Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-18
AS SILvIS
Railway Order to Drop Name
New Shops" From Off.
ciai Business.
DESIGNATION
Engines of 300 Glass Housed in Rock
Island-Yards Here Given to
Passenger Trains

The station near the Rock Island
shops known as New Shops. is hereaf-
ter TO be officially known as Silvis, and
to this effect general order was is
sued today by General Manager F. o.
Melchoir of the Rock Island. The or
der states that the station on the Illi-
nois division between Carbon Cliff and
East Moline. known as New Shops is
changed to SilviS. and will be opened
for passenger business only after Nov
26'
This is not only a better sounding
name for the station. but it is appropri-
ate. The man for whom it is named,
r. S. Silvis. was one of the chief pro-
moters of that locality as a railway
center and the company does well to
recognize him, not only in this respect,
but as bearing a name among the best
known and most honOred of the citizen
ship of the county.
Engines Housed Here.
The Rock Island engines of the 500
class. used in the fast passenger serv-
ice of the Rock Island. are to be hous-
GU at Ciic NUN lSldIlu lOuIlu UOuSt
The engines have been in the past stor
ed at the Naticll house. as the one in
Rock Island was much too small to
accommodate the moguls. The company
now has a large crew of men at work
rebuilding the local round house in or
der to accommodate the big engines, and
II stalls are being heightened. The
doors of the house were not large
enough to admit this class.
Abandonment of Nntick Complete.
Every change being made by the
Rock Island indicates the complete
abandonment of Natick as railway
center in the near future The freight
business is TO be handled entirely from
the Silvis yards, as the new order de
signateS them. and the passenger bus-
ness will be handled from Rock Island.
leaving Natick entirely out The west
bound freight business was handled
for the first time yesterday from the
new yards at Silvis instead of at Ma
tick Natick will be the terminal for
east bound business for perhaps an
other month, until the east bound
yards are completed. After that Natick
and Rock Island yards will be used
only for handling the bad order cars.
and repair business. The Rock Island
yards are to be abandoned entirely eX-
cept for making up passenger trains,
when the new yards at Silvis are equip
ped with repair tracks and entirely
completed. In the past the west bound
business was handled from Rock Is
land.
Gasoline Operates Turn Table.
Gasoline was used in the operation
of the turn table at the Rock Island
round house yesterday for the first
time The big new turn table, Install
ed for the accommodation of the passen-
ger engines which are to be housed here
in the future in the new round house,
has been completed. Instead of re-
quiring eight or 10 men for a consider
able time to turn the table. the new
method requires one man less than D
minutes to turn the largest engine on
the road. The table is 10 feet in length,
and is similar TO that which will be
installed at the Silvis yards. The re-
pairs on the roundhouse, and the in
stallation of the new turn table will
represent an expenditure of between
S25. 900 and $4,000
New Burlington Card In Effect.
Tomorrow a new time card goes in
TO effect on the Burlington, resulting
in number of changes affecting Rock
Island. The Beardstown train after
Sunday arrives in Rock Island at 1880
instead of 1910, and returning leaves
at 2:45 instead of 3:20. The ST. Louis
train. now arriving at 6:25 will not ar
rive until 7;15 under the new card.
The changes are made 10 enable the
trains 10 make Connections with other
trains at junction points The chang
es will greatly improve the time table
of the road