Bisbee daily review., 1913-10-26

ious times and in various places At first the officials. who are ali Ameri- cans. and the employees who are near. ly 90 per cent Mexicans. strained ev. cry nerve to crib bridges and to re- sume traffic. As time has worn on. however, al reserve energy has na-
 turally been dissipated. the abnormal
 has become the normal, and the ex- eeptional has lapsed into the routine.
 "A train dispatcher is not startled if his wire suddenly goes down before the orders are completed. He knows from experience that the wire may
 not come up until perhaps tomorrow. next year. Occasionally the attack. ing band. will take possession of the locomotive and burn some or all of
 the cars in the train. Usually. how ever, in the course of week or two
 the wire comes up. and conductor
 asks for running orders from an office
 many miles from where last located Such primitive conditions have de-
 veloped initiative and resourceful
 ness on the part of officials and em- ployes of all grades.
 From the president, who happened
 to be on the first train held up by
 armed force. down to the humblest laborer. all have followed Rule l. of | the standard code. reading: Tn case
 of danger to the company's property. employees must unite to protect it. i Ofttimes this has meant dauntless
 and unflinchfng exposure to rifle or
 cannon fire Habitually, it has en. tailed inconvenience and physical i hardship. officials who normally use comfortable business cars have taken
 to small motor cars. or have travelled
 many miles on foot.
 ] ."On one occasion my motor car was run by a man who had been a rail
 roader, frontier deputy marshal and ! a chauffeur. For this particular trip | in question he united the desirable ] qualities of a careful motorman, crack shot and a good cook. The first night was spent in tool house, one night in a freight house. another in waiting room and still another in
 the open country. The car was lowed
 around burned bridges through the arroyos.
 .-On another trip 8 good-sized river
 had to be crossed. the long trestle ap- proach to the steel bridge haVinF
 been burned some weeks before. Vi sions of swimming the river hk'' Funston in the Philippines were end
 e5 when the thoughtfulness of an as
 sistant superintendent showed sec ton gang as water rats towing raft made of ties. This interchangeaollity of function is typical of the all-rounu training inculcated on the Southern Pacific railroad of Mexico by the unlt system of organization. Two years of complete and consistent. applica ton of the underlying princilles CT this rational and practical system have produced gratifying results. To day every department including trat fife and accounting, has available rom one 10 three developed and tested un- derstudies for every official position. Coincidentally during the only period of eight months when conditions alS preached normal, the operating ra- tio with normal maintenance Tell from 97 to 7S per cent. i
 Tn May, 1912. after operation oi the Sinaloa division had been srs- i pended for over three weeks, 1t was deemed advisable to move all obtain ] able equipment north to Empelme | Sonora, near Guaymas, where the | were tranquil. There were cn.y a dozen locomotives at division i