The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-08
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.

1t has been stated that the Pennsyl-
wanna railroad has resumed the work
of revising line and grade on the main
line between New York and Pittsburg.
II is true that something is doing in this
way, but it consists practically in fin
ishing up pieces that were started two
years ago or so. No general resump-
ton of this sort of work has been made
The Anthracite Coal Operators asso-
citation will hold their quarterly meet
ing at the Bellevue hotel, Philadelphia,
tomorrow. Lunch will be served at 2
o'clock and business meeting following
Immediately thereafter. Quite a num-
Der of the operators will leave to-day on
THE Central Railroad of New Jersey
train at 12.45, noon. Others will leave
Wednesday morning ait O'Clock via the
Delaware Lackawanna and Western,
reaching Philadelphia ait 1.20, in time for
the lunch. These meetings are very en-
joyable and instructive and are largely
attended.
The method of gauging the pulling
capacity of the Pennsylvania Panhan-
die freight locomotives in pounds in
stead of by cars as heretofore, which
was recently adopted, has been produc-
tive of such good results that the sys-
tenn promises to become a permanent
thing with the road. The old method
of gauging sthe pulling capacity of
Panhandle engines was to give to the
locomotive a limited number of cars
regardless of the material with which
they Were loaded. 1t can readily be
hV m a
sisting of given number of cars loaded
with coal was perhaps twice as heavy
as the same number of cars loaded with
merchandise. In consequence 1t was
not an infreauent occurrence for the
heavy train to be stalled, and on the
other hand, the engine pulling the light
train could have moved almost twice
the load.
The recent consolidation into one line
the Pittsburg and Eastern railroad
of several small proposed roads, in the
western portion of the state. marks a
decided step forward toward the con-
struction of what is intended to be an
important line between Philadelphia
and Pittsburg. This projected road has
already been surveyed, and in many in
stances rights of way have been pro-
cured for it. 1t is to extend from Ma
haffey, in Clearfield county, where
connection is to be made with the
Beech Creek railroad, to point at or
near Sewickley, on the Pittsburg and
Lake Erie road where connection with
the Vanderbilt system will again be
made. The entire distance between
these two points is 1l5 miles, and the
proposed new line will traverse the
western end of Clearfield county and
the counties of Indiana and West
moreland diagonally, opening up n
large and practically undeveloped coal
and timber country. The line will have
its Philadelphia connections through
the Reading railroad, which will be
reached over the tracks of the Beech
Creek road.
The Philadelphia Stakeholder: 1.-THE
breach between Chairman Hutchinson,
OF the Lehigh Valley so-called protective
stockholders committee, and the Dicks
-talso members of the commi ittee-wid-
ems perceptibly, and there is now as
much antagonism displayed between
them as either side processes against
president Wilbur and his associates.
The latest development in the situation.
and one that is Regarded With necu,ia +,
sirnif,cance leaked ont Satnrdav T,
was then le,rned sIbot the conon,ittso-
nre.,,nlah1y tbo Mi, q, ctior, taa CO..,
10 C.haarman Hutchinsnu a I'm Gov n is
nro rata share of the evnenses inonrrad
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