Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-16
News OF the Railroads.

man cars have been ordered not l.
wear tan colored shoes.
a. j. Knight of West Kennebunk
went TO work for the f. & NJ Railroad
a Years ago, April l. Thirty-two years
OF TINS time he has been foreman of a
section.
"A par OF soft metal is used on Ores
den electric lines instead of the trolley
Wheel and is claimed to wear the wire
less and to be more convenient.
Geo. f. Lowell, formerly of Saco. and
owner OF the Old Colony restaurant
boston, IS reported to have bid $50 900 a
year Tor the restaurant and other priv-
lleSes of the new Union station, Boston
There is talk of an electric road from
Great rails. n. H.. through Salmon
Fails, South Berwick. and over the new
road that is to be built over Agamenti-
Gus. to York Beach.
Frank f. Briggs. who for some time
past has been clerk at the freight office
at the Boston x Maine station in Ports
mouth. has resigned his situation to ac-
rept position as principal OF the his h
school at Alfred.
IL i'Ni - iet4I iAdlIl odu minister Is sd III
to have ordered that during the fine
season baggage car fitted for carry
ing y bicycles shall he attached to all
trains most patronized by wheelmen.
says the Railroad Gazette
The Grand Trunk Railroad author
lilies have chartered two special steam
ers to take grain from Portland to
Hamburg. They are the Carlisle City
and Nuttield and are now on their way
They are expected to sail about April
Il
All the rails for the Harrison extern
sion have arrived at Bridgton. and are
arranged in square piles at the BridG
ton station. Their total weight is $50
tons They came from the Carnegie
w rhs, Pittsburg, Pa.
Wheelmen do not receive the consil-
Grafton from railways in England for
carrying their wheels that they have
secured in this country, the charges in
many Instances for short distances. be
ing much in excess Of the fare Of the
rider.
One of the latest ideas is the patent
coach seat. which promises to be a rail
way INVENTION Oh 10 ordinary lntlBf-
tance. 1t is what might be called ban
and socket seat. All of the joints OF
the legs of the seats are of the bali and
socket variety. The action of joints
VII! have the effect Of overcoming all
Of the motion Of the car. Nothing less
than a collision Will be felt by the ocvu-
pant of the scat.-Chicago News.
Commencing ON Monday May ,. the
first change of running trains will oc-
cur on the Franklin county railroads,
The new arrangement SO far as ii has
been decided upon, viii include through
passenger trains from Pennington 20
E&Egeley at noon and night, connect
ing with the Maine Central: also a
mixed train from Rangeley to Farm
ington in the afternoon, returning early
the next morning.
James McTag@art Of Brooks, after
working some % years as foreman of
the section crews of the Belfast ana
Burnnam branch Of the Maine Central
Railroad. resigned his position recently
and retired from active labor, His
position will be taken by Henry Webb
Mr.. McTaggart has seven sons, who are
all in the employ Of the Maine Central
Railroad, With the exception of Gordon
McTaggart of Brooks. who resigned his
position last winter in order to go to
the kiondike regions.
The raw material which goes to make
Up an ordinary locomotive of the Lon
don & Northwestern Railway has been
figured up by some statistical English
man. who presents the following result
in pounds: Coal. 12S,000: steel scrap
G.. 043: pig iron. "A. 215; scrap Wrought
iron. Is. 80: Swedish iron 14,44S; copper
ingot. II 137; coke. 10. 30l. speigel 6333.
east iron scrip 34o3; limestone. 2045.
block tin, SAC; lead. 81; tile zinc. IS:
phosphorus copper.10; ferro manganese.
1872; red ore. l20; chrome, 30: aluminium
Is; antimOny, 4.
The determination Of the Baltimore x
Ohio Railroad Company to improve its
lines by laying 10000 tons of new steel
rails and by the addition of other bet
terments presents an encouraging
promise for the future operations of
that great system. The reorganization
of the Baltimore < Ohio is obviously
working along practical lines, and 1h@
progressive policy Of those in control -
an assurance of the early restoration OF
the property to its once prosperous
condition. Moreover. the purchase OF
so large an amount Of steel rails Is
bound to stimulate the already Vlg0r-
Gus state of the iron and steel indus
tries and their related interests.
The mana gers of the Joint Trafii3
Association have approved the recon-
incubation of the joint passenger com
mittee that $50 pounds of personal bag
gage may be checked free on each full
first or second class ticket sold at
authorized regular or reduced fares.
and Is pounds on each half ticke>.
Through baggage of first or second
class passengers in excess of free al
loWance shall be subject to charge of
not less than L per cent of the stan
dard first class limited fare VIA the
direct route. One hundred pounds OF
baggage may he checked on each full
immigrant ticket. and excess baggage
shall be subject to a charge of not less
than 10 per cent.
The recently patented invention OF
Lew w. Olmstead of Galeton, Pa. viii
make the replacing of derailed cars
upon the track less difficult, says the
Inventive Age. The apparatus to be
LIT.