The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-07-12
RAILROAD SPIKES.


and gone to Denver.
i Brakeman George Schigner has re
turned from Wisconsin.
Roadmaster Lane, Of Phillipsburg
was in town Wednesday.
Frank Brumfeld, of the car repsirers
department, is laid up with lame feet
Machinist Jesse Prothero now Ia.
charge Of the erecting work in the
shops.
Roy WiehaeI, Of the depot force, is
/ laying OF and Fred Hays Is working ir
his place.
C.L. Gillespie, a life insurance So
! licitOr, was canvassing among railroad
men this week.
No. 9 was run in three sections Wed
nesday and yesterday No. > was run in
three sections.
Passenger Conductor Angus Miller
was here Monday TO look after his pro-
perty interests
Eleven passenger trains passed
through GOOdland Wednesday from
2:15 a. N. TO eight p. N.
Operator J. n. Robson has been
transferred from GOOdland to Selden
where he is night operator.
Mashinist Jesse Prothero and Boiler
maker Ted Griffin returned from a
visit in Trenton, No, Wednesday.
No. Al was two hours late Wednes-
day. The train was composed Of eight
coaches and had 2l5 passengers aboard.
Engineer Daily and Fireman Dinley
were here from the LimOn-Denver run
this week for repairs for their engine.
Jesse Hillman now has the planer
regular. He displays great mechani-
cal ingenuity aud will e'er long be
foreman.
Trainmaster Boyle is a very busy
man these days. The heavy passenger
traffic calls for good deal Of his time
on the road.
Engine 468, Engineer Barlow, Of the
Roswell Pueblo run, brought in the
| first section Of No. 10 Wednesday owing
to a shortage Of locomotives at ROs-
we'll
Train crews are being doubled back
and all extra men are running full
time. The Rock Island and all the
other roads are having all the west
bound travel they can handle.
Engineer Jim Boyle made 567 miles
/ from Saturday night TO Sunday night
without getting off his engine except to
JEFF Powers, was in the same boat.
Daniel Hotchkiss, age %, a machinist
| died suddenly at Horton, Wednesday
July 3. of rupture Of the bowels Mr.
! HOtchkiss worked at his trade here In
I the GOOdland shops a short time ago
c. NJ. Lawshae, Rock Island agent at
Norton, has been promoted and viii
now serve as travelling freight agent
/ He succeeds i. Harding, Of BelleyIlle
/ who becomes chief clerk IN the general
| freight Office IN Topeka.
The Epworth League excursion is
/ keeping the road hot. There were
| three sections Of No. 9 Tuesday morn
/ ing and the Depot hotel fed 800 pas
| sengers of the two last sections. The
| hot weather east has swelied this exc.
dus considerably.
| A simple device has been put into
] practice in the United States for truiDg
\ up railway carriage wheels, and IL Is
| said to have been attended with con.
| siderable success. 1t consists Of q
| brake shoe, which is formed with pOck
cts filled with a grinding material
/ When the wheel becomes fiattened il is
/ necessary only to remove the regular
shoe and replace it with the truinG
shoe, run the carriage aud do the brak
/ ing as usual.
For some years the various railroad
/ companies have been endeavoring 70
! secure rails of a harder quality, the
! heavy modern locomotives and steel
cars frequently breaking down the Ordi-
nary rail. For several years the Ameri-
/ can Society Of Civil Engineers has been
I investigating the resistance strength
/ Of steel rails, and the tests made by this
/ body have fully demonstrated the fact
! that the sOftness in steel rails is due to
| the method Of rolling rather than to
ally defect in the composition Of the
! steel.
The other day a Kansas boy went to
a railroad town to take a job. The
I local paper said be had accepted a
/ position with the road, aud had "selec-
/ TED the department leading to the 20
/ sition of locomotive engineer" IL
/ sounds a great deal better, of course
/ to say be selected the department
/ leading to locomotive engineer" than
/ to put it bluntly and explain that be
took a job scratching pans OF working
as wiper; yet many engineers started
| that way, and none Of them are asham-
| ed Of it the least bit In the world.