The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-02

there has been an accident. explanations
are made TO me here; if there has been q
falling of in the amount Of traffic, the
cause is investigated; IL there's an in
crease, we look to SEE how it can be- made
permanent.
Then the presidents of some of our
connecting or rival roads come in every
day, sometimes three or four at time,
for conference relating 10 matters Of
common interest As their time is valu-
able, / see them before all other callers
These conferences sometimes last two or
three hours, making probably the biggest
hole In my days work.
Tho next largest draft upon my time
is made by newspaper men. They strHg
gle in at all times of the day, and ! see
them as soon as | can. Each one So -
probably ten minutes. but as there slc
perhaps ten OF them every day that mean
10 minutes. They come u me for raj
road news from all over the country, and
/ am usually glad 10 tell them all know
Every "Wednesday at noon the executive
council, of which / am chairman. con
venes in this room 10 consider contracts
large expenditures, the issue Of bonds and
other important matters. Then there are
all sorts Of other conferences, sometimes
q freight or passenger claim. which our
attorney sayS can be settled at once rather
than 90 through our claims department
The claimants are here, 90 IN they troop
and the matter Is settled then and there
After that the chief engineer NAV
want to sec me about a new hridg. or 60
tension Of trucks Then, II there's any
time left, see the miscellaneous visitors.
who come from all classes and conditions,
and that ends my days work as far as the
New YoFL Central j. concerned.
Taking the New York Central ~ an
army, the Grand Central station nj ght bs
called general headquarters. In this busy.
desk laden hive 900 clerks are employed,
and here the road = run on paper.
How Tim. Table. Are Made.
In the traffic department, for example.
time tables arc made. a most inReniou.
tit 81 work One side % a room g. covered
with a mammoth chart. The chart IS
ruled horizontally with brayy and light
lines two, fge or ten minutes apart. ard
perpendiculsrIy With lines r.presentlnz
the distances between stations the whole
resembling mosquito netting with uneven
IIeshcs. Now new time table is % b.
made. An expert comes along with
ia "a t'I-Aasa-'.ta AAeAr1 E.afAr -AAtA 49,
spools o. ordinary coarse thread The
threads arr various c0igrs-red for r. ch.
trains. blue f0r passenger trains. black ~
trains q ether roads running o. s.-tls
tracks, and 50 On For iliosrra:.on II a
table FOR a train frcH. New York 20 Buf
faI0 j. % ~ made. . pin il driven IN ~
New York, the thread It'd o and carried
from PIN o pir-, rF-frserfias The clft-vct
stations Ecr1s- the bard al tie Way ~
Buffalo AL trains for long Or short t.s-
t-1css ar arranged - tie same way e
the time 100 trains are thus tstl-d -.
chart lplss Ike a r-Eat spider -s5 he'd
down With pins This rsp-e.s-ts Gays q
patient wors bgt as that remain rC~ -
o transfer the table % paper. ard The
time tabls il ready f0r the printer.
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