Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-28

as soon as the State Water Supply
Commission approves the plans the
work of reconstruction will begin.
1t is expected to have this under
way before the middle of summer and
to continue it until completed, which
will be shortly before the beginning of
the new year, it is hoped.
The plan of the company is TO keep
the old bridge in use while the new
one is being built and this will mean
the accomplishment of a most difficult
| feat in engineering. The new struc-
ture will have two tracks and Will be
of the most approved design.
This will allow the Valley company
to double it's tracks in Mulberry street
| through the city and into the Union
| Station. Such an Improvement has
| been long needed and will give the
Cumberland Valley company oppor-
| tunity to save many delays to both
| passenger and freight traffic.
The Cumberland Valley company is
also planning to carry forward during
the year its policy of raising its tracks
| above grade in all of the towns
| through which it passes that will give
/ it legislation necessary to make the
| change This is costly, but in the end
economical work
The Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
way has not announced any extensive
| changes for the coming year, but its
| management says that twill go stead
| lily along, adding to the size and
efficiency of its great and growing
yards at Rutherford. Vast sums have
! been spent there in the past few years
| and more trackage and additions TO
the shop equipment will be necessary
| during the year, unless business falls
off very seriously
A Railroad City
That these great improvements
should come to Harrisburg is not SO
/ remarkable as it may seem, since.it is
| as a railroad city that Harrisburg has
attained prominence. No less than
| eight railroads enter Harrisburg OF
form a junction at this point. They
are the Pennsylvania Railroad the
| Philadelphia and Reading, the Cum
| berland Valley. the Northern Central
| the Philadelphia and Erie, the Gettys-
burg and Harrisburg, the Philadel-
phia. Pittsburgh and Gettysburg and
| the Susquehanna and Schuylkill, while
| an engine of the Western Maryland
| is not. an unusual sight in the Reading
| yards.
| The employees of these various lines
| total more than 1900 men and the
monthlys payrolls total more than
three quarters of million dollars
| The growth of the city in railroad i'm
portance may be judged from the fact
that the total number of railroad en-
ployes in 1902 was only 800, and
this was before a large number o1
railroad families were removed from
Harrisburg to take up their residence
at Enola.
Nearly two and one-half million
cars pass through Harrisburg every
year, this despite the fact that in 1906
tn number was only million and 6
half cars and that since that time al
through freight has been transferred
to the Marysville yard and all through
slow freight by way of Enola. Abou
fourteen million passengers are han
died every year through the city ant
thousands of them now stop off to SCI
the new Capitol and other points o.
interest
This has been brought abou
through the joint efforts of the Har
risburg Telegraph and Division Pas
senger Agent Buchanan, who togethe
induced the Pennsylvania company I,
grant stopover privileges in this city
putting Harrisburg on the same plan,
with Philadelphia, New York, Pitts
burgh and Washington. Thus Harris
burg is mentioned as stopover poin
on all schedules and is so rated in al
ticket offices and agencies the countr,
over. 1t is a good advertisement 70