New-York tribune., 1909-09-06
GOSSIP OF THE
COMMUTERS.

A Newark com 1onuter who processes to have OBJ
served the yecuiarities of train announcers says
that the lack Of dstiuctness In their enuucaton is
due largely to the fact that many Of them af-
ficted with deafness. lie asserts that the average
train announcer is so hard of hearing that he is
not aware cf the fact that he is enunclating
clearly.
Nearly dozen NIontclair schoolboys who have
wireless telegraph stations at their homes have
formed wireless club" for tho discussion Of
school studies 1t is the intention OF the boys dur
ing the coming term. when studying at home "a
keep in touch with one another in the evening by
the Of their wireless apparatus The stations
distributed all Montclair. some Of the boys
who expert operators being Willie Couper son
Of William Couper, the sculptor; Cook Flanagan,
Percy Young. Bernard Mann, Willard voorhees,,
Archie De Long Arthur Cole and Stafford Adams
Commuters on the Erie trains have been inter
ested in the construction OF the line, by which
their trains are to approach and enter the new
open through Bergen Hill by 1. long, easy
curve In place of the abrupt turn by which they
now reach the tunnel The line is 10 cross
under the Lackawanna main line fifteen hun
dred feet north Of the tunnel and that there may
he full height for the Erie traffic under the Iscka-
wanna tracks 1t has been necessary to raise the
grade OF the LackaWauus, road bed for the entire
distance from tts crossing under the new Pennsyl-
Vania air line to its iuuCtion with the Morris y
Essex division During the last week work has
progressed rapidly in the construction OF the bridge
by which the Iackawanna ia TO cross over the
Ere's Greenwood Lake tracks, and the southeriy
abutment for the bridge is now completed
The Hudson tunnels doing q rushing bust
ness during the communication hours, The morning
trains the Cortandt street terminal carry hve
six cars, and there is barely standing room III
the trains when the Erie passengers have crowded
aboard, though the trains run on short head
way
The Erie Railroad has made arrangements to
have the Hudson & Manhattan tunnel tickets on
sale singly in strips practically all the sta
tions in the suburban district.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad is building two sd
ditional tracks from Harrison to point west Of
the Market street station In Newark. This no
doubt will cause extensive changes 10 be made as
well improvements at the Market street station
It has bearing the coming change OF
route TO New York. by way Of the tunnel of the
McAdoo system to lower Manhattan.
Sussex County appleiack Is at premium these
days account of the great demand for It in
the treatment OF snake bite. Driven out Of their
accustomed haunts by the fires that raging
IN the Swartswood Mountain woods, the ene-Ees
are swarmng into the more settled portions. and
reports come every side Of people being
bitten. The staple remedy in Sussev is to press
a quid or chewing tobacco on the wound and ap-
ply apple1aFk internally in HDerat doses 0' 'tI-
rick himself had nothing these fires for drtv-
ing verrniu out of a place and IF only the
were nearer one good effect Of the blaze would be
the determination of all of them.
Tho Paint and Powder Club. Of Orange. viii
produce during the coming winter play
from the pen Of g. Van Ruren Brewster, entitled
Here and There" Mr. Brewster has written
several other pieces which have been played with
success, The nuEtc of tho plav will he by g. n
CGewa and F. n Farrsucrth All three will be m
the