Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-14
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
LOOKER-O ON in IOWA
For the Times Republican.

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/ For the Tines Republican.
| Belle PLANE. Oct lit is currently
reported that the C. & N. w. railroad
has SO much business on hand that re-
Gently they hired another railroad to
haul 400 cars from Council Bluffs to
Chicago. The reader should bear in
mind that this is one Of the big railway
systems OF the world, and that for
them to do this, with their thousands
of engines and employees simply means
that there is more carrying trade in the
west than the railroads can handle.
The other day at Boone there was at
one time not an engine or crew there
to take out incoming trains. AS liv-
cry man would say, every rig was out
And in making up freight train to go
west 1t had to be done on the main
4 line, every foot OF the several miles of
Iside tracks being filled with cars. Rail-
road men tell of getting trains on side
track and staying there three and four
hours while fast freights, stock trains
and passenger trains use the tracks. 1t
is said the new douDe track from
Marshalltown to LaMoille will be used
this week, not waiting for the finishing
of the new track from Tama to Mar
shalltown. One should travel over the
4 big trunk line to notice what they are
doing in Iowa alone. They are now
putting in the stone piers for the big
bridge across the Des Moines river at
Tor near Moingona. This bridge Will be
a half q mile long, from the bluffs each
side to the approaches. 1t will be FOG
feet high from the rail to the water.
When finished 1t will shorten the dis
ltance from Boone to Ogden three miles.
and give them a nearly straight track
The reported cost is 100000.
4 One c. & N. w. employee, noticing an
,litem in this column that the Milwaukee
recently ran freight train in sixteen
sections says: That's nothing; we
could run twenty-five sections of one
train IL we had time" This was ex-
lplained to the writer in this way: Any
freight train after 1t is twelve hours
late loses it's number and becomes a
4 special, SO that suppose No. 65 started
section number one at p. M. section
20. IL it started at 5:45 the next morn
ing, would cease to be section 20 of No
60 If it got fifteen minutes late. Not all
of the reading public know why allie
i ira freight trains are run in sections or
as specials. There was time when
4
/ if anything happened to wild train
4 in the way of an accident and suit
at law was the result. the granger
juries always decided against the rail-
roads. No business to run wild train.
or to run train wild. This is nothing
! new, only an old fact mentioned.
This road is finishing fine new depot
at Jefferson, which brings the hotels
an n ~, III
structure is of pressed brick. occupy
ing. with adjuncts, nearly a block is
4 directly north of the main street About
five miles north of jefferson the c. &
! n. w. have bought 800 acres for a
gravel pit and have built spur TRACK
] to 1t. The deposit of good gravel is
said to be eighteen to twenty-five feet
3 in depth and thousands of loads OF
a gravel would have been hauled on. this
4 year If nearly all of the engines and
crews usually engaged in this work
Il Were not put to work hauling merchan-
disc, grain, coal. stock. etc
Out rear Quarry and LeGrand two
big steam shovels are a work and the
depot at Quarry is now thirteen feet
+ above the track: in other words, the
track is now that much lower as the
now stands other tracks Will be laid as
Isoon as the depot is torn down and the
Edirt removed. In the quarries them
selves many orders have been refused
smply because men could not be OBJ
tanned to do the work They cannot
begin to furnish the number of cars of
crushed rock per day the railroad re
quires for ballasting: all this, 20 say
HI IL
culverts and bridge work. These Nc
where.
AT Glidden a reputable citizen tells
the Looker-On of a farmer near there
who seriously told him he should vote
the democratic ticket this fall. Always
had been republican. but was through
e with the party Heretofore he could
hire men al fair prices; now they Were
all working and getting better wages
than he could affori to pay. Now the
Looker-On supposed this was a joke
= but was assured this republican farmer
was in dead earnest.
Now that ''the wild man. has been
lcaptured. and successfully exhibited as
a part of the Seni-om-Sed program, in
the capital city. an organized hunting
Iparty should be put to work to secure
Ianother great natural curiosity running
; Will along the towns on the C. & n,
W. between Marshaltlown and Carroll
4 That is, he was along that territory
last week and will be heard from this
week. He was at Jefferson. Grand
junction and Ogden sure and occupied
a room in the hotels each day. He gets
his work in from II p. m. to 6 a. m.
All of the guests in the house hear him
He causes the windows to rattle and
awakens tired sleepers afraid of thun-
der. The champion snorer is abroad
in the land. The writer has been eX-
Iposed to this danger for many years
but this is the first case he has ever
heard of where snorer has a compound
action. The windows rattle as he
breaths in, and the crockery vibrates
audible as he breaths out. AT the
depot hotels no one hears the passing
trains when he is a guest. Supposed to
lbe a travelling man and to live at Mar
shalltown from Friday afternoon till
MONDAY morning.
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