The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-27
NEWS OF THE RAILROADS.

An order for 500 new freight cars has
been given by the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western company.
A number of men from the paint shop
are absent from duty owing to sickness,
three of them being very i'll, viz: t.. r.
Ridgway, A. l.. Sutherland and NJ. c.
Boncton.
An order has been given by the Della
ware and Hudson company to the
Lackawanna Iron and Steel company
for a large supply of steel rails for the
northern railroad department.
G. A. Warburton, who addressed last
years anniversary of the association,
has promised to attend the coming an
niversary on April 22. Mr.. Warburton
Is well known as the best orator among
the railroaders in the country, and his
name will be sufficient to attract
large audience.
Prominent officials connected with
the Pennsylvania railroad, the Penn
sylvanIa company, Pittsburg and Lake
Erie railway and the Carnegie Steel
company have formed temporary or
ganiZatiOn and subscribed to fund to
be used in testing an invention of Lin
ford II. Ruth, general agent Of the Nc
Clure Coke company, for use on parlor
and sleeping cars, of combined seats
and berths to be inflated by compressed
air. Seats can be turned into berths
and vice versa, by the use of the air.
If the test Is successful II will be adopt
ed by the big railroad system repre-
sented in the provisional company.
Engineers j. r. Troch and G.. Swartz
have returned from New York. where
| they have been engaged for three weeks
| in arbitrating between the firm of
| Hackett, Carhart q Co., of New York,
| the United Garment Workers of Ameri-
ca and the Knights of Labor, in boy
colt which had been placed upon
Messrs. Hackett, Carhart G. Co. 1t
is great compliment to the
railroad community that two local
men should have been selected
for the onerous duties, which occu-
pied such length of time and involved
mass of technical points. Their i'm
partiality was so marked that an offer
was made them to arbitrate upon an
other matter and handsome sum
named as compensation, but they were
unable to accept. as they had been alb
sent from their duties for long
period.
The equanimity of the employees OF
the car shops has been disturbed, and
there are breakers ahead and all has
been caused by an innocent automatic
time-keeper" One of these useful, bu
vilifed articles, has been placed in the
passenger car shop for the purpose oi
checking the mems time, but the
method of operation is SO cumbersome
that the boys are quietly registering {
kick. When the men come on duty II
the morning they take q key, which !!
suspended on board by their giver
number, and insert it in an aperture
i'm the register which rings up the same
number. They then return the key t
its position so that their attendanc,
has been noted and the time recorded
The same ceremony Is observed befor,
and after dinner and when leaving a
night. The complaint is made that !
will entail 10 or 20 minutes for all th'
men to wind up" in their turns, so tina
it will eventually mean that they mus
be on hand earlier in the morning anC
remain later in the evening, as we'll al
losing q considerable portion of th'
dinner hour. 1t Is intended to fix VI
one of the machines in each department
if the present one answers the test sue
| cessfully