Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-25
ANOTHER engine ON
Local Yards of Rock Island Road
Busy Place Just
Now.
STILL coNT1NUG
Placing Roof on New Office Build
Ing on Fifth Ave-
nue..

ON by the ROCK ISlanu ON IlllS size OF
the river, making nine in all that are
being worked here. In Davenport
there are eight in all. Business is
good and there is much activity in
the local yards and the local round
house. Nearly twice as many engines
are now being handled in this city as
at Natick.
Added to an unusually large vol
ume of regular business for this time
of the wear there is being brought
this wav a great deal of stock from
off the b.. {. r. q y. Formerly the
live stock shipped from the fertile
stock raising country tapped by the
r.. c. II. g. y. was shipped to Chicago
via the Northwestern road, but re-
Gently an order has gone into effect
brinGinu if all over the main line of
+be Rock Island. This forms no mean
factor in the increased traffic that is
now being felt.
Notes at the Rock Island.
The roof iss being laid On the new
baggage. express and office building
connected with the Rock Island de
pot. The baggage room will be ready
for use the first of the week. The
other parts of the building will not
be finished before cold weather.
The promotion of firemen To engin-
GERS still goes on. During the week
Firemen Dillon, Nolan, Nynes, Nc
Ouaid and Calhoun have been set up
TO duty on switch engines and en-
zines 473. 912, GA and 916 are in con-
sequence without regularly assigned
firemen.
Firemen Gcisenhagen and Nelson
have been assigned to extra Passen-
ger service, the former being on the
11OG.
Engineer p Slattery is now run
ming the SOL pulling the work train
engaged in fixing up the track be
tween Davenport and Carbon Cliff
Engineer Silas Sprague has report
ed after an absence and resumed his
Place on the 1872.
Engine AIS has been sent to the Chi
cago shops for Il general overhaul
Ing.
Fireman Hand is running on the -
in place of Harry McGee, who is lay
ing of.
Joe McQuaid and Fireman Lak.r
have gone to Chicago for few days.
Engineer Schofield has been on the
11O7 in place of Engineer j. Smith,
who has been absent from duty.
Among the assignments made dur
ING the week are: Fireman Tromer,
to the 11O7; Fireman Reed. to the A.;
Engineers i. Corning and G. Arnold
TO the Illinois local; Engineer Ollie
Conyers, tn the half and half; En-
a. no
Pierce. to the ~; Engineer Rahm, to
the GO; Harry Wright, To fire on the
916, and Fireman Nelson, to the 9l2.
New Line to st Louis.
There is every indication that th~
Rock Island will have a line from Chr
cago to St. Louis before the opening
of the Louisiana Purchase exposition.
Eighteen surveyors are III Macoupin
county, ILL.,. making the surveys for
the company. They struck the coun-
~ at the northeast corner. near Al
water, and will miss Carlinville. ac-
cording to the line now surveyed, by
about six miles. The line runs as
straight as line can be drawn from
Morris. ILL.,. to East St. Louis, and the
engineers in charge say they are fol
lowing the line. 1t passes through
the counties of Livingston, Mclean,
Dewitt, Logan, Sangamon, Montgom-
cry. and strikes the townships of
Shaw's Point, Honey Point, Gillespie.
Dorchester and Staunton, running
through Madison county to East st.
Louis. No important cities are
touched except Bloomington. Carlin-
Vile, Litcafield. Springfield and Alton
are missed. The engineers say they
have orders to make the survey to
East ST. Louis. Springfield is making
an effort to he included on the pro-
posed line. The Register of that city
is leading the agitation, pointing ont
that the road would be great gamer
by the patronage it would receive
from the capital.
other Gossip
The site of the old Milwaukee dc
pot ON Twentieth street has at last
been filled and made presentable with
covering of cinders.
new time record was established
on the Rock Island road the other
morning for Il short distance run by
Engineer Fred schultz on train No.
40. the flyer to Chicago. The run
from Stuart TO Valley Junction.
distance of 81 miles, was made in y
minutes. The run has frequently
been made in 80 and 30 minutes, but
this is the first time that the 81 notch
has been reached. This rate OF speed
is nearly IS miles an hour.
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