Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-12
Roads Arranging for Protection
at First Avenue Cross
ings.
so SAYS MR.. GABLE, OF PEORIA
General Gossip Picked Up at the
Depots OF the
Town.

| the three interested roads as TO the
nature of the interloclling crossing tn
lbeinstalled where the Burlington and
d., X. /. e. y. w. tracks cross the
Peoria tracks at that point will carry
with il an arrangement for gates to
protect the public both at the East
Seventeenth and Eighteenth street
crossings.
The peculiar conditions presented
by the nature and angle of the
tracks render the arrangement of a
plan acceptable to all interests "A
matter of considerable difficulty. One
arrangement has been submitted and
rejected and another is now under
consideration. Mr.. Cable stated pos
itively that the Waterman ON duty at
East Seventeenth street had been
placed there only as a temporary eX-
pedient.
| Rock Islands New Timetable.
| The new timetable that goes into
is generally thought to be the best
especially so far as Chicago service
is concerned. that the road has ever
had. There will he eight trains 10
and from Chicago daily except sun
day. and the number of Sunday trains
will be the same as in the past. The
two new trains that will go on will
he Nos. 20 and 80 and will carry
| through sleepers, tourist and Pull
man cars and dining car service from
| Chicago TO San Francisco via the new
southwest divisions. No. 80 going
east will leave this city at 6 p. m..
arriving in Chicago at 10:l0. No. 80
returning will leave Chicago at $40
n. m. arriving in Rock Island at 1920
p. IN. The first named train will carry
dining ear service and one can board
| the train here after business hours.
| take supper on the road and arrive
| in Chicago at bedtime. This will I'M
doubleday have the effect of reducing
the patronage of the special sleeper
from the tri-cities to Chicago till it
will I've found advisable to do away
with the service and depend upon the
sleeper regularly brought in from the
southwest and going east at mid
night. For the present. however. the
special sleeper will be kept.
There will he several minor changes
in time. made necessary by the addi-
ton of the new trains. One of the
most important will be that of No.
II. which has been due here from
Omaha at GAO p. IN. Hereafter il will
arrive at 5:45, or in time to meet with
No. so. and its run will terminate
here. The new trains will be daily
and Nos. Is and 16. which have been
daily, will be made daily except sun
day.
e.. IL. q o. Notes.
Conductor j. Sheehan has been Civ
en- vacation on account of sickness.
IL. Cross and ID. Mccarthy are fill
ing the places of Conductors Heffner
and Barber, who are visiting in
Texas.
j. Weber, foreman of the night
switch crew, is taking II short lay off
to regain lost health.
Fireman o. w. Conyers has report
ed for duty on 914.
Engineer o. w. Porter is running a
switch engine temporarily.
The family of II. w. Crawford, di-
vision freight agent of the Burling
ton, arrived from Cincinnati during
the week and will soon be domiciled
at Fifth avenue and Eighteenth
street.
G.. j. Dempsey, foreman of the To-
cal roundhouse. has sufficiently re-
covered from the injury sustained to
his foot i'm stepping off n curbing sew
eral weeks ago to devote some time
to his duties. He still travels on
crutches.
Fireman +. 5. Lewis, who has been
at Barstow under quarantine with
smallpox. has reported for duty and
resumed his run on the Fulton and
Sterling local.
The Burlington railway system has
5000 miles of road through the west.
extending from the Great Lakes to
the Rocky and Big Horn mountains,
and doing business in eleven states,
Illinois, Wisconsin. Missouri, Iowa, Ne
braska, Kansas, Wyoming. Colorado,
Minnesota, Montana and South Da-
kota Of it's $500 miles 5000 are main
line and BIO are branch lines. The
system has $4,000 employees, and runs
through 1900 cities and towns. If
the $500 miles were i'm one continuous
main line, il would take Il passenger
six days and twenty hours at more
than fifty miles an hour to cover the
road, and he would have travelled
more than one-third around the
globe. More than 100000 passenger
trains are run on these lines each
year.
Rock Island Ratings
Engineer w. johnson is off on sick
leave.
Fireman G. f. Taylor has reported
for duty after short period of sick
ness.
Fireman 4. p. Engle is taking
weeks leave until his engine comes
out of the repair shop.
Fireman w. McCarty is taking a lay
off. G. McQuaid is filling his place.
Engineer J. Schofield is running on
476 temporarily.
Engineer F. Shannon has recovered