Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-05-06
RESURRECTED a RELIC.
Rock Island Train sheet ofTwenty Years
Ago-Railroad Notes.

While engaged in removinga guam
tity of old stationary. records and
freight books, representing the ac-
emulation of wears, from the garnet
of the Rock Island depot out at Des
Moines few days ago, the workmen
resurrected some unique and inter
esting relics of by-gone times.
Among them was train sheet dated
May /. 1871, showing that at that
distant day, in the history of the
Rock Island train service, now en-
tombed in the mausoleum of the dead
past. save as it hangs a dim picture
on the walls of memory with COnduc-
tors Bill Ackley. Charley Smith,
Herm Cook. Ira Perigo and Fred
Bliss, the full schedule showed only
II trains carded between Brooklyn
and Council Bluffs, four of which
were in the passenger service, the re-
naming eight being freight. In
stead OF keeping an accurate record
of the arrival and departure of trains
as now strictly enforced, the figures
are omitted and the word time"
used to indicate that the schedule
was being maintained. Engines may
have had an established rated capa-
city in the good old DAYS. but there
is nothing to suggest that they had,
nor does the sheet show whether cars
were loaded or empty. Sometimes
four cars were hauled and then again
five times that many are recorded.
Twelve and Is tons were then con-
Sidered heavy loads for freight ears
and 80 ton four driver engines were
the rule. Now 80 tons per car is
general, while 10 wheel engines
weighing 80 and 60 tons are common,
| W. |. Allen. now assistant genera
manager of 1000 miles Of Rock Island
lines, was then lightning jerker il
the employ OF the company as a train
dispatcher in the Des Moines Office
and possibly checked of the old trair
! sheet eNhumcd there. Instead of l.
| trains As then the Rock Island now
| has II carded trains.
Links and Pins
W. {. fancy. connected with the
| land department of the Union Pa
/ citic. was in the city yesterday OF
Z. 4. Peltier. of the Rock Island
| has gone to Green River. where he
viii look after the company's ice
! house property there.
Homer Alexander. one of the Oldest
/ passenger engineers on the Srnta Ft
| system. and who has been in railroad
/ service nearly 10 years. i in the city
/ visiting friends
/ Paymastcr sill. of the c.. Il. |. 4
| =. pay car i considered the Ward
= II
! because he j. the leader of the '-foul
/ hundred" that being the number
that shines forth from the side of his
/ financial car.
! The new time cards on three OF tho
railroads entering the city-the Rocb
Island, Milwaukee and Burlington
, 90 into effect tomorrow. No great
changes occur except on the RQcl
| Island and the evening passenger or
the G. NJ. x ST. p. which arrives
nearly three hours earlier.
Louisiana On Wheels i the sig
niiicant name applied to Il car that
Is attracting Il large number of visi-
tors daily in the Il. l. x p. yards Al
the foot of Twentieth street. The
car, which i in charge ofW. II. Cline
of Lake Charles. La. Is laden with {
nicely arranged exhibit of the pro
! ducts OF that favored section. Al
the varieties Of grains, fruits anc
vegetables are shown. besides pro.
ducts of almost every kind. Cab
bage and lettuce planted there only {
few weeks ago are now ready for use
! Young orange trees, rice plant. su.
| gar cane. and in fact every Speci.
men Of vegetation peculiar to that
! climate is on exhibition. 1t is vel
| worth visit to see.