Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-31
WILL BUILD DEPOT
Assurance From Rock IsIasd
Road of Erection of Freight
House This Year.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH FORMER PLAN
Street Yard to Be Re
arranged and Driveways Per-
manently Improved.

the Rock Island road will during the
coming. summer build the freight de-
pot previously promised and for
which plans have been in existence
for some time. 1t is not announced
whether it will be located adjacent to
the passenger station at the north
end of Twentieth street or at some
point further south, but probably it
VIII be placed somewhere near the
site of the old building formerly oc-
cupied by the Milwaukee road.
The new building will be large
enough to accommodate the entire
local business of the company and
will be of modern construction,
credit to an at present unsightly
neighborhood.
Yards to BE RearranRed.
With the erection of the new freight
house there will be general retrack-
ing of the yards east of Twentieth
street. The tracks that now wind
about in haphazard fashion will be
and economically ar
ranged.
1t is also announced that the com
pany intends making extensive inn
provements in the roadways about
the yards. The grounds Immediately
about the depot will be paved. as will
also the more important driveways,
especially that extending two blocks
or more east north of the row of
buildings used for the storage of
coal. sand. lime, etc, lining the north
side of Second avenue.
Rock Island Track Talk.
4
yesterday afternoon bearing a party
of Pennsylvania officials bound for
the southwest. and going as far as FL
Paso on the Rock Island.
Instruments for the Union Electric
Telephone & Telegraph company have
been installed at the local and the
Natick roundhouses. They are not in
use elsewhere in the local railway Of
fees.
Fireman j. NJ. McQuaid is in Des
Moines as chairman of the grievance
committee of the local b. of l.. +.
Fireman Scott has been assigned to
the 449 at Burr Oak. Fireman Savage
has been assigned to the 800 on the
Sherrard local. The 300 is now in the
Peoria shops being repaired.
Fireman Dolph. who was doing
switch duty. has been put on the road
ON the 47s.
Firemen Slayton and ID. Beveridge
are chaIked up sick.
\ party of Rock Island officials ar
rived in the city last evening after a
tour of the southwest division. 1t
was composed of General Manager {.
\. Goodnow, General Supt. Slifer and
Division Supt. Melcher. During the
evening the officials visited the new
Fifth avenue passenger station. This
they went early to Daven-
port, passing through the city en-
route for Chicago at 1880.
a new sign was placed in front of
the city ticket Office this morning.
Briefs of the Burlington.
William Hartnady has resigned his
run as passenger brakeman and goes
to Beardstown to take freight run.
The vacancy will be filed by the re-
turn to the city of J. +. Liscom, who
for the past year has been in business
at Fulton, to take the position of
brakeman on Conductor +. NJ. Lis
CONS run.
The clock in the tower of the Twen-
tieth street station still refuses to
run continuously and in good time
and it has just been given thorough
overhauling by the experts.
w. Il. Flagle, one of the newly APP
pointed auditors on the road, paid his
first official visit to the city yester
day.
A. c. DalIach. secretary to the traf-
fic manager of the Burlington road,
spent today in the tri-cities.
Milwaukee Tips.
G.. II. Morrison. superintendent of
the Racine division Of the Milwaukee
road. was in the city yesterday look
ing after affairs here.
Neglected colds make fat grave