The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-12-16
xAILRoAD NOTES.

| place as IN engineer on the Santa Fe
railway. Mr.. Oldham was suspended
some months ago without, ~ his friends
thought. justifiable cause; but he Is to
be congratulated on his restoration.
The railway business continues live
". Cattle shipments are besng made
daily over the Santa Fe route.
The Rock Island road Is receiving
cars Of Canon City coal over the Santa
Fe route.
The new time card IL printed in this
issue of the GLOBE REFUBLlCAN.
Fred Gardner, the Santa Fs railway
agent, will remove his headquarters to
the new building next week.
The Santa Fee is experimenting with
a new switch lamp which cannot be
blown out. The invention belongs to .
man living in Augusta.
The pay checks we're paid out this
morning.
Chas. II. Wrighten was running the
switch engine this week, while Pop Kel-
sey was enjoying his birthday anniver-
sary.
The Santa Fe roads big freight BUSH
ness has caused a shortage in coal ship
ments. A ''coal famine" is threat
ened at some points.
J. G. Baird, in charge of the Railroad
Reading Room, is cultivating the birds
and rabbits that are making the reading
room grounds their habitation. Jarvis
Bloostem may yet find time to contribute
his winters musings in solitude.
Twelve new consolidation engines,
one to be turned out each month, have
been ordered by the Santa Fe mechanical
department to be built at the Santa Fe
shops in Topeka during the year 1898.
The engines will be of the same pattern
as the consolidation engines turned out
of the shops in that city this year. With
the eight engines which will have been
built by the end of the present year, by
the first of 1899, the Santa Fe will have
twenty of the heaviest engines in railroad
service in the United States.
While heavy accommodation train
was going from Atwood to Francis
which is nearly all up grade, the engineer
was puzzled at the way in which the
of the engine slipped and
At last, despite all his efforts,
the tram came to standstill, the wheels |
buzzing around as though the track was !
creased. An investigation showed that |
a heavy wind had blown a quantity of
thistles in upon the track in the
little cuts, and the wheels crushed the oil |
out of them, so oiling the track that the |
wheels could not retain hold on the |
rails. The thistles contain an abundance |
Of oil. When the sand gave out the engi- |
neer was compelled to cut the train IN
two and proceed with one section and
return for the remainder.
An old Santa Fe passenger conduc-
tor was telling us the other day about
the Careers of some other conductors.
Some II years ago there was job lot of
Santa Fe passenger conductors discharged
for ''color blindness"-a disease COM
monty called ''knocking down." Among
these conductors were II who were worth |
more than 25 thousand dollars each. !
Two of these men have since died in
poverty. Two of the remain
ing ten are in just comfortable circum-
stances. The other eight are very poor
and find it extremely difficult to make
livelihood. The fate of these men ought
to profit every yOnng man beginning a
business career. Dishonesty is the most
article in trade.-FlOrence
ROUND HOUSE NOTES.
"A life insurance agent, representing
an old line company, has been talking to
some of the boys with some success.
Harry Newfer has been assigned a
engine. He formerly was in
the passenger service, but for year has |
been running freight engine.
The machinery was put in motion on !
December l1th, and has been |
most of the time since.
Pop Kelsey laid of Monday and
Tuesday Of this week, on account Of his |
He spent Monday celebrating, |
and probably spent Tuesday recovering |
from the effects of large turkey,
which was sacrificed for the occasion.