The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-05-17
RAILROAD NOTES.


Edmond Pennington, president 0
the Minneapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste
Marie railroad, has been elected pres
ident Of the Spokane & Internationa
railroad to succeed D. C. Corbin o
Spokane.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is plac
ing in the hands of each employee .
pamphlet bearing a reprint of Presi
dents proclamation calling upon eacl
citizen for aid in the conduct Of the
war.
No expense or labor will be spared
by the special committee on national
defense of the American Railway As.
ISOLATION to speed up the railways OF
the United States to the highest eff
cheney in moving freight consignments
to seaports for transshipment to the
: the Allies.
Sentiment cen to be growing in
favor of the pooling Of box care idea.
Various plans have been suggested
embodying n grand collection of
cars and their equal distribution
among shippers. While this sugges-
ton seems to have much merit there
are also unfayorable features to be
considered.
Loading reports of western rail-
roads indicate that traffic generally is
of a favorable character and several
individual roads show gains over a
year ago. These reports show that
the movement of freight is of a large
ly diversified character. This would
seem to reflect that the buying power
of the west has not been curtailed by
the advance in prices for commodities.
Officials of the Illinois Central, N.
c. & St. L., Rock Island and Missouri
Pacific railroads they will devote their
right-of-way lands to food production
this year. This step means the tillage
of thousands of acres of land which in
former years has been allowed to
grow up in weeds, thus sowing broad
cast the seeds Of noxious vegetation.
Each of the lines will urge it's employ
es to make use of the lands thus made
available for gardening and farming.
The acreage unused by employees, how
ever, probably will be turned over to
deserving applicants whether connect
ed with the carriers or not.
Slackers have no place in the en-
ploy of a railroad. j. J. Mccullough,
superintendent of the Puget Sound
division of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road, has ordered as far as possible
in all cases Of vacancies or new posi-
no masculine applicants be con-
sidered when women can be obtained !
to do the work. In connection with /
war emergency women are going (
10 be employed as much as possible !
and shown every consideration accord l
the men. The Pennsylvania has /
also taken this step. The positions \
,pen to women have been extended to I
and engine callers, yard check /
,rs, checkers in freight stations, time I
keepers, with gangs or in Offices, and !
IN office Or desk work, or any other ]
work women can and are willing to I
10. I
A "de luxe" policy has apparently :
'een adopted by the Union Pacific .
railroad. It is known for its excell- D
nee Of service. Not content with =
enviable reputation, the officers 4
ave gone a step farther and opened Z
new field or service. First came )
he news that the Union Pacific was 4
tanning a $4,000 dining car that Z
7ould surpass anything in the world 4
nd would be the very first thing in
It a "press-agented" to
the atmosphere particularly ad- =
Tired in exclusive metropolitan cafes. :
he very latest is the opening of a =
cket Office at the corner of Fifth
venue and Forty-second Street, New
ork, which has none of the atmos-
here Of a ticket Office and all of the
2pointment Of a luxurious rest room.