The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-18
RAILROAD NOTES.


Women are employed as gate-tend-
ers by the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
An order for 1000 freight cars has
been placed by the Canadian Govern
ment Railways with the National
Steel Car Company at Hamilton, Ont.
These cars will be used chiefly to haul
the growing crops.
The Puget Sound division Of the
Northern Pacific Railroad has adopt
ed the policy of employing women in
stead of men wherever women are
able to do the work required.
The Georgia state authorities have
approved an increase in the stock OF
the Savannah and Atlanta Railway
from 100000 to $~2,25o,o0o for the
consolidation of the Savannah and
Northwestern under the title OF the
former. -
The Altoona car shops have received
an order for 1926 freight cars from
the Pennsylvania Railroad, being a
part of the 1918 program of rolling
stock. In placing it's order at this
time the company indicates its purpose
of having all the equipment possible
prepared for the emergency which
war will bring.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway in the electric line over the
Rockies, is said to be generating in
its trains on down grade power which
can be used to help other trains up
grade. On reaching the top Of a
grade the engineer reverses his mo-
tor. thereby transforming it into a
DYNAMO which is operated by the
weight of the train on the down grade.
The electricity thus generated adds
to the general current by means OF
the wire above.
On the very spot where Samson
carried off the Gates Of GAIA grand,
modern, relentless warfare is raging.
There are tanks now roofing over
Samson Ridge, Hagar's Well has been
shelled, and the armies are smash
ing the Beersheba Railway. Askulor
is ruined, and where Abraham enter
tained the thre CANCELS is now DESC
lation. Where Solomon and the Queen
of Sheba met has been trampled, ira
, versed and spoiled by the juggernauts
of a war which cares naught for BIZ
!, blical historical sites. Turkish SOL
diers, sweating in German uniforms
march over the plain where Sheba's
encourage carried gold bricks.
The United States grows more thar
5000, 900 bushels Of peanuts a year.
h The largest number of mines in the
D world are today said to be along the
$ Baltic, between Konigsberg ano
d Memel on the Prussian coast.
Production of coal from French
n mines has increased 100000 tons pei
month, compared with last month Of
1915. Leave of absence from the front
/" has been granted to 1000 miners
which will increase the gain.
Announcement is made by the LIE
e high Valley Railroad Company that
d owing to the shortage of male labor
l. as a result of the war, applications
e are being received from women fol
positions as gate tenders at crossings
None of the men now in service will
e be displaced. Many applicants are be
ing received.
The Canadian Pacific Railway re-
ports from Calgary, Alberta, that
Lethbridge automobile dealer has or
j. dered $1,000, 900 worth Of automobiles
T. for the southern Alberta trade, most
Nv farmers. Southern Alberta has hat
IS two immense crops and expects a rec
r ord yield again this year, with the re
al suit that farmers are buying automo
r biles.
e. East St. Louis spies, it is charged
lie represented themselves as state fac
st tory inspectors and went Thorough fiv'
j. plants manufacturing munitions here
st securing blue-prints Of the buildings
IS The state officials are stirred over tn
II. incident and Governor Lowden ha'
n; sent out. a warning to all manufact
urers not to permit inspectors to en-
I'd ter their plants without first shown,
,e credentials.
h. William E. Corey, president Of tn
lie Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company
10 says: "Every ship that can be bull
Of wood should be in the water at tn
II earliest possible moment. Build ship
to Of steel al we'll, but give preference
4. to wooden vessels, al all the steel tn
Is, world can produce is urgently require,
for things that will allow no substi
I'd tute. There is an actual scarcity o
steel making materials and equipment
where as there is an unlimited suppl,
Of wood"
The making d cheese without