The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-09
LAcKAWANNA NOTES.

Hereafter no corpse will be carried
over the Lackawanna roads for less
than 81 and the person in charge of
the body must hold regular first
class ticket. When the fare exceeds 81
regular ticket must be procured for
the transportation of the body.
The Lackawanna order concerning
the watch inspection has been some
what modified. Fifteen jeweled
watches of certain specified makes
will now be allowed.
The club cars, Buffalo and Cresco,
are about finished outside ~ the
Dover car shops and are now rcceiv-
ing the inside trim
The High Bridge over the Passaic
river near Paterson is being thorough
ly overhauled and strengthened. The
work of repairing all the bridges
along the line will be commenced in
the spring.
John W. Fitzgibbons, the former
motive power has secured a similar
position with the Baltimore e. Ohio
Railroad.
The handsome new dining cars of
the Lackawanna have made their ap-
pearance. They are elegantly fur
nished and complete in all their
equipment for serving meals at all
hours while on the road.
George Taylor has lien on one of
the Lackawanna passenger trains that
does duty between Hoboken and the
hamlet of Gladstone in the Somerset
Mountains. George is an affable little
man with a most becoming set of chin
whlskers and moustache and his popu-
larity with the public has been estab-
lished for many years. After George
left the baggage car, he was given a
passenger run between Bernardsville
and Summit, and when the company
began running trains through from
Hoboken to Gladstone, when the
"west line' was extended to that
point it fell to his lot to get through
train. And now George owns a cozy
little home at Gladstone where he
vegetables in the stiffness after the
days toll is over He knows every
commuter ON the line from the Ber-
nardsville cad to the Summit dude,
and the man in the former town that
thrives by selling farm land to tender
feet at high prices and by apothe-
carries weight. Jersey City Journal.
Four assistant conductors, or ticket
collectors, as they are to be called,
have been appointed by the Laeka-
wanna Railroad Company. They are
William Crowley, Henry Burns, Louis
Gardner and Harry Burns. The men
began their new duties Wednesday.
1t is the intention to have the new
appointees help out conductors of
long trains during the rush hours Of
the morning and at night, and the
collectors have been furnished with
schedules of the trips they are to
make. The assistants will not make
full trips, but will board and leave
trains at points between Hoboken
and South Orange and Hoboken and
Montclair, where their services will
be mostly required.
Hank" Hoffman is one of three of
the Oldest passenger conductors on
the Laekawanna Morris and Essex
division and has been so long in the
service that he has rights which
are respected by the younger men in
the company's employ. Hank" is a
jolly good fellow, and, if he is slightly
stopped over, can shake a foot with the
best of them. He is a strong brother
hood man and, like most of the boys
at the Hoboken end of the trip, is a
member of Moses Taylor Council.
Upstairs over the station, where the
conductors have their room, Hank
is a popular favorite. and what he
says goes with them.