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The Railroad Man—His Creed Frontispiece Susie Pages 11 to 14 The Railroads' Appeal to the President of the United States " 15 to 17 Regularly Assigned Engine Crews versus the Pool " 17 to 19 Annual Report of Insurance Department Page 20 Cotton Meeting at City Hall, EI Reno, Okla " 21 Death of Mr. George L. 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S ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE III The high character which has marked AMERICAN EXPRESS SERVICE For the past three score years and ten has been its principal stock in trade, and upon its con tinuance depends our future success. The company expects every employe, regardless of his position, to do his share of the work, and with such efficiency as to maintain this big organization and promote its prosperity. This means primarily that every representative of the American Express Company should treat every patron with the utmost courtesy and consideration. Through giving responsible and conscientious "service" the American Express Company has built up the greatest public service corporation of its kind in the world—and our facilities for undertaking commissions of great responsibility are not excelled by any other agency—governmental, cor porate or private. This very fact makes it doubly necessary that our com pany acquit itself with credit in every transaction. "Satisfied Customers" are the lifeblood and sinew of our growth in size and usefulness. "Service" is the watchword that leads to the creation of "Satisfied Customers." Consequently each of us should have uppermost in our minds the thought that we desire to handle every transaction for all of our patrons in such manner as to give the best "service" possible. When Writing to Advertisers Please Mention Rock Island Employes' Ma gazlne. ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE Photo Copyright 19U by S. Y. Bail "20th Century Limited" New York Central Lines "Broadway Limited" Pennsylvania Lines New York to Chicago in 1200 Minutes Two Famous Trains Racing into Chicago Neck and Neck The wonderful picture that heads this page pays a remarkable tribute to Ballgrade Watches, and to the genius of Mr. Webb C. Ball, who designed the Ball Twentieth Century Model Each one of these magnificent trains bas changed monster locomo tives eight times to accomplish its thousand mile run, and eight fresh engine crews have taken charge at different hours of the day and night. At every roundhouse and terminal between New York and Chicago it's been hustle and hurry to get them away "on time,"— every move timed with "Safety First" accuracy and precision, born of confidence in Ball Watches. Modern time inspectors trained and directed by Mr. Ball guarantee that every dis patcher, operator, trainman and signalman along the way has "the right time" The thousand-mile trip is safely finished as the trains approach Chicago. They left New York at the same moment. They race in to Chicago neck and neck. Ballgrade Watches make this a daily achievement. Nowhere is the value of Ball Watch accuracy better demonstrated The Slorv of "Time Inspection on American Railroads" is an interesting booklet describing the relation of Jiallfcradf Watches to the business of running railroad traiua. Am one interested in the subject of good watches will want a copy, write for one today, and if your jeweler cannot show you a Ball Twentieth Century Model watch, send us bis name and we will arrange for you to see one Webb C. Ball Watch Company, 334 Heyworth Bldg., Chicago Cleveland and San Francisco Canadian Ball Watch Co., Ltd., Winnipeg 4 When Writing to Advertisers Please Mention Rock Island Employes' Magazine. BEECECEeBEEeEeEBEasgEEEEBEEEeEEEEEEEeEEECEgSEEEEBEB I m THE RAILROAD MAN HIS CREED As a man among men I have Rights to maintain, Privileges to possess, Duties to perform, Obligations to keep. My Rights are those of my fellow-men—no more, no less. My Privileges are to serve my fellow-men and to be served by them. My Duties are to myself and to the world, my duty to myself being to tit myself for my duty to the world. My Obligations require me to shape my conduct and to use my abilities in such ways that the world may be the better for my having lived. Hence, holding fast to these Truths, and seeking to practice them as I live and work, I hereby profess my faith in these. Seven Virtues of My Vocation i. / believe in Safety. Just as "a good sailor takes no chances," mak ing no short cuts among rocks and shoals, so the Railroad Man may never disregard his warnings and signals, nor court disaster by rash venturing. 2. I believe in Fidelity. I must faithfully perform my every task. Where but one in a thousand neglects his duty—be it naught but the rapping of a wheel, the setting of a bolt, the driving of a spike—there can be no safety. 3. I believe in Sobriety. The steady nerve, the sure hand, the cool head, the sound judgment, are things indispensable in my work. The least indulgence may impair them. And without these there can be no safety. 4. / believe in Courtesy. In showing good will I gain good will. Good service depends upon good will given and good will received. 5. / believe in Economy. Wastefulness is evil. Nothing that can be of use may be wasted : not a pound of coal, not a gill of oil, not a scrap of paper. In the sum of savings lies much gain, surely profiting them that save. 6. / believe in Organization. Civilization is built only by men holding together for common good. True organization considers all : the worker, the employer, the public at large—each for all and all for each. 7. / believe in Efficiency. In seeking large yields from economized effort, we lighten our labors and increase in proportion the returns from our work. To these ends shall we strive, shaping our course with intelligent action. Thereby we accordingly prosper, each and all.—Sylvester Baxter. 'z^z ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE Harley E. Reisman Managing Editor Copyright 1914 by H. E. Reisman La Salle Station, Chicago Jno. A. Simpson Editor Vol. VIII. OCTOBER, 1914. No. 4. SUSIE By GEORGE SAINT-AMOUR Ten miles back a section foreman had refused to give Sinclair a drink, and Sin clair kicked the water barrel down the dump—and had to run to escape the irate foreman and his three men. Now he was plodding along the rail road track under the blistering sun, still gesticulating angrily and uttering male dictions upon the man who would re fuse a human being—any human being— a drink of water. Sinclair was ragged and dirty, and somewhat discouraged, but not entirely without hope. Some day, somewhere, he would get a job and start all over again. He limped as he walked, now a long stride, now a short one, trying always to step on the cross-ties, for there were holes in the soles of his shoes and his feet were bleeding. The rag of a coat he carried on his left arm sometimes dragged on the rails, he was so listless and tired. The brim of his battered old black hat flopped in his eyes. His shirt sleeves were torn—but he kept them down to protect his arms from the scorching sun. When he left Omaha he had rolled the sleeves to his elbows. Soon the skin began to peel from his arms and he discovered that this was false economy. Rolling back the sleeves had been suggested by a desire to keep them clean. Anyhow, what was the use of trying to keep clean and presentable when one had three weeks' growth of red beard on his face? Ten miles farther west he came upon another gang of section hands, and this time the foreman was a good natured Irishman who gave Sinclair a drink of water, two drinks, three drinks, for Sin clair was indeed thirsty. "Where are ye goin', son?" the fore man asked. "Looking for a job/' tersely replied Sinclair. "At what?" the foreman queried. "Anything," said Sinclair briefly, "any old thing that comes along. I'm not par ticular." The foreman looked thoughtful for a moment, meanwhile sizing up the ragged apparition before him. "Ye can get a job in the roundhouse at Fairburg," he finally said. "They're short handed. The super told me yesterday. Tist try 'em." "Thank you." said Sinclair, grinning affably. Snowing through the grime on his face and the red beard, the grin was not pleasant to look at. "Thanks, I'll try the roundhouse. How far is it to Fairburg?" he asked. The section foreman was about to re ply when they heard the sharp whistle of a locomotive, and one of the men ran back with a red flag to hold up the en gine, for the section men were raising track, and the engine would have to wait until a little lining and tamping and spik ing had been done. 11 12 ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE "There's your chance, son," said the foreman. "Go back to that light engine an' the engineer'll let ye ride to Fairburg. It's eighteen mile, an' the sun's mighty hot, an' you look pretty tuckered." Sinclair went back to the light engine, a distance of perhaps three hundred yards, where he found the engineer ex amining a hot box. He waited patiently until that worthy had finished his inspection and called his fireman to pack the box. before he made his presence known, although the en gineer had probably seen him the mo ment he arrived on the scene. "Do you recognize this?" he asked the engineer, tendering his O. R. T. card. The engineer gave him a severe sizing up—in fact, everybody whom Sinclair met these days gave him a sizing up, and he was growing irritable about the proc ess—before making a reply. "Where'd you get it?" asked the en gineer sullenly. "It's mine," replied Sinclair. "Paid for it, of course." "Hm—" commented the engineer. "Are you an operator?" "Yes," said Sinclair briefly. He turned away, but thinking discretion better when his distress was so self-evident, he faced the engineer again. "And a train despatcher," he added. "You look it!" said the engineer sar castically, handing back the soiled paste board. "Well, do you recognize that card?" demanded Sinclair with some anger in his voice. "Will you let me ride to the yard limits at Fairburg? I'm going there to look for a job, and I'm about played out." "I don't carry bums," snapped the en gineer. He was standing with one foot on the step of his engine, and he turned his fat face to look Sinclair squarely in the eyes. "Fellows like you have no business with cards. I'll carry no man that looks like a dirty—" "Hold on there, Bill," interrupted Sin clair, advancing toward the fat engineer. "Hold on just a minute. I am not a bum even if I do look like one. You needn't carry me, but don't talk about bums. I'll remember you ! Good bye, brother," and Sinclair turned his face toward Fair burg. "Wouldn't he carry ye?" aiked the section foreman when Sinclair passed the men, who were working feverishly to put the track into shape. "Called me a bum," replied Sinclair savagely. "Well, now, we can't always tell," mused the foreman. "Better men than him's been down an' out. Take this quarter for something to eat when ye get to Fairburg, an' call on me for a job if ye don't get on in the roundhouse." Sinclair accepted the quarter. There was the slightest suspicion of a quiver about his lips as he said to the section foreman : "I told the engineer back there I'd remember him, and I will. I'll re member you, too." Then he started for Fairburg. When the light engine passed him he did not so much as turn his head, al though the fat engineer made his whistle shriek derisively and the fireman threw some lumps of coal dangerously near his head. "That's co-operation," muttered Sin clair to himself. "The engineer and fire man are co-operating with the rest of the world to keep me down and out." He grinned unpleasantly. That night he slept in a box car, and the next morning he was up bright and early and found a man in the roundhouse who willingly loaned him a tin pail and hot water and plenty of soap, with which to do a general cleaning up. So Sin clair did a washing—of clothes and per son; and he did not look half-bad when at ten o'clock he applied to the head host ler for a job. "Any experience?" asked the hostler. "Why, I won't need much to shovel coal, will I?" Sinclair suggested. "No—I guess not," replied the hostler, smiling. "I want a job mighty bad," urged Sin clair. "All right, you can go to work at one o'clock with that gang there," said the hostler, waving his arm in the direction of the coal dock, where ten men were shoveling coal from a gondola into a big iron bucket which two other men cranked into the air and dumped into the engine's tender as fast as it was filled. Sinclair had worked a little more than three weeks and had been promoted ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE 13 twice, first to wiper, and then to firing-up engines in the house—making them ready for their trips, work with which there is connected considerable respon sibility—when an accident occurred to a man who was cleaning an ash pan. The Italian was in the pit beneath a big "bat tleship" when a new hostler carelessly started the monster, and the Italian was badly injured before the hostler could stop the engine. Immediately Division Superintendent Nickels was on the scene. The Italian was lying on the floor, his injuries being examined by a physician, when Nickels looked about him at the crowd of workingmen. Owing to their dirt-begrimed faces the men looked much alike, none of them giving promise of much intelligence. "Did any of you see this accident?" the division superintendent asked, speak ing to the crowd generally. Four men stepped forward. Sinclair was among them, but there was little to distinguish him from the others. He was just as dirty, just as black, just as greasy, just as unpromising as they. "Can any of you write—in English— well enough to make a report of what happened?" demanded Nickels impa tiently. First one and then the other shook his head and retired without uttering a word, until Sinclair spoke up. "I think I can," he said quietly. "Why, you speak English," said Nickels, who had some contempt for men who couldn't speak English. Nickels had risen from the ranks: from tele grapher to his present position. Not to speak English, in his opinion, was not to speak at all. He turned his entire at tention to Sinclair now. "Write me a report, then, of how it happened," he said. "Make it a sort of a letter, you know," and he turned on his heel and walked away. First, Sinclair washed his hands- scrubbed them. Then he borrowed a pen from the roundhouse office book keeper, and making use of the desk where firemen and engineers made out their trip reports, he wrote a brief re port of how the Italian workman had be£H injured. Then he walked across ing where Superintendent Nickels had his office. Nickels was all attention whan he saw the man who promised to write a report of the accident. The physician had just informed the superintendent that the Italian would die. He was anxious. "Well?" said the division superintend ent. Without a word, Sinclair handed him the paper. For a moment Nickels looked at the paper, then he looked at Sinclair, and back at the sheet of paper again. "Who wrote this?" he asked sharply. "I did," replied the grimy red-bearded young man standing at the rail. "The h—," but Nickels interrupted himself. "Why, this is a telegraph oper ator's handwriting," he said. "I am an operator myself." "Yes," agreed Sinclair quietly. Nickels looked at the beautiful round characters, with the peculiar, almost ar tistic swing which connected each word —as nearly all telegraphers connect their words. "Why, it's a good operator's writing, too!" he ejaculated. "Yes," agreed Sinclair. Then Sin clair seemed to feel sudden confidence in himself. His shoulders flew back ; his chin rose an inch or so ; he looked the division superintendent squarely in the eyes. "It's the writing of a much better operator than you usually have around this place, Mr. Nickels," he said posi tively. "And — you — are—that—operator ?" said Nickels slowly. He looked Sinclair over from head to foot. "You have been working in the roundhouse—let's see," he turned to consult a time book, "more than three weeks. You are discharged." "Miss Smith," Nickels said, turning to a clerk, "make out Sinclair's time slip and give it to him at once." Again he turned to Sinclair. "You are discharged, sir," he roared—but there was a twinkle in his blue eyes. "Go and buy yourself a decent suit of clothes, then come back and talk to me about a job—if you please," he mildly added. The grin showing through Sinclair's aggressive red beard was not so ghastly or so venemous as it had been up the railroad track a month previous. Sinclair wrote a letter to his brother, the tracks to the little red wooden build a bachelor farmer down in Kansas, de- 14 ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE scribing the scene when he came back to the superintendent's office, splendid in a new suit of store clothes, shaved, and with his hair cut, and the result of this interview : "I tell you, it felt good to be treated like a man once more," the letter ran. "Before I let Mr. Nickels do much talk ing, I told him that I had put two to gether down on the Central, and that I had been discharged and unable to get a job from that day. But he only swore at that—he's a sort of a blustering fel low but has a heart of gold—and said that was all the more reason why I'd never make such a mistake again. "So I am third trick despatcher, Joe. I handle two divisions, both single track, and only fairly busy after about 3 a. m. Of course I have a bunch of work trains to start out every morning, for they are doing a lot of surfacing, track raising and curve-shortening, but it's a good job and I am going to stay here. "Tell dear mother to pray for this swearing, blustering superintendent of ours ; to pray that there may be more like him. Best regards to all. "DAVE." Joseph Sinclair, bachelor farmer, of Kansas, received still another letter two months later. "Dear Joe : "You and mother and Sis must come to my wedding—what do you think of that ! I am going to marry the next best woman on earth to mother—a pretty, happy, little black-haired, black-eyed damsel who knows nothing at all about the world, but who knows all about men's hearts, especially mine. She is an engineer's daughter. I can't possibly get away from work just now. so you must urge mother and Sis to come up here. I am sure they will. They'll like Susie, too. She is their kind—and you know how much that means with women folks. "It's the strangest story, Joe, and the part I am going to tell you now. it will be just as well for mother not to hear. "When I was counting ties to this place of Fairburg, a light engine came along and I asked for a ride, and the engineer, a fat, gruff sort of a bear, turned me down. He said I was a bum —and I guess I looked like one, all right. A good-hearted section foreman (he's one of my cronies now) gave me some advice, and a quarter, and I walked to Fairburg. "Well, Joe, after I was made despatch er one of the first things that happened was for this engineer to run past a meet order one morning—but as luck would have it no damage was done, and I smothered it. "When he reached Fairburg, Joe, he immediately looked me up at my board ing house, and nothing would satisfy him but that I should go to his house and meet his wife and daughter—that's Susie. "It ended by my going there to board —and, say, Joe, let me describe Susie to you. "She is about five feet tall—just reaches my chin, and she is plump and round and healthy. She has sparkling black eyes, and is forever smiling, or better still, laughing like a child and he! laughter is so happy that it makes every body within sound of it laugh, too. She loves me and I love her—God knows I do. We are going to be married in three weeks, for I can't wait any longer. And the engineer, who refused to give me a ride, is going to give us a nice little place he owns here in town for a wedding present. "But you should see Susie. Joe. We'll name the first girl for mother, and the first boy for you. "Let me hear from you soon. " Your brother, "DAVE." "P. S.—Susie sends her love to all." Float in Labor Day Parade, Amarillo, Texas. THE RAILROADS APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES Washington, D. G, Sept. 9, 1914. A committee of railroad executives to day called on the President of the United States at the White House. The com mittee consisted of Mr. A. J. Earling, President, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company; Mr. Fairfax Harrison, President, Southern Railway Company; Mr. Hale Holden, President Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company; Mr. Samuel Rea, President, The Pennsylvania Railroad Company ; Mr. E. P. Ripley, President, Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe Railway ; Mr. Frank Trumbull, Chairman, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Companies; Mr. Daniel Willard, President, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. Mr. Trumbull, on behalf of the com mittee, presented the following memo randum to the President: The purpose of this conference is to lay before the President in brief terms the present situation of the railroads of the United States—250,000 miles of great national highways. That the case of the railroads deserves sympathetic treatment arises from the fact that, al though privately owned, their property is devoted to public service. The industrial health of the country depends upon an adequate railroad service ; such service cannot be rendered, and proper response to public needs cannot be made, unless the financial soundness of the railroads is maintained. The credit of the railroads, seriously impaired, as we believe, before the war started, is now confronted by an emer gency of a magnitude without parallel in history. To understand the full im port of the existing crisis, it is necessary to consider briefly the antecedent condi tions. The purpose here is not to complain but to point out the one paramount fact that by reason of legislation and regula tion by the Federal Government and the forty-eight states, acting independently of each other, as well as through the action of a strong public opinion, rail road expenses in recent years have vastly increased. No criticism is here made of the general theory of governmental regu lation, but, on the other hand, no ingenu ity can -elieve the carriers of the burden of expense created thereby. However desirable may have been the expenditures which have been forced upon the rail roads, no adequate provision has been made tc pay the bill. This great increase in expenses now coincides with seriously depleted rev enues, with no corresponding ability of the railroads to reduce their costs in pro portion. Governments can proceed with expenditures of all kinds by taxation, but railroads cannot. While the effect of the European war upon railroad earn ings may vary in different sections, it is painfully evident that there will be seri ous decreases in the total because of the unprecedented difficulties in the market ing of cotton, the great decrease in im ports, and the general dislocation of trade and industry. Even prior to the existing emergency and to meet the antecedent situation, railroad expenditures generally had been reduced to absolute necessities. The dif ficulty of further contraction is enhanced by existing wage agreements and, in so far as the Western railroads are con cerned, by the possibilities involved in the arbitration proceedings to which they have recently agreed. The net operating income of the rail roads of the United States for the year ending June 30, 1914, was $120,000,000 less than for the previous year, or about 15 per cent. The gross earnings for the year were $44,000,000 less than for 1913; expenses and taxes were $76,000,- 000 more. The maintenance of the credit of the railroads (and the credit of the railroads establishes the standard for all industrial enterprises) depends upon their ability to increase their net earnings. The rail roads may have the most perfectly ap pointed plants in the world, but if the 15 16 ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE net earnings are not adequate, new cap ital cannot be attracted. In the important Eastern rate case the Interstate Commerce Commission unani mously found that the railroads in the richest section of the country needed more revenue. That finding was based upon the situation prior to the first of July, this year; indeed, upon conditions of a year previous. No emphasis need at this time be put upon the new railroad capital which has heretofore been required to provide for normal development, but this has been from $400,000,000 to $500,000,000 per annum, and railroads should not only be able to keep abreast of the times, but should even in this emergency be in a position to anticipate the demands of an expanding commerce. Simultaneously with the great impair ment of earnings, general credit condi tions have broken down, and the abso lute and immediate necessities of both public and private borrowers of money here and abroad have already increased interest rates to a level unthought of a few months ago—rates much higher than present net earnings return upon the railroad property of the United States. This emergency was not contemplated when the Interstate Commerce Commis sion rendered its decision in the Eastern rate case, yet the problems now confront ing the railroads greatly transcend in seriousness those which existed then. The menace is now not only to railroad credit but to the transportation service itself, and efficient transportation is in separably connected with the welfare cf o.;r people. Securities of United States railroads held abroad are computed at from three to five billion dollars. It is a certainty that bond and note obligations of the railroads maturing before the end of rext year aggregate over $520,000,000. In the highest public interest it is im perative that these obligations shall be met. Yet it is evident that for a long time Europe will not be a lender of money to America. On the contrary, the war will create such enormous debts and involve such a general dislocation of in dustry and commerce, that Europe must realize largely on its holdings of Amer ican securities regardless of the price obtainable. The New York Stock Exchange has now been closed for a longer period than at any other time in its history. There is no present market for railroad securi ties, either old or new. The United States is in a condition of financial isola tion. If the Stock Exchange were to open (and it must open some time) the pressure of selling would inevitably be greatest against railroad securities. If they go down, industrial issues will fall still more seriously. The public neces sity to stem this tide of selling and to reduce to the utmost its destructive ef fect, calls for the exercise of every re source of statesmanship. Our respectful requests are: 1. That the President will call the at tention of the country to the pressing necessity for the support of railroad credit by the co-operative and sympa thetic effort of the public and of all gov ernmental authorities, and suggests that the railroads be relieved as far as pos sible of further immediate burdens in volving additional expense ; and 2. That the President will urge a practical recognition of the fact that an emergency has arisen which requires, in the public interest, that the railroads have additional revenue, and that the ap propriate governmental agencies seek a way by which such additional revenue may be properly and promptly provided. THE RESPONSE OF THE PRESI DENT TO THE APPEAL OF THE RAILROADS. The White House Washington. September 10, 1914. Dear Mr. Trumbull: Since you read it to me yesterday, I have read again the statement you made me on behalf of the committee of rail road presidents whom I had the pleasure of meeting and conferring with at my office. It is a lucid statement of plain truth. You ask me to call the attention of the country to the imperative need that railway credits be sustained and the rail roads helped in every possible way, whether by private co-operative effort or by the action, wherever feasible, of gov ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE 17 ernmental agencies, and I am glad to do so, because I think the need very real. I cannot say that I entertain any deep anxiety about the matter, except, of course, the general anxiety caused by the unprecedented situation of the money markets of the world ; because the inter est of the producer, the shipper, the mer chant, the investor, the financier and the whole public in the proper maintenance and complete efficiency of the railways is too manifest. They are indispensable to our whole economic life, and railway securities are at the very heart of most investments, large and small, public and private, by individuals and by institu tions. I am confident that there will be active and earnest co-operation in this matter, perhaps the one common interest of our whole industrial life. Undoubtedly men, both in and out of official position, will appreciate what is involved and lend their aid very heartily wherever it is pos sible for them to lend it. But the emergency is, in fact, ex traordinary, and where there is a mani fest common interest we ought all of us to speak out in its behalf, and I am glad to join with you in calling attention to it. This is a time for all to stand together in united effort to comprehend every inter est and serve and sustain it in every legitimate way. The laws must speak plainly and ef fectively against whatever is wrong or against the public interest, and these laws must be observed ; for the rest and with in the sphere of legitimate enterprise, we must all stand as one to see justice done and all fair assistance rendered, and ren dered ungrudgingly. Cordially and sincerely yours, Woodrow Wilson. Mr. Frank Trumbull, Chairman of Com mittee of Railroad Executives, consist ing of Mr. Samuel Rea, Mr. Daniel Willard, Mr. Fairfax Harrison, Mr. E. P. Ripley, Mr. Hale Holden, Mr. A. J. Earling. REGULARLY ASSIGNED ENGINE CREWS VERSUS THE POOL By T. C. Donaldson, Engineer. Roches ter Division, Formerly Round House Foreman at DuBois and Lincoln Park. (From August issue B. R. & P. Magazine.) This is a subject that everyone con nected with the operation of an engine should be interested in because it would mean much to them and especially the engine crews if the present system in vogue on the B. R. & P. Railway were changed to the pool. The engineer or fireman who is inter ested in his work and anxious to keep off the failure sheet will tell you, "Give me a regular engine in preference to the extra list which is the pool." If the en gine is not in as good shape as it should be when he gets it the engineer will get busy right away, and try to improve con ditions. He will look after the adjust ment of the driving box wedges, "the foundation of his work," and if he can not get them properly adjusted in the en gine house he will do it himself, keep rod the boiler attachments, see that air pump governors are properly adjusted so that air hoses will not be so liable to burst when carrying high pressure, on desig nated grades. In fact the interested en gineer will look after all the details of the engine and try and keep it out of the shop as long as possible. The inter ested fireman is also satisfied when he is assigned to a regular engine and in near ly every case he will get busy with the engineer and try to put things in work ing order. He will take care of his firing tools and other equipment that he handles such as cab lamps, lanterns, flags, etc., while the engine is on the road, and on arrival at terminal will put them away, carefully treating them as if they were his own. This engine crew will work together in hauling the train over the division ; the engineer will handle the reverse lever, throttle, and injector in a manner that will enable the fireman to maintain an even pressure on the boiler thereby mak brasses properly keyed up, look after ing the required time and keeping the IS ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE flues dry; the fireman will do his best to help him get results by keeping the pointer of the steam gauge as near the 200 mark as possible, manipulating the front end damper to keep the safety valves quiet thereby saving fuel. These men will do better work and, I believe, the company will get better results be cause the men have regular engines and, being satisfied, will take good care of them. On the other hand, put these men in the pool and see how long they will remain satisfied and maintain the inter est they had in their regular engines. It is surprising to note the apparent indif ference that exists in the present genera tion and I am afraid it would become a case of environment with the engineers and fireman. The average extra man of today will take good care of a regular man's en gine when the regular man lays off and leave it in as good condition as he finds it, but what will he do with an extra engine, a "Nobody's Claim" as we call them ? He will leave it in the same con dition as he finds it which is not always very good simply because the engine is pooled and no one is interested in it. The engineer will look her over at the end of the run, go to the engine house and report "set up wedges," "key up rod brasses," "engine pounding badly," "cyl inder or valve packing blowing," "stop steam leaks in cab," etc., and probably wind up by saying "engine unfit for serv ice." The fireman will have his overalls un der his arm, his dinner pail in his hand ready to jump off before the engine comes to a stop on ash pit track, paying no attention to cab lamps or other tool equipment, and the tool checker is lucky if he finds all of it; the number of fire rakes and coal picks gathered up recent ly by section men would lead one to be* lieve that he does not. The engine house foreman will go over the engineer's work report and figure out how much he can do in the limited time he has to do the work in. If he don't happen to be in the office when the work is reported he is not sure which item is of most importance and the pooled engineer has gone home. He cannot do all the work this trip and the chances are that the pooled engine will go out with some important piece of work undone. Not so with the regular engineer; he is never in such a hurry that he can't hunt up the foreman if he wants some particular piece of work done and explain conditions to him and if all the work that is reported can not be done, the most important will be done. In this way the engine receives proper care and very seldom has a failure and the officials of the transportation and me chanical department are satisfied with the performance of it. I have worked with both classes of men on the road, have handled their work reports in the engine house for years and have come to the conclusion that conditions are smoother with the regular engine and firmly believe that year in and year out the engine with a regularly assigned crew will make more miles at less cost than the pooled engine, and will refer anyone to the first five years' per formance of the Class X4 engines as signed to the Rochester division; some of them did not go through the general repair shop in that length of time. •j -J-5 ROCK ISLAND MAN DISCUSSES REGULARLY ASSIGNED ENGINE CREWS VERSUS THE POOL. By F. A. Parker, Chief Dispatcher, Rock Island Lines, Des Moines, Iowa. The article in the August, 1914, issue of the B. R. & P. Employes Magazine, entitled "Regularly Assigned Engine Crews Versus the Pool" is very interest ing. It voices the ideals dear to the heart of every operating man. Every thing Mr. Donaldson has said is true, and many more things from the train dispatcher's viewpoint could also be said in amplification of his points in favor of assigned engines. In substance, the as signment of engines to regular crews is nothing short of inaugurating the "Hine System" in the mechanical department as it puts an assistant master mechanic on each machine. So strong are these convictions that we are liable to lose sight of making the best of conditions which forbid regular assigned engines. To make sure of the right trail, let us begin with a simple little matter; sup pose that you were the owner of a taxi line in, say Chicago. You took over this business in a dull season of the year. ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE 19 Your equipment consisted of your own machine shop in connection with your garage. You had twenty taxis valued at $2,500 each. Your business was not so heavy but what twenty chauffeurs working per your agreement with them twelve hours each day, could handle with ease. You saw the same advantages Mr. Donaldson does in assigning a regular chauffeur to each taxi, in the hopes (and no doubt the realization) that he would take a special pride in the machinery of his charge. He would keep it clean and attractive, avoid spotting the tires, and above all would show you that he was trying to blow up less gasoline than the "other fellow." All of which has a tendency to adver tise your business, reduce your machine shop expense and take a slap at the Standard Oil Co., of whose stock you are probably short. Mark, now, you have agreed to work these chauffeurs not over twelve hours including meals and lunches, per day. You will demand and be granted the decision that you are a level headed busi ness man. In fact, your arrangement of your men has every indication of it. Now, as a generally prosperous season, in all lines of trade advances, your busi ness steadily increasing abreast with the times, you find that your twenty ma chines at twelve hours per day cannot meet the demands. In fact your busi ness has increased forty per cent which of course would require your chauffeurs to remain on their machines twenty hours per day, or eight hours longer than you have agreed. This won't do and you say, "well, if I buy eight more of these $2,500 taxis my chauffeurs can handle forty per cent more business." Eight machines at $2,500 each is $20,000. The interest on this investment at six per cent is $1,200, and the depreciation is $5,000 more. Forget the depreciation beyond knowing it's there and remember the $1,200 per year, $100 per month inter est on the investment of eight more ma chines. You then size up the business and note this rush will only last for three months and you are not financially able to spend $20,000 to secure the doubtful returns on three months' business. You again reason that by pooling your twenty working ten hours each you will have increased the efficiency of your twenty machines the desired forty per cent. Each machine then stands at rest an average of four hours each day for nec essary cleaning and repairs. As a visible gain per month for the pool installed for the three months, or one fourth of a year, credit yourself a third of $1,200 or $400 per month. Now then, $400 per month will place in your machine shop an inspector, two machinists and two car cleaner appren tices, the inspector to keep a record on the gasoline consumption, the repairs, spotted tires, and know that the work reported is done. All this you will insist on and spend the $400 per month freely to tide you over this rush of business and avoid that staggering depreciation figure which applies to an auto. Of course you say those eight autos could be tied up nine months of the year, and lessen the depreciation. This gives you a bright thought in connection with the other twenty the balance of the year. Why not lessen depreciation by tying up eight of them and pooling the remaining twelve among twenty chauffeurs ? Now if you will add one cipher to all monetary figures mentioned you have the case of the railroad company. The ques tion is would you, as a railroad owner buy and maintain eight more engines than you need, when, by spending half or a quarter of the interest on the in vestment obtain the same results? As a further question after your fair-minded answer, can you as an engineer afford to neglect a company's pooled engine any more than if assigned to you ? Can you as a fireman waste your muscle to shovel any more coal into a pooled engine than one you are assigned to? After all, is not the "assigned engine" idea a mere sentimental ghost? Don't you think that if you start preaching loy alty to the rest of the boys in behalf of the company's pooled engines you can bring about that same loving regard for a pooled engine as you have for an as signed ? By a Ripleyism, what's the difference between the number on the cab between friends? machines among twenty-eight chauffeurs Think it over. 20 ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE Annual Report of Insurance Department By P. HEVENER, Superintendent Insurance Department. The annual report of the Insurance Department to the President contains information which should be of considerable Interest to every employe of the Rock Island Lines, because prevention of Area means decreased operating expenses, and decreased operating expenses means prosperity for the company and each individual employe thereof. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1014. we had 008 fire losses involving company property aa compared with 538 the previous year, or an Increase of 70; despite the Increase In number of losses the amount of damage suffered decreased from $155,260.37 to $110,091. 70, or $30.1GS.G7. A detailed statement of what caused these Cms fires, and amount of loss from each cause, will be printed and placed In the hands of employes very shortly. In order that all may note what is occasioning our losses, and that proper remedies may be npplted. The fact that the number of our fires increased with decreased amount of loss. In comparison with the previous year, demonstrates clearly the growing interest which is being manifested generally towards the reduction of our fire waste. Below will be found a statement showing the number of fires' extinguished by company employes with fire apparatus owned by the company, and a:nount of loss, together with schedule vaulation, or possible loss, in comparison with the three previous fiscal years: Number of Amount of Schedule Fiscal year. fires. loss. valuation. 1013-1014 422 $42,305.47 $1,730,720 1912-1013 315 28,924.87 1. 980.825 19111912 283 28,570.44 5.1111,105 1910 1011 J31 56.3S5.90 2.505,075 While It would appear from the above that the work accomplished last yeiir was not quite up to tiie standard of the two preceding years, tht record of each individual fire kept by the Insurance Depart ment, and the circumstances suiiounding same, shows conclusively that the efficiency of our tire brigades, and employes in general, in the extinguishment of fires and handling of fire apparatus, was even greater than in previous years. The fact that 422 out of a total of 608 fires were extinguished by our own employes with our own fire apparatus speaks for itself, and is a record of which we can all feel Justly proud. Below will be found a division of our fire losses for the past fiscal year, divided between divisions, districts and subsidiary companies: Number of Per cent of fires. total fires. Chiengo terminal division 45 7.40 Illinois division 49 S.08 Iowa division 47 7.73 Missouri division 04 10.53 Cedar Rapids division 30 1.04 Minnesota division so 4.94 Dakota division 22 3.02 Des Moines Valley division 17 2.80 Total—First district 3n4 5:>.02 St. Louis division 23 3. 78 Kansas City terminal division 17 2.79 Kansas division 48 7.89 El Taso division IP, 2.03 Nebraska division. 19 3.13 Colorado division 12 1.97 Total—Second district 135 22.19 Arkansas division . 44 7.23 Louisiana division 26 4.11 Indian Territory division 26 4.28 Pan Handle division 11 1.81 Oklahoma division 33 6.41 Total—Third district 145 23.84 Total—All districts 584 96.05 Southern division 12 1.97 Amarlllo division 6 .00 Mexico division 4 .66 Total—C. R. I. & G. Ry 22 3.62 Rock Island Cool Mining Company Consolidated Indiana Coal Company 2 .33 Coal Valley Mining Company Grand totals 608 loo.oo From the above It will be noted that progress is being made towards the subjugation of the FIRE DEMON on the Rock Island Lines, and the thanks and congratulations of the management are extended to all emploves. Let us1 all lend our best endeavors towards making 1914-15 the banner year of all, bearing In mind that CONSTANT VIGILANCE AND CLEANLINESS ARE THE BEST PREVENTIVES OF FIRE. Amount of Ter cent of loss. total loss. $ 3,337.93 2.82 14.150.40 11.89 11.000.31 9.24 6,842.16 5.73 3,962.34 3.33 7,480.25 11.311 6.227.00 4..'HI 4.003.57 3.41 $ 56.079.O5 47.11 000.07 .56 829.57 .09 3,096.31 2.59 4.038.70 3.89 070. 55 .50 862.42 .72 $ 10.704.31 9.01 24.004.01 20.72 0.1X17.04 5.05 7.105.35 5.90 863.64 .73 6.594.00 5.53 $ 45,235.20 37.99 J112.07S.5fl 94.11 6.485.37 5.45 08.50 ."5 39.70 .03 $ 0.593.57 5.63 419.57 .30 $119,091.70 100.00 COTTON MEETING HELD AT CITY HALL, EL RENO, OKLAHOMA A Cotton Meeting Was Called at El Reno on July 21, at Which the Hand ling of Cotton and a Number of Other Matters Were Gone Over Thoroughly. The meeting called to order by Mr. T. H. Beacom, general manager, who acted as chairman, and after expressing appreciation of interest manifested by those present in the successful handling of cotton previous years, announced that the purpose of the meeting was to go over situation thoroughly, and from experience gained during the season just passed, endeavor to improve practices which had not given best results, as well as to modify such practices where changes in conditions demanded. Mayor P. P. Duffy of El Reno then delivered a hearty address of welcome to all present. Mr. F. W. Main, asst. freight claim agent, addressed the meeting and pre sented statistics showing complete loss and damage figures on cotton by divi sions, complete for season 1912-13. and incomplete for season 1913-14. Also mentioned difficulties experienced by the freight claim department heretofore on account of failure of some employes to comply with rules of the cotton circu lar, and read joint letter written by Traveling Agents Cato and McSwayne on the same matter. Mr. P. Hevener, supt. insurance de partment, read an interesting paper on fire losses for season 1913-14, snowing splendid results secured, and compli menting all employes for their co-opera tion in bringing it about. Mr. J. R. Pickering, supt. car service, made an address on how to secure effi ciency in car handling, and the great im portance of doing so on account of heavy expense this company sustains in per diem balances with other lines. Mr. A. H. Kilpatrick, claim agent, ad dressed the meeting, touching more par ticularly on the functions of local agents, with reference to the company and the public, and laying great reference on the fact that railway agents should be as representative in a community as mer chants, physicians, lawyers, etc. Mr. G. E. Schnitzer, chief clerk to Asst. Freight Traffic Manager Morrison, addressed the meeting briefly, stating that from the traffic standpoint every thing had worked out very satisfactorily in cotton handling during the season 1913-14, but that while he had the op portunity, in presence of such a large number of agents, he wished to mention that some agents are overlooking the fact that grain for West Wego via T. & P. Ry. should take Alexandria routing in stead of Ft. Worth, as rates apply via Alexandria only, and if any of it gets to Ft. Worth we will be obliged to back haul to El Reno. Mr. L. F. Shedd. general safety super visor, addressed the meetitng on "Pre vent Injury." He related what had been accomplished on Rock Island Lines since the safety movement started and what should have been, but had not been ac complished yet. Mr. C. A. Searle, general baggage agent addressed the meeting on better handling of baggage, and better atten tion to the making of reports incident to baggage handling. Mr. W. H. Wallace, car accountant, addressed the meeting on prompt prepa ration and forwarding of car reports, wheel reports, interchange reports, and prompt replies to car tracers. Mr. Pat Portel, division freight agent, when called upon to address the meeting, stated he had nothing special to say, any further than he could report good results in his support from agents, when a few years ago results were very poor. Mr. A. G. Morrison, claim agent, talked on what made claims and what prevented them. Mr. Robinson, chief engineer under writers labratories, made an address out lining the nature of the organization he represented, what it was doing towards fire prevention and the manner in which thev went about it. 21 22 ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE Short talks were also made by Mr. E. W. Morris, dist. storekeeper; Mr. R. L Stewart, mech'l. supt. ; Mr. A. A. Dew ing, trav. agt. f rt. claim department ; J. W. Thompson, car accountant C. R. I. & G. Ry. ; Fay Thompson, division pas senger agent; A. B. Copley, assistant, general manager; T. H. Wilhelm, gen eral freight agent, C. R. I. & G. Ry., and Mr. M. J. Dowlin, assistant general freight agent, C. R. I. & G. Ry., after which the cotton circular was taken up and reviewed as shown by new rules is sued and dated Aug. 15. Practically every department of the railroad was represented at this meeting and also the several agents, yardmasters, etc., who have to do with the hauling of cotton on the Third district. There were in the neighborhood of 125 present at this meeting. BUTLER BROS. WIN PENNANT IN MERCHANTS' LEAGUE OF CHICAGO. Butler Bros.' baseball club won the pennant in the Merchants' League of Chicago this year and the Rock Island team finished fourth. Butler Bros. have one of the best amateur baseball clubs ever gotten together. Since win ning the pennant in the Merchants' League they have won the amateur championship of Chicago and are now playing in the elimination series for the national amateur championship. They won from Louisville, Ky., on Sunday, Sept. 20, by a score of 5 to o, and de feated Omaha Sunday, Sept. 27 by a score of 10 to o. They still have a game to play with either St. Louis or Cleve land for the national amateur champion ship. Amateur baseball is attracting a great deal of attention this year. In a game at Cleveland last week the attend ance was 83.700, the largest attendance ever at a ball game. In the game at Louisville, between Butler Bros, and the Louisville team there was an attendance of 7,000. Last year when Carson-Pirie-Scott & Co. played for the amateur championship at Cleveland they attracted 22,878 fans. With the promising material the Rock Island has on hand for next year all the teams in the Merchants' League will have a hard time keening them from the top. DEATH OF MR. G. L. RHODES The announcement of the death of Mr. George L. Rhodes at his home in Chicago the evening of September 23 will be received with deep regret by employes of Rock Island Lines, and more especially by the older employes of the passenger traffic department, who have more intimately known Mr. Rhodes during his many years' connec tion with the company. Mr. Rhodes was born at Hamilton, N. Y., in 1854. He was connected with the passenger traffic department of Rock Island Lines as city passenger agent, general agent and assistant gen eral passenger agent under Mr. St. John and Mr. Sebastian in Chicago during the years 1880 to 1895, inclu sive. In the latter year he left the service, going to New York to en gage in real estate and brokerage busi ness. In 1907 he re-entered the service of the company as traveling immigration agent, his service being continuous from that time to the present. Mr. Rhodes has been seriously ill for the past month, but the news of his death comes as a shock to all of his friends. His body was taken to Grand Rapids, Mich., for interment. The sympathy of his fellow employes and associates in the service is ex tended to his widow, Mrs. George L. Rhodes. Mr. Rhodes was a member of Mount Joy Commandery, Knights Templar. LOSS AND DAMAGE—GRAIN. By F. NAY. In last month's issue of the magazine, attention was called to the fact that the average payments for loss and damage to grain per month aggregated $13,- 946.95 during the year ended June 30, 19 14. The charges on account of pay ments of that character during July, 1914, amounted to $14.834.20—an in crease over the average for last vear of $877.25. This is starting out wrong. Remem ber what the Third District did to Loss and Damage payments for cotton : namely, practically abolished them, and let's abolish the loss and damage to grain. PENNSYLVANIA ENGINEER INVENTS METAL GRIP. Kennedy Kits mark an entirely new de parture in grips and carrying bags for engi neers, firemen, signalmen, machine shop men and others in the many branches of railroad work who use grips. Mr. Howard L. Kennedy, inventor of Kennedy kits made of metal, has been for the past fifteen years, and is now an engi neer on the Western Division of the Penn sylvania Railroad. Out of necessity for a grip to stand the strain of railroading, and knowing from practical experience all the features necessary to an engine man's grip, he devised the idea of making bags out of steel. He is the originator and inventor of the first steel grips and has made a great improvement on the ordinary bag used by railroad men, both in construction and ma terial. Howard L. Kennedy, Inventor of All-Stecl Kennedy Kits. Kennedy Kits are ingeniously made of steel throughout and are patterned after the regulation traveling grips in both bag and suitcase shape. Although made of steel, they are unusually light in weight, being no heavier than the ordinary leather grips. Their weights range from five to ten pounds, depending on size. In appearance they closely resemble leather bags; in fact, it is difficult to distinguish them from ordi nary grips, for they are finished in a leather brown baked enamel in three coats, which gives a lasting finish which will not chip or rub off. They have solid brass fittings throughout, strong Corbin notched locks with individual tumbler keys for each grip. They are protected with solid brass corner iron and fitted with brass side catches. Mr. Kennedy has constructed a disap pearing hinge which not only gives a per fectly smooth outside surface with no rivets showing, but entirely prevents any leakage and makes the grips not only waterproof, but water tight. The lids and all parts are made to overlap, which further strengthens the construction and the waterproof feature and makes Kennedy Kits dustproof, oil and weatherproof. The burglarproof feature of an all-steel grip is of utmost importance, for they cannot be cut into and can be chained if desired. Not only are Kennedy Kits an excellent protection against escaping steam, hot cinders, heated boilers and the many other conditions that so quickly destroy or dinary grips, but they have a general ap pearance and close resemblance to leather which makes them worthy of the possession of the most fastidious. The chief features of Kennedy Kits which appeal strongly to engineers and firemen are their waterproof, wearproof, fireproof and burglarproof fea tures. Another important use of Kennedy Kits is by railway signalmen, telephone and tele graph men, track supervisors, mechanics, tool foremen and machine fhop men, as well as other divisions of the maintenance- of-way departments of railroads. The strength and durability of the grips gives them all the necessary features to with stand the wear and tear of the rough usage given them by the men in these various departments. For uses of this kind, the bag shape is fitted with tray, which has proven to be very popular for carrying small parts, nuts, fuses, bolts, etc. The prices of Kennedy Kits are extremely low, not only for the initial cost but chiefly because of the fact that one grip is good for years of usage. In buying Kennedy Kits you are forever do ing away with the expensive re-buying nec essary with imitation leather, karatol and even genuine leather bags. The fact that Kennedy Kits are the most durable, economical and serviceable grips for railroad men is well proven by Mr. Kennedy's statement that there are over four thousand now in active use on the road and on Mr. Kennedy's division of the Pennsylvania there are eight hundred alone. In putting Kennedy Kits before the rail road men, Mr. Kennedy says: "I have tried to make it possible for every railroad man who carries a grip to have a Kennedy Kit and purposely have made the price as low as good construction and workmanship would permit. Mr. Kennedy is a member of Division 12, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and a former member of A. G. Porter Lodge, Div. 141, B. of L. F. He is still actively con nected with railroad work and divides a good share of his time between supervising the manufacture of his grips and actual work on his engine. 23 24 ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE LOSS AND DAMAGE—LIVE STOCK. By F. NAY. Amount charged to operating expenses, account loss and damage to live stock (year ended June 30, 1914) $209,352.60 Average per month 17,446.05 Month of July, 1914 19,592.19 Increase for month of July over average per month for last year $2,146.14 This does not look good. The ac counting officer is usually considered a good auditor when he presents favorable figures, but when he presents unfavor able figures, he is generally considered a mighty poor accountant. However, if honest, he will present the figures as they are regardless of criticism. If my associates who handle live stock will handle it without damage and get it through to destination on time, I will be able to give you some very fine figures on this subject. Delay in getting live stock to market is one of the fruitful causes of claims of this character. "Safety First" has become a popular and almost universal motto. "On time Second" would not be a bad motto for all those who have to do with the freight and passenger train service. This $209,- 352.60 expended last year for loss and damage to live stock would have paid for 280,000 new treated ties, or more than enough new treated ties for 90 miles of railroad. Let's get the live stock in on time and spend the money for ties. SLEEPING CAR CLOTHES HANGERS. Designed by E. L. Goff, Division Freight Agent, Davenport, la. Mr. E. L. Goff, division freight agent of the Rock Island Lines at Davenport, Iowa, has designed a very useful article for the traveling public known as Sleeping Car Clothes Hangers. We are showing below a photograph of these hangers in use on a Pullman sleeper. When Mr. Goff began traveling regularly in sleeping cars he heard people constantly complaining because of the difficulty experi enced in disposing of their clothes in a crowded car, also because of the "slept in" look their clothes took on after a night s^ent in the hammock provided for that purpose, and the thought came to him that it could be prevented. After several efforts he produced some hangers that took up practically no room in a grip and weighed only a few ounces, which suspended clothes flat against the curtain either from the rail of the upper or from the curtain pole where they were en tirely out of the way and where they were found smooth and unwrinkled in the morn ing. After demonstrating to his own satisfac tion that they worked perfectly and after a number of friends had pronounced them the only satisfactory ones made he sug gested to his two boys that they go into the business of manufacturing and selling them, believing that other travelers would be glad to get away from the troubles men tioned. Clothes Hangers in Use on a Pullman. The firm of Goff Bros, was thus estab lished and they have sent several hundred sets to high-class travelers in various parts of the United States during the past year, while not a single complaint has been re ceived by them during that time. In fact, one prominent railroad man unsolicited wrote them, "I have used your hangers in ■a sleeping car and find them the most con venient device for taking care of clothes that I have ever seen. They work to per fection." Another wrote, "They are worth $5 to me and I would not go on the road without them." Many of the employes and officials of the general office have a set of the hang ers and they all feel that Mr. Goff has fur nished something that the traveling public has needed for some time. Mr. Goff is to be congratulated on his design of these useful articles and all Rock Island employes hope the public will ap preciate their usefulness. Goff Bros, have placed an advertisement in this magazine, hoping to interest our employes. ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE 25 THE RAILROAD MEN'S IMPROVE MENT SOCIETY SEASON OF 1914-1915. Among other things, success depends upon one's ability to become a thinker. A thinker observes his surroundings, listens to those expressions of opinion which ema nate from reliable sources, classifies this in formation; draws certain logical conclu sions applicable to his line of work, and applies these conclusions judiciously. An increasing value of his employer is the re ward of the thinker. The Railroad Men's Improvement Soci ety, which seeks to develop railroad think ers, was founded in New York City. It is in no way a labor organization. Its pur pose is to lead railroad employes to a thoughtful consideration of railroad prob lems and railroad methods. Imbued with the true railroad spirit, these incn, it is as sured, will become reflectors from whom the bright truth of railroad usefulness will radiate among the often misinformed pub lic. The people of the country will then appreciate the wonderful part played by transportation companies in the develop ment of civilization. Once educated to as sume a fair attitude toward railroad com panies, the public will be less inclined to sanction detrimental and often foolish leg islation, which hinders rather than advances public convenience. But, how does the Railroad Men's Im provement Society educate its members? Here is the answer. Meetings of the organization are held on alternate Thursday evenings at 6:30 o'clock in the assembly rooms of the Trunk Line Association, 143 Liberty street, New York City. At these meetings, men prominent in railroad or general business circles deliv ered lectures on appropriate subjects. Dur ing the season of 1912-1913 the following subjects were discussed: "The Business Man of Yesterday and Today;" "The Relation of the Railways to the Post Office Department;" "General Changes in the Laws Affecting Railroads;" "Rail Manufacture and Inspection;" "Rail road Securities;" "The Passenger Depart ment's Position in the Game." From these and other speeches, the mem bers are able to gather ideas that develop their abilities to deal with intricate railroad problems. Those who attend the lectures do not merely listen. One may ask the lecturer questions, express his own views, and even voice a friendly difference to the speaker's viewpoint. The discussion, thus stimulated, is bound to unearth many points of interest. Cigars and easy chairs always stimulate sociability. At the conclusion of an intelli gent talk on an interesting subject, what is mote natural than a comparison of opinion. Neighbor "A" speaks of Neighbor "B" and perhaps expounds a pet theory that he was too timid to voice in public. The fact re mains that the discussion of vital railroad problems is encouraged among those men most interested. Many of the lectures involve discussions of laws and commission rulings. A defi nite idea of pending legislation and its prob able good or evil effect on the railroad and ultimately on the employe is developed. The railroad man is better able to consider the justice or the injustice of the proposed legislation and is better prepared to fight, not only for or against the proposed law, but is inspired to enlist the aid of his ac quaintances. Consequently, the public through the railroad man becomes acquaint ed with legislation and its effect. Unfortunately, the public has been led by friend-seeking politicians and circulation I ! t « i f * t * ? M v f m \ m | - 'r - C. B. Pratt, Superintendent Chicago Terminal and Clerical Force. 26 ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE building publications, to believe the railroad legitimate prey. The public seldom consid ers the stupendous undertakings which transportation companies have the nerve and the endurance to initiate and complete. Difficult transportation problems are solved. Millions of dollars are spent. The result is greater development of the country. But for the rapid growth of the transportation companies, New York City would still be New Amsterdam and "Sir Knight of the Suitcase" would still visit his trade in a stage coach. The information gained at lectures is excellent material to use in changing public opinion. Although not fully developed, the organ ization will be national in scope. Eventu ally societies will be established in all large cities. To encourage nation-wide enthusi asm in the association, printed copies of each speech are issued and may be obtained from members. It is the hope that these booklets will inspire railroad men in cities outside of New York to organize similar societies and that these societies will reach proportions which will influence much fa vorable legislation. We have attempted to outline, briefly, the work of the Railroad Men's Improvement Society. The 1914-1915 season of the New York City society will open in October and will continue until May. It will, undoubt edly, be the most prosperous year ever. During this period many prominent men will voice their opinions on railroad and business subjects. Social activities will also play their part. Those who attend the" lec tures and those who read the lecture book lets will store up much valuable informa tion, which, mentally classified, will aid them in their daily work. As an ambitious railroad man, you are anxious to learn more about your business. Why not send in your application to join the Railroad Men's Improvement Society now? The officers of the New York City organ ization are: J. F. O'Keefe, chairman, 32 Nassau street; C. L. Chapman, vice chairman, SO Church street; J. B. Curran, secretary, 50 Church street; J. G. Austin, treasurer, 50 Church street. UNCLE JONAS TAKES TURN AS PHILOSOPHER "I never see a locomotive that I do not feel like taking off my hat," said Jonas Cook when the Fire Fly pulled into the Rock Island depot at Chickasha, Okla. "Just listen at her breathing as if she were a living being. "In fact, in a great many ways, she is like some men I know, she smokes and drinks water and puffs and blows. When her steam chest gets too full she 'pops off' and in order to regulate her popping, she has a governor. "Some men who are not provided with a good governor (reason) 'pop off' without much provocation. "The locomotive carries enough sand to keep from slipping; grit or sand is neces sary to man to keep him from slipping on the track. "Like some men, when she gets on the 'dead center,' she has to be jerked and yanked until off before she is able to move. "At times, she has to back up, and in this she resembles man. "Sometimes she sidetracks, in order to let others pass. "To do effective work, she must keep on the right track and obey the orders of her master. "She has a tender to supply her needs and carry the food supply from which her motive power is generated. "Like man, she wastes more of the food supply than she uses. "She does her fastest work under high pressure. She must become excited to 180 degrees pressure to the square inch before she will snort properly. "Her master keeps his eye on the steam and water gauges to see that her system of circulation is working right. "She must be oiled and her gudgeons packed to keep her in smooth running or der. Her headlight guides her through the darkness, her whistle lets the public know- she is coming, and her 'brake' regulates her speed and brings her to a standstill. "When sick, she is taken to a hospital and examined. Her crown sheet may need fixing, her flues may have to be bored out. her boiler patched, and all her disabilities remedied. "Before she is put to work she is taken out and tested to see that nothing has been overlooked. "But with all the wonders of the modern locomotive, it is nothing but a 'scrap heap,' were it not for mind to guide and direct it. All force is silent, noise is wasted power. Thought took a bead of sweat from the brow of labor and converted it into steam, and later, thought confined the steam and discovered its power. "The thoughts of all inventors that made the modern locomotive a thing possible would be as nothing if the engineer as he grasps the lever did not communicate through his mind to the machinery what its inventors intended and thought. "Thought moves everything." PLAIN TALK ABOUT USING BURRED TOOLS (Courtesy Illinois Steel Company, South Works, Chicago.) ARE YOU ON THE SQUARE? As an illustration of the necessity for ceaseless vigilance on the part of all con cerned, we show herewith a photograph of a flogging chisel head which was in use by two employes of No. I rail mill on the 29th ult. The use of a head in this battered con dition is a flagrant violation of the safety rules. Combine with it the further vio lation of rules by these men in that their goggles were being worn in their pockets instead of on their eyes while actually using this flogging chisel for shipping, and we have conditions ripe for the loss of an eye. The condition of the flogging chisel shows that it had been in bad or- 4—Is it a square deal to the families of these men for them to so wantonly take a chance of losing an eye? 5—Is it fair to the company when they have preached "safety first" as much as they have ; when they stand ready and willing to supply proper tools ; when they supply without charge to their workmen, goggles for eye protection, to have their employes incur this needless risk of the loss of an eye? 6—Furthermore, while the company might lose a definite sum of money in settlement for possible injury in this case, each of the chippers and every workman in their immediate vicinity, stood a fair chance of losing 50 per cent Is (his a square deal for "SAFETY FIHST" ? der for a time sufficient for a wide awake foreman to have withdrawn it from service and had it repaired. Now, in the light of the facts detailed: 1—Is the whole business a square deal for "safety first" ? 2—Is it a square deal for the company to pay a foreman for the supervision of his men, and also for working conditions, who will allow so flagrant an abuse of rules and tools? 3—Is it fair to the company for the chippers to wear their goggles in their pockets when the company has gone to the definite expense of purchasing the finest type of goggle on the market for the individual use of the chippers? of the most precious gift God has given to man—his eyesight. Think of the rank injustice to all parties concerned in this affair, and then decide once and for all whether you are going to boost for safety. If you are going to be a "booster," pitch in a boost ; go to your fellow work man who is careless, and show him the error of his way. If he will not see it as you do, report him to your foreman, to the safety committee, or to the safety department. Such a course is not "knocking;'' it is self-preservation. If you are not going to be a "booster," get out; we don't want you. You have no place in the ranks of the Illinois Steel 27 28 ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE Company, nor in the ranks of the loya! employes of South Works who want to go home to their families without being maimed or crippled by a thoughless act of their own, or that of a fellow-work man. Whether your occupation is that of laborer, skilled mechanic, foreman, su perintendent, or executive officer, your share in the work of safe-guarding us all is equal and cannot be assumed by another. If we are to secure ioo per cent efficiency in our safety work, every man, from the highest to the lowest, and from the lowest to the highest, must do his share in the work. If one fails, or a dozen fail, we cannot secure a perfect score, for no matter how hard others may strive they cannot make up this def icit. Your share of "safety first" is non transferable. Furthermore, it is an obli gation you cannot deny in justice to yourself and your fellow workmen. The man who reneges in the game of "Safety First" is a coward and a criminal. The man who assumes the obligation and dis charges it fully is simply playing the part of a man ; he is neither entitled .to praises nor prizes nor medals. CARELESSNESS AT GRADE CROSS INGS. Railroad officials throughout the country note that accidents to automobiles on grade crossings appear to be increasing at an alarming rate. Fifteen out of every hundred persons killed or injured in grade- crossing accidents are occupants of automo biles. On this basis there were approxi mately 300 persons killed and 750 injured driving automobiles over grade crossings in the two years ending June 30, 1912, and. while complete figures for the succeeding years are not available, the frequency with which such accidents occur would indicate there has been no diminution but rather an increase in thii class of accidents. At three important crossings on a large eastern railway system a test was recently made to determine with what degree of care the average person approached and crossed the tracks. During a period of eight hours, 923 automobiles crossed the tracks. Of that number the drivers of 801 cars, or 67 per cent, did not look in either direction along the tracks before crossing. There were 83 of them, or 9 per cent, who looked in only one direction, while only 39, or 4 per cent, took the precaution to look both ways. The automobile accidents that occur on crossings are most lament able, the victims usually being men or women of intelligence and good social standing. What makes it all the more dis tressing that these accidents should occur, is the fact that a little ordinary care and caution on the part of the drivers of cars would prevent them. The rule of stop, look and listen should always be faithfully observed at railroad crossings. But few persons properly observe these three words of caution. Oftentimes an accident is the result of attempting to cross the tracks on high gear, with the result that the machine gets stalled on the track, and before the gear can be changed and another start made, the accident has happened. Drivers should always approach and cross a rail road crossing on low gear, and never fail to "Stop, Look and Listen" before crossing. 'The Road of Safety To the Land of Plenty'' Englewood Station, Sixty-third Street, Chicago. One of the World's Most Important Passenger Exchange Points. ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE 29 LABOR DAY AT SHAWNEE, OKLA. By G. W. Moore. Labor Day at Shawnee, Okla., was a most interesting affair, especially the Labor Day float or train of Choctaw Lodge No. 155, International Association of Machinists. Through the courtesy of our master Workers of America, was beautiful in her robe and certainly looked the part of a queen as she passed smiling and bowing in her float. From the sides of the cars were also seen large banners which read, "We are for the merchants who ship via Rock Island Lines," Machinists' Float in Labor Day Parade. mechanic, Mr. O'Neill, the city agent of the Santa Fe, Mr. Ingham, and Mr. Wed- dle, the superintendent of the city street car lines, we were enabled to have a com plete train. Our queen of the day, Miss Vallie Drake, who is a member of the United Garment showing the feeling among the men taking part. We feel especially grateful to our amiable master mechanic, Mr. O'Neill, who spared neither time nor labor in assisting us and we wish to take this means of again thank ing him for his valued services. Rock Island First Aid Corps in Lead. 30 ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE PREVENTING A LITIGATION. A horse belonging to a Polander up state was struck and killed by a gravel train the other day. This particular rail road, detesting litigation, lawyers and court quibblings, makes it a point to al ways settle, if possible, all questions of damages as soon and as amicably as the case calls for. Jerry McCloskey, assistant foreman of the gravel squad, and but lately over from the "old sod," was deputed by the boss to call on the Polander and try to settle the affair at once. And said the boss: "Do not go over $75, Jerry. That will be about right. Good luck to you." Jerry went to the Polander's house and opened the subject by asking: "It wor a horse belongin' to yez that got forninst the thrain the other day, Oi b'lave?" "Yes ; kill now. Bad, bad—" "Oi should say it wor—fur the rail road, begorral What wid spatthering up the works av the engoine, rubbing the paint from the cowcatcher an' makin' a bad dint in the smokestack—" "Bad, bad—" "It wor worse nor bad—it wor inda- cent, begob! Thor wor a v the time he got his "spec's" on Mr. Squirrel got away ; to top this off George aimed at another and missed, the frightened squirrel fall ing down and breaking his back, but George picked it up and beat its brains out, fearing it would get away. Some hunters ! Machinist Apprentice Hazen Moore trans ferred to Cedar Rapids from Eldon. Ask "Pete" Low about the sheriff. Former Government Boiler Inspector E. W. Young, now with Milwaukee, paid us a visit August 24. Machinist Apprentice L. Balcer and Machinist Helper Vomacka spent a few days in Chicago. Machinist Apprentice George Moloney and Chief Clerk to General Foreman Howard Cun ning spent Labor day at Fairfax taking In the sights. Pipe Foreman W. H. Robinson spent two wwks with his family at Grand Haven. Mich. Machinist O. F. Brown visited friends In Sioux City. "Danger !" Keep "Red" Hickey away from acetylene machine. ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE 43 ^^V_ Does Your Grip Continually m Soak Up, Burn Up and Go to Pieces? 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Mill Foreman Ed Carson is spending his vaca tion at the present time. Assistant Personal Record Clerk "Loovie" "Kelly" Kolda spent two weeks' vacation taking in the town. Timekeeper Clarence Moloney reports he lost his regular job, she having ditched him, and is now on the extraboard, meeting all comers. CHICAGO TERMINAL DIVISION. Our congenial chief clerk, Mr. John Elmer Turner, accompanied by his better half, spent his vacation "down home" at Wichita, Kansas. While gone Turner wrote Reaves that all his spare time was taken up playing the fiddle to the tune of "This is the Life" and that he is fattening up on Kansas chickens. Well, we don't blame you, old sport, for fiddling "This is the life." We wish to apologize for an error in com piling last month's news. We told you that Emil was riding around in his new Ford. Emil was very much put D|it on this account as he was riding a "Studebaker Six." All right, Emil, we'll buy. Bill Walpole was on the sick list for a couple of days. No, the city series have not been played yet. Miss Blanche J. Conlen spent a few days in Kansas City and reports having a good time. Accountant Carl Oman has left for the wilds of northern Michigan where he will spend a few days hunting tor big game. Good luck, Carl ; bring home the venison. Morris Cohon was seen hanging around Gresham Tower Saturday, Sept. 12th. What's tne attraction, Morris? John Mahoney, that tall, husky and handsome towerman of ours, will spend his vacation visit ing In St. Louis and Kansas City. Girls, keep your eyes peeled, he is single, but . We've got to hand it to Reaves. He got one- third the population of Arkansas here to keep the burglars away—just for the summer, that's all, as these individuals can't stand this clime after Oct. 1st. Signal Mtce. Foreman J. P. Zahnen, wife and daughter Edith spent their vacation in Toronto and Niagara Falls. We certainly got a great big surprise on the morning of Sept 10th when we heard our dear friend, Mike Doyle, away down in Trenton, Mo., was the proud father of a nine and one-half pound boy. Well, Mike, we hope that you and your wife will make a president out of Paul Joseph. We wish we were there or you were here to smoke on the good news or Paul Jo seph's future. Towerman Chas. Punter decided to spend his vacation in the Rockies. John Rowan, our O. B.. took a day oft* to at tend the Orangemen's picnic. John, don't let Walpole see your badge or you'll have to take a couple of days more off. DIRECT WAR NEWS FROM THE FRONT. By Special Correspondent. R. O. Ckisland. Several of the girls complained bitterly about an Army of Meuse that were continually mak ing depredations on their supply of food for the noon lunch and committed such atrocities as nibbling such articles as layer cake, ham sand wiches and the like. We also heard screaming and yelling one day and upon investigation it developed that one of their men (they are all infantry) had approached the girls as close as two feet but fled when reinforcements arrived. General Harold Von Frudenberger was in structed to destroy the Army of Meuse and to allow no truce nor take any prisoners. After considerable maneuvering and making several flank movements he drove the enemy into the shelter of their forts. After a siege of about ten minutes the great general decided to use strategy and retired several paces. The enemy believing that our forces were retiring in de feat immediately left the shelter of the fort In hot pursuit. General Frudenberger by another flank movement of the left wing of his army turned the enemy's right and succeeded in get ting to the rear of them and immediately bot tled up their fort. The enemy after struggling fiercely against our trained and hardy troops began to retreat to the west as they were hemmed in on all sides and fell Into our trap which had been placed previously to retiring. The entire army of the enemy consisting of three Meuse was destroyed. General Von Fru denberger, after modestly accepting his just praise, retired from active service, resuming his regular vocation as file clerk in the office, which he holds during time of peace. If any of the Rock Island Lines' force, In any part of the country, are being threatened by either an Army of Meuse or an Army of Rattes we will gladly loan our general for a small consideration. As the opera season is drawing near, the office force is compelled to listen to the harmo nious humming of Jack Leeney, who has accept ed a position as leader. Leeney sings Bare of tone. Leeney is there just the same. Towerman Wm. Hickey and family spent their vacation visiting relatives in Phillipsburg, Pa., also visiting Washington and New York City. Miss Evelyn "Babe" Parker, who left us last month, was married on Sept. 15th to the "best man in the world" (she says), Mr. Joseph Erickson, who is employed by the L. S. 4 M. S. Ry. They are spending their honeymoon "Down in dear Old New Orleans." Good luck to you, "Babe," and regards from the force. One of the boys who has never been to Silvis asked Conductor McMahon what the place looked like. Mac replied, "Every time I went by the place there was a box car In the way and I could not see the town." Joe Everling has got into "some" quartet. If they ever get close enough to Halsted street the Salvation Army will have an increase. M. Cohon. the only boy on the west side with a "Seneca Eight," was around the office demon strating how to take photos inside without flashlight. Some stunt. Broderick was Interviewed Sept. 17th by a delegation from the City Hall. The dope Is Moss will be running for something if he keeps in this political biz. Somebody said Cohon brought his camera to the office to take a picture of Walker's new shirt. Miss Sorgenfrei while walking a dash for a lunch counter the other day stubbed her big toe and lost about 10 minutes. Some stub. Walter Peterson took a short trip to Starved Rock Park to give the scenery the once over. Signal Extra Gang Foreman S. R. Sithens and wife are spending a few days In Three Rivers, Mich., visiting relatives. Signal Malntainer C. G. Thompson has just returned from a pleasant trip through the east and reports that Broadway is as gay as ever. Miss Cora Gose and Miss Feldkamp took a trip to Starved Rock Park on Labor Day. Miss Gose came back the next morning with a stiff neck. We would like to know what Miss Gose was looking at so much. The human pencil eater, the boy that comes down in the morning and chews up his pencil by noon, says he will stop the practice if we do not give him a write-up. All right, old man, we will give you a chance. 47TH STREET SHOP NEWS. Miss Marguerite Reddy. stenographer M. M office, took her vacation commencing Septem ber 16, and is visiting her parents at Delia, Kan. Mr. James Hogan Is the new clerk In general foreman's office, vice Phillip Reilly, promoted to timekeeper. Mr. Dave Goldstein of the stores department has returned to work full of vigor and with a new lease on life after a strenuous vacation In Colorado. We understand that Mr. Ganzitt's supply of "Fatlma Coupons" Is running very low and we wish to advise him that he will have to do some hustling if he expects to win his much wanted prize. ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE 45 It is reported that Mr. Adam Williams and Miss Louise Pearson were married July 29 on Maricopa Special en route to Starved Rock. His many friends at the shops Join In wishing him success and everlasting happiness. Miss Mary Murphy, our genial telephone ope rator, has returned to her board after a tour of Connersvllle, Ind., and "The Dells" of Wis consin. She reports a most magnificent time and returns full of vigor and joy. Mr. James Prantle, chief fireman, power plant, 47th street, left September 15 to take charge of the power plant at Manley, Iowa. You have our best wishes for success, James. It Is reported that Mr. Oscar Heilman of the Stores Department was seen standing at the side of the stage door of the "Avenue" theater last Tuesday evening holding a bouquet of or chids. Probably Mr. Heilman will be kind enough to explain. Mr. D. Ross, timekeeper, M. M. office, died suddenly September 6th of heart disease. Mr. Ross had been employed since July, 1911, as telegraph operator, coal chute foreman and time keeper and was apparently in the best of health and spirits leaving work on the eve of Septem ber 4. but was found dead In bed at 6:30 a. m., September 5, by his wife, life having been extinct some five or six hours. Mrs. Ross has the heartfelt sympathy of all his many friends In her sad bereavement. DALHART, TEXAS. Mr. C. A. Peal, trainmen's timekeeper, and family returned August 19 from Chicago and other eastern points from his annual vacation. Mrs. F. C. Gabbert, wife of our old train men's timekeeper, now chief timekeeper in Su perintendent Wallace's office at Manley. Iowa, was here on a visit about the middle of August. Mr. E. S. Sell and wife left August 15 to visit home folks and friends in Pennsylvania. Emory is not a full-blood and says he has no desire to go any further than New York. They returned August 30. Mr. W. T. Hayden from the E. P. & S. W. was appointed dispatcher, August 7, relieving T. A. Tarvin, who Is away on his annual vaca tion, spending It In New York and other points. Tom appeared upon the scene September 1, re lieving Dispatcher Rice for a few days. Our faithful janitor, Thomas Tubman, left August 10 for Kansas and Iowa points on his vacation, which he certainly deserved. He was back at his post September 1. He came back alone. Engineer J. O. Parker of Pratt was a wel come visitor here several days the latter part of August. Mr. J. E. Beaty, B. & B. foreman on Ne braska, has been appointed master carpenter, vice Mr. B. C. Ware, transferred to Kansas division. We welcome Mr. Beaty. Mr. J. I. Johnson, general agent, Amarlllo. was transacting business in Dalhart. August 31. Mrs. N. E. Reynolds and daughter Maurlne left August 28 for Kidder, Mo., where Miss Maurlne will enter school. Mr. J. N. Bethea, rate clerk In Mr. H. W. Morrison's office. Little Rock, Ark., at one time clerk in Superintendent Greenough's office, was a pleasant visitor here September 1. Welcome. Nels, come again. Mr. W. E. Nulph. at one time joint inspector here, now car foreman, F. W. & D. C., at Texllne, was a Dalhart visitor between trains August 30. Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Kllngman are the proud parents of a fine boy born September 4. Mother and baby are getting along fine. Dave Is not doing very well, but the doctor thinks he will be all right In a few days. Shorty Kramer, for several years conductor here, now working for E. P. & S. W. at Tucum- cari, was a pleasant visitor here Labor day. Mr. A. C. Johnson, private secretary to Mr. Greenough, has been acting as chief clerk while Mr. W. C. Jones was away on his vacation. The following Item appeared In the Dalhart Texan : "A girl baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. Cy Batis September 2. Mother and child are doing nicely, but Cy is grumbling about the high cost of living." Mr. J. A. Stalcup. O. 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Sign and mail us the following coupon today, when we will send a set to you at our expense, without any obligation on your part, and will send return postage if not satisfactory. Is that not fair enough? COUPON — —* GOFF BROS., DAVENPORT, IOWA You may send a set of your Sleeping Car Clothes Hangers to me at the address shown below, it being understood that the postage will be paid in both di rections by you if not satisfactory, otherwise I will remit $1 .00 for them. Name Street City State. Worth, Houston and other Texas points. 46 ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE Robert "Jeff" Rouse, train caller, has re turned from his vacation, mostly spent in Colo rado. While there the office force received a fine bushel basket of peaches whicn were much appreciated, and we are wondering if he cannot be persuaded to go again soon. Dispatcher F. B. Rice, returning to work, relieved Extra Dispatcher Hayden, who left for El Paso September 13. J* .* DENVER, COLORADO. Work has begun on Denver's new union sta tion. Mrs. James T. Lee, wife of Freight Agent Lee, Kansas City, made us a pleasant call this month. Mrs. Lee was accompanied by her daughter Frances. M. B. Irwin, L. S. agent, has been camping around Denver recently, soliciting stock ship ments for the R. I. A solid train of 22 cars sheep passed through Denver on the 9th. There will be quite a movement from this territory this fall. Fruit is moving nicely from Colorado, averag ing a train a day. Looking over the Kansas City items last month we note "The Maiden's Prayer" by Jane Cashen. Miss Cashen was formerly employed in this office, and showed considerable ability In a poetical way while here. Claim Adjuster Stiers was a Denver visitor recently. Superintendent J. A. McDougal attended su perintendents' meeting, Denver, the 10th. Over 2.700 people attended the Flagler fall festival, held at Flagler, Colo., August 28. Ten years ago this would have been most of the pop ulation of Kit Carson county. Not so today. No news is good news. ■< J* ELDON, MISSOURI, NEWS. By B. H. W. Victor Rose, local ticket agent, departed on his vacation, which he will spend at Pocatello, Idaho, with his father after making a short visit with friends at California, Mo. Lee Baucom, Index clerk, received a mes sage informing him that his father was dan gerously ill and left for Cuba, Mo., at once in order to be at his bedside. O. D. Taylor, yard clerk, is performing the duties of local ticket agent during the absence of Mr. Rose. Chairman's Special passed over the St. Louis Division Friday, September 11, members of the party being Mr. T. M. Schumacher, chairman of the board and executive committee ; Mr. A. E. Sweet, general manager ; Mr. G. W. Rourko, assistant general manager, and Mr. H. E. Cor- rell. superintendent. R. S. McMeans. pay roll clerk, is being re lieved while on his vacation by L. B. Navlor, formerly O. S. & D. clerk this office. A. D. Spauldlng. carpenter, has been pro moted to water service foreman, St. Louis Divi sion, vice A. Funke. resigned. W. M. Maxwell, trainmaster's clerk, resigned to accept position as private secretary and short hand teacher In the Normal Institute at Mary- vllle, Mo. L. H. Gunter, chief dispatcher's clerk, was married to Miss Fay Phillips at near Windsor, Mo., at 6 p. m., Wednesday, September 2. All the boys wish "Deacon" and his wife much happiness and prosperity—and all say the cigars were very fine. Dispatcher L. H. Bolander and Wrecking Foreman C. W. Cain will leave the last of this week for Oakley, Kan., where they intend to trade some farms they own there for Eldon, Mo., property. Mrs. N. R. Davidson, wife of Dispatcher Da vidson, left for Lawrence, Kan., to spend a three weeks* visit with her mother. J. P. Self, chief clerk, and Engineer A. B. Stanley spent a couple of days in Cedar Rapids, la., last week. W. W. Griswold, stationer, was a visitor at Eldon. September 18. Mr. Griswold Is making a check of the stationery on the St. Louis Division. Agent H. W. Haase at Carrie avenue, St. Louis, spent a couple of days visiting relatives at Sullivan, M°- A large movement of new box cars, being constructed for the St. L. B. & M. Ry., are being received at St. Louis at a rate of about 30 cars per day for movement over the St. Louis Divi sion. These cars are being forwarded to Her- ington for flour and grain loading to Galveston and New Orleans. EL RENO, OKLAHOMA. The improvement in the parking around the office building In the past few months has been wonderful. The grass is a solid mat, well kept, and as level as a floor. The fence Is more than attractive, and with the present painting of the telephone poles the employes at El Reno are proud to say that they have the nicest and best kept office building to be found anywhere. The many friends of Mr. Lewis Johnson and Miss Mary Salmon were given a complete but pleasant surprise when upon their return from Shawnee, Oklahoma, September 8th. they an nounced their marriage while celebartlng Labor Day. Mr. Johnson has until recently been em ployed as secretary to assistant general man ager and has many friends who will be pleased to hear of his wedding. Mr. Don Allison, assistant red ball clerk In the general manager's office, has resigned to attend school the coming year. His place was filled by Ed Grangean, formerly mailing clerk. Mr. George McLain has accepted the place as mailing clerk. Conductor T. G. Heth of Shawnee, Okla.. Is In receipt of the following letter from the Pas senger Department: "Mr. J. H. Richard, our depot passenger agent, informs mo on August 25th you per suaded 15 passengers who were en route to Altus to use our line, Oklahoma City to Elk City, these people coming into Oklahoma City with the idea of taking the Frisco from that point. "This is certainly a nice piece of work on your part and I wish to thank you very sin cerely for the interest manifested in behalf of the Passenger Department." If Oklahoma published a boosters' list It Is evident Mr. Heth would be among the leaders. Mr. O. K. Curry has accepted the position as secretary to Mr. A. B. Copley, assistant general manager. The general manager's staff, consisting of Mr. A. B. Copley, assistant general manager, Mr. R. L. Stewart, mechanical superintendent, and Mr. F. T. Beckett, engineer maintenance of way. have just returned from a complete Inspection trip of the district. Meetings were held at the more Important division points, and quite a lot of interest was displayed at all points. The co operation of the Rock Island family can be relied on any time. Mr. Max Ruppert, son of Superintendent C. L. Ruppert. left the fore part of the month for St. Charles. Mo., to enter St. Charles Military Academy. The boys around the general office building will miss the smiling face of Max. The Oklahoma division safety meeting was held September 25th, with a very large attend ance, every member of the committee being present, and quite a number of visitors. The meeting was very Interesting and very benefi cial to all concerned. Trainmaster Homer Falrman of the Oklahoma division and wife have been off on a week or ten davs' vacation. Conductor Stansbury and wife. Oklahoma di vision conductor. Is off on a vacatioon fishing with Trainmaster Falrman and wife. When they return there will no doubt be some large fish tales told In the office. On September 15th the Oklahoma division handled a train load of flour, consisting of thirty-six cars, from Wellington to New Orleans. for export. It Is needless to say the Oklahoma division, as usual, gave this train first-class movement. Adrian Paid of Chiokasha. Okla., has accepted the position of secretary to Superintendent C. L. Ruppert. Miss Flo Perry, formerly of El Reno yard office, has succeeded Miss Hattle Ellsworth as stenographer In the Oklahoma division office. Miss Ellsworth has accepted a position as stenographer on the Amarillo division Mr. E. D. Williams, maintenance clerk In the Oklahoma division office, passed around cigars ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE 47 Sept. 15th, account of rejoicing over the arrival of a beautiful baby daughter. Mr. Howard Martin and wife, formerly em ployed on the Oklahoma division, but now agent at Hartford, Ark., have just completed a trip through Utah, Colorado, Illinois and are now at El Reno visiting friends. Frank Craig and wife of Salida, Colo., are visiting friends in El Reno, Mr. Craig having formerly been employed in Oklahoma division offices. Mr. R. E. Sloan, Panhandle division account ant, and wife spent their vacation in San An- tonia, Texas, visiting relatives. Mr. A. G. Morrison, claim agent, and wife entertained a few friends with music and danc ing a few evenings ago in honor of Mrs. H. W. Hugden and two children of Ft. Worth, Texas. Mr. E. M. Lewis, claim adjuster, just re turned from a very pleasant two weeks spent at different points in Missouri and Colorado. Mr. Lewis tells some very interesting fish stories, but we are wondering if he could "show us." Mr. F. P. Wilson, trainmaster's clerk of the P. H. division, has been taking a few days' va cation during past month. Mrs. E. E. Sawtell and baby will leave in a few days for a visit of some weeks with friends and relatives in Iowa. Mr. Sawtell will join them sometime near the first for a couple of weeks' well deserved vacation. Mr. J. L. Curry is sojourning In Colorado for a few weeks. Engineers have been making test holes on the South Canadian river near Bridgeport, Okla., for proposed new bridge to replace the one destroyed during high water last May. Division Engineer F. Nugent has been suf fering from Injury to his left foot. His foot and a nail seemed to have had a little alterca tion and the result was that the nail seems to have put forth the best argument. So far we have failed to see any pictures In the Employes' Magazine of the different office forces taken some months ago at El Reno. Miss Grace Jackson, printer operator, has just spent a week-end with friends In Chick- asha. Miss Neosha York of El Reno and Miss Grace Denison of Snyder spent Friday, the 18th, in Oklahoma City. The new style Morkrum Punch, lately in stalled in the telegraph office, is a great Im provement over the old, and is grately received by the printer operators. At present electricians are installing the new Varley, loop bridge test ing set. Mr. W. F. Kahr of Oklahoma City and Mr. Anderson of Des Moines are new operators in the relay office. Jt Jl HAMILTON PARK KRISPETTES. "Georgia Cullins Wins." King Kinney, Editor. After due consideration, KRISPETTES. the name submitted by Georgia M. Cullins of Her- ington, Kan., has been awarded winner of our name contest. In picking the winner, the judges kept In mind the following requirements: Originality, Individuality, and a name that would essentially convey the policy of the column It would head. The next three best names submitted were : "Breezy Bits," by Sid Crowley ; "Kanned Bunk" by Jos. E. Burns ; and "Dippy Dope" by I. B. Dam of Kansas City. Miss Cullins, the winner of our contest. Is the aggressive young suffragette who conducts the Herington. Kansas, News. We would publish her picture for the benefit of our readers, but owing to the fact that Georgia has not had her picture taken for years, we are unable to do so. Miss Cullins has had an adventuresome career, in fact, her life's story sounds like one of Laura Jean Libbey's heroines. She has traversed the globe a number of times, can speak seventeen different languages. "Si non e vero, e ben trova- to." and had an awful dream on her vacation. A brief but comprehensive review of her life will appear in our column in the near future. We thank all those who supported our con test so loyally by submitting names, and regret that there can he only one winner. The Railroad Clerk. Each day you will read in the papers of the When It Rains it s not a question of work or no work, but of keep ing dry while you work. The coat that keeps out all the wet is REFLtEX SLICKER o water can reach you even through the open ings between the buttons. Our famous Reflex Edges keep out every drop. Make the Reflex Slicker your wet weather service coat. It's the best your money can buy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Send for catalog showing many j. o /v\ r* 1 Fuh Brand garments. $3.00 Everywhere PROTECTOR HAT "■ J- '"WLKLU. (waterproof) 75 cents BOSTON TpYESIGHT is man's most valua- *-* ble possession. Its preservation is more impor tant than any other thing except life itself. Y"OUR occupation is one that is a risky one, especially for your eyes. VDUR employers want you to 1 wear proper eye protectors and will tell you the kind to wear that are best suited to your in dividual needs, or we will, if you will write to us and we will tell you where to get them or will supply you ourselves. F. A. HARDY & CO. JOHN H. HARDIN, President 10 S. Wabash Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. deeds of a brave engineer, whose heroism saved 48 ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE the passengers' lives, who knows not the mean ing of fear. You will read of the charm and the romance of a railroad man's life, but it's always the flagman or fireman who's a hero in the strife. You will never read in the papers a tribute to the railroad clerk who works in the general office, who never has time to shirk. You have heard of the girl in the song who danced her heart away; you never heard a song of a railroad clerk who is pushing his pen all day. But, nevertheless, they are heroes, and they know not the meaning of fear, their story is unsung in glory, still theirs is a romantic ca reer. K. E. Darnoc has dashed off the following tribute to Frank Lyons, which we heartily en dorse. Frank is true blue, plays the game on the square, and Is hard to beat: Here's to the boy who is witty, Who always spreads good cheer; Whose smile is always welcome, And never has known any fear. Oh, what would we do without him. This choice of all old scions. So let us lift a glass to him, boys. Our dear friend, Frank Lyons. While strolling out of a motion picture em porium recently we discovered Thomas Durkin in company with a beautiful "auburn" girl. Tommy declined to give her name for publi cation, but we have inside information that says it was Catherine McKlllip. You do love strawberries, don't you, Tommy? J. D. Reale was promoted to All the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Champion, who has accepted another position. Lillian Nelson and Lillian Vock were visitors at Niagara Falls and Buffalo early in September The editor of The Poetry Magazine has offered $100 for a war poem. We have written the fol lowing and suggest that the editor send over the hundred by special delivery: As he gazed at the Indians around him. That were scattered and dead, Bostad softly murmured: "I filled them full of lead." Henry Ruben and Charles Geringer spent their vacations jointly and visited Pittsburgh, Wash ington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlantic City, New York, Albany, Niagara Falls and Buffalo. They report a grand time and Henry states they will announce their engagements in KRIS- PETTES. Special Interview. The Mysterious "B. R." There's a girl in the heart of Chicago, and she is some girl, believe me; as I gazed out of the window at the "L" below I could see no old apple tree. Then I asked her for an inter view, and she said "Yes" to me; for this girl In the heart of Chicago is the mysterious "B. R.," you see. When I asked her a question she would hesitate and smile and gaze down on the floor. She told me her name is Blanche Rich ardson, so we won't call her "B. R." any more. "I was born on a farm in Wisconsin," were the first words she did say. "I don't like this big city, some time I'll go back home and stay. I long for the perfume of the clover and the breath of the new-mown hay. Can you blame anyone in this city for dancing their hearts away?" Just at this moment the door opened and our old friend John Simpson, editor of this publication, ambled into the room. "Ha!" he cried, with the deductive power of a Sherlock Holmes, "getting an interview? I am sure everyone will laugh and cry over the romantic career of the rosy-cheeked blonde at the edi tor's sanctum." As the editor passed her his compliment Miss Richardson laughed and passed over it lightly, but, believe me, Blanche is a rosy-cheeked blonde, one of the kind over which poets rave. After Mr. Simpson had exited she confided to me that "Mr. Simpson is a peach and so is Mr. Reisman." I agreed, so they must be a pair of peaches. Continuing the interview, Miss Richardson says she loves to row, has read volumes of books; also she thinks E. K. Lincoln is the darling of the screen, and after much hesitation she stated that she likes to hear a certain musician play the trom bone. I won't mention any names, but he is a lucky Perdawicka. And that was the end of the interview, except that she visits her horns town once a year and takes a keen interest in our name contest. What do you think of the winner, Blanche? We are in receipt of the following letter, post marked Davenport, Sept. 13. It speaks for itself: Silvia at Bat. Second Inning. "Perhaps the gentleman at Hamilton Park consumes all the news he gets like a shark; to read his opinion to my lot today fell, and 1 wondered why he compared our village witn— Blue Island. Now the gent that wrote all this dope heretofore don't work in a bank or clerk in a store, but rushes around in our big Silvia shops from whistle to whistle with very few stops, and were you to stop him and ask were he well, he'd probably answer 'I'm living in—Blue Island.' More than fifty years old, as he said in his letter, but fifty years young would be putting it better, and were you to fol low him to some city hotel you would find he would register William Creen.—Silvis." The author of the above does not wish his name mentioned in connection with the Item: suffice it to say that he is one of the boys at Silvis shops and knows whereof he speak* Thank you for the verse, friend. My good friend— As to the reason we called Silvis Blue Island, I could give you a lot of dope that would open your eyes a little bit, just like witch hazel soap. I could tell you the story of Warner, who went on to tell the editor a lot of reasons that prove Silvis is—Blue Island. But why linger on a painful subject, my friend? I bet you're In tears, so dry your eyes for a moment and w-e will give William Creen a few cheers, for he deserves a lot of credit, even if at the hotel he has the courage to register "William Creen of Silvis." Yours truly. King Kinney. War News. We hereby declare this column neutral, and pick the White Sox to win the city series. Do you want peace in Europe? If so, drop me a line signing your name and address, and I will see what can be done. Fred Amas says "King" Kinney is doing a splendid piece of work in inaugurating a peace propaganda. He deserves the thanks of hu manity. Walker Smith abdicates. "You deserve the title of "Peerless Diplomat.' I hope to see the day when you will be in the White House." Miss Hanson suggests that we put William Leonard or John Hayden on our peace com mission. Harry Alonzo Beste spent his vacation at home and was under his wife's care for ten days. "I love the cows and chickens, but this is the life." Brother Pierce has lost his heart to a beauti ful girl named Miss Hurrie. No wonder Pierce hurries. Happy Hallberg is still single and continues to be known as the "Happy Kid." Paul Roettgen recently motored out to Grass Lake and spent a week at Johnson's Lake Re sort hunting. Three ducks and one klngrall fell before his marksmanship and he reports a very enjoyable time. It is reported that Miss Fehrlng has fallen a victim to one of Cupid's darts, but so far we have not discovered who the lucky man Is. Won't someone tell us, please? Napoleon Matthews of the APT is some speaker and delivered several orations during the political campaign just ended. Monson and Harrell continue to celebrate, but nobody seems to know the reason why. Mabel Carson left us on Sept. 23 to take up her household duties as a newly-wed. She car ries the best wishes of the APT. Anna Hunt opines that the APT is a regular matrimonial bureau, as there have been about ten brides in the last year. "That is romance," as Hoy MoMaster wTouId remark. "It's an ill wind that blows nobody no luck," but why is it Miss Krohn enjoys rainy days? There's a reason. Miss Myrtle Koch remarks that the APT is like Lover's Lane during the noon hour, as every lassie has her laddie, with the exception of Frances Davis, whose "honey man" works in the A. of D. ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE 49 Kichard Terrence Hanrahan continues his at tempts to rival the weather man. A scoop at last—Miss Hanson has a favorite dessert, and she passes up everything else for It. What is it? Why, rice custard, and Airs. Wright also loves It. They're turning them away at the Lyric Theater in Roseland this weeK, and there is a reason. Peter Spruit has returned to his home town and is singing his way into the hearts of his townfolks. His engagement is for one week only, as he is booked for Chicago commencing next week. William Petersen wishes Gavin Ross many happy returns of the season. Happy, what do you mean, Willie? Elucidate. Blanche Richardson of the editorial office is an enthusiastic kodak girl and has a collection of prints that cannot be beat anywhere. Blanche has consented to act as camera girl for "Krls- pettes" and we expect some of her work to ap pear in this column In the future. H. Duggins Koch and Axel Anderson recently conquered Earl Wiley Stark and J. Romeo Davis on the tennis green. Two out of three sets. No, friends, Lyda Egan did not faint when she discovered her name In our last issue. On the contrary, she capitulated, after much per suasion, to allow us to print her name once a month. Thank you, Lyda. Miss Diefenbach, the girl with the sunny smile, has been ill for the past few weeks. Here's wishing the "Interlines' Ray of Sun shine" a speedy recovery. Edward R. Conrad Interviewed. You have all heard Hans Wagner called the Pittsburgh baseball club and Ty Cobb desig nated as the Detroit Tigers, but did you ever hear a man called the "Interline Switching De partment?" If your mind has never been thrilled by hearing someone referred to under that copious title, you will be glad to meet Edward R. Conrad, who Is known far and near under that alias. Mr. Conrad has consented to be interviewed so remove your wraps and pre pare to listen to the awful details of his career. Yes, he is guilty of a terrible crime. He was born In Chicago and spent his boyhood days in Evanston. Horrible, Is it not? Mr. Conrad has been a Rock Island man eight years, is the pic ture of health and energy, can use the brains God gave him, and his ambition is to reach the top of the ladder. He Is a born hustler In the strictest sense of the word, has been married six years to one of the best women in the universe and has two young sons. "I love the movies," said Conrad, "and my favorite player is little Mary Pickford; I think your magazine Is great and I have every copy from the first is sue; I don't like Mt. Greenwood, although they have a pretty fair Judge out there. Say, you ought to see my two boys; one of them is going to be President of the U. S. A. and the other one president of the Rock Island. I also have two nieces who are pretty as dolls. Oh, yes, I love to fish, and at one time a thirty-pound salmon dragged me around the lake for an hour and a half before I finally landed It. And thus I heard the story of the life of the "Interline Switching Department." J* J» HERINGTON, KANSAS, NEWS. Georgia M. Cullins. Dispatcher Paul Johnson and wife, also her sister Miss Bess Traister, have returned from an outing at Colorado City, Colo. Mrs. J. A. Davidson and little son have re turned to their home In Gilliam, Mo., after a visit at the L. L. Lyne home. Conductor J. A. Cunningham has bought him self a new buzz wagon. Now for the joy rides, boys! If virtue were as unusual as vice, It would get Just as much publicity. Mrs. J. C. Stickley and son Larry have re turned to their home in El Reno, after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Sherrill. Webb Disney, the car distributor says, "Move on, business is rushing, got a bunch of all agents, get your envelopes ready. Oh yes, news Is short but sweet, just like that box of chocolates we got from Cedar Rapids. Yum, yum, we sure love candy, but some of the send them back These gloves made from Extra Quality fi r e - proof horsehide. Tanned by special process. They will not shrink or harden effects of steam tor water. Can be washed. A splendid wearing glove. Made on the seamless palm pattern. Always soft and pli able. Made for comfort, fit, jnddurabdity Colors, drab or brown. We will send you a pair for inspection. Look them over well and if you are not thoroughly satisfied and glad of your bargain — at our expense.—Surely a fair offer. Better Than You Have Bought We know our gloves are right and want to prove their value to you. Our gloves are built by men with a know ledge of the needs of the men who wear them. We have been making gloves for railroad men for 32 years. You wont regretbecoming a wearer of our R R. Specials. Send your order today. And if you are not satisfied with your gloves return by express at our expense and your money will be promptly refunded to you. Sizes, 7H. 8, 8%, 9 and 10 Special proposition to dealers. CHICAGO GLOVE & MITTEN CO. (D Dept. 10 , 458 North HaUted Street, Chicago. HlinoU Rock Island Standard Uniforms and Caps have been furnished to the satisfaction of every body interested for the past fourteen years by James H. Hirsch & Company CHICAGO M. F. BIRK, Manager "We are still on the job" bunch here forget It." 50 ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE Hogenwonlng, the operator, or "Dutch" as the boys call him, says business Is pretty good and looks out of the window to see what Is going on. Steve Carr is back on the Job again as gen eral yardmaster, after a couple of years stay in the East. He says if they could only have a few more derailments In the yards maybe we could get something done. "Bill," the Janitor, says he don't have time for any of these canned Interviews as he Is too busy hustling Ice to keep the drinking water from boiling nowadays. Bluford Johnson, chief dispatcher, generally known as B. J., says, "Don't bother me, just got back from my vacation; too much work, ain't got time to talk." Not saying much for Tom, you'd think he never worked any while B. J. was gone. Poor Tom. Mike O'Haver, personal record clerk, can't take his mind off the different brands of type writers long enough to tell you anything about himself. J. E. Ruby, one of the waddling twins, hasn't time to talk cause he wants to get the C. T. 80 report out in time to go to the ball game. Val Enlow, the other twin, hasn't time for eating. We can't say whether it's the fine eating Griers puts out or the girls he likes to talk to. We'll admit though that Val sure likes to eat. F. S. Greene, dispatcher, says, "Behold my sun-tanned face, I've been sojourning In Cal ifornia." Great! Say, I tell you boys, you ought to emigrate to California. Paul Phillips, former trainmasters clerks otherwise known as "Pinky," has done the dis appearing act around these parts and has now taken up his abode at Haileyvllle as car dis tributor. Morrell Pritzler, who has been visiting home folks, has gone to Manhattan, where he will enter school. P. Dame sure had the time of his life when a oar of French went through on number four the fourth. H. M. Peyton, route agent for the express company, was a Herington visitor the ninth. We understand there is a young lady up about Marysville who has taken Harold Lar imer to raise. Wire Chief Louie Ingram and wife will leave the 16th for a month's visit in Kansas City, Beloit, Topeka and Colorado Springs. Operator W. R. Johnson and wife are visit ing in Kansas City a few days this week. The man who poses as a lion in society is usually a bear at home. Mrs. Nelson, wife of Operator Nelson, spent a couple of days here last week. They will move nere as soon as they can And a suitable house. Dispatcher Tom Bryden is visiting in Kansas City this week. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Allen returned the 10th from Chicago where they spent a month. They were accompanied by Mrs. Allen's nephew, who will remain for a short visit Mrs. G. J. Callahan has returned home after a couple of weeks' visit in K. C. Signal Maintainer Gus Schaub took his wife to Hutchinson this week where she will be op erated on. Mrs. Schaub has been in ill health for the past couple of years. No girl should forgive a young man for steal ing a kiss unless he gets busy and returns it promptly. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Phillips have been enjoy ing a visit from their nephews, Kenneth and Phillip Hughes of Emporia. Miss Ruth Holt and Miss Lucille Garner of Topeka visited a few days at the Harvey Holt home. Sidney Spangler of Kansas City has been a visitor at the J. E. Ruby home. Harry Bucher, who has been laid up for the last couple of months with rheumatism, is now able to be about on crutches. Miss Margaret Phillips, daughter of Train master Phillips, has gone to Topeka where she will attend school this year. The reason some people don't get their prayers answered is because they ask for more than the Lord has In stock. Miss Minnie Miller of Raymond, Mo., came In the 9th to spend the winter at the D. L. Miller home. The Christian ball team went to Abilene to play the team at that point, but were beaten 3 to 2. The boys a Abilene are nice, but the girls are nicer vote August, Chester and Jesse. How about it, boys? A. B. Dickens is now division lineman In place of Charles Randal, who has moved to Topeka. "Jimmy" Doyle says he is looking for a wife and thinks that the Rock Island Magazine would be a good place to advertise. Sam Costello, express messenger, spent a few days in Kansas City. James Lyne returned from his Colorado trip as bright as a new nickel. J. W. Bestgen, express messenger, has re ported for work after a couple of weeks' sick ness. Joseph Ratliffe of Salina is the new stenog rapher at the bridge yards. Berney, the bridge foreman, says he can't see why we're always putting in something about the new ones, says we might smile at some of the old ones once in awhile. Harry Haas and wife were called to Wichita Falls, Texas, account of sickness of her sister. Robert Davis, former bill clerk at the freight house, has accepted a similar position with the Missouri Pacific at Kansas City. Logan is now bill clerk and Ralph Naill is filing the vacancy left by Logan as freight clerk. Express Messenger R. L. Parks is spending a couple of weeks In Kansas City and Wichita. One of our machinists' helpers, Mr. Smalley, is making frequent trips in the northwest part of town. Some say he is contemplating buying a few lots along the shady lane, but the facts of the case are he has a fair lady who is draw ing his attention that way. We all have it, Roy. Mrs. G. W. Rourke and children who have been visiting at the F. S. Greene home, returned to their home in Topeka the 6th. Frank Giltner, formerly express agent at this point, is now running a store at Latimer for Ream Bros. The writer enjoyed a week's visit at the J. C. Stickley home in El Reno the latter part of August, returning the first of September accom panied by Mrs. Stickley and little son. A. Meyers is now private secretary to Mr. H. L. Reed In place of J. S. McKee, who has gone to Chicago. James Lee returned from Salina and reported the time of his life. No wonder, his best girl was there. Harry Stover has what he calls a magic pig ; you see him now and then again you don't. He has lost considerable time hunting the country around for that pig. The ball game between the carpenters and truckmen resulted in a victory for the former 19 to 8. Good game. Wm. Broddle, machinist helper, has resigned and gone to Manhattan to college. Harry Pelter was looking at some diamond rings last Saturday night, said he was con templating buying one. Who is the lady, please tell? Harold Hallock has resigned and accepted a position at Topeka. It Is reported around the shop that the sound of wedding bells will be heard soon. For the answer ask Mr. Kochnouer. Gent McDonald went to Salina to the Fall Festival. We heard his lady friend from Solo mon was to accompany him. Mrs. Herbert Collard of Buhl, Idaho, is vis iting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Miller. Mr. Collard is expected later on for a short visit, after which they will return to their home. Mr. Collard was formerly a switchman here. Miss Mary McSweeny, cashier at Grler's, is taking a short vacation. Her place is being filled by her sister Viola, night cashier. Doc Hambleton and Zelon Hough went to Trinidad. Colorado, to take an outing. Doc came home on schedule time but Zelon put up the story that bridges were washed out was the reason he didn't come back on time. We doubt his word and think some' fair lady was to blame instead of bridges and high water. Fess up. Zelon ! Mr. G. W. Rourke was an office visitor the 16th, leaving on the president's special south at 8 a. m. the 17th. ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE 51 THE SIGN OF T.W. Snow Construction Company CHICAGO Engineers and Builders ■I _*»AK Hall Switch & Signal Co. SO Church St., New York Pooplaa Ga^BIdg., Chicago. Worka: Garwooi. N. J. Montreal Coaling Stations, Water Stations, Water Treating Plants, Tanks, Water and Oil Cranes, Pipe Lines. i^KELSWIR&COS- S KSN'AL WIRE To Railroads: We are manufacturing an extremely high quality of Signal Wire, meeting the exacting requirements of the Rail way Signal Association. Thirty per cent Para Rubber, cylin drical, true to gage and thickness of wall, and subject to critical examin- tion at every stage of manufacture. SampUa on applies 175 W. Jackioo Blvd. CHICAGO 19 Cedar Strati NEW YORK 1'nitaxl tUmln Sfa*l Pr*4a*t» Company Marsh & McLennan INSURANCE IN ALL ITS BRANCHES 5 Bithopigate LONDON 300 Nicollet Ave. MINNEAPOLIS Whan Writing to Advertisers Pleaae Mention Hock Island Employes' Magaalne. 52 ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE The bridge and building department of the Kansas division presented Mr. F. L Park with 4 very handsome watch and chain on his pro motion to trainmaster of the Colorado Division, and with It their best wishes for success in his new position. Wm. F. Davis, claim investigator, spent a week's vacation in New Mexico, El Paso, and al so took a trip Into Old Mexico, the latter part of August. ILLINOIS DIVISION. Mr. C. C. Quigg, agent at Mineral, has just returned from an extensive vacation. The pit of the Chicago Sand and Gravel Company at Rockdale is now operating both night and day in order to supply gravel ballast for the Illinois division. The ballast work is progressing nicely, with six extra gangs en gaged in the work. On September 8, and again on the 14th, we handled from Rock Island to Chicago, special five car trains of French Reservists. Appar ently these Frenchmen are very true to their colors. Mr. G. P. Nissen, formerly assistant mainte nance clerk at the superintendent's otlice in Rock Island, has resigned and returned to his old haunts at Herrlngton. It is understood that some certain young lady brought about the change. Mr. A. J. Kunckel, agent at Bishop Hill, 111., has just returned after enjoying a pleasant va cation in the east. Mr. J. L. Hayes, our division engineer, seems proof against the loss of anything but hats. Fortunately, however, he has been able to re cover it. Ho now has a string on it. The Illinois Division is busily engaged In relaying 20 miles of 85-pound rail with new 100-pound steel in the vicinity of New Lenox and Tiskilwa, A race horse special, consisting of six cars, en route Kansas City to Chicago, passed over the division on the 8th inst. Mr. B. G. Freytag, agent at Reynolds, 111., has just returned to his duties after a pleasant vacation of sixty days. It will be gratifying to Illinois Division em ployes and interesting to others to know that the division reached its high water mark dur ing August. The tonnage handled exceeded that of any other month in the history of the division by over 7,000,000 gross ton miles. The superintendent's office at Rock Island seems to be infested with Browns, the one new addition being W. E. Brown. Dispatcher K. K. Kinderdlne spent a pleas ant vacation fishing and hunting among the Missouri Ozarks. He did not boast of his suc cess on his return, so it Is fair to assume that he met with luck. Dispatcher H A. Thayer spent a portion of his vacation on his farm in South Dakota. Miss Elsie Nelson has returned from sojourn ing in the vicinity of Denver. She must have had a good time, as she came home "broke." She was preceded by Mr. Lewis Hauck, who never saw a mountain until he was 23 years old. Dispatcher Warner reports necessary to wear raincoats In the vicinity of Bureau. He pat ronizes a laundry at that point so that he will have a suitable excuse for the many trips made to that town recently. Chief Dispatcher Martin must have paid full price for his new fall hat. We heard no com ments on reduced rates. SILVIS, ILLINOIS. By C. O. A. Mr. Edward Carlson, stenographer in the assistant superintendent's office, is spending his vacation at Dallas, Texas. Machinist Carl Russ of the tool room Is passing around cigars on a new baby girl, born at his home September 16. Machinist William McCIure, who has been laid up for some time with typhoid fever, is reported improving. Our shop doctor, Ed V. Krone, and family spent their vacation on the Paclfle eoast at Astoria, Oregon, and Seattle, Wash. Machinist Percy Fry of the rod gaag joined the matrimonial club the early part of Septem ber. Machinist Charles Forsberg Is wearing the baby smile. A baby girl was born at his home September 3. Our hello girl, Miss Bull, spent her vacation camping on Rock river near Hillsdale and re ports a fine time. The boilermakers' convention, District No. 10. comprising the Rock Island lines, held their tenth convention In Moline in the week com mencing September 16. All parts of the system were well represented, 36 delegates being In attendance. Chairman McGowan introduced Mayor Carlson of Moline, who extended to them the welcome of the city and arranged with the Greater Moline Club to take them for an auto trip which the delegates greatly enjoyed on the afternoon of the 16th. A big smoker was held In Rock Island on the evening of the 17 th, which was well attended by the local boiler makers and helpers, an enjoyable evening being spent The Silvis Glee Club was present and helped to make the evening a success. Mr. Shannon of the Glee Club made quite a hit by singing "Fido Is a Hot Dog Now." Mr. Green of Silvis acted as one of the toastmasters. The delegates left, being well satisfied with the hos pitality of Local 377. Mr. C. T. Wolfe and wife spent their vaca tion at Topeka, Kansas City, and Trenton, Mo. Mrs. J. Keogh and two daughters of Chicago spent a week visiting Mr. Keogh, boiler shop foreman. They visited the Rock Island Arsenal and other Interesting places In Moline vicinity and were well pleased with their visit Machinist C. E. Comfort and family are spending their vacation at New York City and other points in the east. George H. Pike of Silvis has returned to Champaign to take up his college studies. J* Jt IOWA CITY, IOWA. Operator F. R Kuhns and wife visited at his parental home in Rolfe, Iowa, over a Sunday the latter part of September. Day Baggagemaster J. S. Martin and family spent two weeks in southern Oklahoma. Jim reports crop in good condition, also that Okla homa possesses a "free" bathtub. We are in formed Jim got desperate and took a bath, 5 months before a birthday, too. J. S. relieved on days by Night Baggagemaster J. Grady, who in turn relieved by Larry Burns from the Cedar Rapids division baggage department. Larry Burns, who has been day baggageman at Depot No. 2 the past two years, has resigned his position and will attend school this coming year. By the time these notes reach the editor we presume C. K Leinbaugh, commonly known as "slipper," "the slippery kid" and "slim," will have left the brotherhood of "biscuit grab bers" and have taken out a hunting license, married, settled down, and, we trust, cut out his bad habits. Full details will be given in the next issue of this magazine. Operator Gould is preparing taking a side course in the liberal arts of the state university, in connection with his employment with the C. R I. & P. Agent H. D. Breene started for the lakes In Minnesota to spend his vacation but on the trip was detained several days account sudden Illness of his nephew In St Paul. We have been Informed that A. T. Burnett of the freight department In this city is con templating running for justice of peace, he hav ing taken his first lesson In judicial matters by "setting in the wobbly chair." Urban Schindhelm (to avoid war complica tions we decline to state nationality) has re signed his position with the Iowa Glove Com pany and Is again secretary to Agent Breene. It never did seem right that "Schlndy" should have left the Rock Island. We welcome him back, only he does not want to start anything after he leaves the freight depot. Dubuque street crossing watchman, H. Con- samus, was struck by 97's extra several weeks ago. receiving several severe cuts on head and chest. Latest reports, Mr. C. doing splendid towards recovery. Comments made because no Hems appeared last two issues. The writers wish to state up to this time we have been unable to secure any "state liability accident insurance." ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE 53 •psjrater B. W. Stuart and family spent a few dan In Atlantio In September. J. S. Fattee, formerly baggageman at this point but more recently of the block signal de partment. Is again In Iowa City preparing to undergo operation for appendicitis. Mr. Pattee is now employed by the C. M. & St. P. near Chicago. The small son of Operator B. W. Stuart un derwent an operation at the University hospi tal recently. Mr. I. J. Gittins, who was so badly injured in a motor car accident at Newton several months ago, has fully recovered and is again at his post of duty as bridge foreman. We all rejoice at Mr. Gittins' recovery. The new furnace installed In the passenger station will add much to the comfort of patrons of this company during the winter months, also the passenger station employes. C. W. Sangster and Fred Kinney, two Iowa Cny boys, are now employed with extra block signal department gangs on the East Iowa mak ing needed repairs. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. The smiling countenance, the cheerful and in imitable ha-ha of W. D. Fernald, Jr., our own dear "Bill," has been temporarily removed from our midst, but we pine not, for we know he'll return. Bill has done gone and shied his som brero Into the matrimonial arena, the happy event having taken place on the eve of the 16th inst., when he took unto himself Miss Minerva Metcalf for a bride, pledging a vow to love, honor, obey, protect and provide for her so long as they both do live. The ceremony was performed at the residence of the groom's par ents, 917 Bast 9th street, in the presence of a host of immediate relatives and intimate friends, who were wined, dined, and enter tained with music. The contracting parties re ceived many beautiful, costly and useful pres ents from those who had gathered and wish them well on their Journey of matrimonial bliss and the flower-bedecked home was the scene of great merriment and pleasure until a late hour. "Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one." Gone to Salt Lake on their honeymoon. Mr. Chili Con Came (Hot Stuff) left Kansas City Tuesday for parts unknown—evidently Germany-—as Carney's chief Interests lie with the Germans. Although a native of the Emerald Isle, where many times he kissed the blarney stone, the love of sauer kraut has tenaciously fastened Itself upon our friend and to war he will go and fight for it. Hoch ! Der Kaiser ! Carney ! MANLY, IOWA. Miss V. Luini Mutch of Grundy Center spent the week end of September 12 with Mabel H. Westcott. Getting mad Is a favorite human occupation, consisting of cutting out the muffler and taking the hands off of the steering wheel, mentally. When a man gets mad he stops thinking with his brain and turns the job over to his fists and lungs. Then he produces a mess of Ideas a3 a child produces art with a pall of red paint. There are two times In which to get mad. The right time and the wrong time. The wrong time is whenever you can't help it. There is nothing more pitiable than a man who is con stantly abducted by his temper ; and no one so easy to hoodwink as the man who allows his opponent to do the thinking while he is burst ing at the seams with righteous Indignation and producing vast clouds of smoky language which is beside the point. Getting mad keeps about as many men hunt ing jobs a3 getting drunk does. There are, however, men who use getting mad as a weapon of offense rather than a defense, and who have their temper ready to harness up and turn loose like a Are engine whenever the alarm comes In. When a man saves up his mad for an important occasion an>! explodes on schedule time he is a formidable opponent. The right time to get mad is just after the other fellow has shot away a'l liis ammunition and is trying vainly to get his SAFETY FIRST Take No Chances With Your Health Railroad men, above all others, must be at their best to meet the mighty responsibilities their duties involve. You can't feel right, be right, work right, if your head is all chucked full of a cold. You can't step out of a steam heat ed coach into a raw, freezing temperature without inviting a cold. Your main protection is good "cold proof" underwear. "WRIGHT'S" underwear is designed primarily to pledge this protection. T "Wright's" Underwear Made in suitable weights, either Union Suits or Shirts and Drawers. It is better underwear, 27 years of ex perience says so. Ask your dealer and insist on having WRIGHT'S UNDER WEAR only. Send for Cata logue. WRIGHT'S UNDERWEAR COMPANY, Inc. 75 Leonard Street, New York City WRIGHT'S SPRING gCxI NEEDLE TRADE n£/ MARK RIBBED UNDERWEAR brain in gear again. We must all get man 54 ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE MAM NathaN COAL SPRINKLER Accidents to Engineers and Firemen from hot water on account of blowing off of sprinkler hose elim inated by using this independent Coal Sprinkler. Throws Water 25 feet at a Temperature of 95° Sole Licensees and Makers NATHAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY 101 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. Western Office: 1612 Old Colony Bldg.. Chicijo. III. Patent Applied For PHoe $5-00 Net TEXACO THE MARK OP QUALITY FOR ALL PETROLEUM PRODUCTS TEXACO ILLUMINATINO OILS TEXACO NAPHTHAS TEXACO OASOLINES TEXACO LUBRICANTS High Grade Lubricating Oils and Greases for all conditions. TEXACO MOTOR OILS TEXACO ENGINE OILS TEXACO AXLE QREASE TEXACO RAILWAY OILS TEXACO ROOFINQ TEXACO FUEL OIL TEXACO BITUMENS AND CEMENTS Scientifically prepared for special purposes such as PAVINQ, ROOFINO, WATERPROOFINO. MASTIC PIPE COATINO INSULATION THE TEXAS HOUSTON COMPANY NEW YORK BRANCH OFFICES Boston, St. Louis, New Orleans, Pueblo, Philadelphia. Norfolk, Dallas, Tulsa, Chicago, Atlanta, El Paso. now and then but should Insist on setting; the dates ourselves. W. J. Edwards, the oldest conductor on this division, passed away August 28. He was one ot the best liked conductors on the division, had a smile for everybody, and his death was a severe blow to all who knew him. K. H. Peters, shop timekeeper, has been keeping company with one of the young ladies of this town for the past year and is a regular attendant at the new moving picture show. Look what money you could save by getting a little house and getting married, Pete. All the boys would be glad to see him married. H. W. Walter has been appointed chief dis patcher and division operator, vice R. M. Heath, resigned. Hank, you have the best wishes of all the employes of this division and we wish you success in your new position. V. B. Davis has been appointed acting night chief dispatcher with the title of assistant chief, vice J. L. Gibbons, who has resigned to accept a position as chief dispatcher at Oska- loosa for the M. & St. L. Good luck, Van. This division made a good showing on the fair trains during the Iowa state" fair at Des Moines, handling over 10.000 people. The run formerly held by Conductor J. W. Edwards, deceased, has been filled by F. J. Cain, who ran 67 and 68. Miss Hazel Pearson and Miss Hazel McKercher made a trip to Minneapolis Saturday, Septem ber 5, to visit with friends. Marve Jacques, chief clerk to General Yard- master Lang, was called to Hampton September 5 to spend Sunday with some folks. He failed to respond and the boys want a detailed ex planation as to why he failed to go. Some thing of greater Importance must have kept him here. How about It, Jake? C. H. Greaver, roadmaster, has taken a two weeks' vacation and expects to spend about four days attending the roadmasterr convention in Chicago. W. C. Bacon, traveling refrigerator inspector, was a visitor at the office September 9. Looks fine. J* Jt MEMPHIS TERMINALS. During the month of August nearly every official from the general offices visited Memphis and the consensus of opinion was that Memphis' new local freight station Is the "last word" In beauty and thoroughness. Vice President A. C. RIdgeway, Chief Engi neer C. A. Morse and General Manager T. H. Beacom passed through Sunday, August 23, on a tour of inspection of the system. Mr. Edward Perry Kelly, special representa tive of the executive department with headquar ters at El Reno ; General Passenger Agent George H. Lee from St. Louis, General Manager T. H. Beacom of the third district. Passenger Agent Fay Thompson from Oklahoma City, and Division Engineer A. C. Shields were all in Memphis on August 15. The embargo on wheat caused by foreign wars brought us a very pleasant visit from Freight Claim Agent W. O. Bunger and Car Accountant W. H. Wallace during the middle of August. The accumulation of export wheat held at Hul- burt, Ark., has now all been moved. Station Supervisor H. H. Gray spent several days In Memphis in connection with the handling of wheat through the terminal. On Invitation from Local Agent W. L. Stout, the Memphis Local Freight Agents' Association held their September meeting in the new Rock Island freight house on September 1. Mr. Stout, who is chairman of the permanent local committee on accounting, also held a meeting of this committee in his office on September 9, the principal topic discussed being "Interline Settlements." Mr. J. P. J. Hanson, outbound abstract clerk, underwent a serious operation on September 6. but Is reported to be doing nicely. Mr. J. W. Harper is now transferred to the work on Mr. Hanson's desk, and Mr. B. L-. Schlesinger of the car desk is relieving Mr. Harper. Mr. O. E. Stokes is doing temporary work on the car desk. "A service inspector named Dammltt Opened a door just to slam It ; He ripped and he swore, Caught his nightie in the door, ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE 55 And wired Bill, who repeated his name, Just once more." For further information write Mr. J. H. Dimmltt, service inspector, El Reno, Okla. Traveling Agent L. E. Cato of the claim department was In and out on several occa sions. Mr. W. J. Cottlngham, chief claim clerk, was off a week on vacation, brought about by a bad cold from staying out too late too many nights, and a heart attack. It's the same girl, not hard work, as he would have you believe. A staff meeting was held for the month of September on Sunday, the 13th, attended by all the local office and warehouse force, as well as the agents from Brlark and Hulburt. The meeting was interesting and instructive, and a wide range of subjects was discussed. Mr. V. K. Rice, special accountant, in a per sonal letter to Local Agent W. L. Stout, says : "Tour new local freight office Is very fine. I took a look at it the other evening." There is a neck and neck race between the chief bill clerk in the local office and chief car inspector. They are both pulling hard on the heart strings of our car record clerk. Mr. R. J. Burns of the bill desk was called to Napoleon, Ohio, on account of the serious illness of his mother. Memphis warehouse now has 50 new two- wheel pressed steel trucks, equipped with shock absorbers, electric starters, with the following chauffeurs : Pig Meat, Teddy Bear, Boll Weevil, Rabbit, Pinkie, Mink, Trash Daddy, and Buf falo. J)t Jt NEBRASKA DIVISION NEWS ITEMS. By M. B. K. C. F. Llndqulst, our geniai agent at May- berry, went to Beatrice single September 22 and returned double. Miss Mabel Bell was the happy bride and she has a right to be in getting a life partner like "LIndy." We all extend con gratulations and best wishes to them both. Superintendent Sheahan and Mrs. Sheahan departed for New York City September 3 where the latter will make an extended stay for the benefit of her health and also to visit her parents. The employes of the Nebraska divi sion wish Mrs. Sheahan a speedy recovery. Mr. Sheahan will return at once. O. H. Buchanan and wife and W. A. Archer and wife spent about ten days In Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Chicago and report a very pleasant trip. W. B. Kinnamon spent a pleasant vacation in Illinois. F. H. Hurless and wife and daughter were in Chicago and Detroit for a few days and Mr. Hurless is very enthusiastic about the beauties of the latter city and thinks the skyscrapers of Chicago compare very favorably with those of our town. W. H. Brown must have had a very exciting time in Kansas City a few weeks ago (?). Operator Phleger was called to Kansas City August 28 on account of the illness of his sis ter. She has our best wishes for her speedy re covery. Effective August 15. Assistant Chief Dis patcher C. H. McGee resigned. Mr. McGee has many friends on the Nebraska and other divi sions of the Rock Island, who wish him suc cess. A. S. Bishop was promoted to assistant chief dispatcher and F. C. O'Hara is the new trick man. We wish them both success. W. F. Luke has returned to his post at Du Bois after a vacation in Canada and the north western part of the United States. Car Foreman G. C. Brown returned Septem ber 6 from two weeks spent in Colorado and Montana. Wire Chief W. V. Corp Is spending his vaca tion in Kansas City. VALLEY JUNCTION SHOP. By the Shop Reporter. Announcements have been received of the mar riage of Miss Helen Foley of Topeka, Kan., and J. F. Thompson of Valley Junction, which oc curred at Topeka. September 9. After a trio through Colorado Mr. and Mrs. Thompson will be at home to their friends October IB. "Fred" and his bride have the best wishes of all for a When in Kansas City STOP AT ouse OPPOSITE UNION DEPOT European Plan Restaurant a la Carte Street cars to all parts of the city pass the door The Merchants-Laclede National Bank of St. Louis $1,700,000 $1,700,000 United States Depository Capital - « Surplus and Undivided Profits Union Stock YardsINational Bank WICHITA, KANSAS Especially organized and equipped to encourage and develop the Livestock Industry in Wich'ita Territory. OFFICERS P. T. RANSOM J. M. REYNOLDS President Vice-Pres. and Cashier C. T. ABELL, Asst. Cashier DIRECTORS C.H. BROOKS E.A.CUDAHY J.S.JOSEPH P. T. RANSOM J J. M. REYNOLDS CHAS. H. SMITH J. A. McNAUGHTON long, happy and prosperous life. 56 ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE Labor Foreman Samuel Walden, while watch ing a swarm of bees, accidentally let a heavy timber fall on his feet, bruising them very badly. Samuel was confined to his home for a few days on account 01 the injured members. Sammy, "Let the little bees be." Material Distribution Clerk Nicholas Ver Steeg is building a rive room home on 5th and Vine streets. He is contemplating making his home strictly modern. Machinist Apprentice James D. Hodges, for merly of Pratt, Kan., has been transferred to this point to complete his time. Miss Josephine Morrison, stenographer, Is again on the job, having been confined to her home on account of illness. Timekeeper Roy Sheets was called to Ottum- wa, Iowa, on a lawsuit September 8. Says he enjoyed the trip immensely, but was never so hungry in all his life before as on said trip. Roy's idea of a good meal was changed greatly during this trip. On Septomber 8 Harley Knowles, light repair man in coacli yard, had the misfortune to get a hot cinder in his eye. He was. however, able to resume his duties a few days later. Now that Locomotive Foreman Ruiter has purchased a new Overland we hope he will keep his promises and take us all out for a joy ride. Would request that Mr. Ruiter take special notice. Machinist Charles J. Thompson, wife and daughter attended the wedding of Mr. Thomp son's brother Fred at Topeka, Kan., Septem ber 9. Evidently Joe Verplanck does not let the war interfere with ills prosperity, judging from the number of stones he has been buying recently. Machinist Charles Roper, alias "Slippery Dick." has rented a five acre farm north of this city and is going into the farming business on a large scale. Slippery says he has waited a long time for a chance like this. He con templates raising poultry and popcorn. We all wish him success in his new undertaking. On September 3 Mike Hannon, machinist, was seriously injured. Mr. Hannon Is not yet able to return to service. Beware! Any one questioning the ability of Eddie Collins is sure to start something if he mentions same when Clifford Miller Is near. It has been understood by a friend of the "Pi rates" that Collins lias been visiting Hans Wag ner, shortstop for the Pittsburgh Nationals, getting a few pointers on the game. Has Miller anything to say in regard to this matter? Now that the Iowa State Fair is over. It Is surprising to see the smiling faces of some of the shop employes. The only thing we attribute these smiles to is that their better halves are back on the job after spending a week at the fair grounds. The eating houses, church booths, etc., on the fair grounds employ an enormous force of women, and this in their estimation is a pretty soft way of making the price of a new fall dress or hat, but as to the poor fellows that have to stay home and "batch," it Is a different proposition. Some of them look as though they had been sick for a month, and this, I suppose, Is caused from over-eating. Nearlng the end of the 1914 baseball season we find the grand old Dutchman, Hans Wag ner, still living up to his old time reputation : "In fact it surely seems as though Old Time would get him never ; For fans and players come and go But Hans goes on forever." We often wondered why Roy Sheets used to sit In the store room with his trousers' legs tied—for of course Roy is not afraid of mice or rats. Mr. Miller, better known as Eddie Collins, will soon have to undergo a serious operation. An X-ray examination was made a few days ago and the result was that they found that a baseball had settled on the brain. It's a mighty good thing that the baseball season is almost at a close and that Boston don't have to play Philadelphia many more times or he would ■ever recover. Poor boob, no hopes. T wonder what has become of Dody? We have a party at Valley Junction that hands out five dollar bills instead of one dollar blls. Some kid ! Some changes are being made In the store room and the other day when the file clerk passed the rivet rack he asked the storekeeper, "What In the world are you going to do with all those staybolts, and where do these little quarter-Inch staybolts go?" Now what do you think about a question like that for a man that has been on the railroad for the last forty- seven years or more? Mr. Elmer Stone, formerly Index clerk, has resigned and Is first to take a trip to see his little Kansas rose and then will return to take up another long nine months of school work. We wish him success in his school. Mr. O. G. McCall has accepted a position a-s crew clerk and you may bet It Is quite a relief on "Mose." Of course, when McCall isn't busy we keep him looking up records to pass the time away. Mr. Sam McCluskey Is now bill clerk and always on the job from early to late. Oh, yes, we are having a new roof put on the yard office and hope they won't stop at that because we sure do need a new floor. Mr. Charley McCluskey is our new day carder and likes the job fine. Mr. Lawrence Stone has resigned his posi tion as chief clerk and has accepted a position as bookkeeper with Davidson Bros.' furniture store in the city. Mr. A. J. Rattelle has takeii the position as chief clerk again. We see Burt Well is a-going to take a little trip to Casey. Don't know Just what is the at traction down there. Our old friend Ramback Is still trading. If you have anything to trade just see Rammy. Switchman Chas. Shuey got hurt last week, but we hope not very seriously. Mr. Vollintine is our index clerk now. and he sure has pretty rosy cheeks. He says the wind makes them red, but paint will sometimes do the same thing. We are certainly seeing the effects of a flood, as last night we had the hardest rain we have had since 1903 and ail of Valley Junction was most under water ; washed all the tracks out so that It was impossible to get a train through either way for several hours. Most all the help was late to work, but they had so good an ex cuse that not a word was said. Thanks to the flood. WEST DAVENPORT, IOWA. By C. E. Alford. There has recently been put Into service another switch engine in this yard owing to increasing business. Mr. George Austin Is In charge. Mr. Paul McStein has severed his connec tion with the company and has gone back to work for Uncle Sam. Paul was a day yard clerk here. The Purity Oats Company are erecting an other department of their factory—the building is going to be several stories high and in close proximity to the plant. What they Intend to manufacture has not been given to the public yet. Business on the Missouri division seems to be on the Increase and there Is considerable grain moving. Rosenbaum Grain Company of Kansas City seems to be the heaviest shipper of grain from the Kansas territory, where abundant crops are being taken care of. The Milwaukee division Is moving grain for Minneapolis very steady and business on that line seems to be rushing. The California fruit business Is holding Its own in fine shape. The number of shipments Is now over the 600 mark. The rock train In the vicinity of Buffalo Is taking care of the quarry business and assisting in gravel work which is being carried on near Falrport. Mr. R. J. Doty Is relieving Mr. A. C. Hen- drlx. who is taking a vacation. The Industries in this vicinity are doing good business, according to the drags that come off the river line. The Independent Baking Company's new plant is progressing very satisfactorily In this vicinity. The plant is to be a large one and will cover considerable ground. The friends of Operator J. L. Sumner will he pleased to know that he Is erecting a home In Peoria of the bungalow type. Jack Is a busy man In the office at the yard in Peoria. On September 2 our night yardmaster. Edwin Brown, passed away. He was born In Chelsea. ADVERTISING SECTION 57 Mass., in 1849. He was employed in railroad ing for a number of years before coming to Davenport in 1882. Since that time he had been in the service of the Rock Island, night yardmaster for 32 years. Mr. Brown is survived by his wife and two daughters, Mary E. and Edna E., and one stepsister, Mrs. Gage Pox of Pelham, N. H. The funeral was held at the home, 1926 Brown street, Friday afternoon, September 4, at 2 p. m. Many of the employes were present and among those that acted as pallbearers were Mr. Tom Fenders, yardmaster, Davenport, and Mr. Pen- ders, yardmaster for the D. R. I. & N. W. at Rock Island. Interment took place in Pine Hill cemetery. Mr. Brown was a man of loving character and was highly esteemed by ail those that knew him. All extend their sympathy to the bereaved family. On Sunday, September 6, Lincoln Beachy flew in his aeroplane over the office at West Daven port and was witnessed by the employes that had to do duty on this day. On Sunday, September 6, the Milwaukee Southwest Limited was several hours late ac count of a washout on their road due to the heaw rain that fell Saturday night. The train passed this station at 8:20 a. m. Rollle Moore, operator at Nanant, is off for a few days on business. Jim Greenland relieves Moore and a new man relieves Jim. Jim Greenland says he is going down in old Missouri and live on a farm where he can dabble with old mother earth to his heart's content. That's the only place, Jim. Mr. H. W. Kroy is day yard clerk In place of Paul McSteen. Shirley President Suspenders Feel better- last longer •' Satisfaction or money back" SH\ Be sure "SHIRLEY PRESIDENT" is on buckles Tke C A. Kdcartoa Ufa. Co., SUM?;, M».,. patentsrarer BOOKS, ADVICE, SEARCH AND I 1TDF17 LIST OF INVENTIONS WANTED f " Rtt >k«tcb or model far March. Highest Rehrcncea. Result!. PromptMa* Altered. B«l Watson E. Coleman, Patent Lawyer Cut Over Pine Lands in Louisiana EXCELLENT FOR FARMING We will sell in small tracts to actual settlers Industrial Lumber Co., Elizabeth, Louisiana. Stands for Quality therefore Economy JEROME-EDWARDS METALLIC PACKING CO. CHICAGO 624 F. Street N. W. Washington, D. C. CHICAGO BEARING METAL COMPANY OFFICE AND WORKS: 2234-2252 West Forty-third Street CHICAGO Journal Bearings, Engine Castings, Brass and Bronze Castings for all purposes. Babbitt Metal. PIERCE OIL CORPORATION Refiners and Marketers of Highest Grade Petroleum Products Home Office: 420 Olive St, St. Louis, Mo. BRANCH OFFICES i St. Louis. Mo. Little Rock. Ark. Shreveport, La. Oklahoma City, Okla. City of Mexico. Mex. REFINERIES \ Sand Springs, Okla. Tarnpico, Mex. Vera Cruz. Mex. When Writing to Advertisers Please Mention Rock Island Employes' Magazine. 58 ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE Contracting Engineers (CeotreeterV Subetractart — Meeeeale Bridie) Union Bridge 6 Construction Co. L. S. Stewart. PreeH—I 90S Sharp Hog. low Qty, Ho. Reserved CHICAGO VARNISH CO. ORIGINATORS OF THE 6-DAT PROCESS FOR PAINTING AND VARNISHING CARS J-M ASBESTOS AND MAGNESIA RAILROAD SUPPLIES Roofings Pipe Coverings Locomotive Lagging ' Packings Smoke Jacks Underground Conduit Hair Pelt Asbestos Wood Fire Extinguishers Write for Catalog No. 252 H. W. JOHNS-MANVILLI CO. 27-29 Michigan Avenue Chicago, III. T. S. LEAKE & CO. General Contractors Railroad Buildings Our Specialty* 6th Floor Ellsworth Building 537 South Dearborn St., CHICAGO. ILL. Miller Vacuum Heating System For Roundhouses, Shops and Terminal Buildings. Miller Hot Water Washout and Refilling System tor Locomotives. F. W. Miller Heating Co. McCormlck Bide., Chicago PRY GOODS ——^^— Women's Ready-to-wear Apparel and Shoes THE CROSBY BROS. CO. TOPEKA, KAS. DRAPERIES CARPETS __^_FURNITURE BALL CHEMICAL COMPANY OXOLIN ^"* REGISTERED THE IDEAL PAINT OIL BALL'S VARNISH REMOVER NORWAY TURPENTINE OFFICES: Chic.jo and 11*1 Folio. Bldg,, Pitlibonk Phon. Monro. 1541 Established IS78 All Departments J. J. COLLINS* SONS Railway and Commercial Printers Blank Book Makers and Paper Rulers Members of Chicago Association ol Commerce 1315-1321 W. CONGRESS STREET, CHICAGO (Daylight Building) Berry Iron & Steel Co. HIQH GRADE ENGINE CASTINGS St. Joseph, Mo. MURPHY XL A ROOFS No Roof boards to burn or blow off. Never break or a tear, as sheets are not nailed. Reduces dead weight of car, as well as cost of repairs. Half mil lion now in service. STANDARD RAILWAY EQUIPMENT CO. NEW YORK CHICAGO NEW KENSINGTON. PA. COAL VALLEY MINING COMPANY ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS Consolidated Indiana Coil Co. Rock Island Coal Mining Co. Hymen, Ind. Neither, lewi Hirtihorni.Okli. Alderten.OUi. For Information eddr.es Main Office of Above Comp.nl.,: II* W.et Van Burin St.. Chicago, III. Agricultural Limestone DOLESE BROS. CO. QUARRIES Buffalo. Iowa Apache, Okla. TATEFLEXIBLE STAYBOLT The Recognized Standard of over MO Railroads Flannery Bolt Company Pittsburgh, Pa. J. ROGERS FLANNERY & CO., Selling Agents. When Writing; to Advertiser! Please Mention Rook Island Employes' Magazine. ADVERTISING SECTION 59 PANTASOTE A perfect substitute for leather and one-third the cost of gen uine leather. Will be pleased to forward samples upon ap- •Kcation. : : : : : : : THI PANTASOTE COMPANY 11 Broadway, NEW YORK W. G. Lloyd Company 621-636 Clark Street Sooth CHICAGO Manufacturers of Perpetual Account Books Loose Leaf Specialties and Blank Books High Grade Printing Railroad Signal Wires and1 Cables HAZARD MFG. CO. WILKES-BARRE, PA. Chicago Offloe — 562 West Adama Street William Ganschow Company Manufacturers of Gut and Planed Gears Rawhide Pinions and Gut Machine Racks Washington Boulevard and Morgan St CHICAGO Municipal Bonds We have them in denomination from $100 to $1000, which we sell on partial payments, yielding the investor from 4$% to 5$%. Write us for particulars. FIDELITY TRUST COMPANY KANSAS CITY, HO. The McConway & Torley Co. Pittsburg, Pa. MANUFACTURERS OF THE Janney Passenger Couplers USED ON The Rock Island System Federal Steel Lockers have the strength, the security and the durable baked enamel finish. Theyare the Railroad Lockcrt Federal Steel Fixture Co. 4545 Homer Ave. CHICAGO When Writing to Advertisers Please Mention Rock Island Employes' Magaalne. 60 ROCK ISLAND EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE CAST STEEL Buckeye Truck Frames, Truck Bolsters, Key Connected Yokes, Journal Boxes, and "Major" Top Lift and Side Lift Couplers. THE BUCKEYE STEEL CASTINGS COMPANY, w<%?v™Bvs!n

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