The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-22
RAILROAD NOTES.
Mai bags can now be taken on and
delivered from trains running at sixty
miles an hour.

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delivered from trains running at sixty
miles an hour.
The anthracite coal trade is not as
strong as II has been, n there are
rumors that some cutting is being in
Obliged in. not only at Underwater
points, but to the city and line trade as
well.
Negotiations are under way between
the Ohio River company and Cleveland,
Lorain and Wheeling looking to a close
traffic alliance. Officials of the two COM
panies are inspecting the roads, and
there is an idea of building a feeder
from the new Martinsville coal fields
to a connection with the Ohio River
line. If the alliance is made and the
feeder completed it will establish a new
route from the West Virginia coal fields
to the lakes.
The New York. Chicago and st. Louis.
built to rival the Lake Shore. was to
be done SO finely that 1t got the name of
"Nickle Plate. a name that sticks, al
though hardly deserved. Occasional
~ the initials of a o can be
shortened to q brief and ~euphonious
preserved as in the Ease of the "B. &
o. for Baltimore and Ohio, or "A. ""
for Allegheny Valley. But to max a
lasting rame of initials they must run
freely from the tongue. The Philadel-
phia anu Heading Is shortened to
"Eealing' because initials do not fol-
low each ether readily. The Rock
Island" the Santa Fee" and the
'.Lackawanna.' are nicknames ac-
quiied as in the case of the Reading"
by shortening to n or two short
words. The people who use the rail-
ways much try to get the names down
If Gossible to W. o. three Syllables
eithe through new made words, by
grouping initials as %syliables. or by the
use Of words wholly foreign. The
Cleveland, Cincinnati; Chicago and st.
Louis is called the big Four" Its own
tit!,' flo, Ged no eXcuse FOL q nickname,
and the cities 1t touches were sugges-
tive. Many q day viii eiapse before
the fOrty-niner's title of Overland will
he shaken from the Union and Central
Pacific reads. And the same may be
said of tho weldon railroad. made
historical in war time, before the more
pretentious Atlantic Coast Line had
gathered 1t up as q part Of a big sys-
tenn
The TrunK Line association met
Tuesday for further consideration of
the traffic agreement which has been so
long IN course of preparation. There
was a very full attendance of repre-
Sentatives Of various roads, but the in
formation Obtainable Is meagre. Some
fears had been expressed lest the atti-
tude OF fhe Reading receivers should In
terfere with agreement. but the best re-
ports indicated that this is unlikely.
President Depew. when asked concern
ing the status of the agreement, re-
n1ia1. Tho cftt1a tipn Ia VQrV fa VOrq HE
l cannot say when we shall get through.
The Philadelphia and Reading repre-
sentatives will sign the agreement as
far as their legal status permits" The
legal aspect of the agreement, and its
bearing upon the interstate commerce
law. was evidently causing the con-
ferr.es some trouble, for during the
meeting communication was held with
Washinat ton by telephone. The Trunk
Lines were represented as follows: The
Pennsylvania, G.. b. Roberts, Frank
Thompson. C.. f. Pugh. J. r. Wood,
James McCrea and d. s. Gray; Balti-
more and Ohio, C.. F. Mayer, o. Smith,
G. K. Lord and Frederick Harriott; the
Chesapeake and Ohio, E. ingalls, and w.
p. Walber, jr.; the Lake Shore, d. w.
Caldwell; the Michigan Central, H.. b.
Ledyard; the New York, Chicago and
St. Louis, s.. r. Galloway; the Grand
Trunk, l.. ]. Sergeant; the New York
Central, c. M. Depew n H.. ]. Hay
den: the West Shore, j. D. Laying and
p. r. Todd; the Erie. L. B. Thomas and
G.. G. Cochran; the Lackawanna. Sam
uel Sloan and Il. A. Hegeman; the Lee
high Valley. f. p. Wilbur and H. H.
Kingston; tn Reading, ]. s. Harris, and
B. II. Bail; the Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Chicago and st. Louis, NJ. E. ingalls,
ana O. G. Murray, and the Baltimore
and Ohio Southwestern, w. Duncan.