The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-18
RAILROAD SURVEYORS
Have Been Sent Into Wyoming to
Do Some Quiet Work for
the Burlington.
LIKELY AN EXTENSION
Will Be Made-Tratfic Is Resumed
After the FlOOds-A Northern
Pacific Wreck.
LIKELY AN EXTENSION

The Burlington has sent ont another
surveying party from Lincoln for some
point Oh this line and the general sup
position is that it has stopped either at
Sheridan or some point near there
From the stopping place the party will
work toward the Big Horn country,
surveying new line. Whether it is
the intention to build new line OF
road in that section this season is not
known, but it is believed by many that
work in that territory will follow i'm
mediately after construction of the line
out of Alliance. Considerable secrecy
is maintained in sending out surveying
parties, and even the destination is not
always known to certainty. General
Superintendent Calvert and General
Manager Holdrege have both been up
on this line recently and several days
were spent near Sheridan, which tends
to show that this road is figuring on
something. 1t is the general belief
that the Burlington will take this route
to reach Butte, going through the Big
Horn country and touching the Yellow
stone park, and thence into Butte
The Burlington no doubt has it's eyes
on the Pacific coast and slowly but
surely it is reaching for its objective
point
Freight traffic on the Northern Pa
cific and Burlington through this city
was everlastingly demoralized last
week. The former road commenced to
move its freight eastward on Thursday,
when two hundred carloads were start
ed out. The Burlington's washout was
not repaired until Saturday, when its
freight was moved. Schedule time on
either road for it's passenger trains was
not secured until yesterday. The
Northern Pacific was kept busy run
ming it's coast trains to make up for the
delay
The Burlington had special time
freight train into Billings Saturday
from the east. It was ell route FROM
st. Louis to the coast, and comprised
twenty carloads of Anheusef Busch
beer bound for Manila. THR train
should have reached here early Thurs
day morning, but was delayed at Sheri-
dan on account of the washout. A
Northern Pacific engine was hitched to
it Immediately on it's arrival and the
train proceeded on its journey.
The Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany about two weeks ago issued an
order to the effect that all trainmen in
its employ must be vaccinated at once
to guard against smallpox. 1t will be
remembered that few weeks ago a
porter was taken down with the disease
aud was detained at Missoula. It is
claimed the Northern Pacific railway
has six cases of smallpox at Spokane.
which is sufficient grounds for the order
recently issued compelling the men
who handle the trains to be vaccinated.
OF course the order has been obeyed
and the boys are carrying sore arms in
but it is small thing to
the many 'jawings' they usually get
from passengers. 1t is common thing
to hear them tell passengers. II have
troubles enough of my own; tell yours
to soma one else"
Albert Swenson Of Duluth has in
vented an apparatus for checking up
the work Of conductors OH railroad pas
senger trains, and where it has been ex-
hibited it has attracted favorable atten-
ton. The apparatus consists of series
Of pneumatic tubes, one from each
half-seat. leading to a concealed regis
ter that is simply cylinder revolved
byIclock work, around which is wrap
ped paper sheet properly blocked off
and marked with the stations on the
run to be checked The tubes that lead
from the seats are of brass. They are
in the lining of the Car and a
Ear equipped with this apparatus diff
Fers in appearance in no way from an
ordinary car. When a passenger takes
, seat the register records the fact and
he record is continued until the passen-