St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-08-01
Transportation Items.
No Smoking Allowed.

Ihe Union Paclhc Railroad employees
are not allowed to smoke while on duty
and an amusing incident in connection
with this rule OF the company occurred
at the meeting of the board of directors
recently.
b. ii. Hartman was presiding, and [,
suddenly turning to Millionaire George
Could exclaimed
Drop that cigarette, Mr.. Could"
Mr.. Gould looked astounded.
II mean it," Hartman said, severely
81 have just issued an order prohibiting
cigarette smoking by any employee Of
the Union Pacific Railroad. You are an
employee of the company-you get $40
every time you come here. So kindly
put away that cigarette.
Millionaire Gould recovered from the
state of daze into which he had been
thrown. Then he slowly dropped his
cigarette.
Then Hartman, who objected to
smoking of any kind announced that he
thought men should not be directors in
companies and make rules for others if
they can't obey the rules themselves.
Just then ]. H. Schiff, another director,
came in, putting at big cigar. Harri-
man made him throw it away. mo
smoking on U. P. premises" he said,
"by employees of the company
Who's an employee of the company ?"
Schiff demanded.
"You are" Hartman said. Don't
you get $40 every time you attend
meeting?"
The meeting was completed without
tobacco. Each director as he came in
was ordered to drop his cigar, if he had
one.
The directors took the order good
naturally, and promised to obey it
faithfully at all future gatherings.
A new feature which will be appre-
GATED by the travelling public has been
adopted by the Central Vermont rail
road at the station in Burlington. Big
cards are tackled to each car before the
trains pull out, designating where they
are going. -Four separate trains are now
made up there, one each for Cambridge
Junction. Montpelier, Windsor and St.
Adams.
The Rutland railroad is adopting a
new system of engine headlight light
ing. The common cases are used but
are fitted with carbCns, electricity being
furnished by a small dynamo behind the
headlight case which is run by steam
motor. The new lights are nearly 1000
candle power and throw light ahead
as tar as the vision reaches.
Charles B. Collier of Philadelphia, act
ing for syndicate of.bondholders, has
bought the Washington and Potomac
Railroad at public sale. and the property
is to be reorganized The price paid was
100000, and the only person who bid
| against Mr.. Collier was w. w. Wegley
OF Philadelphia, who represented New
York capitalists. About twenty one
miles OF the Washington and Potomac
Railroad have already been completed.
The entire line is to extend from Wash
ingtOn to Point Lookout, at the con-
tiuence of the Potomac river with the
Chesapeake Bay, and it is the purpose of
the bondholders to complete the road as
soon as possible. This line is now in
operation from Brandywine, a station
on the Baltimore and Potomac road, to
Mechanicsville, Md.
company has just been incorporated
in New Jersey, with a capital of $780,
600, for the purpose Of manufacturing
and operating ventilating fans for pas
senger cars. E. H. Johnson, head of the
Johnson Switch Company, is president
of the new company. He recently in
vented and patented a car fan which has
stood several satisfactory tests on the
trains of the Philadelphia and Reading
! Railroad.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
has put on a new train which runs
through without change from Chicago
to San Francisco, 1851 miles. With the
exception OF the Canadian Pacific train
which runs from Montreal to Vancouver,
2,9O6 miles, it is the longest run of any
through train. The Northern Pacifc's
long run from st. Louis to Portland is
1874, and Southern Pacific with its Sun
set limited runs from New Orleans to
San Francisco, 2,4S9 miles, without
change, which has heretofore been the
record in the United States.
For a number of years DR.. w. Seward
Webb's private car has been illuminated
with electricity generated by power fur