The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-09-02
New Inventions Put Some
Old and Historic Equip
ment IN the Background.
SOME FAST RUNNING
GREAT CAMPAIGN IN NEW YORK
AGAINST RAILROAD TRAMPs
RUSH OF FREIGHT.


food the cities and towns with a volume
Of smoke that calls forth the abuse of
| the citizens To obviate this, and at the
same time to experiment with the
| Long Johns four of them were re-
| recently sent to the Baldwin Locomotive
works to be rebuilt into hard coal burn
ers, and they have been returned and
! tested. The Reading people say the re-
suits have been satisfactory to an ex-
| tent beyond what was anticipated. All
the Long John" engines have been
burning soft coal only and hard coal has
been entirely unknown to them up to the
time the change in the fire boxes was
made. It is likely now that all of these
engines on the several divisions of the
Reading will be rebuilt and the use Of
soe soal viii be rare sight on the road.
They are immense engines and are used
| to haul both freight and coal. The re-
! building was done under special plans
and instructions and the tests were made
on one of the roads heaviest grades.
The hard coal burning Long Johns
are capable of hauling several more cars
than the soft coal burners and accom-
pish it with less effort. They can also
do all this better than any other type
of soft coal burners the Reading owns.
| This is one of the most important moves
recently made by the Reading company,
and it is believed will fully justify all
! the outlay made
The historic old locomotive "97 of the
Alton,' was hauled from St. Louis to
| Springfield, Mo-, a few days ago, and
put on the scrap track of the Frisco.
This engine was among the best Of its
kind when new, but it is small now as
compared to the modern ''battleships.
1t was "97 of the Alton" that made the
| famous worlds record run from Bloom
/ ington. ILL.,, to Chicago in 1871, hauling
the Bloomington fire department to help
| extinguish the terrible fire that was then
| sweeping over Chicago This was the
second day of that FIRE. 1t made mile
in 81 seconds on that memorable run,
the first time that such feat had ever
been accomplished by a locomotive in
| America A few years ago it was pur-
chased BY the Frisco and was used as a
switch engine. but now its services are
ended and it is cast to the scrap pile.
The New York, Ontario and Western
Railroad has increased the pay of freight
engineers on large engines from 81 day
/ $3.75 to 81. Conductors. both passenger
and freight, are advanced 10 cents day,
| passenger conductors now receiving $3.50
and freight conductors $3.50. Firemen
are advanced 10 cents a day, and will
now receive on large freight engines
$3.50; on passenger engines, S2.20.
Brakemen are advanced 10 cents to $3.50.
Operating officials of the Baltimore
and Ohio at Cincinnati few days ago
suspended an engineer and fireman who
violated rules of the company by ex-
| ceeding the speed limit in an attempt
to make up time. The men have been
put back on their regular runs, evident
| ly forgiven Most Of the railroads of
the present day have rules which pro-
hibit unreasonably fast driving by en-
gineers even to make up lost time In
few instances are these rules regarded.
They are made firstly to minimize acei-
i dents, and secondly to spare the motive
power and equipment. An engineer Of
one Of the Buffalo-New York lines in
discussing this question said 'sYes. the
rules are all right, but they're like a lot
Of municipal ordinances seldom en-
forced. Under some operating officials
its a case Of get called down if you're
late, and get called down if you aren't.
Delays to trains are seldom due to the
engineer If we make up lost time we
are accused of running toe fast. IF we
don't, the boss wants to know all about