The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-12


and Hudson Canal road. vice James
Calhoun resigned.
The Northern Central Railroad conf
near Newark, Wayne county, and viii
open an extensive yard there. The car
pany has bought thirty acres of land
shops now at Canandaigua will be re-
moved to Newark.
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Hereafter the Big Four transporta-
ton department will rate it's engines by
tons hauled, not by cars to the train. as
heretofore On the Chicago division,
the company's standard engine VIII be
rated to haul 900 tons.
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Workmen in the shops of the Van
dalia company are now furnished cards
on which to note the number of hours
they are employed on any certain Job.
This is the preliminary step to the IN
PRODUCTION of piece work.
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The British Columbia legislature has
decided to refuse to entertain the
proposition of the British Pacific Rail-
way company. The company agreed to
construct a line on condition that the
province granted a subsidy of $6,OOOOO0
and a land grant of 10000 acres per
company. states that. in view of the
present financial position of the COM
pany and the indeiiniteness of the COM
pany's proposals. his government can
not accept the terms offered.
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East bound all-rail shipments of dead
freight from Chicago last week were
S7,563 tons, against 90,372 in the week
preceding and 55,42l for the correspond
ing week in 1895. OF this the st. Paul
carried 9.493 tons. Wabash. $3.50, Lake
Shore II .45O, Fort Worth SIPS, Pan Han
die 7.7S9. Baltimore and Ohio 6,2S9, c. 4
G. II. l2,17l. Nickel Plate 6153, c. 4 f.
15,74l. Big Four $3.50. Shipments of
flour were 3,539 tons. against 3,9ll in the
preceding week; of wheat 10, 1913. against
16.S91: of corn 15.952, against 1885,
atloat 2O,24l, against 1902.
1t is said the American Railway union
has adopted an entirely new method of
procedure. 1t Is now a close corpora
ton and communication is to be made
from one member to another by signs
and ciphers. Men are detailed to pass
the word in each union. There will be
no more public meetings. 1t is expected
that by the new method information
can be given while the members are on
their way to or from work, or when at
the bench. lathe or telegraph instru-
ment President Debs claims the order
now has l5S,OOO members.
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Railroad men in the west are strongly
in favor of the recommendation made
by the Illinois railroad and warehouse
commissioners regarding legislation
against the building of wildcat"
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ironed. The commissioners advocate
passage of law that will prohibit 1t.
This would tend to relieve the roads al
ready in existence of unnecessary com.
petition, and would also prevent specu-
lators from building little lines for the
sole purpose of unloading them on the
larger ones. Wv are forced to purchase
them at good price to save their busi
ness.
The pooling agreement entered into
by the western roads on freight traffic
at the beginning of the year is not
working as satisfactorily as it might,
and the roads are in all sorts of trouble.
The chief difficulty is that there are
so many roads that are not in the pool
ing agreement that the roads which are
members of it are compelled continually
This practice is destroying the percent
ages on which the roads are working
diminishing their receipts and making
1t impossible generally for them to keep
the strict letter of their agreement 1t
is likely that Il meeting of all the roads
will soon be called to see whether or not
matters cannot be put on more salts
factory basis.
1t appears that a company has been
organized to build another railroad be-
tween Wilkes Barre and Harvey'S
Lake. and that the line which Engineer
Wright has been laying through this
place Is the location for the new road
The name of the company is the Wilkes
Barre and Northern Railroad company
and among the incOrpOrators are Chas.
d. Foster. Andrew Hunlock. John b.
Reynolds. Alexander Farnham. T.
TroXel and II. w. Kalish. all of Wilkes
Barre. The line as located joins the
Delaware, LackaWanna and Western
railroad main tracks tracks i'm the lower
end of Luzerne and extends to Harvey's
Lake, but the terminal at the lake has
not. it is said, been definitely deter
mined upon. Whether it Is intended to
build the road from Wilkes Barre city
or only from the Delaware. Lackawan-
ma and Western on the West Side is not
known, but it is thought the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western road will be
depended upon for a freight connection,
which will be a very good one. and that
the street ears to I.uzerne will provide
the facilities for landing passengers at
the Square in Wilkes -Barre.-Dallas
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