The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-09-17
SPARKS AND SPIKES,
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lFrnm saLnrdayIs DaIlyl

A. 7, Hayden has been assigned
TO the local between Roswell and
Clovis. His car IN chain gang has
been assigned 10 Conductor Hurd
n. II. Jones has been appointed
roundhouse foreman IN Roswell in
place OF b. Barton, resigned,
Thursday, Sept 10, Canadian was
established as yard Of the second
class.
Guy l.. Montgomery, conductor at
Canadian, has taken u leave OF abb
sepco for sixty days.
Belief agent Dyck has resigned
and left yesterday for San Francisco,
Trainmaster smyser was at Cana
dian Thursday opening mp the new
yard at that point,
Business Is quiet on all roads this
week, but all are expecting better
times In the near future,
,. j. Lowrey has returned from
Wellington and is on his run between
mere and Canadian.
Eight extra conductors and eleven
extra brakemen on the board yester-
day at the p. w. but not quite 80
numerous on the Denver,
The graft habit Is so strongly In
fashion in Russia that passengers
who purchase tickets suffer great
deal more Inconvenience and delay,
than If they were not provided with
tickets and tipped" the employees,
The Russian roads have a growing
deficit aud a large portion of It is
caused by graft and loose manage
ment.
As record for honesty It would
he hard to beat the following passcn-
ger: lie stopped the train because
from the time Of boarding the train
and before arriving at his destina-
ton his son became 10 years old and
he only had a half fare ticket and he
wanted 10 purchase full fare ticket
for balance of the short journey,
Mr.. John Pagan, who died recently
in Atchison, Kan. was the Oldest
railroad man in Kansas having been
in active service siXty-liye years, lie
was also the oldest citizen OF Atchi
son and had Joined the Santa Fee ser
vice in 1871.
The youngest engineer OF record
is Edward Moran, OF the Erie, who il
on the spare board at Rochester.
Compared with British lines We
show up to a great disadvantage il
the United States, They carried 1,
200. 100000 passengers on 2IOOC
miles of track as against 100000
on 100000 miles in the United
States. Collisions and deralmentt
1856 with us aud only 239 in Eng
land. over the sea, So passenger
killed and 631 injured, while on this
side 14O we're killed and 5000 in
jured Employees killed and injured
were respectively 13 and lao in Brit
ain as against $40 and 7,4S3 owe
here.
At recent investigation in Anna
rillo the following conversation wa
held between the trainmaster and
brakeman: where were you at thu
time of the accident" he was asked
when they bumped u.s." he an
swered, 81 was chasing the red.
Very exact" remarked the train
master, "and what were the othd
members of the crew doing?" "Well
sir, the hog-head was down greasn
the pig The tallow-pot was in tn
coal mine cracking diamonds. Tn
front shack was bending the rails t.
head-in. And the con was in tn
dog-house Tipping the tissues"
AS an incentive to honesty for en-
ployes and also for passengers tn
Third avenue cars in New York hav
signs that read as follows:
Thou shalt not steal!
Every passenger who does not pa
his fair-steals!
Every conductor who does not tur
in fares ollected-steals!
Thou shalt not steal!
One OF the latest patents of inter
est to railroad men is one issue