The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-27
lin THE RAIL WORLD
What Is Doing in the Extensive
Yards Of Anaconda.
THEY ARE ALL IMPROVING
IN w Rolling Stock to Be Purohas-
= ed. Repairs to Buildings and a
General Impetus to the
Iron Horse Business.

:. The prosperity Of this city during
the year has been shared as well as
aided by the railroads which connect
Anaconda with the world. The traffic
lover both the Butte, Anaconda & Pa
ciflc and the Montana Union has been
tremendous. The business of the B..
A. & p. has more than doubled during
the year, and the Unon also enjoyed
one of Its busiest seasons UP TO the
first of the year. when. as usual, there
was q lull in business after the holi-
days. The employees are not regretting
the decline, but are taking opportunity
to rest and catch up with business
which was behind in a clerical way. The
Montana Union shops are very busy
overhauling and repairing the engines
and cars which were kept busy during
the fall and were badly battered in the
rush.
Superintendent o. ". Chapman, of the
B., A. & p. has been springing sur
prises upon the trainmen as they called
at his office during the past week. 1t
consisted of examining the eyesight of
each man by practical tests.
Pointing to q card on the wall across
the room the railroader was asked to
read the lower line of letters. To many
that lower line was a succession of
eyesight the letters were plain. There
were other rows of letters of larger
size by which those who could not read
the lowest line were tested. When that
examination was completed Superin-
tendent Chapman would dive down into
his desk and produce a little folder on
which there are 100 shades of color. The
smen were then asked to pick out the
primary colors and their shades par
ticularly the blue, green and red shades
used in signals.
No cases of color blindness were
found, and all but one man stood the
test for strength of eyesight. He was
an engineer and the defect was fatal to
his job. He will have to seek employ
ment where his eyes will not be so i'm
portant a factor in the business as
they are in railroading.
Agent Beebe of the Montana Union
IS one of the busiest railroad men in
Montana, and is as versatile as a
jack of all trades and master of every
one. He can preside at the operators
key. he sells coupon tickete at the win
dow. handles the cash of the freight
department, where Is handled the ship
ments OF three transcontinental roads.
and often lends a hand in the baggage
room or wheels a truck on the platform.
He Is out In the morning early and the
last man on the road to go to bed, after
the 1885. IL or o'clock train. which
ever time No. arrives on, has depart
ed. Besides these duties he has kept up
an active membership in the knights
of Pythias. Masons, Odd Fellows. Ma
tfonal Union and two or three other or
CARNATIONS. There IL no drone about
Mr.. Beebe.
been designed by B. d. Robertson OF
the B., A. & p, and Phil Daniels. the
Anaconda agent for the Burlington
The badge is a button and has around
the outer edge As stars. q blue field,
and In the center a liberty bell sus-
pended by a link Of red. A goldbug is
tearing away the links that hold the
bell and 1t is about to fall. On the
blue field are the letters in silver, Free
Coinage: Is to l." The button is one
of the prettiest yet shown. and the de-
signers who have only had a few made
by hand expect to have a number of
them struck Off at once.
Manager NJ. Donahoe of the B., A.
& p. Is also in the East on business for
the road and will be absent about three
weeks. Superintendent Chapman and
Audltor Melin are therefore in charge.
Incidental to Mr.. Donahoe's trip will
be the purchase of a new engine and to
increase the rolling stock of the road
by the purchase of additional ore cars
and coaches. The growth of the BUSH
ness over the line has been phenome-
nal and six crews of trainmen are
kept busy all the weeks through to
handle the trains, while the present full
equipment of the rolling stock Is kept
in constant use.
Master Mechanic Harrity Is oontem-
plating numerous improvements in the
round house and the addition of ma
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engines and repairing of them With
the tools now available he is able to
turn out engines as good as new and
by the aid of the Tuttle foundry, which
does a considerable amount of work
for him now in repairs. could. IL neces-
sary. build an engine.
Manager Burns, who was quite sick
for some time, is now in the East for
medical treatment and in the mean
time j. Q. Goss and Auditor Calder
head are In charge of affairs, though
with the efficient officers in adj depart
ments and such a competent set of
employees there is not much managing
TO be done. as the business of the road
takes care of itself.
j. NJ. johnson, a well-known express
messenger, who runs between Green
River. and Huntington, visited II. r.
Johnson OF the Pacific Express com
pany this week.
Messenger Ed Chenoweth was unite
sick in Butte for a few days, but is
once more on his run.
MAGGIE GOT DRUNK.
She Stayed sober for 81 Years and Then
Went Spree.