Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-10
NEW ORDERS
Addressed to the Employees of the
9. II. II. H. Co.

Addressed to the Employees of the
9. II. II. H. Co.
Assistant Division Superintendent J.
K. Muir, of the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company, has issued the following or
ders:
To Conductors, Engineers, AGENTS, OPERA
tors and other Employees:
The manner in which freight and pas
senger trains are being handled on that
portion OF the road under my jurisdiction
is not satisfactory. There is too much
time lost at stations, and it seems to be
a very difficulty matter to change the
trainmen and others from the routine
and careless way of doing business they
have fallen into. Trains are altogether
too slow in getting over the division !;
there are many needless delays, and /
shall endeavor to find out the cause of
these delays in order to apply the proper
remedy.
Conductors and engineers arriving at
stations seem to think they have all the
time necessary, and do not seem to care
whether they leave station few min
utes late or not; consequently, if they
lose little more time from various
causes, they arrive at their terminal sta
tions very much behind time.
If there are any engineers, conductors
or brakemen who cannot live up to our
requirements, and who do not take an
interest in getting their trains over the
road on time, rhall take immediate
steps to get rid Of them. cannot afford
to retain such men in the service of the
company. Our General Superintendent,
Mr.. Fillmore, in speaking Of this matter,
says that the useless delay to trains on
our road has reached Estate of demor-
alization," and it will not be counten-
anced any longer. 1 intend to apply the
proper remedy on my division even if |
find it necessary to discharge every man
on the road.
It stands you all in hand to see that
not one second is wasted at stations USE
lessly, and that everything necessary is
done to secure the prompt movement of
trains over the divisions.
Agents and operators along the road
are not acting promptly in the matter of
getting train orders, and in the handling
OF baggage, express and other business,
connected with the movement of passen-
ger trains.
Agents and operators must do all in
their power to expediate the departure of
trains from their stations, and in report.
ing trains to this office they must give
the exact time that train arrives at and
leaves their station, and if train does
not leave on time after arriving on time,
the agent will send me full telegraphic
report, giving me the cause of the DELAY
in detail. No excuse will be taken from
an agent or operator who does not make
full report and send it to me at the
same time he does the conductors report
of delay.
Conductors will continue to send a re.
port of delays according to instructions
in force at present.
Hereafter the forward brakeman on
passenger trains, arriving at stations.
muet be in the smoker or head sleeper,
as the case may be, next to the baggat e
car, and as soon as a train arrives at a
station he will at once get off the train
and assist the agent in the handling of
baggage, mail and express matter, and
it will be the agents duty to report to
me any failure on the part of the brake
man to follow these instructions.
If l find that engineers, through ignor-
ance or Indifference, are delaying trains,
their services will be dispensed with. No
man will be allowed to stand in the wav
OF passenger trains making their time
over the division.
Hereafter both freight and passenger
conductors will report to my office verb.
ally at 10 O'Clock A. NJ. each day, when
they are in Los Angeles, and give me a
complete history of their trip over the
road. stating everything that occurred at
each station, if any delays the cause
thereof, if engines did not steam, if the
train was overloaded, if the engineers.
agents or operators we're slow in getting
their orders, If engineers did not handle
to the working Of the automatic air brake
on the train, and all other information
that the conductor should have and
should report. If am absent from nv
Office this information will be given to my
clerk, who will hand it to me on my re-