The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-05-16
ALONG THE
RAILROADS.
Many Changes Made IN the
Laekawanna's Train
Service.
THE ERIE'S STEEL POSTAL CAR.

The new time tlble went into effect
on the Lackawanna on Sunday. The
changes are many Several trains
have been quickened. Among them
are the !. u and 7.5O each Of which has
ten minutes cut off the running time,
while the $40 and 8.34 have five
minutes cut of, while the new 8 p. M,
train runs in one hour and twenty
minutes.
Coming from New York the express
leaving that city at $50 now reaches
here at 1905 and is continued to Nor
ris Plains.
Between MorriStown and Dover
there are several new trains, but not
enough for good service yet.
Going into New York in the late af-
ternoon or evening the same polxy
schedule confronts Morristown with
an extra train going east. Coming
out after six O'Clock the schedule re-
mains as before, all Of the trains slow
and the long waits still remaining as
before.
The S.34 a. m. train runs through
from Dover. Conductor Sanderson's
train leaves at $40. A new train has
been added leaving New York at
1850 .. M. and running as an express
to Morris Plains reaching Morristown
at2.O2. This train however will not
run on Saturdays when the usual Sat-
urday express runs. Returning the
new train leaves Morristown at 3 p.
M, reaching New York at 4.2O.
In the evening the train leaving Nor
ristown at s.46 will come from Dover.
The $50 is cut out going east but
there will be trains at 9.25 and 1925,
tho latter coming from Dover. The
l1.20 will also be continued. The 5.12
train going west in the afternoon will
be continued to Branchville.
On Sundays there will be the same
schedule in force as last summer. three
each way being added to the winter
schedule.
Blythe change in the timetable Con-
ductors Sliker and O'Neili with their
crews will be obliged to lay at Dover.
AS showing the marked advance in
car building of recent years, the Erie
Railway has on exhibition at the in
ternational railway congress exhibit
tion in Washington, a steel postal
car which is the first OF its kind
ever constructed. Railroad men who
have examined it declare that it is
also the best.
The car, length of which is 65 feet,
is entirely of steel as to its exter-
ior, and wherever wood has been used
in inside fittings fireproof wood with
cast iron trimmings has been used. A
door midway between the two ends of
the car practically divides it into two
sections, one end being used for stor-
age, while the other end is for the
sorting tables and letter racks. For
night work the Pintsch gas system is
provided. The Gold steam heating
system is used, Westinghouse air
brakes and signals are provided, and
the car is equipped with Master Car
Builders couplers. It is mounted on
Erie standard six wheel trucks.
The doors Of the cars, both on the
ends and sides, are made of fireproof
wood instead of steel to facilitate the
escape Of mail clerks in case OF accident.
The Dover Index" in an appeal
for the retention of the car shops in
Dover gives the following figures !;
ticket office $4,000 in 1908; for 1904
S85, 5000, and this year it win reach
over 800, 1000. The showing is an in
crease Of 81, 900 to 81 600 for years past
in passenger traffic alone. In the way
of freight traffic the residents Of Dover
are liberal patrons OF the Lackawanna
road, and for 1904 about $4,000 was
the income from this source. Every
year there is an increased income from
freight traific in Dover, and the four
months of 1905 indicate something
over $4,000 per month, or over $4,000
for the year.
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Effective June ! the name of Pea
pack station on the N. J. & Penn. r.
r. win changed to Gladstone. A sid
ing about a mile and half from Glad
stone will be called Peapack.
The Lackawanna has notified ten
ants of its property in Orange to be
ready to move. The order is supposed
to mean that track elevation there
will soon be started.
No Diverting of State Waters.
Governor Stokes signed one bill Fri
day morning and vetoed ten others
The bill made law by the governor
was the Bacheller act to prohibit the
diversion Of any Of the potable waters
of the State. 1t prohibits the carry