Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-10
THE RUMBL|NG OF THE RAILS
Great Falls Will Soon Have Two
Daily Trains Between Butte
and This City.
Railroad Items of Interest Cleaned
From the Exchange
List.

The railroad boys at the depot and
yards are now busy adjusting themselves
to the new time schedule which became
effective Monday last at 10 a. m. 1t
makes a good deal of change for many
of them in their hours of work, and is
not any more relished by the employees
than it is by the public. Ia this con
nection it has leaked out that Great
Falls will soon have an opportunity to
visit Helena or Butte without having TO
return here at the unearthly hour of 2
o'clock in the morning. A petition from
the citizens was generally signed after it
was known what the new time schedule
would be, asking the management of
the road to extend the trip of the stub
train, which now runs between Helena
and Butte, to Great Falls. While the
railroad officials decline to authorize the
statement that this will be done,
The TRIBUNE has it on excellent author
ity that the train will be extended to
Great Falls within a week or two. 1t
will be put on for sixty days as an ex-
pertinent, and if the patronage received
j~ustities it it will be made permanent.
This will give Great Falls two trains
daily to and from Butte. The now train
will arrive in Great Falls from Butte
about 80 p. m. and leave for Butte at
4:lO p. IN.
Spring work on the road is now COM
,nopcirr Spr,n WORK in rorlaoirr fioc
is being done. and a good deal of rip.
rapping and grading for eidetracks is
under way. An unusually large amount
way between here and Helena. Some
scarcity of men is found, which speaks
we'll for the condition of the labor mar
ket. Yesterday the road wanted 1G men
for work on the Neihart branch and
The news of the discharge of Ira Aid
rich, Robert Oles, VIM. Rome and Fred
Allison, all trainmen of this division of
the Great Northern, was received in
Glasgow with sincere regret, says the
Glasgow Record. The boys are we'll
known here, and whatever the charge
laid against them may be, it cannot be
said but that they were always faithful
employees and men who always performed
their duties in a commendable n
There was a smash-up on the Great
Northern last week, six miles west of the
Summit, resulting in the piling-upof II
freight cars heavily loaded with ore,
flour and coal. None of the crew we're
seriously injured. but the passenger
trains were delayed about II hours by
the wreck.
M. f. Flaherty, formerly of FL Paso,
Tex, has taken the place of S. w.
Brooks at the Glasgow depot. Mr..
Brooks will assume the duties of Agent
Stone, who left last week for a visit to
his home in Council Bluffs, la.
Miss Nellie Sellsted of Havre departed
Wednesday for Minot, where she goes to
assume charge of the Western Union
Telegraph office during the absence Of
the manager on a couple of weeks visit
to the east.
Frank Herman has been relieved as
station agent for the Great Northern at
Basin and has been succeeded by Fl. G..
Stone. Mr.. Herman will return east,
where he will henceforth follow the oc-
cupation of farming.
Frank Bingham, the passenger con,
ductor, plying between Butte and Hell
ena, has returned to work again after a
layoff of a month.