The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25
Northwestern Adopts Positive
Block System For Rush.
OFFICES OPEN ALL NIGHT
Many People Will Wait In Norfolk
For Night Trains.
SAFEGUARDS FOR TRAVELLERS.

Definite Announcement Of Northwest
ern Schedule for Trip County
Trains-Seventy-fve New Telegra-
pliers on Bonesteei tine--Detectives
A huge task 20 the government, this
biggest land lottery in the worlds his
tory, a huge task to those thriving en-
ergetic towns which must stretch their
accommodations to make comfortable
as well as welcome the landseeker; no
less a huge task to the one railroad
which must carry the pressing thou
sands quickly, comfortably and safely
to the registration points and then
back to the central cities where they
will radiate back to their homes on
scores of branch lines.
The great bulk of the Trip county
landseekers will be carried by the
Northwestern, so the transportation
problem has been a Northwestern
problem.
| rpul sSu'o oSO 'ilS 4Noi 'i"NoNNi II
carried the Bonesteel thousands
through Norfolk and up the Bonesteel
line without a single accident. This
year it plans to send the greater crowd
for the Trip rush to Gregory and Dal-
las and back again without a single
accident
Scores of Safeguards.
During the Trip rush the Bone
steel line of the Northwestern will, it
is safe to say, be the safest road in
the country upon which to travel. This
is because anticipating the huge vol
ume of traffic the Northwestern Off
Gals have worked out scores of safe
; guards to throw about their trains and
the human cargo they will bear.
Details of Worlds Greatest Excursion.
This Trip rush is going to be the
greatest excursion in the worlds his
tory, and here are some Of the details
in the plans of the Northwestern:
An absolute block system to keep
every train a station apart
, Three shifts of telegraphers, work
ing eight hours day, at every station
between Omaha and Dallas.
A systematic train schedule, easily
, understood and arranged with an eye
to the convenience of the landseekers.
Two conductors on every train-one
to collect tickets and one for the pro-
lection of the public.
, A track patrol night and day.
full force of section men aug
, mented by three special gangs which
have been rebuilding bridges and
strengthening the track for sixty days.
Every train policed by railroad de-
tectives and plain clothes men.
The Block System.
The special trains, most of them
through trains from Omaha to Dallas,
will be run on positive block system.
The track between each telegraph of
flee constitutes a block. No two trains
y will be allowed in a block. Something
of block system was in force four
/, years ago when the road carried $4,000
| people without a mishap.
Seventy-five New Teegraphers.
( To carry out the block system the
5 Northwestern during the Trip rush
will keep open night and day every tel.
| egraph Office between Omaha and Dial.
!, las. Three shifts of telegraphers, each
shift working eight hours a day, will
. be employed. Keeping every station
between Norfolk and Dallas open
: twenty-four hours a day will mean the
f employment of seventy-five new men
t on the Bonesteel line alone. Between
here and Omaha twenty-five telegra
s pliers will be added
e Over 100 Trainmen.
IT,, The train crews will also be swelled
by more than 100 men. There will be
Y thirty-etght conductors, seventy-siS
h brakemen and nineteen additional flag
l. men added.
= Track Ready for the Strain.
The track on the Bonesteel line is
ready for the strain of the heavy eX
cursiOn trains.
2 Not only has the full force of section
t men been kept employed, but for the
5 last sixty days three gangs of thirty
ii'N ill'H Cdtll nave Dttu uOlUS SDecla
e work. The Bonesteel line is in greater
q part new line, but bridges have beer
: rebuilt and the track strengthened il
S many places.
s Night and day, too, the track will be
: watched by patrols.
l. Will Watch the Crooks.
y The Northwestern will try to sepa
e rate the sheep from the goats amons
t the Rosebud-bound crowds. The prob
l. lem of the "crook" the railroad will
S try to solve by railroad detectives anC
h lplain clothes men. The spectacular
y opening" in the reservation countr!
long ago caught the eye of crook-lanC
i and gamblers and others with lightel
scruples than gamblers Will minglC
with the crowds, To guard the un
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