The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-05-08

Delhart, Texas, where he will be ern-
pIoped as check clerk in the Rock Island
office. He has good place.
Within the last few years new
character in railway service has come in
to prominent existence and that is the
electrician. Electric headlights, electric
lighting car systems and electric power
in the shops have all combined to develop
a broad field for his employ ent. Some
lines have already created the office of
chief electrician and the day is not far
distant when his position will be as i'm
portant in regular railway service as that
of the chief engineer or master mechanic
1t will not be long till we will hear of
the National Association of Railway
Chief Electricians, the Master Mechanics
Association and the Master Car Builders
holding their conventions together every
year. Watch the progress of the railway
electrician Hallway Journal
The report that the Santa Fe is having
one hundred and twenty-three locomo-
tives built at present indicates that the
company has boundless faith in the bust
| ness future of the great West"and South
west, where it traverses. As railway en-
gfnes are built at present, that means
| wonderful amount of motive power
which has TO be justified by great traffic.
The west is no longer speculative factor
in the productive element of the CONNER
cial world. and can be relied upon for in
creased volumes of business each recurr-
| ing season. This is the largest mum Der
of locomotives ever ordered by any one
granger line within short space of
time in the history of American railroad
ing.-Railway Journal.
1t is announced that the contract of the
fla
ing the naval forces of the United States
and their baggage aud equipment from
stations on one side of the continent to
! the other has been awarded to the
Rock Island. Among the middle west
ern roads which have lines extending to
the Rocky mountains the competition
was lively. To make the complete route
between the Atlantic and the Pacific
coasts the contract this year includes the
| Rock Island, the Denver & Rio Grande
and Southern Pacific in the west and the
| Chesapeake & Ohio and Big Four con-
| nections east of Chicago. The contract
| for moving naval and land forces of the
government across the continent has
grown stree the beginning of the war
| with Spain to much larger proportions
than il ever reached before that time.
"A BATH FOR EACH PASSENGER. A
Wady Halfa to Khartoum on the narrow
gauge line. The sleepiug cars are almost
8 feet wide and are carried Oh bogies;
the omodation is very fine, each travel
err having a compartment to himself with
bed, arm chair and writing table in it,
In the morning the train stops about
O'Clock at a station where there are hot
and cold baths provided for each passen-
ger. While the bath is being enjoyed
attendants enter the ears and clean them
up, making the bed and arranging the
compartment so that on the return it is
clean there is also first class restau1 ant
car attached in which the meals are
served in good style. The blinds are
dust proof and in each compartment IS
an electric fan. The only engineering
work of any moment the line is the
Atbara bridge. and the engines are
powerful and heavy. The speed is about
twenty miles an hour, which is pretty
good for a narrow-gauge line.
The police were notified by Conductor
Hackett on Santa Fe train No. ,, which
passed through Topeka about 3 80 Tues
day morning, that lady passenger by the
name of Miss Emma Winters, had been
fleeced of nearly a thousand dollars by
stranger who left the train at Topeka
He had made himself agreeable to the
lady. and borrowed some money of her
to release freight which he alleged
held at the Topeka depot. She gave him
her pocketbook containing check on the
National bank of Wichita for 1891 and
800 in gold. It was very clumsy trick,
and it seems incredible that any one
could be caught with it. She did not
miss her t'friend'' until she reached Hol-
liday. when she Informed the conductor
of her loss, and he wired the police.
Miss Winters gave very poor descrip-
ton of the man who victimized her, and
could only tell that he was smooth
shaven and about 10 years of age. She
did not even know his name. and must be
afflicted with a very trusting nature
Topeka Journal.
Don't Start Wrong.