The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-12-22
NEW TRACTION
co. OFFICIALS.
5. M. Manifold Is Now General
Manager and Is In Charge
Of the Trolley Work.
DAVID GRNG THE PRESIDENT

S. M. Manifold, assumed the general
managership of the Morris County
Traction Co. on Tuesday. Mr.. Mani
fold is an old railroad man, having had
much experience with steam roads and
for several years was general manager
of the trolley roads in York, Pa. He
has served also as sheriff of York coun-
ty. Recently he has been engaged as
consulting engineer. Mr.. Manifold
has spent the days since assuming his
Office in going over the trolley COM
pany S lines and familiarizing himself
with the work here.
David Gring, Of Harrisburg, has
succeeded Frederick Alleman as presi-
dent of the company, though Mr.. AL
leman is still connected with the cor
poration. Mr.. Gring, also, is familiar
with railroading and has had large
experience in the financing Of trans
portation companies.
The new officials expect to.continue
the work of construction. The line
from RockawaY through to Denville
will be finished and. as the weather
permits, as much work as possible will
be done between Morris Plains and
Mount Tabor. The locating of the
line between Morristown and Summit
will also be taken up.
While the court proceedings insti-
tuted by Robert H. McCurdy a I'D Sam
uel Abel will act as stay from oper-
ating the trolley road in Hanover
township the company is grading the
space between the trolley tracks and
the gutter on Speedwell avenue,
cracked stone being spread on it and
then rolled by the company's steam
roller. No work is being done, how
ever, in Hanover township on the con-
struction Of the trolley road, and none
will be done until after the court de-
decides the case
Contractor Eney Grupelli has rails
laid on Speedwell avenue as far as
William H. Thompson s residence and
has the excavation completed to the
junction with the tracks previously
laid. He expects to finish his work Of
construction by Wednesday and will
have the road graded and some filling
done day or two later. All the troll
ley poles are up and the wire has been
ordered, its arrival being looked fer
daily.
At Denville large force of men is
husoling the work along of connecting
the line from Rockaway with its
tracks already laid through Denville.
Arrangements have been made be-
tween the trolley company and the
SJickles so that work is now being
pushed along the Sickle property.
The road is being widened at that
point and the telephone company has
gang of men moving the telephone
poles back to the new gutter line.
From tile road in front of the Sickle
property the trolley road jumps across
to private rlght-of-way across the
lands of Joseph Hinchman, getting
back on the county road again at the
Den brook bridge. A fill Of five or six
feet will be necessary across the pri-
vate right-of-way, it being low ground
and often flooded
AT present work car transports
passengers from the present terminus
Of the line half-mile above the Car
mer inn at Denville, to the cut at
Rockaway and here passengers change
to one of the regular Dover cars.
This is made necessary because of a
large force of men at work in the cut,
blasting and removing the rock for
ballasting the tracks elsewhere and
also for paving stones. A locomotive
and several dump cars are in use be-
tween the cut and the work at Den
vile hauling the ballast and materials.
The company's steam shovel, which is
on siding at Rockaway, is being over
hauled and put in shape for use.