The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12

on the blue coat sleeves of E. Caskey,
J. r. Galloway, ]. E. Lee E. R. Mullen,
| w. L. Pearl, A. E. Pickett and l.. G.
| Watkins.
1t is a remarkable fact that the con-
| ductors of the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
| road represent so many years of SER
| vice. In fact. the average for 1911 con-
ductors is 20 years. For instance, there
are Is with a record of 80 years service,
| 40 with 25 years, Al with 20 years, 50
| with 10 years and % with 10 years.
Among the station masters one has five
| stripes, Capt. J. H. Magee of Camden
| station, Baltimore.
| Some of the passenger brakemen have
| seen long years of continuous employ
ment, there being three entitled re-
| spectively to four, five and six stripes.
| five to three stripes and 60 to two
| man, J. A. Bans, who wears seven
| bars of gold braid, and so does G. H.
| Evans, train baggageman. OF these
| latter three have six stripes, II five
| stripes, five four stripes, % three stripes
and 81 two stripes.
| For many years Baltimore & Ohio
| train employees have had an enviable
| reputation for politeness to passengers
and attention to duty. and the adop-
ton of the service stripe system will
give the travelling public an opportu-
nifty to recognize long and faithful SER
vice.
The Baltimore & Ohio lines west Of
the Ohio river present very busy APP
pearance these days, as there is scarce
ly a 10-mile stretch without a bridge
or construction gang at work. There
are still a few of the SO bridges pur-
chased last January to be erected. and
almost all of the 10000 tons of S5-pound
rails have been laid.
AT several points between Bellaire
and Newark. Ohio, sidings of 1o0-car
capacity are being constructed and be-
tween Newark and Chicago Junction
thousands of men are working on ex-
tensive grade reductions. some of the
cuts and fills being two miles in
length.
Between Chicago junction and Chi
cago nearly a score of passing sidings
are being constructed, and work on
these is being pushed with unusual
haste, in order to complete them for
the heavy winter traffic The sidings
are being built with view of double
track some time in the future. They
are to be long enough in most cases to
hold three 50-car trains. The new east
bound yard at Garrett, Ind, is ready for
the rails and will be completed by the
middle of November
The gross earnings statement of the
Northern Pacific for September shows
an increase of S347, 44S over the same
month last year. The operating ex-
penses also show an increase of $201 $50,
leaving a net increase of s145,799 for the
month. For the first three months of
the present year the road has had net
| increase Of $274,027 over the first quar-
ter of the previous year.
Already the snow plows have been
brought into service on the North Pa
cific transcontinental lines and travel
has been interrupted to limited extent
However, the roads nearly all are
agreed that they do not expect much
trouble from blockades this winter.
The Great Northern has in contem-
plation the erection of all steel bridges
and trestles to replace the wooden
structures on its main line between ST.
Paul and Seattle. The constant loss Of
bridges and trestles from fire has
prompted this move.
The Great Northern has purchased
100000 feet of fir timber in Washing
ton, which will be used in the construc-
ton of it's mammoth ore dock at Allouez
bay, on Lake Superior.