Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-18
PROSPECTS OF PEORIA
Company May Use the Local
Yards of the Rock Island
Road.
EXTENSIONS ON FIRST AVENUE
Survey of Site of the New c., r.
I. & p. Depot.-Talk of
the Track.

The circulation of an old report has
been renewed that the Peoria road
will use the Rock Islands yards in
this city. This, however, has been
repeatedly denied by Peoria officials.
1t is apparent that the Rock Island has
absolutely no use for two-thirds of its
yard room here under present arrange
ments and the fact that the switch
tracks were all gone over aud thor
oughly repaired this spring leads to
the belief that something is coming
this way. The Peoria is preparing to
extend its yards along First avenue
below Fourteenth street and it Is
hardly probable that much more room
will be needed.
new time card goes injo effect
on sbe Peoria road tomorrow The
1920 train from Peoria will ar
rive nearly an hour earlier to connect
with the 1885 train westbound on the
Rock Island
a Railroad RumOr.
A disp tch from Wapelio, Iowa
SAYS: 1t is rumared tnaf the Chi
ctgo MilWauke- & St Paul Railroad
company has pu, chased TIE Muscatine
North & South and they will
alb ,ndon the survey made thr ugh
he nort hern Part nj the county aud
will use the road bed of ne Muscatine
North & South from Muscatiue to
Wapello thence from thi- place will
build west to Ottumwa 1t il thought
that while this route will
be little longer than the survey that
has been made through the northern
part of he county yet owing to the
fact that the country from WaPellO
west is much more level with les
fills and cuts, that the company can
make better time by comiag this way
1t is also rumored that WsPello will
be made an end of a division on the
Milwaukee
Rock Island RumbIIngs.
The Rock Islands new time card
goes into effect tomorrow
Division Engineer w Fl Davisson,
surveyed the site of the new depot
this week.
Claude Arnold is day foreman aud
Frank Negus night foreman at the
roundhouse. \ new machinist has
been appointed in the person OF
George Kline.
Engine 933 is rt ady for the shop.
Engineer II. Hodgdon is laying off.
Engineer Corning and Fireman Ar
mold have the transfer engine, 651.
On the door of one of the switch
mems shanties in the yards is writ
ten, Home, sweet home, for SALE"
A tight board fence has been erect
ed south of the tracks along the Gable
property near Twenty-eighth street.
Harry Peterson, formerly night
caller at the roundhouse here, is call
ing days at Hawthorn. David Fitz-
gerald takes his place.
John ii. Waddell. a veteran eDgi-
neer on the southwestern division of
the Rock Island road. died Thursday
of dropsy at his home in Trenton,
Mo-, aged GO years. He had been
ailing several months. For a num-
Der of years he resided in Davenport
and was we'll known among the rail-
road men of this section. He is sur
vived by his widow and three chill
dren: Edward, who is an engineer
on the southwestern division; Mrs. A
ID. Madeira, of New York City, and
Mrs. o. Nj. Cloudas, of this city.
Burlington Briefs.
The improvements which have been
promised about the local roundhouse
will consist mainly of coal chutes or
possibly other apparatus for coaling
engines, a new system of larger water
pipes and new steam pipes. These
and other improvements are to cost
about $500.
Fireman Roy Schweer is on the
Galesburg freight in place of w. o.
Cloves, who has gone to Beardstown
to stay.
E. d. Hoffman is a new fireman
who has Just come from Beardstown.
He is on Moline switch engine.
Engineer James Carrick has gone
to Beardstown to arrange for the re-
moval of his family here.
w. c. Brunswig, of the roundhouse
force, is sick
The bumpers at the end of the stub
tracks in the yards have not proved
entirely successful. One of them has
been broken up by heavy strings of
coal cars and has been succeeded by a
pile Ct ties.
Switchman a. Kost had q finger
mashed in the Moline yards last week.
Fought for His Life.