The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-05
RAILROAD RUMBL1NGs.
Great Preparations for the Fair on the
Pennsylvania Road.

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Pennsylvania Road.
People who pay no attention to such mat
ters can form no idea of the preparations
made by the Pennsylvania Railroad company
to meet the demands for transportation from
every point in the east and the north, of the
middle and eastern states to Chicago when
the Columbus Worlds Fair, which opened
May /. This will need an increase of
trains so great in number as to demand large
additional motive power, and vast increase
of rolling stock, all of which have been pre-.
pared and will be ready as soon as the flood
tide of travel from the east and the north
begins to roll toward Chicago Track room
has been secured TO enable the company to
run many trains both ways on schedules
that will admit of more sections than were
run on any road on the continent without a
possibility of collision, or run into the
rear of any train. The entire road from New
York to Chicago has been doubled tracked
in some places there are four trecks, while
the entire Middle division of the Pennsyl-
vania road proper has four tracks. Such a
condition of a railroad may be regarded as
the most famous exhibition that will be made
in connection with the Columbus Worlds
Fair, and when the exhibition opens the
stupendousness of the display will only be
| seen in the grandeur of its operations and
the magnifcence of its results. There will
be no freights except of material absolutely
needed for immediate use allowed to inter-
fere with this coming passenger traffic, be-
cause it is the purpose of the company dur
ing the continuance of the rush to the fair
in the summer of 1898 not to allow any
condition to arise that can possibly add
danger to the safety of human life in its
charge. 1t is a subject and purpose which
the public can contemplate with profit, as
showing what a great railroad company
proposes to accomplish in the interest of the
| people of the United States, and those who
will visit the country from abroad this
year.
The schedule makers on all railroads are
of class of mathematicians of whom little
is known by the public at large, and less by
| the people who travel, the latter of whom
never consider that they are riding in the
avs of death, during which the loss of a
fe W minutes may close those ponderous OPEN
ings and engulf them where they will remain
thr oughout eternity. 1t is the schedule
maker who fixes the time with which all
trains are rum a train runner in depot hold
ing them and with the aid of the telegraph.
er at hat point, assisted by operators at all
other points, doing the thinking in the direction
of these mighty operations. A general sched-
ule is in effect during all of a season, which
are only interfered with in slight details
as mergencies by special service demands
it, W hen the ker of schedules must do the
ciphering to get an additional train in, as a
duplication of the service is required. Slight
chang es holding train on a siding or giving
it ri ght to the road, are directed by the
| train runners, their orders being transmitted
by tele graph, in which work operators are
required to be accurate and prompt. There
are no chances in doing this work. 1t il
all done by figuring and in no other cipherinG
made necessary in the affairs of business are
! figures required to be more truthful thar
in these matters 1t is where figures are not
only supposed TO be incapable of lying but
where they are absolutely required not tC
lie because of their truthfulness is involved
the safety of human life. This will be year
of extraord mary tests for schedule makers
for train despatchers and runners, and fol
telegraphic operators. May they all come VI
to a full measure of efficiency in performing
their several labOrs.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company ha
notified their agents to withdraw from sale
winter excursion tickets to number of point
in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina a
the close of business April 30, but at tn
same time allowing the sale of excursion
tickets to summer resorts in different direc
tions.