Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-04-08
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The Baldwin locomotive works has re /.
Gently received an order from the Rock
Island for five 10-wheel passenger loco,
motives simple.
Passenger train No. on the c., R. l.
d +. coming west last night, was delayed
about two hours by the engine slipping
an eccentric at Minonk.
Engineer John Mccormick, the veteran
1.-THE c., R. I. & p. who has been laid
mp number of months at his home in
Davenport by psralytic stroke, is re-
ported as improving.
Passenger business on all the roads Is
just fair, but there has been a percepti-
BILE increase in freight traffic which is
shown by the yards which are now filled
with cars.
Bsggageman Tom johnson, of the c.,
R. l. & p, who for years has run be-
tween Chicago and Washington, lows,
has been changed and is now holding
down one of the runs Oh the Atlsatic ex-
press.
William Winner, who has charge of the
mason work that is being put in near the
Brooks crossing by the c., R. l. & p,
fell down the steep embankment there
Yesterday afternoon dislocating his left
arm. He will probably not be around
for some time.
Conductor John Snider, of the c., B.
& O., was killed at Denrock on Wednes.
day night. He was run down by some
cars that had been kicked into sides
track while his crew were switching at
that point. His home is at Mendoza,
where he leaves a wife and family.
C., B. & Q. switch engine No. Is, with
several switchmen on board, was derailed
back of the c., r. 1. & P. round house
last evening. 1t was running along one
of the low tracks there when the track
spread, and the engine almost toppled
over into the ditch. The accident was
caused by the late rains washing away
the road bed, but luckily no one was in
jured, and no great amount of damage
was done.
The annual report of the Burlington
& Quincy road shows a net income of
Sd, 0S3. 600, and surplus of $3.50, 900.
Among the expenditures are S1,743, 900
for construction of lines in Nebraska,
South Dakota and Wyoming. and $s12,-
600 for construction and improvements
in Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. The
controlled lines show an aggregate net
income of 81, 719, 900; net surplus. $417,-
600 after paying the Chicago. Burlington
& Quincy $1.3Os.OO Dividends Of At
per cent have been paid.
The salaries of railway men in this
country are not TOO large, the Railway
Age argues, but they are princely IS cons
pared with those paid in Europe, as the
following examples of the wages of Ger
man railway employees indicate: Book
keepers and secretaries, $500 to 5000 q
| year; ticket stampers and office clerks,
$3.50 to 1915; porters and guards, $500
| to $500; engine drivers and machinsts,
$500 to $500; or not over SO wee6
stokers from S. to 81 week. and brake
men from about 81 to Sc q week.
Chsirman Finley has received from
General Passenger Agent Hesfford of the
St Paul, q communication relative 10 the
interchangeable 5.000-mile book, for
which the commercial travellers are now
so urgently petitioning. Mr.. Hesford
wants the subject referred at the next
meeting to committee Of five, with i'm
structions 10 report at the next ensuing
meeting of the Western Passenger asso-
citation. He favors the issue of the in
Interchangeable book under the supervision
of Chairman Finley, to whom all returns
for the same shall be made, and suggests
that the issue of this book will dispense
with the necessity of the present 1000
mile books.