The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-12-16
Ann Arbor Ry. and Shops.

Ann Arbor Ry. and Shops.
A new flue sheet is being put in Engine
"a
Coach IA went into the carpenter shop
Monday for complete overhauing.
VIM. Holmes returned to work Tuesday
after few days absence.
w. Barnes has been acting as foreman a
part of the week during the absence of c.
j. Mathews.
J. j. Mackey returned Monday from
brief visit with his son Robert at Frank
fort.
Mr. and Mrs. Denger spent Sunday
with Ann rb0r relatives.
George Walton was in Ann Arbor the
Engine No. Is, which is at work on ditch.
ing train near that city.
Chas Duffy was down from Frankfort
Sunday and Monday returning there to
finish the work on the transport
John Waltz, of Battle Creek, and Pat
O'Brien. marine boiler maker of Chicago,
are the latest additions to the boiler makers
force.
The 100 foot smoke stack for the Ann
Arbor car ferry No. 2 was shipped Friday.
1t took three fiat cars to carry 1t.
John Tawse and Peter Rear returned
Tuesday evening from two days work at
Manhattan Junction and Toledo.
Master Mechanic Robert Tawse returned
Monday night from short inspection of
the work being done on Ferry No. 2 at
Frankfort.
Samuel Trench returned from Frankfort
Tuesday night. he had been working on
the car ferry No 2.
Engine No. IA was brought into the
shops Tuesday for light repairs. 1t was
brought In by Engineer Richard Strong, of
Durand. who spent the day here.
Coach II was turned out Friday after
complete Overhauling. The interior was
trimmed with gold trimmings on a blue
background after the design of N. d.
Berry. foreman of the paint shop.
Chair car Cadillac is being repainted and
redecorated. 1t will probably be used
between Ann Arbor and Toledo for theatre
parties.
A brakeman named Hoey received severe
injuries at Ithaca Friday. He attempted to
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his hold and fell between the truck aud
platform curbing where he was dragged
about thirty feet. He received a bad cash
in his head and some internal injuries.
The system with which everything about
4 railway line is watched nowadays, though
only a specimen of the careful economy
with which nearly all of the older enter
prises are conducted Is highly instructive as
showing the intelligent, scientific effort to
reduce the cost Of running expenses to it's
lowest mark. The manner In which the
use of one heavy item of expense, that of
coal, is watched, is of itself interesting.
In each class of service, passenger, local
and through freights ETC., the engineer is
allowed certain amount of coal with which
he is expected to make the trip and record
OF his success or failure is kept In the Mas.
ter Mechanics office. The standard allow.
auce Is made In pounds per car mile and
varies from ILL pounds per car mile fol
passenger trains IN winter to four pounds
per car mile for through freights running or
schedule time in summer and drawn by
Pittsburg engines or engines of the Amer
lean" type The allowances now made by
the Ann Arbor road for summer and win
ter traffic are: passenger, 95 pounds il
summer, II. in winter; local freight and
85; through freight, schedule time Pitts
burg and American type locomotives ant
So; through freights, extras, and ST..
The ten wheeled locomotives, though
really burning larger amount of coal tnal
the smaller engines, burn smaller amour
per car mile because they have so man
more cars on each trip that when the Who'll
amount of coal used, Is divided by the pre-
number of cars drawn, the quotient is cor
sideraby smaller. This also accounts fo
the seemingly high allowance per car mil
for passenger trains, the smaller number c
cars In train making the quotient uRusua
Iy large.
The latest method instead of using tn
car mile as unit uses method of tonnae
which is even more accurate than the otht
owing to the fact that many loads are {
greatly varying weight This system is a
ready partly in use on the Ann Arbor roa
and will probably be Eventually adopte
though 1t involves a large amount of wor
la changing the method of making reports
Christmas and New Years Holiday Rate
The Grand Trunk Railway System wi
issue holiday excursion tickets at the rate
one and one-thrd fare for the round trip
and from all stations on their system we
of the Detroit and st. Clair rivers, and wi
also sell to all stations of connecting line
These rates will include Canadian p0iD
west of and including Toronto, NiagaI
Falls and Buffalo, also Chicago. Sellir
dates for Christmas, Dec. 23d, oath, 25l