The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-06-16
RAILROAD.


Enginemen have pecn working ut tho Did
schedule of prices since 10th May.
Extra men are now working ON the sections
and the track is being put In line shape.
The pay car put In an appearance to-day,
having been delayed one day on the east end.
Ernest Benedict has re-entered the employ
OF the company. In the round house this time.
Superintendent Phelan came In from Holy
oke. Thursday. to see his family and on bust.
ness.
The new time card which went INTO effect,
Sunday, makes quite Il number of material
changes in train times.
The dining car to the Gilmore special was
side-tracked here during the day, and taken
east by No. 4, the same evening.
J. c. Anderson and family of West McCook
went down to Red Cloud, Wednesday evening.
to spend II short time visiting friends there.
An east bound special of California excur-
sionists passed through the city, Wednesday
afternoon. There were six car loads of pas
sengers.
Tuesday mornings flyer was delayed 3 or 4
hours by the burning of II bridge over Brush
side creek, about 81 miles this side OF Denver.
1t was of incendiary origin.
Commencing with Sunday. when the new
time table went into effect. the Burlington
flyer has been made up of vestibule cars, max
ing Il superb train of the maximum conven-
fence.
Stone for the foundation of the Burlington
shops ut IlcCOok has arrived. The main build.
ing as shown by the plans will he I45x200. two
stories in height. The shops will employ 600
m~cn.-Omaha Herald.
Engineer Jack Moore is building Il house on
North Main Avenue. 1t will be rs to dimen-
siOns. 24x2G 1T. in the main building, and will
have II kitchen l4X16 feet. 1t will make a very
comfortable and cosy home.
On Wednesday morning, the last detachment
of Pinherton men, eight in nubmer, left for
Chicago, the company deeming their presence
no longer necessary for the protection of their
property and the safe conduct of their busi-
ness.
The completion of the Frcnchman line mt an
early date is Il consummation devOutly TO be
wished for. That entire country is being held
in allegiance until that event shall come to
pass. Its rapid development is altogether de-
pendent upon the road.
During the month of May Is, ia cars of live
stock were brought into Chicago. OF this
amount the Burlington carried Lag cars, the
Alton 1,ssd cars. the Wabash lbs cars, the ST.
Dam D tp nrc tho NErthp,actnr . nlD nn.,
the Rock Island ) ,2242 cars, and the Illinois Cen
trail l $50 cars.
Preparations are now going on for a ten stall
addition to the round house at this point, the
same to be built at Once,-as soon as the ma
terial and men can be secured. This will III
crease the number of stalls here to 30, al
most completing the circle, and will relieve the
now Over-crowded condition of the round
house materially.
Railroad track building for the five months
or the current year compares very fuvOrably
with the record of 1857. Since January /, D.
ri miles of steel rails were laid on new rail-
roads i'll the United. States. In 1887, for the
corresponding time, 1,351 miles of railroad
track were built. The difference is only eighty
miles, and 1888 is supposed to be I'm ''Off'' year
for railroad extension.
Arrangements are being made by the strik-
ing engineers and tiremen to boycott the mer-
chants who sell goods brought to the city over
the lines of the b. IL NJ. II carried into effect
this would make Il boycott upon nearly all of
the business houses in the city. Several of
the leading strikers have been interviewed but
have nothing to say on the matter, some Of
them denying point blank that there is such Il
move on foot. Committees have or will be APP
pointed to visit the merchants and attempt to
have them enter into an agreement not to sell
goods which come over the b.. & NJ. 1t is not
probable from what THE JOURNAL can learn
that the merchants will enter into any such
agreement. Lincoln State Journal.