Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-30
FINE PARLOR CARS.
Will Be Put into Commission by
Rock Island Road
Feb. [.
ONE Is PLACED ON EXHIBITION

commodations-SeveraI Changes In Mil
waukee OficiaIs-C. w. Thatcher APP
pointed gent for Peoria at GaIva.
The c., Il I. & P. road today exhib-
tied at the Peoria depot on Twentieth
street for public inspection one of the
parlor cars that it is to put into COM
mission next Thursday between Chi
cago and Des Moiues. The ears were
built by the Pullman company and
are models of elegance and comfort.
The cars are of extra length and
broad vestibuled. The interior finish
is of highly polished mahogany, elab-
orately paneiied with rosewood and
artisticallV ornamented.
Wide windows of heavy plate glass
will afford excellent facilities for OBJ
servation of the surrounding country,
while the Gothic design of their upper
portions. gracefully decorated in
bronze, lends another detail to the ar
tistic pei fectiol OF the whole. The
general color scheme of the furniture
is olive green, the comfortable, roomy
arm chairs of revolving pattern being
upholstered in fine mohair plush OF
that tint. Columbia Wilton carpet Of
special pattern covers the floor. The
ceiling is painted il harmonious
shades, bronze decorations forming an
important feature of the scheme.
The smoking room is commOdious
and in general harmonizes with the
main apartment, while its furniture
consists of comfortable sofas and
wicker chairs. The usual retiring
rooms are fitted with lavatories of
Tennessee marble and equipped with
all toilet requisites. Taken as a
whole, these cars represent the high
est type of their class. They are
beautiful: they are comfortable and
should prove highly popular addi-
service between Chicago and Des
Moires.
The cars under the care of eNper-
fenced porters viii be placed in SER
vice on Feb. l. The westbound run
will be made on No. l. leaving chi
cago at a. m. daily, except Sun
day. For the castb bound Journey the
car will be attIched 10 the speedy
No. q, known as the Hawkeye Linn
tied, which, leaving Des Moines at
L a m. daily, except Sunday, ar
rives in Chicago at 4:45 p. N.
MANY people visited the car during
the inspection hours, II till ,, and
were received by General Agent S. F.
Boyd and other attaches of the COM
pany. Bouquets were given to the
ladies', while cigars were distributed
among the gentlemen. The car, the
No. 69S, is in charge of Porter Ricar-
do Antisey, a Cuban.
Changes on Milwaukee.
AS result of the elevation of ii. II.
Williams to the general managership
and w. j. Underwood to the general
SUPPLEMENTARY of the Chicago, Mil
waukee Il St. Paul road, six division
superintendent will he advanced in
Office. G. a. Cosgrove, superintend-
ent OF the Iowa and Dakota division,
will become assistant general super
intcndent, with Office at Minneapolis,
succeeding W. j. Underwood. w. W.
Collins. superintendent of the Prairie
du CHEN division. will succeed Mr..
Cosgrove as superintendent OF the
Iowa and Dakota divisions. with head
quarters at Mason City, Iowa. j. F
Gibson, superintendent OF the north
ern division, with office at Milwau-
kee, will become superintendent of
the Chicago terminals. II. b. Earl
ing will 90 to Marion, Iowa, as
superintendent of the Marion division.
p. c. Eldredgc, who has been super
intendent of the Babcock, Wis, divis-
ion, will follow Mr.. Collins in Mil
waukee as superintendent of the
Prairie du Chen division. q. II. At
kins, who has been superintendent of
the Chicago terminals, will succeed
Mr.. Eldredge as superintendent of the
Babcock division. All of the APP
pointees are old in the service of the
St. Paul company and have Gained
their promotions. G. A. Cosgrove,
new assistant general superintendent,
was born at'kenosha, Wis, 50 years
ago. All his railroad service has been
with the Milwaukee 81 St. Paul com
pany. He began as a telegraph oPer-
ator in the general offices of the road
when they were located in Milwaukee,
in 1864. Subsequently he occupied
the position of operator at various
points on the line. being promoted
from this to train dispatcher and as
sistant superintendent.
Given Agency at GaIva.
c. W. ThacheT, of Milan. who for
years has held down the third trick
in the Rock Island & Peoria train dis
patcher's office, has been appointed
agent for the company at Galva and
will assume his new duties Feb. 1.
He will be succeeded by 5. =. Hender-
son. one of the efficient operators in
the Rock Island roads local train dis
patcher's Office.