Below are a selection of short news tidbits about the Erie Railway that all came from one page of the same newspaper – The Tri-State Union, Port Jervis, NY, 24 May 1873. Found on Fultonhistory.com. The focus on the Erie Railway, and the very supportive tone toward the Erie of some of the articles, is not surprising given that Port Jervis was the home of a large Erie facility and many Erie employees.
—The Erie Railway Company has issued an order instructing its ticket agents and employees, under pain of dismissal, to arrest or cause to be arrested, any person who shall jump on or off a car while in motion, and take him before a justice of the peace for punishment.
—Notices were put up about town Tuesday by agents of the Erie Railway Company offering $500 reward for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who, on the evening of May 10th, placed obstructions on the track about one mile east of Port Jervis , which resulted in the demolition of a locomotive and the serious injury of John Wood.
The New Erie Timetable
” Complaints against the new Erie, time table are very general along the line.”— Ex.
No doubt of it. There is a class of people in this world who expect to have their every wish gratified to the fullest extent. The fault finders don’t take into consideration the fact that the Erie Company is a corporation with millions of dollars invested, and it is trying to pay indebtedness. To run trains with a view of meeting the wants of the public and without regard to profit and loss is not the duly of The Erie or any other railroad company. Perchance the fault finders are dealers In a certain class of goods. Would they, solely to accommodate the public, with a loss to themselves, continue in a way of doing business which would certainly end in bankruptcy ? The notion is altogether too common that a corporation is to be run for the sole benefit of the public without regard to its own financial affairs. There is no doubt that the old saying, that “corporations have no souls,” is true to a certain extent, and that in their dealings with individuals they are seemingly aware of the fact, but that is no reason why they should be asked to lose money by running for public accommodation. Our experience has been that the Erie officials are always ready to listen to suggestions, and if any of the traveling public can show wherein the present time table can be bettered with a view of serving the people without additional expense, we believe the Erie officials will be ready to make the suggested changes. – Ex.
– The police justice on Monday sentenced to three months’ imprisonment each, three young men, who were arrested while riding concealed in a freight car on the Erie Railroad through Goshen. The arrest was made under the provisions of the act recently signed by tho Governor to prevent anyone riding on cars or engines without permission.
—Still the tide of emigration is flowing west. Parties of emigrants, western bound, aggregating fifty or more, and a part of them arriving by the Scranton train, at Binghamton, were transferred to Erie train No . 1 Monday afternoon.
