Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-07-27
NEWS OF THE RAILROADS.

|
| cepted position as ticket seller ia the
Union station ticket Office. Portland
| The Boston & Maine railroad has an
nounced its purpose 10 give all the en-
| ployes of the Concord car shops Sat
| urday half holiday with full pay from
| Saturday next up to and Including Sat
urday. Sept. 18th.
| The motive power of the Fitchburg
I division Of the Boston 4 Maine rail
! road is worrying the officials owing Ia
| much needed repairs which the present
| facilities OF the road DO not permit ~
making. There is a shortage Of avail
| able power in locomotives.
The floor az the Portland Railroad
| company's old ear barn recently dam
| aged by fire, is being boarded over.
| The building will not be rebuilt. but
viii simply b. put III condition FOR us.
until the new ear barn. further up on
| st. John street, is finished.
| Tho management Of the Portland
| Railroad company is having 4 tower
! built III the car barn at kniShtNill".
On the top " which viii Dc placed a
| tank with 4 holding capacity az l.euo
| gallons to furnish water for tho au-
| tnmatic sprinkler that can b. nut NJ
| in the barn for use Ill ease NJ fire.
Ex-Alderman y. +. Berry of Port
| land, who has been ~ the employment
az the Grand Trunk railway system fur
| almost forty years as clerk in the
fuel and stores department.; has ten
! dcred his resignation anu viii retire
| from active business. IT, has a fine
farm in Denmark. whcrc he expects tu
| spend his summers.
! carefully Inquired estimates of the
! earnings pcr year OF wooden and styc!
! cars gives single steel car. IN ac-
| count of its lighter weight ami larger
| capacity. AN advantage IT >3f.5p. There
/ being somewhere near sol. 900 wooden
cars in service in the country there
! would be an assregdt" yearly saving
! % Sal. $50 900 if steel cars We're used.
! Another estimate. taking the capacity
/ of the cars as a starting point. gives a
result of Sli1 100000 saved. There are
now about 50.oo0 pressed steel ears in
use. and the first one was ma IL only
| four years ago.
Ii is a remarka bic thing ana some
thing that speaks we'll for Portland
| this city. that yet. 80 far as known,
! there has not been an article stolen
! from anybody at the station. This is
| certainly remarkable from the fact
| that every day several thousand pro-
| pie go through the station. wait for
| trains there etc, and during the rush
! es. which occur every morning. noon
ana night. ana more particularly at
. i
! crowded together in the station. giving
/ pickpockets an ideal opportunity t. get
! in their work. There are several very
efficient police officers on duty at the
station. and this has a great deal to
| do with the shynesS Of the light fin
gered gentry.-Portland Express.
| New rules recently issued by the Off
cials of the Boston and Maine which
| have been recently received by the
! railroad employees are very strict, and
few patrons of this big railroad sys-
tenn realize just how strict the road is
| with its men and all for the safety.
first of its passengers and second of
the roads property. The employees will
be held responsible if the new rules are
not carried out to the letter. So i'm
, portant are these changes in the rules
that all the employees on this division
, have been instructed to restroy all
rules and regulations. both special and
general. Conductors are now obliged
to keep sort of diary of all events
of important interest to the road. Full
details are called for in this work and
the result, according to railroad Off
Gals. is collection of Information that
generally proves of inestimabe value
to the road in regard to caring for ana
accommodating the passengers. Wit
nesses are called for when condpc-
tor is obliged to eject passenger from
the train and these witnesses who give
their names must not be in any man
ner connected with the road. One old
rule of the road that has not. until very
recently, been enforced is that OF pro-
hibiting passengers from putting their
feet upon the seat cushions. Travelling
men are apt to smile cynically when
ever they come across the following
rule laid down at the bagga gemen.