The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-01-09
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r D. HarpoIe is put on the extra
force of conductors, having received his
promotion on Dec 31st- He will take
charge of either passenger or freight train
when called upon
IS. E. Busser, superintendent of Santa
Fee reading rooms. says that the extension
of reading rooms over the system is
continuous and that plans are now being
drawn for buildings at La Junta and also
at Ration, n. Nj.
&C. P. Marshall, for p years Santa
Fee foreman. has resumed work after two
months in Illinois. Next after Jonas
Stafford, of Dodge City, in continuous
service is Mr. Marshall, who has four sons
in the railway service.
Plans for the north and south Rock
Island road have been drawn. The road
VIII run from a point in Oklahoma to
Goodland, Kansas. This Information
comes from reliable source. It is not
by grapevine telegraph.
j. E. Hurley, Superintendent West
ern Grand Division of the Santa Fe, was
in the city, Saturday, on his way over u
tour of inspection over the Santa Fe lines.
He will 20 far Amarillo, Texas
G. + Aver. Division Superintendent,
accompanied him far as Newton.
w. E. johnson, who was in the en-
ploy of tine Santa Fee as Il switchnan, and
was sentenced by Judge Dixon in Novem-
Der, 1900, to the state penitentfary for
grand larceny, for term of not less than
two years nor more than four years, was
pardoned by the state board last Saturday.
La Junta Tribune.
The nerro r,orters who wear the Phil
man uniform have just organized them
selves into the CoIored Mems Railway
Mercantile league. The aim of the new
organization is to secure better salaries,
and ms nbers claim that the custom of
givir z tips is dying out and that the
wages now paid porters are based on the
system of liberal gratuiries which was
in vogue several years ago.
A locomotive of the vanderbilt
pattern at the station Tuesday night
and was sent west yesterday morning.
for use in the mountain service of the
Santa Fe. The engine is triple com
pound, with five driving wheels on the
side. five feet high. Ie weighs 225
tons, more than double of the weight of
the ordinarily large engines. If these
monster engines are euccess the Santa
Fee will order 40 more of them.
Tho big engine pulled out of this
station yeste rslay morning for La Junta.
with rs cars mostly loaded with a tonnage
of more than 1000. j. a. Corey was con-
ductor of the train. Engineer Nudge
aud fireman katcbam on engine. This
engine uses &c, 900 gallons of water in am
ordinary day s Iun. Yesterday morning
there was 23O pounds CT steam. The
train was so long and required many
minutes to pass a given point Should
these trains be kept up it will be neces
sary to use Marconi wireless telegraphy
between conductor and engineer
1t is reported that the Santa Fe
officials are con graduating themselves on
the remarkable increase in gross earnings
of the last five months which amounts to
10 per cent. The gross increase is suffi-
cient to pay the fixed charges of the
company for an entire year, and 1t makes
certain the betterinents which the officials
had planned. During the same period
the ratio of operating expenses has de-
creased slightly and larger decrease is
looked for.-La Junta Tribune.
-Eldorado Republican: It REQUIRES
twenty new ties every minute, or one tie
every three seconds, of every working
hour of every day in the year, to keep
Tue odtiAst { runway tiaCh III lO0i- ne
road is 5000 miles long. It takes 1000
ties TO the mile. The life of a tie is six
years, SO it takes % ,4OO, 900 new ties to
take the places of the old ones, every six
years, 300. 0CO every year. O.6S4
every twenty four hours. 403 every hour,
or s. ties every minute. Figuring work
ing day at eight hours, the Santa Fe
company must put down new tie every
three seconds of every working hour of
every day in the year to maintain its
track. Figuring tie at zoe it costs the
road 81 minute of every hour, of every
day in the year TO buy railway crossties.
not counting the expense of taking out
the old and putting in the new ones.
Gun repairing, etc.. key filing and all
kinds of repairing at the Novelty Works,