The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-01
What the Reporter Caught Around the
City DepOts this Morning.

SUI The principal theme OF conversation
among western railroad officials
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids & North>
ern is grading for the extsnsion of its
Postville line to DEBORAH, Iowa
The passenger travel north is very
heavy just now. The agents say it sur
passes anything ever known before.
Art Gray, of the Chicago. Milwaukee s.
St. Paul offices, has gone to Des Moines
on weeks vacation.
Superintendent SudloH, of the Rock
Island s. Peoria, returned home from
Spirit Lake, Iowa, yesterday.
In the round houses this morning: C.
R. |. & P, IS engines; c. B & O., s
engines; R, l. Il P, engines.
The"Q" moguls have issued an order to
prohibit persons not in the employ of the
road, from entering the round house.
The Atlantic train, on the c., R. l. &
p. road. is one of the best paying trains
on that line
The Mercer County road is hauling a
large quantity of coal into the city just
now, and the rush has hardly com
menced.
The Y. M. c. A. folks have extended a
cordial invitation to all railroad men in
the city to attend their meetings, also to
use their reading room.
One of the strangest things in the world
is the fact that none of our railroads give
any Sunday excursions. An excursion to
Peoria would catch many of our people.
A, B. Southland, general traffic manager
of the Louisvill, New Albany s. Chicago
road, sent in his resignation yesterday at
the request of the directory. His success
sor is not yet known.
A number of the railroad boys at the
Peoria depot, accompanied by their wives
and sweethearts, went out to Cable this
morning, and explored the Cable coal
mines. They will return home this even
ing
One of the most clever young men in
the %" office is Mark Thomas, the car
accountant. He has been with the road
a long time. and We are informed that he
Is to be promoted to something higher.
The Chicago, Milwaukee i st. Paul
folks and the Diamond 10 line are still
engaged in freight war with no decided
advantage on either side The M;lwau>
kee people are arranging new schedule
to take effect about the middle of the
month.
All agents of the @" road have re-
ceived special Instructions to adopt strin
gent sanitary measures. Station houses,
closets, etc, must be often and thoroughly
cleaned and every precaution takeu to.
avoid the accumulation of filth of any
description.
The amount of baggage handled at the
Union depot daily is astonishing. Mr.
Graves, the baggage master, estimates
that he handles over 100000 pounds of
baggage daily, including Sunday This
morning, like yesterday morning. was a
heavy baggage day.
The Burlington road is running a
weed burner" locomotive over It's road
Instead of exnausting through the smoke
stack, as ordinarily, the steam and gas
escape through iron pipes, which project
like elephants tusks on either side, with
ering weeds and grass for space OF
about two feet on each side of the track
The scene at the union depot this morn.
ing was an animated one, as is generally
the case. People from all parts of the
country were there waiting for trains
A little boy, who had one of his limb.
crushed or hurt in some manner, was il
the waiting room crying, because of thu
pain it gave him. He was accompanied
bv his mother, and they were going t.
Milwaukee.
Mr.. Fred French, secretary of the assp
citation of General Freight Agents of tn,
west, Informs the members of the associa
ton that while the last meeting was ad
journed to specific date-August mex
it has become manifestly impossible tt
secure reasonably full attendance of the
members at that time, and the president
has consequently taken the liberty O
postponing the meeting to the date of thu
next meeting of the classification commit
tee.
T. J. Potter, general manager of tn
Burlington, returned from the west yes
terday. Mr.. Potter says there is no trutl
in the report first published in the Den
yer Tribune that his company is takin!
steps to extend its line from Denver or
point east thereof west to connection
with the Denver & Rio Grande Western
No steps looking towards a western ex
tension had been taken or are contem
plated at present. His trip to Denve
had nothing whatever to do with thai
matter, but was for the purpose 0
attending the meeting of the Colorad
Pool association.
The Drill.
The Cambridge company did not shoN
up yesterday, consequently they did nc
take part in the Rodman Rifles and tn