The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-06
RAILROAD NOTES.

H. A. Mace Lodge, No. 157 Brother
hood Of Railroad Trainmen. will picnic
Aug. 16 and II at Riverside Park. This
park Is a newly fitted up resort, near
the Providence station, and Is very
pretty picnic grounds. The trainmen
will furnish all kinds of amusements.
one Of the leading ones arranged being
a base ball match between two teams
Of trainmen.
Billboard cars. for advertising pur-
poses solely, are being run on Cleve-
land, O., street railways.
Delaware and Hudson engine No. 30
was run out Of the locomotive shops
yesterday after being completely over
hauled.
The Erie will put on a new line OF
postal cars, to run between New York
and Chicago, which will equal the not
ed postal trains over the New York
Central.
New York. susquehanna and West
ern's gross earnings for June were
$1S0,307, an increase of $14,251 and net
$65, ,06s, an increase of $1O.12l. From
January gross earnings amounted to
$1,O75,592, an increase of $1S5,S73 and net
S363,625, an increase of $4O.232.
The fishing in the upper waters Of
the Delaware Is said to be remarkably
good this year and 1t is a favorite place
for the fishermen of this section. On
Saturday Conductor Bedell, Of the On
tario and Western railroad, caught a
wall-eyed pike weighing four and one
half pounds in the river at Hancock.
Yesterday the Pennsylvania Railroad
company employed divers to examine
the abutments Of the railroad bridge
between Nanticoke and West Nanti-
coke The bridge has been erected
number Of years, and in order to see
that 1t is perfectly safe the divers
were sent beneath the water to investi-
gate.
Grand Chief Conductor E. e. Clarke,
Of the Order Of Railroad Conductors,
was present at Sundays union meeting
at Elmira, where he instructed those
present In the new lectures" and other
secret work Of the order. Another
meeting will be held In New York dur
ing the present week for the same pur-
pose. Many conductors from this city
attended Sundays meeting in Elmira
and many others will attend the COM
ing meeting in New York.
The announcement Is made that the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad
will make raise in the wages Of about
1000 men who were cut in 1893. The
raise Of wages will be the same as the
cut, which will average about 10 per
cent. None Of the trainmen are affect
ed. as their pay was not cut In 1893. 1t
is also reported that the Big Four rail-
road has the question of the restoration
Of former rates Of pay Of trainmen un-
der advisement and has promised an
early decision. Other roads are also
said to be considering the question.
Freight cars are still In great de-
mand, large orders having recently
been placed by many Of the larger
roads. This Is made necessary by the
fact that many Of the small roads hav-
ing a meagre equipment fail to return
to the big companies the cars which
came on their lines, preferring to pay
mileage on their neighbors' cars rather
than build cars of their own. AS a
consequence the big companies are al
ways In need Of cars. The Pennsylva.
MIA. which has just placed an order for
81, 900 new box cars. estimates that 1t
would never feel the want of a car If
its cars were returned to It in due
season.