Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-03-02
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
News OF General and Local Interest
Generating the Iron Horse and the
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Highways He Traversrs.
A new time card Is to 90 into effect
on the c.. NJ. & St.P. tomorrow, accord
ing to which ell the Racine day express
will leave. In the future. at 8:2O. in
stead of 8:45 I'm. The Savanna arrives
at II q. m. and departs at 8 p. N.
The genial "phiz" Of Conductor Al.
Barber has been missed on the St. Louis
train for the past month. during which
time he has been acting as assistant
trainm sster. stationed at Barstow. This
move was necessitated by the volume of
business which the shipment OF ice has
given the %" From 100 to $50 freight
oars have gone south from Barstow every
day for a month, the bulk OF 1t being
handled by main line crews, who have
been sent north during the rush. Last
| night q general order was issued to sta
ton agents to receive no more ice, as the
company could not move it.
Headlights for locomotives that are a
great Improvement upon the old, are
to be introduced by the G.. B. & Q.
aud other western roads at an early date
The new headlight has an adjustment
which allows the engineer to convenient
ly direct the light, as he may desire, to
various points of the line. The lantern
Is supported on frame or platform,
which has movement to right or left
about vertical axis, and also I'D or
down by the same means. the opening
mechanism leading back to the cab, SO as
to be within ready reach of the engineer.
de Is enabled, by this arrangement, TO
examine dangerous or doubtful parts of
the road, and in stormy weather TO turn
The light upon the threatening trees or
masses of earth or rock upon either
side and which are liable to
fall. The device also permits the
lantern being turned SO as to throw a
light across sharp corners and exhibit
the line of track at some distance ahead
of the tain and at points which would
be entirely out of reach of the light in
the usual fixed position. According to
the usual construction and employment
OF locomotive headlights. they are fxed
to the engine front in such a manner that
the lights are always thrown forward and
concentrated in one line only-this being,
of course. an inadequate arrangement in
the case of sharp CURVES.
Official announcement has been re-
ceiyed of the changes in the active man
agement OF the passenger department of
the c.. NJ. b st. P. Mr.. A V. II. Car
penter. who remains as general passenger
and ticket agent is practically relieved
from service. Mr.. George Fl Heafford be-
coming the active head of the department.
MIR. Geo. 8. Marsh is appointed assistant
general passenger aud ticket agent. with
office at Milwaukee. The changes went
into effect yesterday. Mr. Carpenter,
who Is now sixty seven years of age. is
considered the oldest living passenger
agent in America. He has been connected
with the st. Paul system since June, 1862,
and has occupied his present position
since Jan. l, 1866. His record has been
most euvisble and brillian. one, no pas,
senger man in the country having q bet
ter reputation than he. The act of the
st. Paul compsay in practically pension
Ing him has been highly commended on
all sides, and is but another evidence of
the lioerality shown to employees by
President Roswell Miller. George H.
Hestord is much younger man. being
forty-three years Of age. He has been
connected with the st. Paul road since
August, 1889. He is one of the Young
men of the passenger business, and very
little escapes him that would be Of bene
fit to his road. He even writes poetry at
railway meetings, and, what 10 more, he
10 permitted to read it aloud and have it
published afterward. Mr. Marsh 10
nearly ten years younger than Mr.. Heat
Aoie anu ooiihk iotC yCotb uoB UCOu kcu-
eral passenger agent of the Milwaukee.
Lake Shore & Western road at Milwau-
kee. He is looked upon as one of the
bright and promising young men of the
profession, q man of brains. and tact and
enterprise. and popularity that is some
thing to be proud Of. The st. Paul road
is certainly we'll endowed with passenger
men.
The Chicago Journal has been writing
up the officials Of the Chicago Rock ISIS
and s. Pacific road. 1t says:
President R. R. Gable looks every inch
what he really is-a successful man. He
is as genial as May morning. but one of
the strictest disciplinsrisns among rail-
road officials. Not detail escapes his
scrutiny, and the consequence 10 that the
Rock Island. from the books in the gener
al offices to the work of the lowest section
hand. is always in apple pie order. He
and, like the great pork king, tells Just
what he wants to tell-and no more.
General Manager st. John is one of the
best known railroad men in Chicago. He
apparently has no time for anything but
business. and Is always found up to his
ears in it. He has been with the Rock
Island twenty-five years. and every de-
tail OF the workings of the road Ia at his
finger ends.
Traffic Manager Sage 10 true Scotch
man and possesses to the full all the good
qualities of that race His brother ofh-
cisls claim that there never was a man
whose name and qualifications fitted to
gefher 40 we'll He has been with the