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ON BRIEF MENTION OF A WEEK'S DO INGS ON THE RAIL. Short Paragraphs That Will be of Interest to the Railroad Boys What are said to be the largest pair of : driving wheels in the world are be constructed for the New York ing Central Railroad. The wheels when completed will be feet in diameter The Lehigh Coal Navigation Com reports that during 1892 it propany duced 1,203,662 tons, the greatest cost out put in any year in its history; the of production was $1.47 per ton tEleven box cars loaded with articles of art from Italy, for the World's Fair passed up the Lehigh Valley railroad Friday night. They were brought to this country on the American man of war, Constellation. John Nichol. the lost and damaged freight agent of the Reading System, conin St Louis attending thenation is vention of freight agents. He will be gone a week. Mr. Nichol represents He the Reading at the convention. lives at Mauch Chunk. An order has been received at all of the repair shops of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Co., giving parti cular instructions to the employes No car is to be allowed to go through shops without obliterating the words the "series A, Union Trust Co.' over The painters are instructed to paint these marks. The reason for this order is that the mortgage bond, series A, of the Union Trust Co., of Philadel the phia, have been paid. This was payment that is said to have precipita ted the receivership. I The commission on the anthracite coal waste, of which the Hon. Eckley B. Coxe is chairman, hopes to finish its report this Spring. It will should enter very fully into the matter and to be a most valuable contribution economize science. The present anthra meth ods of mining and reparing cite coal are disgrace to the century and the sooner we realize this and Mil act it the better off we will be. upon lions of tonsare lost'every year through ness. incompetency, iguorance and careless Last week the parents of Albert G Lents, of Weatherly, who was in Octo St berlast killed on the railroad at Nichalas received from the Brother hood of Trainmen, of which organization he was member $1,000 as death benefit. Mr. Lentz joined the organization in Tamaqua the day previous his death, and as every member placed on the beneficial list the night of initiation the opportune step the he took will assist greatly in relieving distress of the parents. The Brother hood of Railroad Trainmen was organized in town last August and at present numbers forty members. It is doing use excellent work, and will grow in fulness and prosperity. Tamaqua Recorder The proposed Philadelphia & Allen town Electric Trunk Railway Company which intends building a line from Allentown to Philadelphia, will take South Bethlehem, Hellertown, Bingen, Coopersburg, Spinnerstown, Gerysville East Greenville, Pennsburg, Hillegas ville, Red Hill, Green Lane, Samney town, Harleysyille, Kulpsville, North Wales, Spring Haven, Fort Washing Mount ton, Florenceton, Chestnut Hill, Airy,Germantown, Philadelphia,Uni town, Jeffersonville. Another branch runs through Quakertown, Perkasie, $100,and Doylestown. The capital is 000. They have received the right way along the roads of Lower Saucon Rentz it The company may purchase the heimer cave property, near Hellertown. and convert it into a picuio ground and park. I About 60 employes of the Lehigh division of the Lehigh Valley Railroad were discharged indefinitely the other day. The signal men, who build watch along towers, a gang of six that works off the whole line of the road, were put No. 0 The gravel train, drawn by engine 14, has been abolished. The conductor re was Thomas Murtugb, the engineer Oliver Phil Lauer and the fireman Stein, all of Easton. There were division workmen on the train Each of the Lehigh Valley road has had gravel trains. The number on every The r division has been reduced to one. ng track gangs, headed by James consist Pascoe g and James Bowman, the first ng of twenty men and the second The men ing men, discharged. they de ten do not know when int out will of e mmloyed. work The weeding out the th the men has been done to reduce Reading of operating expenses of the of of Railroad under the administration the receivers. 10 I The annual report of the Philade phia and Reading Relief Association directio on under the personal organized of President McLeod, which has jus zh po been complied, makes very gratifyi nob exhibit of the organization's It show work during the past year. $362,787 iti that total receipts were which was contributed and members; of $22,537.26 was contributed of the railroad company, $9,250 investine was een of rived from interests on ban dis 8545.88 from interests on ser, balances. and The disbursements $104,864. aggr art gated $241,101.01, including rri death benefits; 84,530.95 for cont em butions for returned. and 88,940.1 leavin for ker penses of medical examiners, mak the surplus for year of $21,685.37 Associa long surplus $228,480.44. The afford tion the paid death claims disableme and relief in 13,005 cases of Ia., of the disablement cases, benefits 3,097 ust 3,357 accident cases and el ow and the cases tion cases hundred and eighteen mem has One during disablement, twenty 5,159 de died in receipt of wages, and leavi om were within seven days, by covered hand at the close of the of ti The 1,248 membership on at the end fiscal year was 15,216 will be Here on the 7th unk nary W. F. Danzer, Hazleton's known eye, ear Dr. and n Hotel use specialist, on Frida 1802 be the Exchange second to nor The doctor disea April treatment of the above al him. and the you need such services call