The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-28
AMONG RAILROAD MEN
Many Tourists at the National
Park This Season,
MANY CAMPING PARTIES
John Sutherland Has Given Up the Fast
Mail on the Burlington = Twenty
Years Is His Record-A Photo
graph Contest.

The reports of business done by the
Yellowstone park hotels and transport
tation companies show that fully r.,
900 tourists visited the park during the
season just closed. About 5000 pers-
ons had registered at the hotels and it
is estimated that fully as many more
camped in the park The weather is
still very fine and it is claimed that the
season could well have remained open
three weeks longer.
John Sutherland, who for nearly 20
years has held the throttle on the fast
mail engines on the Iowa division of
the Burlington, has abandoned the
main line and given up the fast mail
At his own request he has been trans
ferred to the Abba branch of the Bur-
lington. While waiting the other day
for the signal to start on his last run
with the fastest mail train in America
he said: Yes, / have given up the
fast mail. l was assigned to an engine
on No. in 1881, and for nearly 20 years
l have pulled it from Ottumwa to Ores
ton, or on the return trip, once each
day. In that time l have crossed the
old middle division, lis miles in length,
daily, except Sunday. The aggregate
distance Travelled in the almost two de-
cades of employment on that line is
nearly 100000 miles. The running time
of the mail was originally 80 miles an
hour, and in those days No. rs time
was a phenomenon. Passenger trains,
over all of whom it had the right of
way, hustled to get into clear ten min
utes before it was due at stations,
while as for freight trains, well, there
was standing rule on the time card
that any conductor or engineer in the
brown cars who delayed the mail an
n a oh ar hp
morning, or, if the offense was not of
an aggravated character, they were
given six months in the dog house"
why did l quit the fast mail? Well,
l am not so young as | was 20 years
ago. / have been afflicted for several
years with rheumatism, and then,
again, the gait of No. has been set
up so many notches since it was first
put on that it's time now averages so
miles an hour. With the creeping on
of age, the excitement of moving along
at so miles an hour, formerly buoy
ant stimulant to me, wore away, and L
began to long for run where the risk
and responsibility were not so great
! submitted to the management my de-
sire to take a slower run. and was al
lowed the privilege of picking out the
run l would like most to have, so |
took Nos. 8 and 10, running in and out
of Des Moines."
Inc experience Ol lillS bulllllStoH IL
gineer, who has been running on the
fast mail for nearly 20 years, contra
diets the current report that an engl-
reer cannot standsthe fast mail pace
more than five years
For the best photographs of Nebraska
farm scenes sent to him before October
81, 1899, General Passenger Agent Fran
cis of the Burlington route has offered
cash prizes amounting to $4,000. The
contest Is open to both amateur and
professional photographers, and is eX-
pected to arouse as much interest as
did the Burlington's prize contest for
the best letters on Nebraska last Win
ter. The pictures obtained in this novel
manner are intended for publication in
the various immigration pamphlets is
sued by the Burlington. 1'
Within the past 80 days the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad has placed seve-
raj orders for new freight equipment to
meet the excessive demand for cars.
The South Baltimore car works is
building 1900 Baltimore & Ohio stand
ard box cars, with all modern improve
ments. The American Car and Foun-
dry company has an order for $50 re-
frigerator cars and 10 improved horse
cars have also been ordered.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad has
only received / 900 of the 5000 Schoen
steel cars ordered some time ago, and
when the remaining 5000 are delivered
will have $3.50 cars to add to the A.
900 now in use.
w. II. Parr of Baltimore. a we'll
known grain merchant, accompanied
by Lincoln X. Passmore, manager of
the firm of l. NJ. Parr, Sons & Co. Of
Philadelphia came in over the North
ern Pacific Tuesday night in a special
car and went south yesterday morning
over the Short Line. The gentlemen
ere making a pleasure tour through the
West.