The Goodland republic., 1906-07-06
ANOTHER TERMINAL HERE
TELEGRAPH STATION.
A New System Whereby One Man
Can Handle Work OF Many
Easily.

With an appropriation Of upwards
Of half million dollars the telegraph
department Of the lines OF the 8sOck
Island system proper is being reOr-
ganized and rebuilt
New through wires are being ad ded
10 facilitate the handling Of thekin-
creased business, and all wires are be-
ing made 10 handle double the busi-
ness formerly handled, BY use Of the
quadruplex and multipleX sets.
The telegraph department Of the
Rock Island is being made to con-
form to the system used on the Santa
E'e railroad The Northern Pacific
railroad is said TO have been the first
railway system TO adopt the methods
and Improvements Of this system, and
the Great Northern railway was the
next 10 fall in line. Later the sys-
tenn was adopted on the Santa Fe and
by autumn the telegraph OF the Rock
Island will have been entirely over
hauled and rebuilt
The two principal offices Will be 10
Gated at Chicago and Topeka. The Of
hCe at Davenport will be the largest
repeating Office on the line, but the
repeating viii be accomplished auto
matically, and the repeaters, which
will do the work Of 20 individual Op-
orators, will be handled by one man.
Within thirty days an entirely new
set OF equipment viii be in use in the
i
the local Office viii be more than dOu-
bled. The local quarters Of the tele-
graph department are being moved
from the second floor to the third floor
of the general Office building here in
order to secure the additional room
necessary on account Of the increase
in the Importance Of the Office and
the enlargement Of the same.
The rebuilding Of the telegraph is
one Of the features embraced in the
IL
T. Nudge for the betterment OF the
Rock Island system. The work is di-
rectly in charge Of J. G. Jennings,
superintendentf Of telegraph, and +.
s SpafOrd, assistant superintendent
Of telegraph, IS now in Topeka IN
charge Of the work within the juris-
dictiOn OF grand division Of the road
governed from this point
Repeating stations, testing points
and important points where quad
ruplux apparatus is used Will be Chi
cagO, Davenport, Kansas City, TOpe-
ka, HeringtOn, Little Rock, Oklahoma
City, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Fair
bury, GoOdland and Trenton.
Aside from the Chicago Office, which
will constitute the general headQuar-
ters and fountain head from which
source the bulk Of the telegraph bust
ness emanateS, Topeka viii be the
most important telegraph station on
the lines. The Office IN Topeka will be
ager and wire chief. Mr.. SwartwOOd
has been with the Rock Island in
Topeka for several years.
The Topeka Office will be the cen
ter Of a system Of through wires
reaching to Chicago, to Little Rock, to
Oklahoma City, to HeringtOn and to
GOodland, all Of which wires will be
used with Quadruplex apparatus, and
from which points the telegraph busi-
ness will be handled to local points
within the territory covered by each
The latest improved equipment
known is being stalled in the various
Offices and within a few months the
work will be completed. The work is
gradually being accomplished without
Interference with the general run Of
business.