Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-12-10

soAOushOoNA -ANO~SOe
Bert cochren Is making a. business
trip to eastern Nebraska -,
Richard Roush Is q new dining car.
He takes the place Of Lew MCPHERSON.
John Harper Is firing the heater
boiler while Dave Stapp Is gone to
Oklshoms. ..,..a
Some Of the day car men have been
getting In . little over time lately. by
shoyeling cInders from the pit at
night.
Nos now sets out q chair car here,
which, in addition to the. mail and
baggage csr.that lies over here will
probably make q day job for one car
cleaner. '. ,;"-,'%
Now that all the Office work will be
done In the round house, telephone
calls will probably be more promptly
answered, as some one will usually be
In hearing OF the bell H.
The prevailing fashion Of consollda;
tion In the railroad world has struck
PhilllpsbHrR and the foreman's and
clerks Offices have been merged ;and
are now located 10 the round house 10
what was formerly the foreman'S
Office.
Two new tracks in the yard here will
be of great benefit, and will perhaps,
prevent some OF the blockadeS that
have been SoireQuent ofllate. One OF the
now trscksI Is located between tracks
three and four and the other between
four and aye, The one between four
and i've wllhcrowd the car repairerS
not A'little-ocrs task fos,<I.a ~
o:Tha engines 10 the 1900 series Of
numbers sreInow ;rupninR into Phil
lipsbnrg. About half dozen OF them
have been In, They are the largest
machines the Rock Island has thus
far brought this far west. They have
eight drivers, four on each side, cylin-
derS 22xSO inches and are capable of
o1rnlnga whole mine Of COAL They
are rated to haul thirteen hundred
and thlrty.Hve tons between Fairbury
end PhilIipSburg. ), !
Quite q good deal Of the money
drawn BY engineers and fireman now
a-dayS comes to them under the lin
excess OF ten miles per hour" rule.
One crew was on the road thirty five
hours between Fairbury and Phillips
burg. and another one was eighteen
hours and ten minutes coming from
Lebanon to PhillipSburg BY, the
above named rule In these cases we
are three hundred and fifty miles
from Fslrbhry and one hundred and
eighty one miles from Lebanon. >
The following poems aptly describe
the "life" of a freight car that We
we insert 1t for the benefit Of the
readers OF Railroad Notes.
%. THE SONG OF THE FRE1aH OAR. d.
I'm bumped and battered freight car on side
.,o +, track 10 the yard;
sui resting resting gladly. for my lie is cIue
hard. go.
Andq seldom and an hour when I'm Idle or 8
Vor Tn uSuAiiy lsAded aud an mt upon the roam
rvs been Sbuhtsd In Seattle. I've been switches
In Boston town,
I've been stranded 10 St. LOuIS whore saw th'
- tram crow dswn.
I've been showed 10 up b. DenJef wss wrecked
OF Council B,uGs,
when the strike vas In Chicago twas stoned b
Iivlge rouyh'. T. Ft@t
rye Aauled luubsr in Wisconsin. have helped
!, Z more Kansas wheat;
IAavs eanped within the StOckyards tn they eJled
ne up With meat;
1 have brought green ga,ermeleus from the sun
nv sihny sOuth,
whils the dartls' ElIinE q nA'sAn to water al
the mouth
I Aav. runOisd DER The cO.ss Size on the Cali
; - fopalgShoFs. 49,. > ,.-,
have hauled the Lompoe mustard crop and San
- Ana ore.
1 have been frun Manitoba down 10 gsIagord'
ran = a.. t..,.,,,.,sA.A 18th. tonos,R.