The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-20
This and That.

- a. Draper, Oh new Ork, pay
master of the Ontario and Western
railroad, was in the city yesterday.
Drake & Stratton have over a dozen
small engines working on the Penn
sy" improvements between Harrisburg
and Altoona.
The Cumberland Valley Railroad
company has inaugurated the summer
half-holiday in its shops and offices at
Chambersburg
During the balance of the season con-
| ductors of regular trains will honor
special Sunday excursion tickets to and
| from Heart Lake.
The work of raising the wrecked en-
gine out of the bog at Cresco is pro-
crossing slowly and some time will be
| required to complete the task.
The Delaware and Hudson company
completed their June payments yester-
day by paying the employees of the
| No. and No. 5 coleries at Plymouth.
When Lackawanna engines fail for
steam from any cause, enginemen are
| required to make a telegraph report
| of the same to the division superin-
tendant's office.
Register books have been placed in
| the telegraph offices at both ends of
| the Lackawanna yard and hereafter
all conductors must register their
| trains on arriving and leaving.
The breaker boys employed at the
Clark Tunnel company's breaker, near
] the Notch, went on strike yesterS Y
| for an increase Of ten per cent. Other
| boys were employed to take their
places.
The repairs now being made at the
| Cayuga and Dodge collcrics will neces-
state the shutting down of the col
| leries for several weeks. The employees
will find work at the other mines oper-
| ated by the company.
a clerical error in the due bills re-
| ceived by boys employed at the Mt.
| Pleasant colliery caused some trouble
at the mine yesterday morning. As
soon as the matter was brought to the
attention of the officers of the company
the trouble was Strengthened out ard
| the boys went to work.
The Wheeling and Lake Erie is in
the market for a number of new
| bridges which are to be erected soon.
| 1t is said that the steel for these
| bridges will be purchased in a day or
| so. How many there are and where
they are to be placed is not told. This
is said to be a part of the programme
of the Wheeling by which it hopes to
build up its roadbed.
Conductors, trainmen and enginemer
on the LaCkawanna railroad have been
notified by Superintendent Salisbury
that whenever it is necessary to apply
the brakes to hold a standing train
either on the main track or a siding
it must be done with the hand brakes
This is TO give the engineer an oppOr-
tunlty to change his train line before
the train is started.
Superintendent Salisbury stated yes
terday that the responsibility for the
wreck at Cresco has partially been de-
termined, but he will not give out any
names until he confers with Super
intendent Russell. When asked if any
of the companys employees We're re.
sponsible, he admitted such to be the
case, but preferred to withhold further
information for the present.
1t is reported that the Pennsylvania
railroad has purchased the Pennsyl-
Vania tidewater canal, running from
Wrightsville to HaVre de Grace. The
purchase also includes the big dam, a
mile and a quarter long, that spans tho
Susquehanna at Wrightsville, York
county, and Columbia. 1t is said the
Pennsylvania company will build ar
electric road down the tOwpath to con.
meet with its line at Havre de Grace.
General Manager f. d. Underwood
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
company announced in Pittsburg thai
hereafter the company will not recOg
| niZe the Order of Railway Tplor-1pn,
ers, and that any employees Of th'
company being members would not bt
tolerated. Mr.. Underwood advised the
men to withdraw from the order, which
they said would hardly be considered
1t has a membership of over 10000.
month ago the company asked its mer
to withdraw from the union, which re
quest was not needed.