The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1882-08-10

| two in the middle Of the rail, ard keep
ahead of about dozen other spikcrs who
complete the work. Ii is no easy task for
novice to raise one of the large spiking
hammers and hit spike; ten chances to
ono he will hit anything else within reach
Accompanying the first pair of hard hitters
is man bearing an iron guagc which gives
the proper width of track. Two sturdy
fellows convey the spikes from the dcpos-
tied boxes to each tic so that as the spikers
proceed they arc not Lindered in the least.
When the last pair of spikcrs have done
| their work, the road is in fit condition for
a train to travel over, but not ready to be
used regularly. The surfacng train has TO
come up and ballast the road before it is
safe for the passage Of swift or heavily
laden trains. This work is generally done
one or two days after the track layer, have
completed their work. At noon all the
crews return to the dining cars, where they
are most bouptifully fed and allowed to
rest during the full noon time. l.t night
the team siGrs and trainmcn are the only
ones that work later than 6 o'clock, the
8 ~ncr In taking care Of their teams and
40 ., 'sr In frequently going back TO the
n.aro., sid, track for supplies, with which
- nrosoc,,o ,,, work next day Since Mr..
| N r K;,obor!v In. efficient general assis-
tant engineer, assumed ..e duties pertain
ing to his office, supplies h.,''e te.il lo''h-
coming promptly, 50 that there iia9 ''eii
no delay IN track laying. Jor the 'oioi NJ
alton of our readers and that it may DC
known years hence who helped 10 nul'o
the Northern Pacific Railroad TO the hfst
| crossing of the Yellowstone, we herewith
! append the names OF most Of those who
exercise any authority in The outfit:
Messrs. J.. j.. and W. o. Winston, Two
members of the firm of Winston Bros. q
Clark. accompany the outfit, direct the
movements of all the men. and being
vitally interested in having good work per-
formed. may be said TO be almost Omnipres-
ent Under their careful supervision the
Minnesota and Yellowstone divisions of the
| Northern Pacific railroad, from Bismarck
west, have been so construaedhs to impress
all railroad men and others who know a
good road when they see it, with the fact
that, considering its age, it is the best built
road in the United States, The newly laid
tracks, in two weeks time after they are
finished, are in better condition than the
average roads on old established lines that
have been travelled on fox years. This is
! I.
ton.
| Capt. ID. B. Clayton, who can look back on
forty odd years Of connection with railroads,
an 1 who laid every rail on the PhiladelpLia
| d Erie, and Oh the Union Pacific railroad and
occupies the position of superintendent OF
track laying with the Winston Bros. &
Clark outfit, is the moving spirit, i'll more
isenses than one in the successful laying OF
the track James McQuen is his valuable
and efficient 'Ist mate" J. r. Foley, al
though generally at the rear, is front man
in the outfit He has charge Of all the tic
teams and Of the ties. Ed. Carson super
intends the laying OF the ties. Martin De-
laney, and a good one at that, bosses the
boys OH the iron car.
The bridge building force is as follows:
T.. H. Clough is the supreme authority in
conducting the bridge building and the
plscins Of piles. Harvey Bliss is bridge
boss, ss also is w. Il. Godfrey. John y.
Heni.ssscy is one OF the gentlemen that di.
rccts the boys vino run the pile-drives,
David Good being the other. W. W. Aur.
phy OCCUPIES the responsible position 0!
timber boss, and is also in charge of the
teams that take the bridge timbers and
piles to the front His able and efficient as
sistant is Frank Sullivan.
The engineer corps, OF which several
representatives always accompany the out
fit, is under the control OF N. c. KIM
berly, general assistant engineer in charge
!, of tracks and bridges. +. \. Smith is his
= assistant and has two parties at work, one
H. Ralfe and the other under J. 3.
cibsor J. G. Hunter follows the Other
bovs with his sylrfacing crew OF $50 men,
iana makes beautiful the pathway for the
ron horse. The construction train comes
for it's share of the glory, and is safely
~ carefully controlled by Conductor
al" "A. Smith, with Wash. Snyder in the
, engineer and Michael Rich as fire
rau nam a. , 3. ,ealser is the man who makes
the sparks dy in tue elaessmth m tha SHOP aspa,
while J. w. Gould (no !. @'''' % aannoot W.. - %
man by til at name who IL .,ns and
with railroads, , makes new wae, = q
and repairs old ones. Wm. Cron,
always well provisioned, he deals out beans
and groceries generally from the provision
car.
If J. 3. Barnes was to fail in his
duties, which by the way, he never docs,
the boys would howl-he is the head cook.
When we get inside the Office car we tiud
the genial, whole souled NJ. L. Chsisty, oc.
cupying the responsible position of head
booker, and with other duties pressing on
him that place him in q position which is
hard to define, blA which make him in re.
quest generally. Mr.. Z. Winnie, is the
valuable bookhcenar that knows uos what
it is to set tired.
&. r. Dabney initiates the bays into the
mysteries Of stcre-Eoeping SO far as il is
necessary. The store car is his particular
pride
Last but not leas. comes DR.. Thomas H.
Carroll who joined the outfit last spring
and whose professional skill has kept the
boys in good health, and whose knowledge
Of surgery prevents serious results when
any OF those over whom be exercises
tather!y supervision, meet with accidents. T.