Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-10-05
ON MASONRY WORK
Contractor C. j.. larkin Begins
Operations on Rock Island
Depot.
HAWTHORN HOME TO OPEN NOV.
Large Patronage From Start is
Assured.-Notes of the
Railways.

Work on the new Fifth avanue pas
senger station has been begun by e
J. Larkin. who has the su 1-contrac
for the masonry work Sufficien
msterial is on the ground TO keep ,
considerable force busy for some
time. The OH brick from the round.
house that was demolished Will be
used for the interior of the walls
IL is now stated that the Y M c,
A building at Hawthorn will not b.
ready for occupancy before Nov. l.
Considerable interior work remains
to be done. The floor # hard maple
is now being laid The exterior has
been painted deep ed and the trim
mings will be green giving the colors
CT the Rock Island road Secretary
Flu Ter is meeting with much encour-
SEGMENT among the men in his can
vuss for mem bers and the PATRONS e
will be large from the start The
opening will be celebrated with a
j lbiiee to which the officials of the
road will be invited. The books for
the Morris Rosenfeld memorial Ii
brary have been ordered.
Rock Island Gossip.
Engineer w. McElrath has COM
pleted the removal of his family and
household goods from Valley juno
ton to Moline.
Fireman ID. Allen is away on visit
to LaSalle
Fireman c Reed, who has been on
passenger duty.is back on the 1414
E"gine 1913 is on passenger while
the 1905 is in the shops The 1887 is
in the Davenport shops.
The engines just out OF the shops
are the 1910 with q new coat of
p .int. the 1889 that was in the Dav
export shops. $40 tina. was at chi
cago aud the 45S that was repaired NJ
Davenport to be sent ou5 TO the Z. X.
q n division.
Engineer w CLARK is sick and w.
McCarty has the 653
Engineers ii Pratt and A Rough
aad fireman Kofer arc of resting
Engineer L Robinson, who has
been away on account of illness in
the family, has reported.
b. D4ug herty- the night ticket agent
a. the Fifth avenue station has sulli
GENTLY recovered from his illuess
go to his home in Iowa to recuper-
ate
. r. Conyers has been given the
A in the Davenport yards.
l. Snyder ha- been elevated from
the roundhouse force in this city to
Teman
Engineer Silas Sprague is sick and
G Nelso is running his engine.
Engineer w A Porter has his old
engine the I7S
Burlington BrIefs.
Engineer John Dean is off duty aud
b As gone with his family for a visit in
Beardstown. In the meantime George
Battles has the Iowa local.
Fred Bruins Wig. who was hurt at the
last week, is ba k on
duty.
b ,ilerm aker j Mcdonald has ne
to Beardstown to visit over Sunday
Yardpaster Hardy Hotter is off for
a vacation AID in tue meantime
Switchman Curtin is acting in his
place
Switchman w. A Darling is back
on duty after his wedding tour.
Peoria Points
Beginning this week the night work
train was taken off for the remainder
of the season. This put Engineer A.
on switch duty.
Engineer Park is sick. In the
meantime his engine is being repaired
at Peoria.
Toe crossing over the tracks at the
foot of Twelfth street has been placed
in condition as requested by the
mayor early in the summer and now
a fill is being made by the ID Il | X
n w. to provide an approach to the
river.
ID, RI. & n. w. improvements
General Manager L L. Potter. Of
the ID K 1. & N W., stated today
that his road will lind it im-
possible to take any steps toward the
remodeling of the freight depot on
the levee or of any track improve
ment west along the river bank till
the proceedings brought by the prop
eTty owners on First avenue against
the road shall have been finally dis
posed of. OF course this means that
nothing will be done this year at
least.
A Milwaukee switch engine is now
doing duty on the d. Z. IL N. W.,
in place of one of the latter's en-
gines which is out of order. 1t is
stated that the use of the engine is
paid for so the circumstance may
not be taken as any indication of a
further loss of the D., x. l. & n. w.
roads identity.