Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-14
ROAD-MASTERS.

Address in the Evening,
Yesterday afternoons session of the
| Roadmaster's association of America con-
vened at the state capitol at 3 o'clock and
was called to order by its president, j..
Burnett, of Joliet, ILL.,, roadmaster of the
| Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific road.
The following members were present:
j. B. Moll, Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul,
Faribault.
David Wright, Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul, Red.Wing.
A. Cox, Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Paul &
Omaha, LIE Sueur
Geo. B. Trip, Chicago, Milwaukee st.
Thomas Adamsen, Ohio & Mississippi, Law
renceburg, Ind.
John 1ierney, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific,
Blue Island, Ill.
C. R. Meeker, Chicago, Burlington Quincy,
| Chicago, Ill.
j. Burnett, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific,
| Joliet, Ill.
Thomas Rafferty,, Chicago, Milwaukee & ST.
Paul, southern division, Lanesboro, Mimi.
Thomas Adams, Baltimore & Ohio, Pittsburg
| division, COnnelsville, Pa.
W. H. McClil took, Louisville & Nashville,
Louisville, KY.
A. Il. Preston, Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
| CHIC, DeS MONIES, La.
T. Raynor, Chicago & Grand Trunk, Battle
| Creek, Mich.
S. L. Sweeney, Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific,
Bement, Ill.
! o. D. Richards, Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern, Andover, On 0.
| Il. IL. Mott, Green Bay, Winona & st. Paul,
Plover. Wis.
P. j. Kelley, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chi
cagh & st Louis, Kankakee, Ill.
1 A Ind
Louis d Cincinnati, Greensburg, Ind
James Sloan, Chicago & Eastern Illinois,
Danville, H.
j. H. Brown, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul,
Mason City, Ia
c. H. Stockwell, Chicago. Milwaukee q St.
Paul, Coon Rapids, La,
P. Il. Hennessy, Chicago, Milwaukee q St.
Paul, Perry, Ia.
| J. E. Cox, Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul,
S. ". Deming, Chicago, Rock Island & Daven-
| port, Welton, Ia.
j, c.. Brennan, st. Paul, Minneapolis d Mani
| toba, st. Paul.
III. A. Sheppard, Central Iowa, Brighton, Ia.
| C. D. Shattuck, Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
F.! Paul, l. & NJ. division, Faribault.
| C. Il. Cornell, Chicago, Milwaukee St.Paul,
| Dubuque, Ia.
| IA. Heron, Iowa & Minnesota, Calmac,
Iowa.
Joseph Hayward, St. Joe and Council Bluffs,
Kansas City.
Il. Hines, third division Northern Pacific,
| Paramount, Dakota.
J.B. Kelley, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul,
| Hastings and Dakota division, Hastings.
| J. T. Moran, Iowa Central, Waterloo, Iowa.
| J. Sullivan, Iowa Central, Dubuque, Iowa.
j. W. Mayer, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Stillwa-
| ter, Delano.
John NJ. Milton, Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
| Paul, Ii. & D. division, Mi lneapolis.
A. B. Hyde, Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul,
Wells.
| N. Hanley, Fargo Southern, Fargo.
| NJ. D. Kelley, st. Paul q Duluth, st. Paul.
| ]. J. Brennan, st. Paul & Manitoba, Minpeap-
| oils.
There are eighty-fve members of the
| association at this its first annual session,
of which twenty-five are accesslons at the
present meeting.
A letter was read from Gen. S. P. Jenni-
son, giving the free use of the capitol for
| holding their sessions.
The president stated that the st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Manitoba road had pro-
vided special train to take the association
to Lake Minnetonka, leaving the union
depot at $50 a. N. this morning, where it
would spend an hour and half in a
sail on the lake, and returning to Mime
apolis would inspect the Mississippi river
bridge at that city, visit the Touring mills
and return in the afternoon in season to
hold a session at the capitol, to be followed
with an evening session at which the asso-
| citation would come to an adjournment.
The president also stated that the Mani
| toba bridge at Minneapolis, recently burn
ed, would be completed sothat they would
I in ba oio1 fpo;
The members then commenced to take
evidence from each other in regard to
angle bar, fsh-pl and fiat bar joints for
fastening the rails together, hexagon and
square bolts for fastening these joints, nut
washers for holding them firmly, and the
best wrenches to be used in fastening
them.
Of the joint bars the angle bar YVES con
sidered the best on hard ballast roads and
the fl sh-plate seemed to have. the prefer
! ence on mud foundations.
Experiences were given with the use of
! the Varona nut lock, the Pratt vulcanlzed
lock and other Inventions. The majority
OF the road-mea gave in their preference
to the Varona and it was shown to be il
use on all the leading roads, and fast
growing in favor on account of its in
destructability and perfect working.
| OF bolts it was shown that the hexagon
was most in use although some good ar
guments were advanced in favor of the
square bolt and the Harvey grip bolt.
It was decided that in the matter OF
| wrenches the steel wrench was the mosi
economical and the quickest and suresi
tool to work with.
The matter of the wearing out of rails
on the end was discussed, and the support
by ties of suspended joints as having to dc
with their wear was elaborated On. Il
seemed to be shown that single tie sup
port on joint was better than two OF
more, from the fact it was difficult to keep
three ties on level, and from such in
equalities of surface it was thought
there came heavier wear on the end of the
rails, and that such was principal cause
of the looseness and breaking of bolts and
danger of accident.
All were of the opinion that the joint:
were the weakest points in railway
track, and that too many bolt hoes in
rail were weakening. The president, il
speaking of the relative strength of join
bars, said that the fish joint would breal
under the pressure of $4,000 pounds, ant
the angle bar at weight of 10000
pounds.
The hole in the center on the fiat bal
caused a good many broken rails. Tht
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