The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-19
This and That.

The railroad mileage of Brazil Is o.
1877 miles, of which 90S miles are broad
gauge.
A small crowd attended the Scranton
Saengerrunde excursion to Heart Lake
yesterday.
Master Car Builder L. T. Garfield
returned from Buffalo on No. yester-
day afternoon.
The Sante Fe has withdrawn from
the military rate agreement of the
Western lines.
There was falling off in orders for
equipment in June. Still over 1000
cars were ordered.
The Delaware and Hudson company
paid yesterday at the Boston, No. and
No. ? mines at Plymouth.
Chief Clerk Lauder at Superintend-
ent Lloyd's Office was out of the city
yesterday on official business.
The Carnegie Steel company has re-
ceived an order for 1000 tons of rails
for the Cape railways in South Africa.
Four passengers were ticketed
through from Scranton to the state of
Wyoming Yesterday over the Lacka-
| wanna railroad.
Rock Island S5-ton engine burns less
Island than is consumed by other en-
gines for similar work.
Division Superintendent Salisbury
and Chief Engineer Mcfarland went
| to Cresco yesterday TO investigate the
work of raising the engine which rolled
| down the embankment and to inquire
| further into the details of the recent
wreck at that point.
As a result of experiments extending
over a considerable period, it is stated
| that all the engines of the Sante Fe
| in California are to be converted into
oil burners at an expense of $4,000
| The company owns its own oil wells
| and expects to use 100000 barrels an
nually for engine fuel.
| owing to the continuation Of the
strike of the runners and drivers at the
Grassy Island, Olyphant No. 2 and
Eddy Creek collieries of the Delaware
and Hudson at Olyphant, the Grassy
Island has been shut down for an in
definite period, and it is said the same
action will be taken at the other col
lierieS.
A young man arrived at the I.acka'
wanna station yesterday afternon witt
a ticket for Wilkes Barre via Hampton
Junction and the Central railroad. He
came from the west and would have
Travelled over 100 miles out of his way
but for the timely action of Station
master Mccain, who sent him to hi!
destination on the Bloomsbury divi
sion.
The Ontario and Western Railroad
company will run an excursion to Lake
Poyntelle on Sunday, July %, leaving
Scranton at $50 a. m. and arriving a
the lake at 10 a. m. The return trair
will leave Poyntelle at STA and arrive
in this city at 6:35. 4 special rate o
81 has been fixed for all stations be
tween Scranton and Jermyn, inclu
sive, and IS cents from Mayfield anC
60 cents from Carbonate.
The new engines now in use on tn
Baltimore & Ohio, just out of the Bald
win shops, are doing great work. The.
are splendid machines and aposses
some features which are radical de
partures from the ordinary types o
engines used on the roads which ira
verse the hilly regions between tn
Ohio line and the Atlantic Seaboard
but they are doing excellent work ant
reflect credit upon the designers.
TIE Lehigh Power company, who's
headquarters are at Easton, ha
awarded the contract to Wilcox G. Co
of New York city, for the erection o
an electric power plant on the canal a
Raubsville, which is to be one of tn
largest and most modernly equippe
power plants in the state. Fourteen
thousand horse power has already bee
contracted for in the Warren county