The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-07

"On Monday morning ninety-eight
men, under Thomas Lawler, of Sara
toga, began filling and grading the
the canal basin for the New Delaware
and Hudson locomotive railroad says
the Wayne County Independent. "One
gang of men was employed on tho
dump at the first lock cutting through
the pile of dirt taken from the basin
bottom in years gone by and wheeling
IT back in. Another gang began put
ting in a sluice of iron pipes and fill
ing in between the end of the old canal
repair dock and the bank opposite the
Erie pockets. Still another gang was
employed at the rear Of Caufield's mar
bic yard and Fowler's mill.
Cauitleld Brothers and their men were
busy all day removing marble and
granite blocks from the rear OF their
yard so that thn railroad men can con-
tnue their WORK there. The company
takes about twenty feet Of their lani.
The Beers building has been razed,
the railroad limo passing right over the
foundation of it. The new bed will
be fourteen feet lower than the pres
cnt one at the rear of the marble yard.
BY the time this reaches our readers
1he shutes from where coal has been
taken to supply the Honesdale market
and the country around for the past
forty-three years will have been torn
down.
THE Beers building was erected by
David Beers about fifty years ago and
was formerly used as a shop. For a
number Of years past the basement
has been utilized by f. T. Beers &
Son for storage and the second and
third floors as tenements.
THE company has offered Mr.. Cant
van lot on the Gravity Heights side
of the railroad on which he intends
10 erect a shop. His blacksmith shop
has been torn down.
THE frame storage building belong
ing to the Durland- Thompson Shoe
company at rear of their factory and
built on the railroad company's land
has been taken down. The tracks
run up close to the shoe company's
line.
In the early days Of Honesdale the
few people who used coal We're com
PEELED to get It in various ways. John
Krantz was q cartman in those days
and he says that the shutes were built
III 1000 Ut 0c anu were SIN III NUMBER,
one for each kind of coal In time
more were added and a roof put over
them, so that there We're three each
for pea and chestnut, one each for
stove, egg, CRATE and buckwheat and
two for furnace coal
"A locomotive was used to tear down
the Beers building. Ropes were at
tached to timbers that had been run
through the windows and from there
connected with the powerful machine.
Quick work was made with its destruc-
tion. The debris was given away and
there was soon a man for pretty near
ly every piece Of old timber. NJ SUIT
ton says that at one time an apparatus
for unloading boats was located Just
below the city hall.
The best of the timbers os :ha trest-
ling and shutes will be taken to Way
mart and used temporarily in the con-
struction Of the new road. ]. II. Page,
Of Afford, Susquehanna county. has
charge of the removal of the lumber
Mr.. Page is the only survivor or four
brothers who came from Boston in 1851
as contractors on the Delaware. Lack
awanna and Western and they have
done their share i'm the construction
of all railroads in this section since
that time. Mr.. Page was the con
tractor who built Shepherds Crook.
and he also worked for the Erie At
Lacka waXen at one time. and on the
Ontario and Western in Preston. He
is the father of Station Agent Page
at POyntclle
William McKenna Of this place. is
time keeper for Mr.. Lawler. Nearly
all the men employed on Monday are
residents of this vicinity Nearly one
hundred feet of new track have bee,
laid from the trestlnE over the river
10 Fowler Brothers mill.
THE matter of damages to owners
Of property over which the new road
bed at this place is to be built, namely
r. I. Beers & Son, Caulfeld Brothers
and others has not been settled and
the probability Is that viewers will he
appointed by the court to fix the
values. The agents of the company
offered Messrs. Beers 81 500 for THEN
house and lot, but that sum was re.
fused. The owners asked 80, 900 and
no settlement was reached.
"A track is being laid from the end
OF the bride at Fowler's mill on which
the construction train will carry mate.
rial to fill the basin. Captain Baker
has charge of putting in this track"
Will Prevent Wrecks.