The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-05-18
THIS AND THAT.

Trip passes issued to employees of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
company are not good on Sundays now
unless specially countersigned.
The Dickson collery, which has been
idle for the past three weeks, making
extensive repairs, will resume opera
tions today.
The Green Ridge Iron works are yet
working on double time, employing
about seventy-five men. orders are
being filled as rapidly as possible but
new ones keep coming in.
Gravel ballast was strewn along the
main line approach to the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western railroad sta
tion yesterday and adds to the general
cleanly appearance about the yard and
station.
q. A. Me, of Chicago. Ill, has been
appointed timekeeper of the Delaware,
Eackawanna and Western shops at
Kingston, succeeding r. L. Hubbell,
who was recently transferred to Syra-
cusc, n. Y.
Master Mechanic II. d. Taylor, of the
Lehigh Valley shops at Wilkes-Barre,
has rendered his resignation to accept
similar position in the west. E. T.
James, formerly round-house foreman
at Lehighton, has been appointed to
succeed Mr.. Taylor.
Delaware. Lackawanna and Western
conductors are now required to make
record of every pass used on that
road. The record includes the points
between which the pass is good, to
whom issued, by whom, and to whose
account it is charged.
Erie railroad engineers are getting
out a souvenir publication containing
portraits and biographical sketches of
every engineer on the system, of whom
there are about 1,S00. The work will
also contain sketches of deceased en-
gineers.-Buffalo Commercial
Lehigh and Wilkes Barre Coal COM
pany is making arrangements to tap
the water from the old No. working
in Audenried. This mine has been
abandoned many years. There are
many thousands of tons of coal there
yet to be naturalization Plain
Speaker.
On a siding near the machine shops
stand old engines Nos. / and S. and
nearby the latest style of engine newly
painted and numbered in the new
and shows very forcibly the end of the
old and beginning of the new in Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western rail-
road so far as locomotive power is con-
Cerned.
The Lehigh Valley is getting rid of
its four wheeled coal cars at rapid
rate. Many are shipped from Packer
ton over the Wyoming division empty,
loaded at Pittston with coal and taken
to Checktowage. near Buffalo, where
the coal is dumped. From there the
empty cars are taken to the Peninsular
car works at Detroit and torn down for
the scrap
There has already appeared in The
Tribune an article bearing upon the
new numbering of the engines in a
series on the Delaware. Lackawanna
and Western. Monday, passenger en-
gine No. /, in her series, pulled out
ahead Of the milk train leaving here at
$40 o'clock. This engine was formerly
known as Colonel Scranton. Whats
in a name?' and as one of the officials
said "The day of naming locomotives
is past"
Section foremen on the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western have been
informed that the trackmen would
hereafter receive only a days pay for
night and Sunday work. Heretofore
they received a day and a halfs pay
for night work and double pay for Sun
days. The section foremen have also
been ordered to cut up all old ties
taken from under the rails, the same
TO be used for starting fires in engines.
This will save the company from buy
ing cord wOod.-Stroudsburg Times
No one in authority has yet denied
that c. f. Schaff will, on his return
from Europe. leave the Big Four as
general manager. 1t is known that
President Thomas, of the Erie, offered
Mr.. Schaff a position as general man
ager of that road. and when Mr.. Schaff
left he had the matter still under ad-
visement 1t is understood that Vice
President Merrill, of the Erie, has asked
TO be relieved of portion of his duties
and that to bring this about, it was
determined to appoint a general man
ager and Mr. Schaff has been selected
for the place