The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-11-20
AS OTHERS SEE US.

Wadsworth is essentially a railroad town
and on "pay day" business men, the
butcher, baker and candlestick maker,
get share of the wages. The railroad
shops are located here, employing many
men. 1t is also the end OF the division,
where all the crews from both east and
west change. Those not familiar with
division town where car shops are To-
Gated, have no conception of what it
means to a town. There are seventy
five men employed in the shops. By
courtesy of II. H. Forney, Master Me-
chanic, the Gazette man was shown
through the shops and everything ex-
planned. While the Wadsworth shops
are used almost exclusively for repairs
to the rolling stock of the road, they
turn out some new work In the shape of
engines. Mr.. Fornev has an engine in
course of construction that is being built
exclusively in the Wadsworth shops,
minus the trucks and boiler which were
put up at Sacramento. Sixty pairs of
wheels are put under cars every month.
The car shops are in charge OF II. }.
Allen, the foreman. In the roundhouse
eighteen men are employed and A. T.
Clippenger is the foreman. William
Dunlap is chief blacksmith and William
Speidel coppersmith. E. Clay is chief
boiler-maker and j. Schwandt foreman
ofthe machine shops.
In connection with the company's vast
interests at Wadsworth is library with
over 1000 volumes of standard works of
fiction, history and general reading mat
ter such as the daily papers, monthly
magazines and periodicals, under charge
of Miss Gertrude Dunlap, the librarian.
and is kept open from "A. M. till 10 P. M.
for the convenience Of the employees.
T. F. Donelin is chief dispatcher, with
T. Fitzgerald, T. Moran, E. Vroomand
and George Fairbanks assistants, and
James O'Brien division operator and
Henry Owen dispatcher's operator. In
this building the lives of the vast num-
ber of trainmen and shop workers are in
the keeping of the men who direct the
movements of trains. But the corps
under Master Mechanic Forney and T.
F. Donlin know their lives are safe, for
both of these gentlemen have had large
railroad experience and realize the
responsibility resting upon them. A.
Ii. Wilbur, Reno raised boy, is as
sistant night operator and 7. A. Nc
Kinstrey holds the same position days,
G. A. Mcpherson being agent. The
freight traffic is the heaviest ever known
on the road, there being eight freight
crews running between Wadsworth and
Truckee in addition to the crews that
run between Wadsworth and Rocklin.
There are twenty-five freight crews on
the run between Wadsworth and Carlin.
This is in addition to the fifteen passen-
ger crews that change at Wadsworth.
All this tratfic-freight and passenger
makes the town lively and prosperous.
JOHN LEE.
Perhaps there is no commercial house
in the county better known in CONNER
cial centers than that Of John Lee, who
has been in business in Wadsworth
for many years and accumulated for
tune. He carries everything from pair
OF bed blankets to fine tooth comb,
and enjoys large trade from prosper
GUS Churchill county. ]. G. Driscoll is
head book-keeper and general business
man and is very popular and has many
friends to cater to. W. S. McRracken
and his brother are also Of Mr.. Lees
clerical force and like Mr.. Driscoll are
very popular. This force under Mr..
Lees well trained business eye assist in
doing a volume OF business showing near
the $4,000 mark annually. If GUS
toner cannot get what he wants at John
Lees, he need not hunt for it on the
coast. The stock is nicely arranged and
his might be called department store.
John Lee is one of the biggest COW men
in that section of the country, and in
company with Commissioner Geo. Frazer
bores with big auger. John Lee Is one
of the best known men in this county
having settled in the county at an early
day at Stone and Gates crossing of the
Truckee (now Glendale), and reads
Wadsworth's history like an open book.
THE wADswoRTH PHARMACY
Was opened few months ago by G. W.
Kinney and filled long felt want for