The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-03-17

SO important a part in the successful
operation Of the modern railroad. IT
is called the murphy method. !" tax
ing its name from the originator, w.
j. Murphy of that city, superintendent
of the Cincinnati Southern railway.
Mr.. Murphy has equipped the examin-
ing room at Lexington with an electric
stereopticon and a large number Of
lantern slides showing the signals,
track and apparatus Of all kinds used
Oh the road. By projecting these views
on larger canvas, the trainmen are en-
abled to see the road equipment al it
would appear to them in the daily
routine Of working. 1t has worked SO
successfully OF examining the men on
the Cincinnati Southern that it is like
lyto be adopted by every railroad in
the country. W. ]. Murphy, the or
iginator, has been in the railroad
business all of his life and was for a
number of years general superinten.
dent of the Erie road at jersey City.
By reason Of the change of time on
the Northern Pacific the Red Lodge
and Bridger branch trains depart from
Billings one-half hour earlier each
morning. The time Of their arrival is
10 minutes earlier OH the former and
so minutes later on the latter.
y 4 Il
E. A. Stiefel Of Helena, travelling
freight and passenger representative of
the Southern Pacific was looking
after business for bis road Wednesday.
y = 4
Conductor. OFT, formerly on the
Rocky Fork run, has been transferred
to the Logan branch run. Conductor
Gallagher has been placed on the main
line instead Of the Logan run.
G. E. Snedecker. an old main line
conductor before the strike in '94, is
now giving orders on the Red Lodge
branch. succeeding Conductor OFT.
J.W. Embree arrived last night from
to accept a position in
the Northern Pacific freight office as
bill clerk. W.. S. Clark, who came
here from Livingston two weeks ago
10 fill that position, has been called to
Portland by the illness of his mother.
General Passenger Agent Fee of the
Pacific was asked yesterday,
says the st. Paul Globe, what the
prospects for the fsext homeseekers' ex-
were. He said that the next
oVorrc;o,, -, c~s&o 80 $lo rso,A ,,~,
that went OH the last one, would
be the banner one as far as home
are concerned. Mr.. Fee is re-
much correspondence every day
from those who are getting ready to
move, and as the days pass the mail in
" Gha.
The Plant system passenger depart
ment has published 4 useful pamphlet
''What to Say in Spanish and
How to Say It." which is a vocabulary
Of common Spanish terms and phrases.
It is Il of the most useful publications
issued by any concern, as it enables one
not conversant with the Spanish tongue
to frame letters or conversation suffi-
we'll to transact ordinary bust
ness with Latin-American countries.
There is bound to be need for such
now dealing with the Cuban
and Porto Rican peoples, and the Plant
could not have hit upon a more
timely idea than the booklet.
4 4
Owen MCGUIRE and j. A. Parsells,
formerly employed in the B. & M.
Yards in Lincoln, have come to Bill
to accept positions with the North
srn Pacific as brakemen.
Northern Pacific coast trains recently
announced a second class rate of $25
rom st. Paul and Duluth to Northern
Pacific coast points to encourage i'm
migration. The rate has attracted so
much attention that it has been deter
mined by the Northern Pacific railway
to place all portions Of it's line on an
favorable basis SO as to hasten
The sale OF its lands and settlement of
lnoccupied lands il all states through
which it's line runs. Commencing
next Tuesday and until further notice
second class tickets will be sold from
terminals to any point on the
Northern Pacific railroad west of Little
Falls, Mimi, daily at one-half of the
first class rate.
|