The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-11-22
RAILROAD NEWS.

were marked oil the board this morning.
Business must be pretty good when TWEEN
ty-one men in one department are COM
PEELED to lay on-Newton Republicans.
Officials of western railroads have
agreed to run the Homeseeker excursions
until the end of next June. Two .excur-
sions will be run each month ON the first
and third Tuesdays The same low rate
of fare, being one fare plus two dollars.
will prevail for the excursions.
From statistics recently compiled it
is shown that railroad men are not only
becoming more proficient in their duties
but that they also becoming more
temperate in their habits 1t is stated
that about twenty years ago, more than
twenty per cent of the men discharged
from the New York Central road was dis
charged for drunk enness. At the present
sinle in army O: over 30, 900 men en-
pIoyed by this road. less than 1 per cent
of those dismissed from service can trace
their discharge to the cause of drunken
ness.
Some idea of the immense California
passenger traffic at present being eujoy-
ed by the Santa Fe road. be CLEANED
from yesterdays business Train No. ]
had six tourist s.eepers ant. two standard
sleeepers full of California passc ngers
when it left Kansas City. In in addition
to this is the California Limited train last
night which was full. The regular equip
ment of the Santa Fee in caring for the
! Califoruia. business is one standard and
The tourist sieepers daily, sleeper from
| ST. Paul and minneapolis every Thurs
day and the California Limited which
| runs three times per week Travel to the
coast is particularly heavy this year, and
| on the. iucre,4 Se-(caD
The annual inspection of watches for
the Santa Fe has just been complet ed
and has been remarkable for the few
! poor watches found. One thousand nine
hundred and thirty five watches cer-
ried by employees who have the handling
of trains on the A. L. q S. F. railway
/ (proper.) 9S3 watches carried by engin-
GERS. $50 by conductors, 1S2 by yard fore
men, 76 by yardmasters and by pilots !;
of this number all have been found o. X.
except IS which are now in the hands of
/ local repairers or factories The total
number of condemned and new watches
ordered to take their places was 10.
which shows that the watches carried by
/ the men are the best the market produce.
When you consider that In rating and
testing IA watch it requires three days for
each watch, yon can readily see that the
| position of IL. S. Montgomery, general
| watch inspector, is n small task.-Capi-
| tai.
| -Apropos of the change of manage
ment OF the Rock Island eating houses on
January l, from Dinner Bros, to the
direct supervision of the Culinary Depart
| ment of the Rock Island road. 1t is
| proper to state That MIR. Frank Stewart,
under whose management the eating
| houses will now be. has had charge of the
Culinary Department of the road for
| many years and the travelling public will
appreciate the fact that tue Rock Island
has placed its dining stations west of the
| Missouri River under his supervision.
| THIS change has been made for system
| attic organization in order to have de-
partnIent responsible for this kidd o f SER
vice, both diuing and eating houses
over The entire system Mr. Stewart is
Il dining car expert and undoubtedly tie
dining car system will be extended more
or less under his management. The Cul-
mary Department has envIable repu-
tation throughout the entire West for its
extensive menu, excellent service and
"a la carte'' plan of requiring patrons to
pay only for what they desire.
The much talked of extention of the
| Rock Island railroad, from Liberal, Kan.
| to Ell Paso, Tex, is under way, and from
present outlook DliS 1aif TO be nelrlD 2
completion before many more months are
/ passed. At the present time the survey
ors of the Rock Island are at work about
100 miles to the south of Santa Fee. N Nj
Chief Engineer Summers of the White
| Oaks route has driven the final grade
stakes for the proposed road. twenty-five
miles east and north of Pinos Wells. The
line has also been located through from
Liberal, Kan, to the Pecos river at Santa
Rosa. Under the arrangements which
| the Rock Island road has with the Ell
Paso &c Northeastern road, the latter
company is to definitely locate the south
| western end of the line from the Carrie
zoo mountains TO the Pecos. In all prob
ability the construction work will COM
menee very soon This new extention of
the Rock Island has been gone over
several times by Rock Island parties, the
latest inspection of the country was made