Atlantic City & Shore Railroad Co Financial Voucher $85.79 Interlocking 1915
$ 6.86
Description
Atlantic City & Shore Railroad Co Financial Voucher $85.79 Interlocking 1915. This is an original 1915-1916 financial voucher payable from the Atlantic City and Shore Railroad Company, a significant piece of railroadiana documenting the intricate operational and financial relationships between early 20th-century New Jersey transit lines. The document, Voucher No. 22, is a multi-part form detailing a payment of $85.79 to the Atlantic City Railroad Company for the month of November 1915, ultimately paid by check on January 28, 1916. The itemâ s profound historical value is underscored by the prominent purple C. L. COLE, Receiver stamp, indicating the Atlantic City and Shore Railroad was under court-ordered receivership, a form of financial restructuring common in the era's volatile railroad industry. The voucherâ s attached itemized bill specifies the charge: a 25% proportion of expenses for interlocking protection at 8th Street and Haven Avenue in Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey, for November 1915. This includes the labor cost for two levermen-a specific job title for signal tower operators-and supplies, totaling $25.79. The documentâ s reverse side functions as an internal authorization sheet, bearing four crisp, period fountain-pen signatures that trace the corporate approval chain. These include General Superintendent A. J. Purinton, examiner J. M. Campbell, receiver C. L. Cole, and G. Jason Waters of the Executive Committee, a notable Atlantic City figure. Further enhancing its provenance, handwritten notations on the ledger side connect this entity to the Kaighns Point Terminal Railroad Company of 1889 and its president, Albert Foster. The piece exhibits formal serif typography, multiple colored rubber stamp impressions in red and purple, and minor, even age-toning, remaining in good condition as a tangible artifact of Gilded Age railway accounting, inter-company cost-sharing, and receivership proceedings in South Jersey.
