The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-03-01
RAILROAD SPIKES.

clarence Neville IS night man at the
Burlington station.
Dispatcher G. F. Smith went to To-
peka Wednesday night.
A train-load Of oranges went east by
special train Wednesday
Ben Mills has returned from a visit
TO his old home in Tiskilwa, III.
Ed Harding, of BellevilIe, travelling
freight agent, was in GOOdland Tues
day
Engine 466 is undergoing a thorough
overhaul and will soon be out of the
shops.
George Wilson, a machinist, has re-
signed and has gone elsewhere to seek
employment.
Eight cars of bacon billed from Chi
cagO to the Philippines went west on
81 Wednesday.
Conductor III. II. Barsby and wife re-
turned from visit 70 Denver on No.
10 Tuesday night.
Brakeman Frank Gum returned
Tuesday from a weeks vacation which
be spent In Pueblo.
Station Agent Harold Neville, of
Burlington, Col, has taken a months
leave of absence and has gone to Kan
sas City.
H. W. Daub, of Topeka, superintend-
ent of water service, was looking after
matters in his department at this place
Tuesday.
The dispatchers announce a ball at
GOOdland for Easter Monday. That is
a great town for railroad dances
Phillipsburg News.
d. P. Bailey was in Goodland We'd
nesday. He is now located in Denver,
Col, but was formerly station agent
here, and later in the mercantile bust
ness at Dresden.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emerson Roush left
Monday for GoOdland where they will
make their future home Mr. Roush is
in the employ of the Rock Island rail-
road--PhilliPsburg Dispatch.
General Roadmaster Dawson came
in on 81 Tuesday night in special car
200 and IN company with ROadmaster
Lane went west on No. 9 to Colorado
Springs Wednesday morning on a tour
Of inspection.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Robertson are
again residents of GOodland, having
arrived from Denver Wednesday, Mr..
Robertson, who is a fireman, has been
transferred from the Limon-Denver
rim to a run out Of GOodland.
Jack Neville, formerly of the car de-
partment at this place, but now of
Pueblo, was in town Tuesday enrOute
to Kansas City for vacation. He is
With the Rio Grande at Pueblo, having
left GOodland three years ago.
Engineer G. E. Biddison has invented
a steam chest and valve that will eco
nomize one-fifth of the energy of steam
I froa 70 h IL,
the cylinder, and thereby make large
! saving of fuel and water. He will have
it perfected soon when The REPUBLIC
will give the details.
Nose Matheny has a job in the water
service department of the Rock Island
on the new line being built out of
Liberal, Kan. His friends in Goodland
are glad to learn of his success in Sc
curing a position, as all know he is
we'll up in all that pertains to putting
down wells, pumping, etc.
There is only one train in the coun-
try that exceeds 30 miles an hour in
speed for 100 miles run. and that is the
Empire State Express" Public Led
ger, Philadelphia. The Ledger might
have added that this great train aver
ages 0315 miles per hour for the entire
distance from New York to Buffalo, 40
miles, including four stops and % slow
downs; that it does this each business
day of the year. The attention. which
the Empire State Express has attract
ed in every country of the world has
proved one of the greatest advertise
ments for American machinery and
Americans methods that has ever been
put forth, and that the New York Cen
trail Il Hudson River Railroad company
is entitled to the thanks of not Ouly
the entire state of New York, but of
every person in the United States from
one end of the land to the other for
placing before the world an object les
son without an equal.-Syracuse Post
Standard.