The Goodland republic., 1907-01-25
- RAILROAD NOTES.

Allen Mitchell, timekeeper in the
master mechanics office, spent Sunday
/ IN Pueblo.
| Jim MahOney has gone to Herington
where he viii enter the train service
/ Of the Rock Island.
Walter MOuntz, material clerk in
/ the master mechanics Office, spent
Sunday in Denver.
The sixteen-hOur law, as applied to
! engine men, it is thought will result
I in pooling engines.
Train crews on the west end have
resumed the former rule Of running
through to Roswell instead OF turning
at LimOn.
The jacks for the 1c-y round house
have been rigged and put in place
and the large engines are being housed
/ in the new structure.
The new boiler and eng ne room at
the shops is 3Sx7O feet. It will have
an iron truss ref roof su - JOft with
both side lights and skyligi.s. Ire
brick work is nearly completed
F. E Fox master mechanic. is sick
at his home with a cold and is threat
ened with the grip. Mr.. Fox has a
nice suite OF rooms in the Keerdu &
Warner building, where he now lives.
The big derrick and machinery for
the new Rock Island well. was loaded
Wednesday and viii be shipped this
week to Lincoln, Neb.
G. z. Brown took a trip 20 Denver
Sunday. The clerks in the master me-
chanic's Office hint that he is soon to
be married. The suspicion cannot be
confirmed, however. He has baen ap-
pointed assistant chief clerk in the
master mechanics Office, and the lat
ter part Of the week will make a trip
east to look after material for the
road.
J. W. Dodds returned Thursday
from Chicago where he went as rep
resentative Of the conductors in the
conference with the Rock Island man
agement for a new schedule for con-
ductors. Mrs. Dodds, who has been
visiting in the east Joined him at Chi
cago but stopped at Washington, Ia
She viii return to GOOdland next
week.
President B. L. Winchell Of the
Rock Island, says that last year the
company spent $7,OOO,OOO on road
work and $3.50, 1000 for new equip
ment- He adds that there is enough
traffic in sight to keep it busy for the
next eight months, and that there
fore, conditions viii depend largely
on the crops
". J. Hartman, air brake instruc-
tor Of Chicago, is here in his necely
appointed car giving the employees in
the train service instruction in the
workings Of the air brake. Mr.. Hart
man was here about two years ago on
the same mission, but since his last
trip he has been experimenting the
construction Of locomotives for the
Rock Island at the Baldwin IOcOmO-
tive works Mr. Hartman enjoys q
number Of friendships in GOodland and
is always glad to visit our growing
city.
Vice President Wilson Of the Inter
national Association OF Machinists
says that 1900 machinists through
out the country received advances last
year without strikes In all, advances
aggregating $s,OOO,O0O a year have
been granted to the machinists. The
advances were principally on the part
OF the railroad companies but there
has been a general tendency to ad-
vance wages. The Northern Pacific
railroad advanced wages 25 cents
day; the Southern Pacific 27z to 4
cents an hour; the Rock Island 80
cents a day; the Southern Railway,
X to cents an hour; the Hartman
lines, 80 cents q day, and the Great
Northern, IS cents a day The year
1906 has ben a prosperous one ali the
way through, with more advances In
wages and fewer strikes than usual.