-,,,l ~
i'm the state forty tv,o r,ossa,,i,a,.i Se
this number fonrtoen ,yoro i5iiial ~ ~,
the wrecl, on tbe porns-l,-a,,ii ,ii
road uear Docll stroot IA ,''i'f'
burg Tho nnmha,, ~ ,,asso,i,,,i,,' lr''' =,
iured dnrinr tha roo,. ,,,a.. - M
total number or nassen,,o,.g o,,,,,i,.-ilo
= and other persons killed was is6 Tbo
total number ininred v,,y 3 s50 NJ