Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-07
COTTON BELT NOTES.
BY E. WALTER NORDMAN


 Engine 30. formerly switch engine. which is now in the machine shops undergoing general repairs, has been sold to the Hand Lumber Co.,, north of this place.
 Mir. W. B. (Slim) Ivey. formerly a mach'nist at these shops but now employed i'll the Pee Gee shops at Shreveport. spent a few days in this lefty mingling with friends. The advertising board now wants u night hostler in the yards at Birds Point. One fireman on engine I02, on trains and 4. also one fireman on engine 15O, for trains and 9
 MT. R. .E.Agnew formerly dispatch CT at this office, but now connected with the Pee Gee office at Texarka- na, passed through here yesterday for Jonesboro, on account of the death of his baby.
 Mir. W. 0. Rogers, we'll known here and for years agent for this road at Camden. is now ID the bank fixtures and barber supply business in St. Louis. We wish Mr. Rogers
 success ill his new undertaking.
 We are indeed glad to state that
 Mir. ". Coughlin, formerly division superintendent of this road and re- gently occupying the same position on the Pittsburg < Gulf, has been promoted to general perintendent of that entire system.
 A bulletin was recently posted stating that hereafter train No. 15 l will handle same tonnage as other through trains. This cancels previ- ous instructions to cut this train ten per cent.
 Bids are open for the next ten days for two brakemen on C. K. l Thomas crew, Camden and Pine
 Bluff locals, with lay over at Cam
 den, in place of w. 6. Mason and
 Henry McCann.
 Mir. Adam Demnead. who has the
 contract for making axles for this company and who handles the big
 furnace, has been given a thirty day notice to close down the flrnace in-
 definitely, as this company is now
 sufficiently supplied with axles. i Commencing with last Monday,
 the first of the year, all train crews
 on the Arkansas division will consist
 of two brakemen and conductor. ex-
 cept the regular local crews. which will have three brak emen and con-
 ductor as heretofore.
 Mir. F. $. Ra wins. formerly train
 master and division superintendent
 of this road but recently train mas 1 ter of the Pee Gee road, has been promoted to division superintend-
 ent of~that road with headQuarters
 at Pittsburg. Kansas.
 1 Recently a machinist at these
 shops, together with his best girl. W hile en route to a dance in the l west end, stopped at the residenc ?
 of Bro. Caseing's. the Methodist
 preacher. Upon finding out their
 mistake, as they claim it to be. turned around and proceeded to the place where the dance was gwen. The following bulletin has been
 posted by Su perintend-nt Bowran: II find that in the past there has been Cases where the employees of
 this road have beensuspended or laid of and accepted service with other
 roads, Hereafter any employe tHk- service with another company will be considered as having severed his connection with this road" l 1t is confirmed rumor that this
 company will in about thirty days begin to enlarge the depot and the opera tors, disDatchers and superin- tendent with all his clerks will be
 moved into the depot building, leav- ing only the general master mechan- ic and his clerks at the shops, also the ard office which will ren ain where it is now located and two op- orators will handle the cIerkship and trains in place of regular yard cl,rk.