The bee., 1901-04-04
LOCOMOTIVE: i::'''i:iiii.Iii' BLASTS. J S.,

Arrangements have been made for
telegraph Office TO be put in at an
early date in the freight depot at
this place.
Rumor says all plans and specifl-
cations for the improvements to be
mado at Henderson, have been APP
proved by President Smith, of the
l.. & N, and work will soon begin.
When rowdies co lgregate in ones
home or town, the law upholds you,
when you administer justice to them
by due punishment. So should the
law give the railroad companies the
right to protect their sober and
peacable passengers by putting the
drunkard and rowdy off the train,
no matter where it is, should he be-
come an offender.
Supervisors Edmund son and Davis
made business trip to Evansville
this week.
Two electric clock circuits have
recently been put in at Hopkinsville
and Henderson by the Western UD-
ion Telegraph Company. These
clocks are regulated daily by elec-
tricity, with government time at
Washington, DC
RumOr says that n party OF col
ored men In the employ of the Illi-
nois Central Central road was en-
route to Padueah, and when Central
City was reached, they were fright
ened from the train by members OF
the U. NJ. W., who took the darkeys
10 be non-union miners bound for
Hopkins CeuRty. It,remains, to be
seen whether hold up Of this kind
will be tolerated by the railroad
company.
Those who have desire 10 become
trespassers upon the railroad COM
pRny's property at this and other
points along this line, were taken by
surprise the other day when the
company had posted in many con-
spieuous places, large cards upon
which notice was given the tres
psssers that the law governing such
offenses would be rigidly enforced.
Flagman James McCully has SO
far recovered from bad case of the
mumps as to be able 10 again re-
sumo work.
Foreman Tom Edmundson, OF the
Madisonville section, has been Of
fered good position with the Rein
ecke Coal Company. They want
him to take charge of the electric
road down in the mine.
Section foreman Downey formerly
of the Mortons section, is now in
charge of n crew on the l. G. road.
Conductor Joe Robertson was
taken seriously i'll mt St. Louis last
Tuesday, and was taken to his homo
at Nashville. The violent return
of some rheumatic trouble is said to
be the cause of his sickness.
Conductor Lew Waltz seems to be
one of the regular men on the pas
senger trains now and everybody
comedies the fact that few. if any,
better posted men are in the employ
of the railroad company than he is.
When the number of trains run
and the ears handled are taken into
consideration. il is doubtful
whether there is another road in the
country that has SO few wrecks as
the Henderson division does, and it
Is seldom indeed that the wreckcr Is
ever called out.
Tie Illinois Central Railway yards
atHarahan, La, near New Orleans,
have been completed and opened for
operation. They are among the
most extensive in the country, rep
resontlng thirty seven miles OF track,
which will be increased during the
present year 10 about iifly miles.
A roundhouse 10 accommodate
twenty locomotives, II coaling plant
with capacity Of 1000 tons, also Il
water supply and hotel for railroad
employees, are located at the yards.
The total cost of the improvements
was $|O0,0OO,
Recent orders for fuelfrom South
ern railroads included 10000 tons for
the Louisville Il Nashville and co.
600 tons for the Texas IL Pacific, to
he delivered ut New Orleans. 1t is
stated that the demand for the pros
ent year will aggregate fully 100000
tons to be supplied railroads at New
Orleans, 250,000 tons Mt Mobile and
200,OOO tons ut Pensacola