Safety Railroad Switches WITH MAIN TRACK UNBROKEN. RAILROAD CROSSINGS, FROGS, and other ROADWAY SUPPLIES. MANUFACTURED BY THE WHARTON RAILROAD SWITCH CO., Office, 28 South 3d Street. Works, 23d and Washington Ave. PHILADELPHIA. THE ROGERS Locomotive & Machine WORKS, PATERSON, N. J., AVING extensive facilities, are now prepared to fur ription, either COAL OR WOOD BURNING; LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES, AND OTHER VARIETIES OF NO OTHER LINE IS SUPERIOR TO THE FITCHBURG RAILROAD HOOSAC TUNNEL ROUTE WEST. 8.30 A. DAY EXPRESS. Through drawing-room car to Rochester, N. Y., connecting with through sleeping cars for Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, DETROIT AND CHICAGO. MACHINERY. Pullman Sleeping Car attached, running through to Cincinnati without change. (Only RAILROAD J. S. ROGERS, Pres't. R.S. HUGHES, Sec'y. WM. S. HUDSON, Sup't. Paterson, N. J. B. S. HUGHES, Treasurer, 44 Exchange Place, New York. A. WHITNEY & SONS, CAR WHEEL WORKS, Callowhill and Sixteenth Sts., PHILADELPHIA, PENN. FURNISH CHYLLED WHEELS for Cars Trucke and Tenders CHILLED DRIVING WHEELS and TIRES for Lossa-otives. ROLLED and HAMMERED AXLES WHEELS and AKLIS FISTED COMPLETE. ESTABLISHED 1873. LONERGAN'S SECRET SERVICE, T. E. LONERGAN, Proprietor, 82 & 84 Nassau Street, New York. The investigation of frauds on Railway Companies 1 specialty. First-Class English THE ONLY LINE which runs a THROUGH SLEEPING-CAR from BOSTON TO ST. LOUIS WITHOUT CHANGE! ARRIVING AT 8.00 A.M. SECOND MORNING. Through_sleeping car for Buffalo, Toledo, Fort Wayne, Logansport, Lafayette, Danville, SOUTHWEST. 6.00 P. PACIFIC The only line running a through sleeping car vin Buffalo and Detroit without change, arriving at Chicago at 8.00 A.M. second morning, making sure connections with through Ex IRON & STEEL RAILS, press Trains for Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, the Pacific Coast, Wisconsin, Minnesota, AT LONDON PRICES, F. O. B. Also purchase all classes of Railroad Securities, and Begotiate Loans for Railroad Companies. WM. A. GUEST & CO., 17 Nassau Street, NEW YORK. RAILROAD IRON. and all points in the WEST AND NORTHWEST. THE ABOVE TRAINS RUŃ DAILY, SUNDAYS EXCEPTED. This Great Short Line passes through the most celebrated scenery in the country, including the famous THE undersigned, agents or the manufacturers, Tickets, Drawing-Room and sleeping-Car Accommodations may be secured in Advance are prepared to contract o deliver best quality The Schuylkill Canal is closed for the season. The total tonnage of anthracite coal from all the regions for the week ending December 18, as reported by the several carrying companies, amounted to 371,467 tons, against 510,845 tons in the corresponding week last year, a decrease of 139,378 tons. The total amount of anthracite mined for the year is 22,958,893 toos, against 25,812,568 tons for the same period last year, a decrease of 2,853, 675 tons. The quantity of bitumincns coal seot to market for the week amounted to 89,033 tons against 51,255 tons in corresponding week last year, an increase of 34,778 tons. ibe total amount of bituminous wined for the year is 4 263,795 tope against 3,558,661 tons for the corresponding period last year, an increase of 705,134 tons. The total tonnage all kinds of coal for the woek is 460,500 tons, against 565,100 tons in corresponding week last year, a decrease of 104,600 tons, aud the total tonnage for the coal year is 27,222,688 tons against 29,371,229 tons to same date last year, a decrease of 2,148,551 tons. The quantity of coal and coke carried over the Pennsylvania Railroad for the first week of December was 168,700 tons, of which 127,311 tons were coal and 41,399 tons coke. The total tonnage for the year thus far These CABINET LETTER FILES are made in many sizes containing as few as 6, and as high as has been 6,787,551 tons of bich 5,119,867 tons or more files each, at prices ranging from $19 50 to $500 00. They are elegantly and substantially ma were coal and 1,668,184 tons coke. These figures the wood-work being of the best seasoned Black Walnut, and the other parts of Brass and Steel, nick embrace all the coal and coke carried over the plated. They can be arranged for any class of correspondence and can be adapted to any requireme road east and west. The shipments of bitumin- OVER 2,000 SOLD IN LAST THREE YEARS. ous coal from the mines of the Cumberland coal region during the week ended Dec. 18 were 36,255 tons, and for the year 2,027,274 tons-an increase of 382,165 tons as compared with the corresponding period of last year. The coal was carried as follows: Baltimore and Obio Railroad 66 -week 33,677 tons, year, 1,219,184 tons; ircrease over 1879, 222,570 tons. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal-week, 118 tous; year 601,534 tons; increase over 1879, 102,482 tons. Pennsylvania Railroad-week 2,460 tons; year, 206,576 tons; increase over 1879, 57,113 tons. Chesapeake and Ohio cacal bas been closed for the season.-Phil. Ledger, Dec. 27. The At a meeting of the stockholders of the Hartford and Connecticut Valley Railroad Company, held in Hartford, Conn., on the 14th ult., the directors were authorized to apply to the Legislature of Connecticot and Massachusetts for permission to extend the road on the west side of the Connecticut River to Holyoke. The cost of the new road will be about $800,000. The Valley road is to turn its bonds into stock; and to raise THE BEST IN THE WORLD. (27-FILE CABINET WITH DOORS.) 675 Indexed Divisions, will hold 17,000 Letters. AMBERG'S PATENT PEERLESS” ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE ON APPLICATION TO WILL BEST IN THE WORLD, This cut shows a Single "Peerless File" which is complete in itself. This File forms the drawer p means for building the new road, the idea is to of Cabinet shown in above cut. The lettering of the index leaves of the Files in Cabinets is, however, v issue about $100,000 of the additional stock, and different, as each drawer or file has an index to correspond with the lettering shown on its front. bond the entire road from Saybrook to Holyoke for the remaining half of the cost. No action was taken on the proposal to rescind the vote with regard to the conversion of the first mortgage bonds of the Connecticut Valley Railroad Company into stock of this Company. The directors have the matter under consideration. 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SECOND QUARTO SERIES, VOL. XXXVII., No. 2.] Hon. Samuel Sloan. [WHOLE NO. 2,333, VOL. LIV. his sound common sense and thorough knowledge of business. NEW YORK, JANUARY 8, 1881. the honorable nature of his business transacThe men who have won for themselves po- tions. It was in his counting-house that Mr. sitions of leadership in our important indus- Sloan made his entry into business, and he re- "Mr. Sloan's first connection with the Deltries and have become prominently identified mained there as a clerk until 1845, when his aware, Lackawanna and Western Railway, of with the development of the resources of our great business ability secured him a junior which he is now the able President, was in country, have much in their careers of great partnership in the firm under the name of 1864, when he was elected a Director. When interest to the reading as well as to the com- George McBride, Jr., & Co. This firm was he accepted the Presidency in 1869, the Delamercial public; and sketches of their lives, dissolved in 1857, but, two years previous, Mr. ware, Lackawanna and Western had no outlet whether they contain much or little of the Sloan had retired from business. His princi- or connection, except by way of the New Jermarvelous as they appear in type, are among pal reason for thus retiring was his election as sey Central at the junction. Since then Mr. the attractive features of modern journalism. a President of the Hudson River Railroad in Sloan has not been idle, and by leasing the The Hour has appreciated this feature and 1855, and the necessity for applying his entire Morris and Essex Railroad from Washington, turned it most cleverly to account in its week- energies to the interests of that company. N. J., to New York City, the great coal road ly pen and cartoon portraits of prominent men When he accepted the Presidency the stock acquired a through connection with tide water. of the time. Hon. Samuel Sloan, the widely was selling at seventeen dollars a share, and Several other important connections have been known railroad man and leader in the coal when, in 1867, he, and the directors associated made-notably the acquisition of a controlling transportation and coal mining interests, was with him, resigned, the stock was being eager-interest in the Syracuse and Binghampton recently the subject of one of these sprightly ly bought at one hundred and forty dollars a Road and the leases of the Oswego and Syrasketches, of which we publish the larger share and paying a handsome dividend, not-cuse and the Utica, Chenango and Susquehanwithstanding the competition of the Harlem na Railroads. His great capacity for railroad "Mr. Sloan was born in the north of Ire- Road and the strong ill-will shown by the management has always made Mr. Sloan an land, that borderland where Scotch shrewd- management of the New York Central Rai!-acquisition on the boards of railroads. Many ness and Irish quickness have amalgamated. way towards the Hudson River Road. His other roads of some of which he is now presiHis parents, dissatisfied with their prospects services as President of the road were so dent-in whose management he is and has in the little town of Lisburn, a few miles dis- thoroughly appreciated that in 1864 the Board been actively interested, are the Michigan tant from Belfast, came to America when their of Directors presented him with a magnificent Central, the International and Great Northern now famous son had reached the immature age silver service of plate worth $7,500. of Texas, the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensof two years. This was in 1819-for young "During these busy years, Mr. Sloan, al- burgb, the Marquette, Houghton and OntonaSamuel was born on Christmas Day in 1817-though averse to entering political life, was gon, and the Fort Wayne and Jackson Roads. but years before, when the troubles of 1798 mixed up in several important movements. Outside of railroad enterprises, Mr. Sloan is in were convulsing Ireland, several members of In 1852 he was elected Supervisor of Kings great demand as a director for banks and trust the Sloan family had emigrated to Kentucky, County, and in the following year he was ap- companies. He has been for many years upon where they were distinguished for their in- pointed one of the commissioners to draw up a the board of the United States and the Farmtense love of liberty and republican institu charter for the consolidation of Brooklyn and ers Loan and Trust Companies, the City Bank, tiona. After a fair education at the first pub- Bushwick. It is needless to say that he dis- the Bank of the Metropolis, and he is the lie school in New York, young Sloan was sent charged the duties of his office with entire sat-founder and is still a director of the Mechanto the Grammar School of Columbia College. isfaction to his constituents. In 1852 he was ics' Bank of Brooklyn and of the Mechanics' There he studied until his fifteenth year, when persuaded to become a candidate for nomina- Insurance Company. part. the sudden death of his father, William Sloan, tion in the Democratic Congressional Conven- "Mr. Sloan married in the Spring of 1844 obliged him to turn his attention to some prac- tion of his district, but, in spite of the favora- Miss Margaret Elmendorf, a member of one of tical method of helping his widowed mother, ble feeling of a majority of the delegates, he the most prominent families of Somerset who was left poorly off and with a large fami- was defeated by two votes. In 1857 the Dem- County, New Jersey. He is the father of eight ly. At that time one of the largest and most ocrats of the Second Senatorial District urged children and four little ones call him grandfarespectable importing houses in New York was him so strongly to oppose the Hon. Abijah ther. He is a member of the Dutch Reformed that of McBride & Company. For almost half Mann, Jr., who enjoyed a high reputation in a Church, and has always been actively connecta century James McBride, the founder of the strong Republican district, that Mr. Sloan was ed with the various benevolent institutions of house, had been engaged in the Irish and Eng- iuduced to enter political life once more. He this city. Among other institutions in which hish trade and had acquired an enviable repu- was elected State Senator by a large majority, he is interested is the Long Island College tation for the integrity of his character and and distinguished himself during his term by Hospital. This admirable institution owes its |