Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-17
Railroad Notes

William B. McCaleb, superintendent
of the Philadelphia division, to-day
visited West Morrisville yards on an
inspection trip.
Fl. B. Heiser, of eos Reilly street,
engineer on the Philadelphia division,
is on the sick list.
Howard Beasor, of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, to-day at
tended the funeral of Jack Hefright
at Huntingdon.
A. E. Cupper, clerk in the P. R. r.
clearinghouse at Altoona, is i'll with
the grip.
Train No. 1893 will in future make
daily except Sunday stops at Newton
Hamilton.
Storage sidings on the middle divi-
sion of the Pennsylvania railroad are
again blocked with freight.
G. w. Nestor, of the real estate de-
partment of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, has returned from a business
trip to York.
H. NJ. Grove, freight conductor on
the Baltimore division of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad who has been i'll for
three months, has returned to duty.
T. f. Hilliard, of Oil City, a rail in
spector on the Pennsylvania railroad
and inventor of the Hilliard portable
milling machine, is giving demonstra-
llOhS VI illo pttNthl III SilOpSs
He was at York yesterday.
S. A. Marin, of Martinsburg, has
been appointed a special officer on the
Cumberland Valley railroad.
G. w. Creighton, general superin-
tendent of the Eastern division of the
Pennsylvania railroad, stopped off IN
Harrisburg yesterday. He was at Lam
caster, in conference with the Cham
ber of Commerce of that city, on plans
for tho nrnnnCnH OF
tion.
David Goldberg, local interpreter
for the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia
and Reading railroads, who has been
i'll, is recovering.
Daniel Leisy, clerk in the office of
w. II. Keffer. superintendent of the
Reading division of the Philadelphia
and Reading railway, is ill with pto-
maine poisoning.
The total loaded car movement east
and west on the Pennsylvania railroad
past Lewistown Junction the first
fourteen days of February was 1,471
cars, .an increase of S,326.
ID. b. Heiserman, general counsel of
the Pennsylvania lines west, has had
his Jurisdiction extended over the
lines of the Vandalia, vice ]. G.. Will
liams, resigned.
During the three years ended De-
cember 81, 1915, the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad used S,232,371 gallons of
paint in painting it's stations and other
buildings, freight cars and bridges
under a standard color scheme.
Bituminous shipments over the
Reading in December were 1,S28,SS9
tons, as against 1,280,646 tons in De-
cember, 1914, and for the twelve
months 17.412,34S, as against 15,742,-
1874 tons in 1914.
The American Railway Association
car report shows a total surplus Feb
ruary l, 1916, of 52,449, compared
with 70,391 January 1, 1916, and 227,-
473 February 1, 1915. The total short
age February l was 3O,964.
George Ashbridge, Jr., has been ap-
pointed freight solicitor for the Penn
sylvania railroad. with offices in
Philadelphia and w. d. Crowley to a
similar position. with offices in the
Woolworth building, New York. Both
appointments are promotions.
What is sal dto be the largest en-
gine ever built at the Baldwin Loco
motive Works is now under construc-
tion for the Virginia railroad. 1t will
cost $4,000 and will be used in coal
traffic.