Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1894-05-31
NOTES OF The RAIL.
News and Gossip Gathered
Up for the Rail-
readers.
Recollections Of a Tramp and
the Reception Received
in Jamestown.

Thursday the Northern Pacific send
four work trains to Valley City to ballast
up the main line. The Helnzer boys
Joe and Andy-will have charge OF the
steam shovel as usual and Geo. Dalzel,
Tom Costello Of Fargo, and Engineers
Hofacker and Mallick Of this city, will so
on the engines. Harry Allen, Elliston
Hooper, George Pringle and Charley
Dodge will get the fremen's sits. Char
ley Carothers, Ernest Reed and John
Waine will be the watchmen Conductor
Hogland and Brakemen Ed. Edwards
and John Phelix, along with some of the
other boys, will look after the balance OF
the train. superintendent Wilson has
taken two crews from Fargo and two
from jamestown, and the boys feel good
at getting back to work.
The boys along tho Northern Pacific
call the Cooperstown line the johnson
and Buckley run" The former has been
conductor for 6 years, the latter engineer
for years on the same road. They
know everybody on the line and every
body knows them. The conductor is a
railroader OF numerous accomplishments,
being roadnlaster, rear brakeman, bag
gage and expressman, and is now weigh
ing mail, and runs farm besides. In
the fall of the year when wheat traffic is
heavy the assistance OF another brake
man is given. The Cooperstown run
does heavy local business, and IS sc
miles IN length from Cooperstown to
Sanrorn. Two years ago it is said this
branch had more bushels OF wheat taken
over its rails than any other branch road
in the world.
A conductor by the name of Driscoll,
who punches tickets and compares his
watch with the engineers on the main
line of the Great Northern. says the
Walsh County Record, is said to be
very patient and long suffering man,
slow to anger. but very rapid when ex-
cited. Last week on west-bound train
number Of passengers asked him if
there was going to be another strike. A
couple of travelling men noticed he was
getting tired Of being asked the same
thing so much, and they took it upon
themselves to 60 into the next car,
which was the smoker, and put everyone
on to ask him abont the prospect for
another strike. When he got half way
through the car he was hot from the
pegs IN his shoes to the sign on his cap.
The train pulled mp at the station here,
and he went out to do his duty. On the
platform he told the two travellers that
he would jerk the necktie of the next
man that asked him about strike. A
man weighing 200 pounds got on at this
station, he had carried 200 pounds more
Of samples, for he travelled for baking
powder company, two blocks on the run;
he was out of breath, but he listened to
the two travelling men, and said he would
ask the conductor, When the train
started he called the conductor with 8
motion OF his hand. and the Con. hasten
ed to get to him, expecting silver instead
Of milege paper. No; the fat baking
powder man asked hlm If there was
going to be another strike. The tight
lasted twenty minutes; there was a
doctor on the train and be fixed the men
up the best he could and the hind brak-
man wore the conductors cap from there
in. and the baking powder man was
helped into closed carriage at the next
stop and taken to hotel for week.