The Dickinson press., 1917-08-11
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Conductor L. C. Esse is back on
the job again after a weeks visit at
Hebron.
brakeman Joe Beres will be trans
ferred to. the fourth division at For
syth this week.
Brakeman w. A. Graner and Brake
man Auge are spending a weeks va
cation in Billings visiting with
friends. "
Mrs. Pitney, wife of Operator Pit
new, went to Glendive Monday to
take the examination for telegraph
operator.
Roads entering st. Paul are to have
a magnificent union station, to cost
Sill, O00, 900. Work is already well
under way. r..
Superintendent Jacobus' private car
was attached to No. 8 Wednesday
morning. He was on his way to Man
dan on railroad business.
Baldwin Locomotive Works are now
working on three orders from the
Russian government totaling 278 en-
pines, all of which are to be COM
pleted this year.
The bridge crew from Glendive has
been at Hebron the past week assist
ing with the work.at the big dam
and reservoir being put in by the rail-
road companay.
Leavitt Butler made his first regu-
lar trip as brakeman Monday morn
ing. He made three student trips
last week and passed the required ex-
animation at Glendive.
A car on an east bound freight
was derailed on Beaver Hill Monday
that o~ccasioned a slight delay but did
not tie up traffic. The train was in
charge of Conductor Hill.
"A Is per cent increase in freight
rates would mean an addition of only
81 cents to the weekly food-bill of
the average family, of five, living lib
orally in a typical American city.
Brakeman c. M. Fisher returned
this week from the hospital at Glen
dive, Mont, where he recently under
went an operation. He is recovering
rapidly and will probably be able for
duty by the first of the coming
month.
Scarcity of dyes, owing to the war,
is causing many railroads to abandon
yellow stationery and use the cheaper
white bond. Does it make much diff
ference? Well, the Southern Pacific
alone used $4,000, 900 sheets of paper
last year.
The wrecking crew was out Mon
day distributing the cement oil
houses for the block signal system be-
tween Belfield anad Taylor. These
are large cement houses placed in the
ground on the right of. way near the
signal posts.
The crew which has been located
here for a few months installing the
block system, will leave shortly for
Queenstown, Australia, where Mr..
Gregory, superintendent of the work,
has a large contract installing a block
signal system on an Australian road.
Miss Starke, who was storekeeper
at the roundhouse during the absence
of Harry Flanagan, has returned to
her home in Mandan. She expects to
teach school and will begin a term
this fall. Mr.. Flanagan expected to
join the ambulance corps in France,
but after a few weeks in New York
returned to his work here.
An instruction car, in charge of
Dispatcher Hickman of Glendive,
went. over the division last week Civ
ing instruction to the trainment re-
garding the new block system. The
work is just about completed and the
new system will be put into use in
about two weeks. The entire system
will be completed the coming year,
there being about 700 miles yet to
build before the N. P. system is en-
tirely equipped.
The crew which is putting in the
tracg connections for the block sig
nal system on the Northern Pacific,
had a narrow escape from death one
night last week. Three men using a