Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1916-01-13
RECORD BUSINESS FOR
NORTHERN PACIFIC Ry.
November and December Traffic
Heaviest in Company's
History.

Superintendent Berner and the
Northern Pacific officials making
jamestown their headquarters are
congratulating themselves somewhat
over the successful handling Of the
greatest volume of freight traffic, as
well as passenger traffic, which the
company was ever called upon to
handle in the last two months. In
no other similar period have the de-
mands on the campany's facilities
been nearly as heavy. Superinten-
dent Berner has IT'S miles OF track
under his jurisdiction and it is safe
to say that the big volume of bust
ness has been carried along the rails
Of the branch and main lines with
little friction, little delay, little loss
and no serious accidents of any kind.
1t is a qualification to railroaders
that the system of operating trains
has become so perfected as to pro-
duce this result. In Jamestown this
traffic has been especially noticed
and all the fall the making up of
trains has required the services OF
three switch engines during the day
and three at night. The trackage OF
the company here has been used to
it's utmost capacity at times and, with
the increase of business in the fu-
ture, it is more than likely that ad-
ditional new trackage will have to
be laid west of the river and the
yards considerably enlarged.
New Depot Plans.
Superintendent Berner has re-
turned from St. Paul, where he went
in conference with other officials in
regard to plans of the new Northern
Pacific station. A preliminary sketch
of the plans shows the building will
he, 219. feet long, about 3S feet wide,
with two stories and an attic, built
of pressed brick. There will be no
train sheds, but open tracks. The
second floor will be devoted to rooms
and offices for the operating officials
of the division, and there will be
plenty of room provided for this pur-
pose. Express and baggage rooms
will be at one end of the building
and a lunch counter at the other.
Between the two will be the general
waiting room, ticket office, women S
retiring room, mems smoking room.
PASSENGERS will be able to check
their baggage from the general wait
ing room. ...
Work CT construction will begin
as soon as possible this spring, al
though everything has not yet been
definitely decided. The engineers
are working out track problems, one
of which is to avoid the necessity OF
switching passenger cars and max
ing up passenger trains across the
two main business streets, Fourth
and Fifth avenues. This switching
work now interferes seriously with
traffic and will, as the town grows,
be a still more formidable interfer-
ence with street traffic and pedestri-
ans crossing the main tracks of the
road in the heart of the city,. Just
how this problem can be satisfactor-
lily solved has not yet been decided
upon, but the company is preparing
plans for it's new station with the
idea of minimizing the danger to life
and property of citizens, in an unob-
structed traffic of the streets, except
for the necessary passage of trains
through the city.
1t is possible that the Headquar-
ters building will be dismantled and
torn down, also the baggage and ex-
press building, but the freight build
ing will remain where it is for the
present. The disposition of the old
depot has not yet been announced,
but this curio will soon disappear
from public view.
1t is stated that there will be no
leases granted for business purposes
of any kind on the right-of-way prop
erty owned by the company between
First avenue and Sixth avenue.
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Child Labor Change Urged.