The Paducah daily sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1896-1898, 1897-08-30
|. c. SPIKES.

| Engineer Lincoln seems at home
on the 266, pdlhng the Memphis
local.
| Engineer John Dunn has the SOS
and is now at st. Elmo tank clearing
up the wreck.
!, | Conductor Buckmaster was called
home Wednesday ON account Of sick
ness in lis 'amily.
| Engineer Burdy did not 90 out on
the 873 last trip, but "Daddy"
Grimes filed his place very accept.
ably.
| Flsgman Shelton was on the local
out of Memphis yesterday, in Rob-
ert Perry's place.
| Conductor Wilkinson is at St. Ell
mo in charge Of work extra S7S
clearing up wreck.
Ed McCutchen came in YESTERDAY
on extra $50. He has been in cha ge
of pile driver over on "Old Hens
Island"
Rives tank will not depend on
HARRISON Creek much longer for
water. The pump people are sink
ing an artesian we'll.
Engineer Aker has been assigned
TO the $40. Lee is jolly good fell
low and is always at his post ready
to receive the signals gwen him by
the train crew.
If stranger were to judge the size
Of our conductors from the exercise
of their vocabularies at Fulton he
would expect to see giant. But
oh, what a disappointment, "Chip,"
for instance, and Oscar.
Business continues good on the
pike. Four sections Of lSl was sent
out OF the ysrd Thursday afternoon
and Acting Yard Master Hick Ham,
ilton was kept rght busy finding men
10 take the trains out. Everybody
at work. "HuIrah for me-"
The Postal Telegraph people are
enlarging their service by putting up
new poles from Memphis to Rives
and adding several wires from Rives
it goes over the N. & o. north. We
hear that the NJ. & o. refused to
their poles along their line
which forced the Telegraph people to
use wagons. Nothing like standing
in. Mr.. Western Union has young
in the field of competition.
This thing of conductors and en-.
gineers bucking against each other at
Fulton, trying to run around the
other one, is going to get some one !
INTO serious trouble some of these ,
nights. Before you know it Train {
hester Fratos will be coupled on your !
rail. The agents are taking notes {
If these disturbances. There is no
given trains of the same
class TO run around each other on the ,
Dad just because one should have
he advantage in the position of the
switch. This wi sooner or later be I
he means of causing the reins OF dis {
'ipllne to be drawn closer. =
Wednesday night there was cutie
wreck at ST. Elmo tank, the second v
station out of Memphis. No. 1856 ?
vas late and doubtless was "a-hum- :
min, " Engineer Kelly at the throt, :
lie Of 27e, giving her all the vitallz. 7
Dg power Of life that she needed. y
While Captain Craft sat in the cab at q
he rear with eye on the speed iudi. ii
ator and hands on the brake lines, a
7hile Flagman Beadles was out doing h
entinel duty. Brakeman Noah Nc 7
'aGden was evidently not in his y
roper place preaching to those "
Velve wandering box cars that went g.,
Ito the ditch, or he would have 9
red like the poor, friendless tank =
ut Noah, like his name-sake. had
eye on the future. Though the
'od came sooner than he Anticipated
came out dry and Wi .out a
ratch.
There Is no question but what his
adj is doing the largest business A..
er done, Notwithstanding Mr.
)bbs, foreman Of the repair track.
rs his force since the l. c has
Ken charge is much smaller than
times under The old G. q o. man. G
This speaks well for the
" officials who have seen proper to
Ike many changes especially in the
Importation department. Some of
old "roots" have changed their
ode, while new blood has been
hused into the veins of the old.
other white man has been added
the rear end of the train who in
st Instances is competent to take
captains train book should he
ONE disabled from any cause
lie out on the road 1--WE speak Of
yor Kemp's Diy) We'sive Train
'ter Fraies the praise for
It OF the improvement. =
knows his route. None I
ID in higher esteem with their 4
ordlnates than he. ] -