The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-20
RAILROAD J.

The report that the Metropolitan
Traction company had leased the For
ty-second Street and Boulevard surface
line is confirmed. The transaction was
conducted very quietly, n some of the
directors Of the companies knew moth
ing about it until the announcement
was made. 1t is also stated that the
Metropolitan Traction company has Sc
cured control of two other ines in the
lower part of the city whereby desired
connection with the downtown ferries
on the North and East rivers will be OBJ
tanned. and will in%augurate a system of
transfers to n from the said ferries
which will be great feeders for its main
lines. A system of electric power will
be used on the smaller lines.
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Certain details of the reorganization
plan of the Philadelphia and Reading
railroad a been announced. The
plan has been in possession of some
of the larger interests in the company
for some time. 1t Is proposed to assess
the stock and first and second and
third income bonds 20 per cent. New
common stock will be issued in eX-
change for the old. There will be issued
new first and second preferred stock.
Present first preference bonds will be
exchanged into this first preferred
stock. getting thirty shares in the first
preferred and 100 shares in the second
preferred for each 81. 900 bond. The
second preference incomes will receive
twenty shares in first preferred stock.
sixty shares second preferred, and sixty
shares In h new common stock. The
third preference incomes will receive
ten shares in first preferred, sixty
shares second preferred, and sixty
CHI q IN Tho ~,
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Early on Wednesday morning the en-
gineer and fireman of the Santa Fe
overland train, bound west, when neal
Cajon Pass, Cal, imagined they saw
something on the track right ahead.
Thinking the train was about to be
wrecked, they both jumped. The engi-
neer was rather badly hurt, but when
h fireman picked himself up out of the
lust he found that the engine had made
kindling wood Of a wagon to which two
horses had been attached. Their driver
had seen the headlight of the engine
and had jumped in time to save him
self, and the animals themselves We're
cropping the dried grass along the
roadside. which showed that they had
not been greatly disturbed by the ac-
cident. But h train, with nobody at
the engines throttle, was plunging
away through the darkness. the pas
sengers asleep in their berths, utterly
unconscious hat they Were being drawn
by a wild locomotive. The fireman,
who had been left behind, thought he
would try to overtake the flying train
on foot. Then he changed his mind,
and, jumping astride one of the horses.
he set out after the runaway rain. He
knew 1t must stop soon, as it had to
climb a very steep grade. and IL the fire
under the hoilers was not kept up the
supply of steam would not furnish
sufficient pressure to keep the wheels
going around. The vagrant train did
stop a mile and a half from where the
accident occurred. There did not seem
to be any reason for an interruption Of
the journey just at that point. and SO
the conductor and brakeman hurried
ahead with their lanters to ask the
engineer what had given out. When
they found the cab empty, Of course
the train hands were very much mys-
titled. They asked each other a good
many questions to account for the
strange disappearance of the engine
crew, when the fireman came Looping
along on the horse he had borrowed.
After explanation had been made he
turned his horse toward San Barnadino
and brought the first tiding the railroad
people had of the missing train. A hack
vas sent to the scene with another en-
gineer, and as soon as steam was raised
the overland went on over the hill
through Cajon pass. The same car
riage brought the injured engineer to
the city.-San Francisco Examiner.