Allegany Republican, Angelica, N.Y.
Friday, February 17, 1882
OUR RAILROAD MATTERS
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THE GRADING FINISHED AND ALL
THE IRON BOUGHT.
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A GRIST OF INTERESTING ITEMS
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For the pleasure of our readers we have been to the pains to glean the following items of information regarding the Allegany Central railroad. First in order we will give the names of the officials of the Company:
President - Frank S. Smith, Angelica.
Vice Pres. - Archer N. Martin, New York City.
Sec. and Treas. C. E. Kimball, N.Y.
Gen. Manager - Geo. D. Chapman, Angelica
Auditor - M. S. Blair, Angelica; assistants, H. H. Abbott, late of the Sciota Valley R.R. at Columbus, Ohio; and John Hancock.
Time Keeper - Thos. Lampson; at the Auditor’s office.
Chief Engineer - J. S. Peter, Jr., of Avon; office at Angelica.
Draughtsman - E. Greude, Bradford; in Engineer’s office.
Supt. of Construction - E. A. Drake, of Bradford; headquarters Angelica.
Superintendent of Trains - W. O. Chapman, late of the Sciota Valley R.R., Columbus, Ohio; office at Friendship.
Gen. Pass. Agt. - Phil. W. Coyle, late of the Erie R.R. at Belvidere; office at Friendship.
Road Master - A. M. Hutchinson, at Olean.
Train Dispatcher - L. C. Siggins, Bolivar.
Station Agents - Olean, E. M. Ketchum; White House, E. Z. Peckham; Junction, R. P. Howe; Ceres, W. R. Chase; Little Genesee, G. F. McCarn; Bolivar, J. M. Homer; Riochburg, E. Woolcott; Friendship, R. V. Scot; Belvidere, A. E. Williams; Wigwam, T. J. Clark; Angelica, F. H. Farquharson.
Conductors - H. Corwin, C. G. Kingen, Jas. King, Dan. Wing, Sam’l Dennison, Chas. Warner
Engineers - George E. Brown, Frank Steele, Pat Sullivan, Charley Evans, Geo. Marshall, Frank Manson.
NOTES.
We have noticed certain communications and editorial flings in county papers, tending to create a feeling of jealousy and ill-will in Friendship against Angelica. Among other things it has been said that Angelica has furnished most of the employees on the line of this road. Grave and startling information. But to begin with we rise to inquire - Whose business is it if she has? And what do you propose to do about it, anyway? And what town has a better right to be represented?
But as a matter of fact, there is not so much as one solitary Angelica man employed on any train or at any depot, or in any capacity whatever along the entire completed line of the Allegany Central Railroad.
That pretty effectually covers this alarming change, that Angelica has spread herself out, as it were, along the line of this new railway, and now garrisons the several townships on the route preparatory to a political coup d’etat.
The fact is, Angelica has not furnished men to run her own depot - a man is sent up from Friendship even to wipe off the engines and care for them here at night; and another man is sent here to take care of the depot, (both good fellows, and welcome;) and lastly, a Depot Master is sent to Angelica way from Smethport, Pa. And yet we have heard no grumbling in Angelica. It is true that any months ago, at the inception of this revived enterprise, a certain gentleman in this community who was entitled to recognition, made application for said position - but he was quite ignored and a stranger preferred. This is the way Angelicans are being called to the front. But we do not hear any growling or complaint. Our citizens have got a railroad, and are happy as clams.
Pay day for this month is not yet given.
Our box cars cary 6 tons; standard 12.
Our cars seat 45 passengers; standard car 60.
The little trains are all running very near on time.
Most of the train-men are old employees from the Erie.
The engine house built here will hold only two engines.
The Company has been fortunate in the choice of officials.
All are glad that Phil Coyle accepted a position on our road.
The locomotives cost about $9,000 apiece; coaches, $3.500.
The Company now owns 4 locomotives, and 9 passenger coaches.
Barbed wire fence is being built along the line quite extensively,
With of narrow gauge, 3 feet; standard gauge, 4 feet, 9 1/2inches.
The past two weeks of Court has made brisk business for the road.
The ground has been dug out for a locomotive and turn-table at Angelica.
Chas. Thomas is in the employ of then Express Companies at Richburg.
Our locomotives weight about 20 tons each; standard, from 30 to 35 tons.
Hand-car No. 1 has arrived at Angelical and will be used on this section.
Several miles of the Olean end of the road has been re-laid with steel rails.
The locomotive whistles continue to be most pleasing echoes in this region.
The new timetable which went into effect this week gives two Sunday trains.
The trestle work over the Erie near Friendship will all be filled in with dirt bye-and-bye.
The work of ballasting up the track and improving the road-bed is continually going on.
One rail weighs 35 lbs. to the yard, and to the mile there is a weight of 123,200 pounds, or about 62 tons.
One of our engines will comfortably pull four loaded box cars or three loaded coaches, over the grades.
Last month Auditor Blair disbursed over $35,000; upwards of $18,000 was on the construction account.
The Railway Office in Angelica is the busiest place in Angelica.
Several car-load of hard and soft coal have been deposited in Angelica, and a regular coal yard will be provides as soon as possible.
There has been some all in the papers about the machine shops being located at Angelica. We have never heard anything about this matter mentioned by the officials. We do not imagine any very extensive repair shops, if any whatever, will be needed by this little road.
Both the United States and American Express Companies are doing business over this road.
The construction gangs have been at work the past few days in widening the deep cut made down by Charles’s.
Tickets good for 500 miles of travel for sale at 15 - averaging 3 cents per mile; good in any direction anywhere on the road till used up.
As will be seen by notice elsewhere, those in Angelica who subscribed for the Road are notified that the certificates for stock will soon be ready for them.
The coming season some of the kinks or abrupt curves in the road will probably be improved and to some extent the road straightened, which can be done to advantage at limited expense.
At present there are 10 depot buildings on the line. Box-car only a Wigwam, but it is expected this will become quite an important station, being the natural shipping point for the river region; and it will be he junction of Father Cole’s Pine Creek and Buffalo system when completed.
An independent telegraph line has been run along the entire completed line of the road from Olean to Angelica, for the use of the Company, and is connected by a wire and instrument with the headquarters office of the Company - the entire second floor of the Thomas brick block - thus placing the Officers and their Agents along the line in direct communication.
Of course it was not expected that the road would be over-crowded with business right from the start; but it has realized expectations and the business of the road, in passenger and freight traffic is increasing from month to month, and will be noticeably increased, we judge, when the road is completed so as to give through connection with Rochester.
A. J. Hibbard, Esq., of Angelica, has been selected by Mr. Chapman to do whatever legal work the Company may require, of a local nature, President Smith’s duties having so largely increased that he finds it impossible to attend to many matters of a local nature, such as contesting rights of way, etc. We congratulate Mr. Hibbard on his selection for this, and we doubt not he will prove efficient.
Brown & Lockhart, our popular wholesale manilla paper manufacturers, find the railroad a very great convenience to them . The first day the switch was put in at Joney they received a car-load of rope of 16 tons, which was unloaded and stored by their mill, the same day. It would have been a five days’ job to have hauled the same from Belvidere. They have tis far received and shipped over 200 tons of freight over the road, including 100 tons of soft coal, which they are now burning as a sample.
Regular fare between Angelica and Olean is $1.10, Angelica and Belvidere, 25 cents, Angelica and Richburg 90 cents. And it will be $2.10 from Olean to Swains. The Stations from Angelica Northward will be six, as follows: Baker’s, West Almond, Thompson’s, Birdsall, Garwood’s, Swain’s. And the fare will be, to Baker’s, 10 cents; to West almond 20 cents; Thompson’s, 40 cents; Birdsall, 50 cents; Garwood’s, 70 cents; Swain’s 85 cents. It is 61 miles from Olean to Swains; it is 46 miles from Angelica to Olean, and 15 miles from Angelica to Swains, by our railroad survey. Children not over 5 years old, free; over 5 years old, free; over 5 and under 12, half fare.
NOW ON TO BIRDSALL, SWAINS AND ROCHESTER
The rails are at present laid about one mile beyond the depot, where quite an extensive trestle has been built across and along by the side of the creek. This work has been done in a most substantial manner, strong enough to sustain the heaviest standard gauge trains. The Iron has been bought for the entire road and now lays in piles at Friendship and Olean. The work of track-laying was again commenced on Thursday and will be vigorously pushed Northward still Swains is reached.
Mail via Our Railroad
A recent order from postal headquarters has established a new mail role to be known as route No., 6059 which is to run between Olean and Angelica, vis Weston’s Mills, Portville, Ceres, Little Genesee, Bolivar, Richburg, Wirt, Nile, Friendship and Belvidere. This new order goes into effect on the 23rd inst. we understand.
Get Ready to Pay Your R. R. Subscriptions
The Allegany Central Railroad has become a thing certain and the Company are desirous of receiving as soon as possible, the amount of subscriptions pledge for the construction of the Road. Certificates of stock, as per agreement will e ready for delivery to the several subscriptions on and after Feb. 25, 1882. Any persons desiring any information relative to the matter, and any persons wishing to pay they subscriptions can receive such information from and pay such subscription to A. J. Hibbard, Att’y. at his office in Angelica. ALLEGANY CENTRAL R. R. Co
LACKAWANNA & PITTSBURGH
____C.W. Carr, representative of Post, Martin & Co., of New York, arrived in this city yesterday morning. Mr. Carr has secured a locomotive and eight passenger coaches from the standard gauge division of the Lackawanna & Pittsburg road. The cars were brought over the Buffalo-Philadelphia road to the Terminal road and thence transferred to the New York Central, They will be taken to New York today.Mr. Carr states that the coaches and engine were leased of Post, Martin & Co., by the Lackawanna & Pittsburg company. The owners not having received any money of late on their lease, sent Mr. Carr to recover the rolling stock. He went to Angelica and succeeded in obtaining the property and taking it to Belfast Junction. Here the collector of the town seized it, on a judgment of $50 for school taxes, issued against the Lackawanna & Pittsburg, and engine and cars have been kept on a Buffalo-Philadelphia siding for the past week, until the school tax was satisfied by payment.Now it is understood that the Buffalo-Philadelphia company propose to sue the town of Belfast for blocking the track, claiming that the steps taken were illegal. The rolling stock spoken of, it is claimed, comprises about all the passenger equipment left on the standard gauge division of the Lackawanna & Pittsburg. The narrow gauge division is still in operation.(The above is about as near correct as the Democrat ever gets when speaking of thethe L. & P. railroad. The collector did not attach the passenger coaches or engine, but eight box cars on the track of the L.& P. and they are still there, and that brought the money. The coaches and engine were left on the siding of the B., N.Y. & P. at request of Mr. Carr, and the permission of the Superintendent).
Cuba Patriot
July 22, 1886
Commencing Sunday, July 18, the Lackawanna & Pittsburgh railroad will sell round trip tickets every Sunday from all stations, at half rates, tickets to be good on trains 1 and 2, and on date of sale only. From Canasaraga, Birdsall and Angelica and return, a still lower rate of 75 cents for the round trip will be made.
They give it the title of the “Church train” and say that people along the line will be enabled by these trains to reach Olean, Belfast and Angelica in tome for morning services in the churches and return the same day in time for supper. It can also be used for other purposes.
