Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-09
ROADSIN ONE HOME
RemodeIed Freight House at Foot
of Seventeenth Street
a Beauty.
MILWAUKEE, TO MOVE TOMORROW
Building 100 Feet in Length-Per-
sonnet of.Force-Track
Talk.

Hammer and saw and paint and
brush were busy today preparing the
remodeled D., II. l. & y. w. freight
Office for the occupation of the build
ing by the merged Milwaukee and
Northwestern freight forces tomor-
row. \ number of the details will
probably be incomplete, but the
abandonment of tn. old shack so
long occupied by the Milwaukee
forces is bound TO take place on
schedule time.
Neat as the exterior of the new
building is with its veneer of pressed
brick. the interior is something of n
surprise when viewed for the first
time. About 81 feet at the east end
of the house has been Partitioned off
for offices and neatly and even Gle
gantly finished. The walls and cell
ings are sealed with light hard pine
in the natural finish. and the floors
are of maple. The partitions match
the walls.
Neat New Interior Arrangement
The public entrance is at the south
east corner and the corridor extends
along the south side. The main office
room is fitted with a high desk along
the south side and partitioned off
with glass. The office of the agent
is located in the northeast corner,
and is reached by n narrow passage
way along the east side of the room.
Opening from the northwest corner
of the main room is the recos ' and
supply room. and the check clerk
office is at the southwest corner with
windows opening both into the
freight room and the public corridor.
y toilet room is reached through the
freight room. All the furniture is
new.
The entire building is 16O feet in
length, and the main platform at the
west end so feet long. Added to this
is narrow platform running 200 feet
further. Tracks run along the north
side of the freight house and the
main platform and on both sides of
the narrow platform. Teams in or
der to reach the building will cross
the tracks at Seventeenth street and
pass north of the passenger station,
loading and unloading at the south
side of the house. The grounds have
been heavily cindered.
The Office Force.
The personnel of the force WHICH
Will take possession of the building
tomorrow will be practically that of
the present Milwaukee force. with
). Il. Stoddard as agent. In the
office there will be L. c. Merrill.
cashier: +. y. Hill. rate clerk; +. 4.
Thomas, bill clerk, and Laverne
Kinds. car accountant. In the freight
house j. J.. Price will be foreman,
Harry Eagle receiving clerk and the
force of trucllmen Will be composed
of Fred Mosher. Charles Gilman,
julius Hartz, George HoIlowpeter,
and John Collins. Herman Nichols
will be night baggagcman, truckman
and janftOr.
All the business will henceforth be
transacted under the name of the d..
Il. |. &, y. W.. and separate accounts
will he kept for the two roads. The
switching. which has been done at
the Twentieth street depot by Rock
Island engines, will from this time
ON be done by the Northwestern.
In the spring. it is presumed, the
grounds about the passenger station
VIII ne DedudiliSu anu al DiiSh P"'S
ment laid.
Van CIute Appointed.
Van Il. Van Clute, connected with
the C.. ID. Il Q. railway since 1878. has
been appointed as permanent chief
train dispatcher for that road at
Galesburg, TO have charge of the car
distribution and the entire telegraph
service of the q. for the Galesburg di-
vision. Mr.. Van Clute succeeds III. NJ.
Tompllins, who was placed tcmporar-
lily in the position. Mr.. Tompkins re-
shines mis- former position as dis
patcher on the main line wire.