The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-06-22
GENERAL NEWS
Of INDUSTRIES

VI INUUUIllILV
A revival of Cape Mays former
popularity as q summer resort is All
ticipated as direct result Of the in
creased and improved railway facilities
which will be supplied by the new
South Jersey railroad. just being com
pleted, and, we may expect to hear u
great deal of Cape May during the
summer. The South Jersey railroad
extends from Winslow junction. on
the Reading railroads Atlantic City
line, to Cape May, with branches to
Sea Isle City, Ocean City. Avalon,
Wildwood and other resorts. 1t has
been in operation to Sea Isle City
nearly year, and will be opened to
Cape May on Saturday June %, the
remaining points to be reached later in
the year. The new line to Cape May
is described as straight as u string and
level as table" substantially con-
structed. with view to the highest
speeds, and materially shorter than any
other road to the Cape. The equip
ment is all new. Hard coal locomo-
tives Of the speediest type, and cars Of
novel and remarkably elegant cou-
struction. will compose the flying ex-
press trains, and it is promised that u
very considerable shortening of the
time will be effected. The Phiadel-
phia stations of the new road are the
Reading railroad ferries, at Chestnut
street and South street wharves, and
through tickets to Cape May by the
South Jersey railroad route will be sold
at the principal stations Of the Reading,
Baltimore and Ohio, and New Jersey
Central railroads.
A,reminiscantial LackawRnna train
man. talking recently with Strouds'
burg Times reporter, recalled Singu-
larly fast run made on that road in
June 1885. "At that time" the train
man said, General Manager Hallstsad
took q party Of guests over the road to
show them what could be- done on, it
and he surprised them and himself too,
IgueEs. The party consisted of the late
Jay Gould. William H. Vanderbilt,
Cyrus W. Field and Sidney Dillon, to-
gether with their families. The party
started from New York at 8 n. m,
and engineer Tom Milan, of Elmira,
pulled them into Buffalo at 81, three
minutes ahead Of schedule time,
making the run in seven hours
and fitty-soven minutes. You must
enber, too, that the road was not
in as good eondition~then for making
fast time as it is now, and | regard that
run az a most extraordinary one, En-
gineer V. N. Seeley pulled the train
from New York to, o,S1nghamton. George
Shoemaker troE Binghamton to Elmi-
ra, and Th-s us t. Milan from Elmira
TO Buffalo. Tom, remember, took
the train twelve minutes behind time
and made it up and three minutes to
spare. He tipped along mile min
ute, and still that didn't suit Mr.. Hall
stead. He wanted to go faster, and
sent word to Tom to that effect. Well
for the next twenty-thrse miles he left
the track behind him at the rate of
from fifty to ifty-two seconds to the
mile, which satisfied even Mr. Hall. |
stead. don't know how the other en-.
gineers Jared. but it wasn't all smooth |
sailing from here to Buffalo, N. Y. A
stop of nine seconds had to be made at |
Groveland for water, and big trestle, |
2,9CO feet long. had to be crossed at the |
rate of four miles an hour. That is
gone now and fast time can be made |
where 1t formerly stood. There were
no inter.locking switches i9thoss days,
either. and he had TO make two dead |
stops at Mt. Morris and one at Erwins,
f.t,.pa fr,nI,n -
crossed. l done want to throw any
discredit on later runs, but the one Of |
80 ought not to be forgotten.
Within few days the Reading Coal |
and Iron company's Pot.sville foundry
will resume. This department. shut |
down about fourteen months ago,
since which time, no work, except that
in the brass department, with less than
dozen hands. has been done there.
There were originally about 100 men
employed at this foundry aud its sus-
pension was due TO the vigorous re-
frenchment policy adopted at that time
by the receivers OF the Reading com.
pany. The resumption may be only
temporary, The company is short of
pipe, and this class of work will con
stitute the principal part of the
shapes" manufactured.
1t is reported to the Pittston Gazette
that Simpson g. Watkins are ecotiat-
ing for the lease or purchase of the
Psttebone mine of the Delaware, LaCk-
awanna and Western Railroad com.
pany at DOrrancetown. This mine is
one Of the best conducted collieries in
LuZarne county and would be valuable
10 Simpson & Watkins because of its
proximity to several hundred acres of
coal land owned by them and now
reached through the opening at Forty
Fort
MINOR INDUSTRIAL NoTEs:
The New England company has finally
purchased 5000 tons OF anthracite.
Lackawanna directors meet today to de.
clare its regular quarterly dividend of lI
per cent.
The Pullman cars now run between In
dianapolis and New York, over the Penn
sylvanla lines, are Of the new vestibule
pattern and elegant In every particular
Samuel NJ. Downs, of Mauch Chuuk, has
been appointed to the position of train
runner for the Delaware, Susquehanna
and Schuylkill railroad, better known as
Coxe's road, and left for Roau junction
this morning TO at once begin his duties.
Hit Office will be located at Roam Junction
and he will reside in Drifton.
A company Of Binghamton capitalists
has purchased u large tract of timber land
near Crystal Lake, Pa. This tract is three
miles in circumference. A party OF eleven
men is now at work building a steam saw
mill, aud the work Of converting the forest
into lumber will be commenced imme.
diately.
b. j. Wilmoth, of the Western New
York and Pennsylvania. has made set
tlement on behalf OF the company with
each of the seventy-eight persons injured
last July in the wreck at East Aurora.
The total amount required to make these
settlements, it is said, was $40, 900. None
Of the injured persons took the matter
into court.
A number of Lehigh Valley engines have
been consigned to the Delaware, Susque-