AUGUST, 1909
.~;, Railroad - Dep~rtm(n-l ,. . .: ~:- .· , . . y. JV\. (. A. , .. . . . BUILDERS'
HARDWARE ABSOLUTELY EUROPEAN FIREF;tOOF TH£ PLAN ~o't'EL Ess~~ For every need and of the highest BOSTON quality in every class
New Britain, Conn.
DIRECTLY OPPOSITE THE SOUTH STATION CONVENIENT TO BUSINESSCENTii:RB AND RUBLIC INSTITUTIONS ACCOMMODATIONS, CATERING AND OUR HOME DOOR CHECK SERVICE UNSURPASSED is the only appliance of its kind that with WRITE FOR BOOKLET. stands the hard use of railway service.
1-- ~ - ' . PINT~Cn LltiHT (LfCTRIC LltiHT Car Lighting by the PINT~cn Axle Driven Dqnomo~y~tem ~ \'~ Tf)1 with perfected -;iO of electric lighting. l:quip gle mantle lamp~. ment~ either ~old or oper Co~t-Ooe cent per hour. ated under contract.
, ~T(A~ HfAT Car Heating by controllable direct steam and water circulating systems, steam tight couplers, traps, train pipe valves and other appliances. Thermo- Jet System where pressure is not desired. ,
SAF.ETY CAR HEATING & LIGHTING COMPANY,.. 2 RECTOR STREET, NEW YORK ,- Chicago Philadelphia St. Louis Boston Berkeley, Cal. Atlanta Montreal I T - ' 1Rew lJlorlit 1Rew lba"en anb lbartforb 1Railroab 1Rews.
VoL. XII NEW HAVEN, CONN., AUGUST, 1909 No. 10
Train Service To_ The Boats. Brockton) anrl :\liddleboro to the "new road" (just completed under title of Dighton & "Old Colony Passenger Station. Fall River Line to New York" was the way the big signs Somerset) through Randolph and Taunton. used to read which hung for years on either The following in regard to the steamboat train over the "new road" and a description side of the Old Colony Depot at the corner of the towns through which it passed is taken of South and Kneeland streets in Boston. from Leonard's "Travelers' Instructor," edi \ Vhen the steamboat line between New York tion September, 1868: and Fall River was opened it became necessary "Boston and X cw York via Old Colony and to insure success that a connection should be Newport Hailway. Passenger trains leave Bos made with Boston by rail. ton for Newport at 8:30 A. 1\.I. and 4:30 and At that time there had been completed a 5 :30 P. l\I. i\. R. Porter, E. B. Harrington, railroad from Fall River to South Braintree, T. J. ClaAin and IV. D. Jones, Conductors. known as the Fall River Railroad. At South Passenger trains leave X ewport for Boston at Braintree connection was made with the Old 4 :00 and 7 :4:5 A. i\I. and 3 :00 P. 1\I. Colony Railroad, which had been opened from Express passenger trains for :01 cw York Boston to Plymouth in 1845, which road via Taunton, Fall River and Newport, leave took the Fall River Railroad trains into Bos Boston at ..J. :30 and 5 :30 P. i\1. and are due ton, so that the first steamboat train between at Newport at 7 :10 and 7 :.J.O, connecting with Boston and Fall River ran over two distinct steamboat Old Colony, Captain Augustus N. and separate railroads, the Old Colony from Miller, on :\fondays, \Vednesdays and Fri Boston to South Braintree, and the Fall River days; with steamboat X ewport, Captain Wil l{ailroad from South Braintree to Fall River, liam Brown, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat and it. will be noted that the route between urdays, ~hich are due in New York about 6 :00 Boston and Fall River was a different one than o'clock the next morning, ,in time to connect is used by the steamboat express trains of to with early trains and boats for the Korth, day. South and \\'est. Supper is served on the The first record of a "boat train" appears in boats on arri\·al of each train. the Old Colony Railroad time-table, in effect The cars of this route are first class in Tllay Hl, 1847, which reads as follows: "Ac every detail. Particular attention is invited commodation trains for Fall River leave Bos to the new and elegant English railway car ton at 7 A. l\1. and 4 P . M. Steamboat train at riages attached to each steamboat train-the 5 P. l\1." first in the country They arc divided into In 1855 the Old Colony and the Fall River apartments seating eight persons each, espec Railroad consolidated under the name of Old ially adapted for families or parties who wish Colony and Fall River Railroad, and on the to travel in seclusion. They are elegantly up time-table of the Old Colony and Fall River, holstered, and run very quiet and easy, being in effect February 13, 1856, the "Steamboat mounted upon trucks of peculiar construction, Passenger" is shown as leaving Boston 5 :30 and arc much superior in finish and appoint p. m., arriving Fall River 7:15 p. m. In 1864 ment to rail\\'ay carriages in ordinary use on the Old Colony and Fall River Railroad con foreign railways. Have been very popular solidated with the Newport and Fall River since their introduction. Smoking cars at Railroad (then building) under the name Old tached to each train. The following stations Colony and Newport Railroad, and the time are enroutc between Boston and Newport: table of the 0. C. & N. R. R. of April 17, Crescent Avenue, Savin Hill, Harrison Square, 186:5, is the first showing the time through :01 eponset and \\'oil aston. These places arc ·to 1'\ewport. On the time-table of April 29, chiefly noted as suburban homes of people 1867, the boat train was changed from the doing business in Boston. They are located "old road" through North Bridgewater (now in the ancient town of Dorchester, which was 174 NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD NEWS. settled and incorporated in 1630 by emigrants of the United States- John Adams and John from Plymouth in England. Dorchester is Quincy Adams, his son. Also as the homes of agreeably diversified by hills and valleys, and John Hancock, Josiah Quincy, and our late the soil is generally rich and highly cultivated. minister to Great Britain, lion. Charles Its fertile hills have been taken advantage of Francis Adams. The old 'Adams House' is for beautiful building sites, commanding a standing in a good state of preservation. fine view of the islands and waters at the head of Massachusetts Bay. Savin Hill is situated BR.\1 NTHEE AND 1 ORTII BRAINTREE. between the inlets from Dorchester Bay, and is a place of some resort. Commercial Point is This town originally included Quincy and '1 place of some note, a little south of Savin Randolph. The first settlement was made as Hill, as is also the Peninsula of Squantum, on early as 162:>. It was incorporated in 1610. the opposite shore. The first water mill in this The Marriquot River, after passing through country was erected in Dorchester in 1633. this town and affording many mill sites, meets Dorchester Heights, celebrated in Revolution the tide waters of Weymouth Fore River at ary annals, are two hills a short distance from Braintree Landing. Excellent granite is each other, on the eastern extremity of the found in the town. The South Shore Railway Peninsula of Dorchester Point, now within diverges here for Hingham, Cohasset and way the limits of South Boston. A most excellent stations. view of the surrounding country and of the SOUTH BRAINTREE. \!arbor of Boston is obtained from the sum mit of these heights. General Washington Two miles south of this place the Old fortified them during the time the British Colony Railway diverges in two directions, the troops held Boston, compelling them to evacu old road for l\'ewport via Bridgewater and ate the city. i\liddleboro, and for the Cape Cod Railway, and the other (the new ro8d) via Taunton,
QUINCY AND QUINCY ADAMS connecting again a few miles north of Fall River Express trains for Newport go via Was first settled in 1G':!5 by a Captain Taunton on the road formerly called the Wollaston, and from him was named Mount 'Dighton and Somerset Railway' and incorpo Wollaston. He bi!came discouraged, and rated in 1864. This route saves several miles returned to England, and his successor, in distance between the two rities. A railway Lieutenant Filcher, was compelled to leave also connects for Plymouth from South Brain the plantation by Thomas Morton, who tree. excited sedition against him. Morton and his associates rioted and disturbed the peace and RANDOLPH sold fire-arms to the Indians. This alarmed 'vVas incorporated as a town in 1793. Boots other plantations and Captain Standish came and shoes are the principal manufactured ar from Plymouth to Mount ·wollaston and dis ticles. Farming is extensively carried on. persed the rioters. Morton was sent back to England. Quincy was incorporated as a town STOUGHTON in 1792. It received its name from Mr Ed mund Quincy, one of the early inhabitants of \Vas originally a part of Dorchester, and Boston. The southwestern part of this town embraced within its limits the present towns forms, with but little exception, a complete of Canton, Sharon and Foxboro. It was in body of granite rock, rising six hundred feet corporated in 1720. It has a large and varied above the level of the sea. Blocks of this business. granite weighing three hundred tons have been NoRTH EAsToN. quarried. The first railway in America was here put into operation in 1826, to transport North Easton is noted for the most ex this granite from its bed to tide-water on tensive shovel and spade works in the United Neponset River, three miles distant. The rails States, if not in the world, established half a were of wood six feet apart, firmly laid upon century ago by Olive Ames. They turn out blocks of stone, upon which the wagon wheels farming implements to the value of a million moved so easily that one horse drew twenty dollars annually. These iJnillements find a tons besides the wagon, which weighed six market all over the world, but are principally tons. The road cost $30,000. Quincy is dis sold in the 1Jniterl States, South America, the tinguished as the birthplace of two Presidents West Indies, Mexico and Australia. NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD NEWS. 175 New= York and New= Haven
TilE S'l'E.JJ..;U-BO.!lTS United States, Capt. Beecher, A!\"D Providence, Capt. Sanford, HAVE commenced tbeir r·egular· tritts, and will continue to run through the season, between New-Haven and Ne.w-York, in the following order, viz. One of said Boats will be disJtatched fa·om New=Hav<;!n evea·y enming at 7 o'clock, and one ft·om New= York, (l'oot of ;uai(lcu-lane,) cret·f mot·oiug. at the same hom, Sundays excepted. Two extra trips in each week will also be performed, a Boat leaving New= York on Saturdays, at 4 o'clock, P. M. and New= Haven on Mondays, at 9 o'clock, A. .JI.
1 · ,C((})A~ J. l.. ',L ).J BC ;-~ 1~i\-~ , C:.!~ J Win always be in r·eadiness, on the at•r·ival of titc Boats at New-Haven, to convey passengers immediately on to Hartrord, Boston and Pro' i dcnce---on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, by the nay of' Middletown, and on Tuesda~·s, Thursdays and Saturdays, b~ Meriden and Berlin. The IJIAIL STAGE for· Hartford, by Middletown, also le:;nes New-Ha,·en every el·ening at 10 o'clocl<, and an ACCOJDIODATION STAGE fot· Hartf'ord will also leare New-Haven every morning, Sundays excepted. By this route the passage from New-York to Hartford is usually performed fh·e to six hours soon(•t· than by any other route. r:!fi PasSI'IIgeJ·s travelliug eastward, will breakf~tst and dine Ott bu:ml the Bo:ll>, :llld, il tlte} clto","· '"P at Ilnrtfrnd, \lhcr·c tltcy will arrive within fifteen hours from the tintc of depattutc fmm N.:II·Y~otl,, iu ~m.on f()r a <:ontf(Jit:ti,Jc night's rest, all(! to t.akc tho eorly ~ta~es fnont Jlat·tford. Frciglit rer·eiveJ un board ~t moderate price~. For ioiunn,ttion't'<·l.ttil<~ to f'rl'tc;l•t or pa'"':.;•· ·'J>J>Iy _to the C:tptaiu-, ov buard, or, at the Steat11-Boat .Office, hcal!·c,f Long'\Y,h.trl; New-Fla1 c11 , 10 JOEL ROOT, Agent. X B All (/IJIJtih,,'/11/ljljf/ljf: lrut/ -~jtu:ic, l(/ 1/.t; ,;sf.· OJ !Itt (/II' Nil'·' 1/11 ·11 uj New-Haven, April 6, 182(;. 1'16 NE:W YORK, NE:W IIAVE:N AND HARTFORD RAILROAD NEWS.
RAYNIJAM. per for the Government one cent pieces was rolled out here. First settled in 16JO and chartered as a The Old Colony and Newport Railway has town in 1730. The first iron forge in the coun lately built three fine station houses in this try was erected here in 1632 by James and town, all within a mile's distance, giving its Henry Leonard, emigrants from Panterpool population C\ cry accommodation for quick in Monmouthshire, England. The original transit. The first station is called Taunton and dam at the forge still remains, and the water is about half a mile from the banks, post office, it holds in check now drives the hammers etc.; the second, \Vier Junction. Here the which forge the largc~t anchors made. The old New Bedford and Taunton Railway crosses its Leonard House with J700 cut on its vane, and track, and passengers change cars for New which was probably built thirty years previous, Bedford, twenty miles southward, and from was in a good state of presen·ation until a there connect daily, during the summer sea few years ago, when it was nearly destroyed son, for Martha's Vineyard, by the fine steam by fire, but a portion of it still remains. It was boat 'l\Ionohansett.' The third and last sta modeled after the style of the eighteenth cen tion is called '\Vier,' and is at the head of tury, with some modifications for defense river navigation. Railway connection is also against the Indians. Tradition reports that made for Providence, R. I., by the New Bed King Philip's head was deposited in this house ford and Taunton Railway, which connects for some time after his de,tth. King Philip with the Boston and Providence Railway at and the Leonard family were very friendly, l\Iansfield; also for Middleboro and Cape and his regard for them was so sincere that Cod. his tribe was ordered not to harm any one bearing the name during the l11dian war which DIGHTON. broke out in 1675. The seventh generation of There are two stations in this town-North the family still live ncar by. Dighton and Dighton. Dighton was incorpo The manufacturing interests of this town rated as a town in 1712, previous to which are now chiefly confined to the making of nails, time it formed a part of Taunton. It is sit shovels, spades, forks and anchors In 1865 uated on the west side of Taunton River, and there were forged one hundred and fifty tons is forty-three miles from Boston. The cele of anchors, valued at twenty-five thousand brated 'Dighton Rock,' the inscriptions on dollars. which have caused such a variety of specula tion, is situated on the east side of the river. TAUNTOX. se,·eral drawings of these inscriptions have This is the capitol of Bri~tol County, and is been taken at various periods. The descrip thirty-three and a quarter miles from Boston tions, however, are so indefinite that no two and seventeen east of Providence. The first of them agree entirely with each other. settlers were from Somers<:>tshire and Devon shire, and many of them from Taunton, Eng SOMERSET. land. This township was purchased from the This town is situated on the west side of Indians by Miss Elizabeth Poole in 1637, a Taunton River, opposite Fall River. Previous Puritan lady who emigrated from Taunton in to its incorporation in 1790, it formed a part England to found a chmch in the new colonies. of the town of Swansey, and was called the Its Indian name was "Cohannet" and it em 'Shawamet Purchase.' The Old Colony and braced the territory of five now adjacent Newport Railway crosses the Taunton Ri,,er towns. A monument to the memory of l\1iss opposite Somerset over a substantial bridge Poole has been erecteu by the ladies of Taun three thousand five hundred feet long, having ton, in a beautiful cemetery in the place. Rob two pivot draw bridges, each eighty feet wide. ert Treat Paine, son of one of the signers of This bridge was built in 18G5 by Captain Wil the Declaration of Independence, was born here. liam Cobb of Dighton. Taunton is situated at the head of naviga SOMERSET JUNCTION tiOii on the Taunton River, and is the fourth grain and coal mart in New England, employ Is on the east side of Taunton River, and ing upward of three thousand tons of shipping here the branch of the Old Colony, via Bridge in coastwise transportation. It was chartered water and Middleboro, unites, and the road as a city in 1864. For several years the cop- continues to Fall River and Newport. NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD NEWS. 17~
FALL RIVER. In 1872 the Old Colony and Newport Rail This enterprising city is situated at the road became once more known as the Old head of the eastern arm of Narragansett Bay, Colony Railroad, and from this time until where it receives the Taunton River. It is J 8!JO, there were a number of changes made eighteen miles from 'ewport and forty-eight in running the Fall River Line steamboat and a half from Boston; was originally called train. During this period parlor cars were Troy. Incorporated as a distinct town in added to the train; these were the Old Colony
THE OLD COMMONWEALTH, 1855.
J 803. In 1834 its name was changed to FaJI drawing room cars, and were named Pilgrim River, taken from a river by that name which and Puritan, after the boats; the time of de here falls into the bay from the east by a parture from Boston was made G:00 p. m., as descent of over one hundred and thirty feet. at present, and the run to the steamers· wharf
THE NEW COMMONWEALTH, HJOS.
This river forms the outlet of Watuppa at Fall River was made in eighty minutes Ponds, which lie about two miles cast of the without a stop the same as today. In June, city and from which comes the principal water 1890, the greatest change in the boat train power of the place. Fall River was nearly service was made when the trains were destroyed by fire in July, 18.J.3. It was in changed from the Kneeland Street to the corporated as a city in lS.J.J.. Fall River is Park Square stations in Boston, and the run one of the largest manufacturing places in was made out O\·er the Proyidence road in New England." stead of via South Braintree, which had 178 NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD NEWS. been the route for more than forty years. In J\fr. Charles Lc Claire, Agent, East 1893 when our own system took the Old Col ford, Conn., vVcstcrn Division. ony road, there were added Pullman cars, and later the vestibule coaches, and N. Y., N. II. 1\fr. li. J. Cooper, Agent, West Pawl & II. parlor cars, and the equipment of the ing, N. Y., \Vestcrn Division. latest pattern. Mr. C. ll. Francisco, Agent, Rocky Today on the time-table June G, 1909, the IIill, Conn., Shore Line Division. Fall River line boat train leaves Boston G:00 l\Jr. E . G. Smith, Ticket Agent, Yar p. m. and arri\·es Fall River wharf 7:20 p. m. There is a train over the "old road" via mouth Camp Station, Mass., Old Colony Bridgewater and l\Iiddleboro which leaves Division. Boston at 5 :O:l p. m. and arrives at Fall River J\fr. \V. II. Horton has been installed wharf at G:58 p. m., and one over the "new Purser, Str. Block Island, Dlock Island road" at 4:27 p. m. which makes stop at Ferry Line (Office 133 1\1.). Street station, Fall River, at G: 20 p. m. The Providence Line boat train service dif fers but little from that of the Fall River line. In fact, the very first idea of a railway Love IS a great creative force ex between Boston and Pro,·idence was a fast pressed as feeling and emotion. line of stages, running on rails, and hauled by 1\Icn, be genial, be friendly, be soci horses, which were to connect with the boats able. \Vc arc all of om· family, then at Providence and made record time to Bos ton. An old time-table of 1853 shows the treat all men and women as brothers and PrO\•idence Line boat train leaving Boston at sisters and your elders as father or 5 :00 p. m., arri,·ing Providence G:15 p. m. mother. Don't be afraid to let them feel At the present time the train leaves at 6 :22 that you love them! We freeze our p. m., with parlor car, the train running sympathies in self-protection, but in do through to the steamer wharf at Fox Point. The Norwich line boat train leaves Boston ing so it uecomcs self-destruction. It is at the same time today (7 :05 p. m.) that it another case of "lie who would save his did years ago when it ran out of the 1'\ ew life shall lose it." York and K ew England depot at foot of One-half of the world is dying for Summer Street, Boston, the \Vorcester boat sympathy and the other half is dying train (:\onvich Line) leaves ·worcester at 8 :0:> p. m. today, live minutes later than the because it docs not give lt. It is difficnlt old schedule of the l\ ew York and New Eng to say which is the more to be pitied. land Railroad. How coltl and how distant we arc to each other! Ilow seldom we meet the truly large-hearted, loving man or wo On the Lines. man! The average society hand shake The following appointments have been is enough to give one the chills. It is m:tdc since the last iss ue: very much like shaking the end of a Mr. F. L. Francis, Ticket Agent, Cam snake's tail, you don't work at it any pello, Mass., Old Colony Di\·ision. longer than you have to. 1\'Ir. C. S. Gay, Agent, Needham, 1\T en, be kind and. courteous toward 1\Tass., Boston Division. all. Detter carry your heart on your Mr. J. A. Luddy, Agent, Matfield, sleeve and expose it to the selfishness of 1\Tass., Old Colony Division. the whole world than to have no heart at l\fr. J. I. O'Donnell, Agent, Winni all, or carry a miserable little palpitator, pauk, Con n. , Shore Line Division. encased in a marble shell. Keep your af 1\fr. \V. D. Jones, Freight Agent, Ash fections pure but let them flow out freely land, 1\ Tass., Providence Division .. toward all men and soon you will find 1\Jr. A. J. McKenna, Ticket Agent, that you arc being transformed into a Roslindale, 1\fass., Doston Division. loving, lovable man-Riddell. NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD NEWS. 179 1Railroab JDepartment ferent feeling would be cultivated in our relations with others and the common af ll'. !ID. (!. B. fairs of everyday life? A certain railroad man always makes a CoR. CoMMERCE AND SILVER STs., NEW HAVEN point to say ·'please," when asking for a transfer on the trolleys, and "thank you" COMM ITTEE OF M AN AGEMENT. when he gets it. Some of these "habits" II. M. KocnERSPERGER, Chairman. • may seem absurd to some, but it is aston ]. G. PARKER, Rec. Secretary. ishing what a good feeling it encourages A. 1\IACKRTLLE, T1·easu1·er. and fosters. It does not cost anything to A. s. 1\[AY, F. S. HOLROOOK, acknowledge things and it yields rich re S. C. VLEETWOOD, F .. s. CuRTis, tnrns in establishing better relations in ]. M. ToMLINSON, w. DANIELS. life with all with whom we come in con A. II. HAYES, Secretary. tact. Try it in the home, the office, the ]. E. SCHLEGEL, Assistant Secretary. street, the trolley, and last, though not least, on the train, where even the pas 1Railroat> 1Hew6. sengers do not always manifest the con sideration for others that they expect PUBLICATION COMMITl EE. from others. A. H. HAYES, Editor. Chairman. The Post Carel collection has been in creased by the addition of one with a fine A. MACKRILLE, Treasm·er. view of the new Passenger Station in ]. W. EvERETT, \Vaterbury. Five cents each is the price T. i\I. PRENTICE, of these cards. Look them over. W. ]Aeons.
Suns.CRIPTION --- 25 CENTS PER ANNUM "Captain" Schlegel has returned from the Y. M. C. A. tent on Fishers Island, Publication Office, Corner Commerce and Silver Sts., New Ilaven, Conn. where he was in "command," and reports Entered al the Postoffice, New IIaven, Conn., as good work and a good time among the second-class matter. "big guns." There were three Y. M. C. C. G. WHArLES & Co. P&INT, -- New Haven, Conn. A. tents, under the able supervision of State Secretary Dates, at the military A " Thank You." camps this year, viz: At Fort Terry on At lunch one day a lad of eleven, not Plum Island, Fort \Vright on Fishers Is wishing to interrupt the conversation, land and Fort Mansfield on the mainland helped himself to some fruit within easy in Rhode Island. reach and murmured, softly, "Thank you." Evidently he had acquired the A general shakeup has taken place in "thank you" habit, and the other diners the Domino Tournament, with probably were not only amused but favorably im more to follow. A general good time, pressed by the incident. however, is the most regular experience A pertinent question for each one of that is assured every Monday evening, us to ask ourselves is, "Do we say 'thank especially when the melons arc cut. Come you' so frequently as to acquire the and see, etc. habit?" Do we not too often take things for granted and as our clue when, if we In our last issue we neglected to men only made some acknowledgment, a dif- tion that the flag pole was struck by 180 NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD NEWS.
lightning and broken off. The Company and "personals," but solid information kindly and promptly replaced it with a pertaining to the railroad business, that fine new one so that we were enabled to every railroad man should know and be raise the new flag July 1. interested in. These are a few of the articles which have appeared in RAILROAD NEWS columns: Double tracking the This association will be represented at Highland Division, The New Haven Silver Day this year by Assistant Secre Cut, The Oldest Railroad Station in New tary Schlegel, who will derive physical, York, Lakeville, Mass., and Camp Joe mental and spiritual benefit at that de I Iooker, and a complete hi story of the lightful Y. ::\I. C. .A. Mecca. \Ve deplore entire l\ew Haven system by divisions, the fact that the delegation is not a including the Old Colony, Midland, Prov larger one and would suggest that some idence, New York and Shore Line and of the members get informed in regard ·western. There will appear in forth to this delightful place for an outing and coming numbers of this magazine: The instruction in Y. l\I. C. A. work. Ask Landmark of the Shore Line, Tracing the secretary who can tell you all about Foreign cars, The Central New England, it, and then get ready for next year, if and many others equally interesting. you cannot go this season. Look this list over and see for yourself if you can afford to be without RAILROAD I\ EWS. The Publication Committee feel, New Subscribers. and not without reason, that every em The Publication Committee of RML ployee of the New Haven system should RO ,\D NEws have decided to commence at be a reader of and subscriber to the once a vigorous campaign for new sub NEWS. scribers and, with this end in view·, we The subscription price of RAILROAD beg to call your attention to the follow l\Ews is but twenty-five cents a year. ing: The New York, New Haven & Stamps arc accepted for a subscription, Hartford R.\JLRQ,\D ::\ EWS, as its readers and we desire to caution all intending know, is a monthly magazine, published at subscribers to be very careful about send New Haven, Conn., devoted to the inter ing loose silver through the mail. If you ests of the 1\ew York, New Haven & send money by mail send it secured in Hartford Railroad and those in its em a coin holder, and if you cannot obtalll ploy. It contains all the latest news of it, we will gladly send you one, but P. 0. the road, changes on the lines, and many or Express :.'\Ioney Orders arc preferred. special articles devoted to the business Sample copies of RAILROAD NEWS will development and history of the New be sent to anyone on application. In ter York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad ritory west of Ne.w London and Willi and the good work of the Railroad De mantic, send for sample copies to Mr. A. partment of the Y. l\f. C. A. Its aim is II. Hayes, Editor N. Y., N. II. & II. R. to promote the interests of the New R. NEws, corner of Commerce and Silver York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad streets, New Haven, Conn. in every possible \Yay, to promote cordial In territory cast of New London and and friendly relations bet ween the Com \Villimantic, make application for sample pany and its readers, and to produce each copies to Ivfr. A. II. Hayes, New Haven, month a clean-cut, high-class railroad or to Warren Jacobs, Ticket Office, magazine, filled with articles and facts South Station, Doston, Mass. that are worth while, not trashy fiction Do it now! NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD NEWS. 181
The Chart of Presidential History. Those who have already had occasion Relative to the Presidential Chart pub to examine the chart more than once lished last month we wish to call atten must have noticed that each succeeding tion to it occasionally, for, as stated, its study reveals some things previously publication by the NEws was for educa overlooked. The maker of the diagram tional pu rposcs and with that end in finds in the display facts and relations view we want to keep the work before that he had not before known or con us or at hand available for ready refer sidered. This shows that the work gives ence when required, and to make it thus details that were not all definitely fixed available we need to understand it and in the plan. Indeed, it may be said that become accustomed -to its use. the design was limited to construction Some ·will no doubt be inclined to of the time scales and the rectilinear pass it by, prematurely deciding that it spaces along the same, in which to enter is a puzzle, a complicated arrangement, the !'residential records. All marks difficult to read or understand and, alto within or across these spaces, placed to gether "too much for me,"· simply be show points or stretches of time appear cause it contains so much more than can only as matters of sequence, each in the be grasped at once, more than they only place that could be given to it to would want to consider at any one time, make the record truthful and accurate. and much perhaps they may never have Thus various relations as to order fre occasion to use, forgetting that some quency or comparative duration, etc., ap matters that do not interest them at all pear, many of them without having been may be just what some other people will definitely planned. want to find and that the points in which 'vVe may give an example or two they themselves are not interested today of such incidental display. There hac! they may have occasion to "look up" at been no thought of showing that one another time. President lived through or partly For similar and just as good reasons through fonr of the foreign wars. these people might pass by or disregard Dorn a year before the Revolution the geographical map-of country, state closed by treaty he lived a year after or city; the dictionary, the almanac, the the Civil \\'ar began, his life therefore railroad time-table; for the simplest of showing as an interesting link connect these works is no less complex than ing the Revolution with the Rebellion. our historical map, and if one is able to Taking the twenty-six Presidential make intelligent use of any of them he spaces as outlined and t!Je clouded cross can certainly master all the intricacies of sections covering the times of six for the chart; if he can make out from the eign wars, we can sec from the number railway guide what arc the best train of war belts crossing any President's connections to make in going to or from space how many of the wars that rresi liard Scrabble or any other popular dcnt lived throngh. Thns we find that Summer resort, he can just as easily see eleven lived through two, fourteen from the chart how many and who of through three, and the life of one, as the Presidents were defeated as regular before noted, touched npon four war party candidates for election to terms periods. immediately preceding or following their These facts may be gathered from own, or any one of a thousand or more hooks but only by tedious processes, facts he may sometime want to know or comparing elates anrl reckoning time. to verify. Here we find them pictured on the dia- 182 NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD NEWS. gram and are not obligee! to note a si ngle President Underwood of the Erie has date or perform any time reckon ings had placed at one end of the Susquehanna whatever. building one of the oldest broad-gauge Then it is interesting to go further pass<.:nger cars now in existence. This car and, taking into account facts of general bears its original number and is painted hi story, note that our one President of and trimmed in the same color and man four wars was, di stinctly, a non-military ncr as in the earliest Jays. A sign gives man; that of the fourteen three-war its complete hi story, covering nearly half Presidents only four had military rec a century. It is used for a reading room. ords, only two of these were generals In four years the Memphis Street Rail and they not conspicuous as such, while way Dranch is said to have run three sa among the eleven \vho saw only two wars loons, within a block of the barn, out of we find all the great war horses, the business. During the holidays not an em great general of the Revolution, the ployee was called into the office on ac heroes, respectively, of New Orleans, count of drink. The medical benefit as Tippecanoe (Indian \Var fame)-Duena sociation secures doctor and medicine for Vista, Appomattox and San Juan, with a family for $19.20 a year. About $500 three others who ranks as general in the has Leen given sick employees by the Civil \Var; in all n1ne oldiers in this members. group of eleven, eight generals, one This is from a letter to W. H. Cox, of colonel. Camden, by a man whom he led into the Christian life in St. Louis. It was worth the journey to Cox, as well as to the men: Association Notes. "You remember my condition on that Denver's Bible class is taught by differ blessed memorial Sabbath day when you ent members. A man is appointee! and came and sat down alongside of me. I given three weeks to prepare his lesson; thank God He clid send a persistent work he announces his subject and gives the er after me. I had contemplated suicide. class two weeks' notice. I could only see what I considered the The Extension Committee of the quickest way out of it all by committing Derby, Conn., Association during the suicid e by jumping from the Eads Bridge, summer is conducting the different young and a route -that is used very extensively people's society meetings and holding by lost souls. I did my first work on Fri meetings in school houses in rural dis day night, June 11, 1909, and I was sent tricts, where the seating capacity has been up on top of Eads Bridge, at the very taxed to its utmost. spot where my mind ran as to the best Concord, N . II., is holding Sunday af place to get off, the difference being that ternoon meetings in one of the parks with on this latter elate I had the Lord Jesus straight evangelistic themes; average at with me, and life was too sweet to have tendance, 400. Out from this effort has any room for any such thoughts. I am grown a movement by the pastors to hold now seeki ng the life everlasting. No union meetings in another park. To help more husks. I was at that spot, on that men to a better understanding of the fatal bridge (made so by the number of Standard Rules recently adopted by the suicid es at this point) from 6 p. m. to 6 Boston & Maine road, in co-operation a. m. with a pure heart." with the superintendent, seven sessions of a class were held, with a total attend "I will not meddle with what I cannot ance of 2-±9 men. mend." NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD NEWS. 183
Fish It A way. To the tree and the stream, and they'll hear l f the heart is full of trouble and the soul full your story, oi care, While they lean to your lips with the fresh Take 'em out to the bloom of the bright spring lips of glory; air; Don't mind a bit what the old folks say. l f the burden seems heavy and the back bends Just fish and fish till you fish it away! clown, Take a trip to the lanes at the end of the town; Cross words, black looks, and you want to for- Sit there, sit there, sit there all day, get- Till you fish and you fish and you fish it The best old cure for a grouch found yet away! J s to taste God's sun where it lo1·es to shine On a stream where a man sits clown with his T he loss and the gain and the grief and the line, gloom; And l1is hook and his cork and his bait, to Take them out to the bird and the beast anrl stay the bloom; Till he's fished and he's fished and he's The sorrow and the worry and the tear in the fished it away! eye -Ballimore S11n. Teed a whiff of the wind and a breath of the sky; With the soul at rest and the heart at play, Just fish and fish till you fish it away! God bless the present! it is ALL; It has been future, and it shall be past. Business looks bad and the work's gone Awake and live; thy strength recall, \vrong, And in one trinity unite them fast. Take it out to the woods and the fields full of song; -Lowell. Pttrltss Rubbtr manufacturing fo.
M a nufacturers of Fine Mechanical Rubber Goods for RailrOld Equipment
88 Cha mbers St. NEW YORK 16 Warren St. ~hBn You Mov6TrtW. R. tlOTGHKISS GENERAL TRUCKING AND TRANSFER 35 OLIVf, STREET Nf,W Hf\Vf,N , GONN. Telephone 340+ Transfer Agent for the S. A. Lewis Storage & Transfer Co. 184 NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD NEWS.
"Only the Best is the Cheapest." MAGNUS MGTRL Meets all High-Grade Requirements
It is the Standard Metal FOR LOCOMOTIVE WEARING PARTS
JOURNAL BEARINGS
for Fast Passenger Car Service Heavy Freight Car Service Maonus M6tal Gomoanu Ill BROADWAY NEW YORK H . H. H EWITT, Pres. C. M. H EWITT, Vice-Pres. N EW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND IL\RTFORD IL\ ILRO,\D NEW S. 185
nanufacturers of WALWORTH
H I G- H P R Jl: S S U 1.~ 1-1-; VALVES and FITTINGS
also GONTRRGTORS FOil THE INSTRLLHTION of Power Plant Piping
I~ ail"\.va.y Supplies Walworth Injectors
NEW YORK OFFICE : GENERAL OFFICES:
PARK ROVV BUILDING 132 FEDERAL ST., BOSTON
') 186 NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD NEW S .
.R.AILR.OA D P.A.SS C.A.SES TI-Ie CARPE'1"'S For the new Fall River Line WE HAVE AFl :t 25c ASS ORTMf.NT OF 35c S. S. COMMONWEALTH TH ES E GO ODS and Were supplied by AND TH E PRI :ES 75c John H. Pray & Sons Co. L R E RIGHT each _j 646-658 Washington St., JOHN R. REMBERT & CO. Boston, M a ss. 2 62 S tat e Street, New H a v e n, C onn .
The "GENASCO" Brand of Ready Roofing GENUINE ASPHALT.
FOR SAL E BY THE C. S. MERSICK & CO.
27 8 -29 2 ~tate Street l I 5- I 9 Crown Street r New Haven, Conn.
New York Belting&. Packiug Co., Limited l\lanufacturers of JlUB BEil GOODS FOil llAILilOAD EQUIPMENT 9 1. 9 3 NEW CHAMBERS STREET Y0 R K
PHILADELPHIA CHICAOO SAN FRANC' SCO INDIANAPOLIS ST. LOUIS BOS TON BAL TlnOREl BUFF ALO PITT ~ BUROH .5POKANE, WASH.
SPRIN6FIEL,D H~T fiND Gft·r GO. 27-35 TAYLOR STREET SPRINGFIELD, - MASS.
MANUFACTURERS OF St'andard Uniform nailroad (aps OFFICE AND SALESROOM, 161 SUMMER STREET BOSTON, MASS. NEW YORK, NEW IJ AVEN A'\)) 1[.\JU'FORD R\ II RO\D NEW S. 187 B. P. ·s. Paints and Varnishes
The Patterson-Sargent Company
CLEVELAND CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON KA~SAS CITY ST. PAUL CINCI NNATI
RUSSELL, BURDSALL &WARD BOLT ANn NUT GO., PORT CHESTER, N. Y.,
MANUFA CTUI< E HS OF Machine Bolts, Carriage Bolts. Cold Punched, Chamfered and Trimmed, Semi-finished or Case Hardened Nuts
BIGELOW & DOWSE COMPANY
Wholesale Hardware and Cutlery Bicycles Railroad Supplies
229 FRANKLIN STREET, BOSTON, MASS.
GEO. McQUESTEN COMPANY Southern Pine and Oak Lumber and Timber
27 KILBY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Docks, Yards and Mills at E as t Boston 188 NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RArLROAD NEWS. BARNUM-RICHARDSON CO.
MANUFACTURERS OF Salisbury Charcoal Pig Iron Chilled Car Wheels and General Cast ings
LIME ROCK, CONN.
KEITH CAR AND MFG. CO. MANUFACTURERS OF WOODEN AND METAL UNDERFRAME Railway Freight Cars OF ALL C LASSES
General Offices and Works : SAGAMORE, MASS. STANDARD STEEL CAR CO. BUILDERS OF METAL AND COMPOSITE FREIGHT CARS FOR ALL CLASSES OF SERVICE AND ~~ETAL CAR UNDERFRAMES AND TRUCKS CAPACITY: 50,000 CARS PER ANNUM New York Office : General Offices : Chicago Office : 170 BROADWAY PI TTSBURG, PA. FISHER BUI LDING PETER GRAY AND SONS INCORPORATED MANUFACTURERS OF Lamps, Lanterns and Sheet Metal Specialties for Railroad, Marine and General Service Chicago Office: MAIL ADDRESS: Office and Factory : 303 Great Northern B'ld'g CA~1BRIDGE C Third and Binney Streets BOSTON, MASS. East Cambridge, Mass. Manufacturers of . ' - Stearn and Eleettrie ~ailway Catrs . of all kinds Also 4 and 8 Wheel Snow Plows
~ SP~Il'IGFIEllD, lVIASS. "BRADLEY •* (AR * WOR~S , ~ANUFACTURERS OF Jl~iJway - and El(ctri(' (ars OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
Snow Plows, Wheels1 Axles and Castings OSGOOD BRADLEY & SoNs, Proprietors JoHN E. BRADLJ:W Established 1832. , 'N'OROESTER, ::tY.i:ASS.
The Benedict and Pardee Company
WHOLESALE DEALERS lN AND SHIPPERS O'F On Locomotive Driving Wheels and on Steel-tired Wheels, give · th 15 Gold Street, New York OFFICE, 98 MEADOW STREET Old Colc;my Building, Chicago NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT '' The Sessions Foundry Co~ ' fjristol, Conn . . ' . ·Grey 11-0~ COstings to · Orde~ , Large and small, of good quality and at low prices ' . THE NEW YORK TRANSFER CO. Dodd's EJSpress You'll get them every time at the Baga;age Checked from ~eside•ce to Destiuatio'll. , Fillt~ Studio Main Office, 1854 Broadway, New York. ;J ll)e Bowdii:(!h .u· h r- d . ( . T••g ~ra t F urntture o: , ~. 100-106 ORANGE ST. runi'IITURE N E w H AvE N, cT. Always Have Their First Showin[ Here. If you desire the best in Home Furnishings of every description trade with the only Exclusive Furniture Store in the City. < SttE'RBURNE & ' (0. . ~ < ' MANUFACTURERS OF • RAILROAD ' SUPPLIEF Midvale Tires and Steel Tired Wheels Locomotive and Car Axles and Forgin&s Railroad fusees and Torpedoes Hydraulic Jacks_and Machinery Headlights, Lanterns"'and Car Lamps Car hating and Lighting Material Locomotive Pop Valves nd Steam Gauges 53 OLIVER STREET, BOSTON, MASS. · Have You the l{ight Time? CORRECT TIME AND ...~ """" Many people have trouble in getting TIMERS their watches to run at)d keep good time. Our wide experience has given us the practical knowledge which enables us to do the best work. Qocks and Jewe)ry also repaired, and guara)Jteed when it leaves here. , , _GIVE US A TRIAL. The Popular JEWELERS ' ; J. H. G. DURf\NT, . WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER, Street 71 Church St,, opp. Post Office.