The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-04-03
RACKET ON TUE RAIL.
Items of Interest Picked ND by
the Bazoo in Rail-
waV Circles.

r. NJ Peck, master of bridges and
buildings ON the Pacific, vas in the city
looking after the new depot yesterday.
-Trainmsster Merrifeld came down
from Kansas City last evening on the local
freight and will Sunday at home-provid-
ing business does not call him away.
S. L. Highleyman, tax commissioner
Of the Gould Southwestern system, re-
turned yesterday morning from q weeks
visit at his old home at Bellair, Ohio.
The Missouri Pacific railway shops in
st. Louis are running full handed, and,
among other new machinery placed in
them recently, is large driving lathe.
Conductor John Il. Farr, one of the
jolliest fellows that ever swung a lantern or
cried "all aboard ~ now running ON the
south end of the X. & T., is in the city Wis
iIing old friends. and is having a regular
picnic. for he knows every body here and
everybody knows him, and likes him, too.
General Transportation Manager Tai
mage, OF the Gould Southwestern system,
has made the following announcement :
"On and after this date, the duties of ID
Brock, master Of transportation. will be ex-
tended over the st. Louis, Iron Mountain
and Southern railway, Texas and Pacific
railway and international and Great North.
ern railroad. He will have charge OF
he distribution of car equipment, which
will be made by him through division
superintendent offices, and will perform
such other duties as may he assigned to
him by general transportation manager"
The general manager of the Gould
Southwestern system has rendered TO lthe
tax commissioner of the system, our fell
low toxnsman, s. L. Highleyman, and his
especial friends an excursop train, upon
which to make tour of the principal
cities OF Texas, among them Galveston,
Houston, San Antonio and Laredo, and
probably into old Mexico. The excursion
its proprse to leave Sedslia about the
middle Of April, and the..fare for the round
trip will be merely q nominal one. This
squite a compliment to Mr.. III. who
stands high with his superiors. A Pull
man has been CHARTERED for the entire
journey.
The baggage agreement, which was
adopted by the pooled Ii Is at St. Louis
meeting some mouths ago, to take effect on
the LIST of April, will not be carried into
practice at st. Louis Immediately, for a
variety Of reasons. No preparations have
been made to enforce the rules governing
the weights and dimensions of commercial
travellers trunks, and in the absence of
specific instructions how 10 act in an emer-
gency, where a traveller might desire to
make a test case, employees are liable to
unguardedly compromise their company
-SolOn Humphries, president OF the
Wabash road, will arrive at $40 this mora
ing from Texas, in special car, and leave
at 1870 for st. Louis. He will be accom-
panied by several other maenates, but their
names were not learned by the BAzOO.
AT THE HOSPITAL
There were four arrivals at the hospital
yesterday. as follows:
J. . Aylor, a bridge-carpenter, from
Parsons. Kansas; suffering with tonsilitis.
j. Hubbard, section labOrer, Fort Worth :;
intermittent fever.
]. j. Meyers, brakeman, Sedalia; pneu.
monia.
Francis Goff. work-trai laborer, indie
pendence; tape worm.