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3 STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1S94. Hi RAILROAD CHICLES. Zlr. O3r3.mt.ll Talis How Telegraph. Operators Gee On. BUSIX2SS 0:i ALL THE LIKES About at flri t a Ever Sfwi of In tern t to Iianas Bailroud ilea. Sir. K. H. Gecameil, superintendent of telegraph for tie S&ata Fe and who has charge of all the operators and train dis patchers between Chicago on the east, Denver and Gri nd Junction in Colorado and El Paso od the south, learned his profession from a man who now keeps a railroad eatinjr bouse at Greensburg, Pa. 3ir. Uesnmell sajs the railroad man in any department who underatands telegra phy has a great advantage over those who do not To a State Journal reporter he said: "Before the war when 1 whs train master on an Iowa road the general superin tendent aaid he would give ine $."iM) if I would teach bin to telegraph as well as I could. I did not get the $300 as he waa then a man over lifty years old and he never tried t learn. "Most of the men who are engaged in telegraphing le irn the business before they are eighteen years old. Telegraph operators are becoming more steady as a class than they used to be. The reason operators are so roving in their disposi tion is that they leave home ao early in life to learn the business that they are not established in their habits and they fall into bad company. The average operator up to the time he is 2i or 5 years old never stays long in one place; after that age h3 usually marries, settles down and gets a job as station agent just as soon as he caa. "In Kansas w) pay ordinary telegraph operators fro:n 13 to $50 a month, but the best paid ma in the service are the train di-patcheri It takes a man with extraordinary ability to be a train dis patcher, however. Train dispatchers get $12."i a month and a chief train dis patcher draws S145 a month." Snpt. Gemmeil has charge of between fcixteeu and seventeen hundred operators on the Santa Fe system. SANTA JKK ifliKIOHT HCSINKSS. It shows I.ittl-9 Let I p From X.uat Week's Gooti Nliowing;. The Santa Fe'a freight business has not decreased to any great extent. The number of extra trains sent over the eastern Kansas divisions yesterday was not quite so l.trge as for the same day of the week before, tut it was a very satis factory business just the same. On the Fmporia "cut of " which runs from Em poria to Kaunas City, there were eigh teen extra trains yesterday besides the twelve regular ones. Almost' all of these extra trains were loaded with live btook fr m Texaj and New Mexico bound for the eastern oarkets. It was nearly all cattle, but there was some sheep. On the Topekn division business is a little lig-hter. The local business re mains aoout the same, and is very good, although freight ia car lots is not being handled to any t reat extent either in or out of Topeka. WUhul the road is having a very satis factory business and if the corn crop had been an average one, the Kansas roads w,m!i have been taxed to their utmost all winter to take care of moving commodities, and the railroad man would have awtkened in the spring to hud himself independent for his remain ing years. MOSILt CATTLE. The Kock Island Handles hAont ISO Car loads of (battle Every Uay. Iiock Island cattle shipment started up again Wednesday and is now heavier than any time since the big rush of early summer. From 133 to 140 carloads of cattle are handled every day and most of the stook: is from the Indian Territory and southern Kansas in the vicinity of Pratt and Liberal. There is also a heavy Colorado cattle lusiueas. Is early all the cattle fhipments on the Hock Island go through Topeka. The road makes some fa-t tinm on Bom 3 of its cattle trains. The run from Colorado to Kansas City is made in twenty-three hours, and the run from Ileriatoa to Kansas City, 152 miles, is made in 5 hours and 45 minutes. This is 1 retty neir passenger time. The nad uea only Montgomery cattle cars with air fcretks and other improve ments. COULDN'T TtKX AHOUM), The "By Stale" anil "316" Special Cars Too Largo fr the Vfu-il's Turntable. The private ears "Bay State" and "210," used by most of the heal officers of the S;mta Fe, were found to be too long to bo turned around on the shop's turntable yesterday. The cars came in from the east, and on their return, in order to get the observation platforms at the rear, it was necessary to turn the cars around. They were switched on to the turntables, but the tables ate only long enough for a CO-foot coach, and the "Bay State'' and "216-' are fully 5. They were then switched down to the Kock Island Y, which is big eaough to accommodate two cattle trains. The cars were turned around, and the New Yorkers did not have to ride home "looking backward." M'lKKS AND SPA1IKS. J'ersonal Notes Among tlie Railroad sfhops t Topeka, The Santa Fe's Sixth street paint shop that was closed early in the summer has not yet teen reopened, and will probably not be this winter. There are not ss many freight cars in the Santa Fe rep lir yards as usual. The increased force o men seems to be keep i'iz the cumber dowu. lleonatt & Son shipped a car of horses to Tupelo, Miss., yesterday via the Santa Fe. In order to have something to fill the vacancy left in their hearts by the death of Moxie, their dog, the employes of the Santa Fe freight depot are going to get a goat. Th bggaga room doors at the Santa Fe depot have ben painted yellowi The Santa Fe hs.8 a force of ten men breaking rock at the passenger depot to put on tae street just west of the build ing. There is a 1 ollow in the street that needs filling up. In the last week or ao the Santa Fe shops have rebu.lt entirely a combina tion car tnd a bargsge car. Several Santa Fe freight and stock cars are ia the car lops being entirelr re built Santa Fe paist nger coach ISC, which T.-as in a wreck rscently, is in the shops with one entire end mushed out. Will Porter of the Santa Fe machine shops will be laid up for a few days. He j let a crown tar fail on Lis rizl.t hand j yesterday and mashed alls ger oil. j A good many repairs i-.nd improve ments are being made about the Santa Fe shops jast at present. Master Me chanic Smith's office is being remodeled. The second story has betn rebuilt. The Santa Fa snow plows are now all ready for their winter's work. Although there is no more work than usual in th3 San. a Fe p tltt shops two new men were aided to tl e forte this week making it sixteen. This is a very small force indued for the paint shop. In good times it employs nearly one hun dred men. State Evangelist W. P. Veazie of the Congregational church, coniucted the noon biole meeting at tha railroad Y. M. C. A. today. There is very little laying oil among the railroad boy3 just now. There is work for all and "lots of it. They are all getting in good mileage at present. Mrs. Lizzie K. Myers of Belleville, Kansas, is visiting her son-in-law Jud Coe of the Santa Fe machine shops. In anticipation of the alventof the directors and a possible visit from them, there has been a good d.Ja! of cleaning up and looking pleasant around the San ta Fe shops and yards lately. The inter ior of the shops has been nicely cleaned and white washed and the vards are in ship shape. Santa Fe Yard Master Jack Kennedy will be home fro:n his visit to Jamestown Sunday. KOClv ISLAND 'OTKS. Items of interest (iathered in OUice and Cor idor. A great deal of cotton is I eiag moved by the liock Islaud from Texas to Chi cago. And nearly ail of it goes through Topeka. General Freight Agent I). Atvvood has returned from tha St. Louis meeting. General Superintendent Ilitt and Su perintendent of Telegraph Lingafelt, with half a dozen friends, went to ller ringtou yesterday ir special car "i.00." Twenty soldiers passed through To peka yesterday outhe.r way from New Mexico to Ft Sill in the Commanche country. Considerable has been said about the intention of the Kock Island to construct a uew track from Atchison to St. Joe on the Missouri side. The oiLcers at Topeka claim to know nothing about this. They are technically "exempt fro. 11 knowing" as the proposed line would be "eist of the river," and this is tuo head juarterd only lor business "west of the river." Frank Ohmer of the Kuck Island offi ces, who was injured and disabled for ten days in the luane college football game, is able to be around again, lie is going to play again Saturday in the Washburn college game, although his friends have advised him to quit play ing. J. M. McCoy and wife of the Hock Isl and went to Baltiiure last eveuing. W. A. llo of the auditor's oMice, and Mrs. Koif, have returned tro.ii Texas. NOT HIS TUICK. A Conductor Trie to CTiaiige riai e& With the iirakemari. A Kock Island passenger conductor who lives in lopeka, tells a good joke on himself. Since the last change ia passenger train time on the Kock Island, the two trains for the west for Denver and Texas come out of Kansas City and go us far as McFariand as or.e train. It makes an extraordinar long train and the oaa brakemati who has charge of the train, has to hustle to call the stations in every car at just the proper time. A few days ago tne Topeka conductor who is a good natured, accommodating fellow offered to assist hij brakeman; accordingly when the train neared To peka from the eat he told the bra It email to go ahead and look after the front end and he would call the last three cars. The conductor who knows all about shouting "all aboard" in a way to maite every passenger keep his head inside, had never belore attempted to call a sta tion and just as the tram pulled over the bridge he stuck his hea l into the rear chair car aui shouted '-All Aboard." Tho passengers laughed and the con ductor retired to the smoker and he has not attempted to cail a station since. How Train .Boys Work It. Ordinarily the boys who sell fruit on the Central Branch passenger trair;, says the Atchisou Globe, d) not make money enough to pay for lodging and meals, but there is one toy running on the train who alwavs come-iout ahead. His name is Frank Alcorn, and he is a bird. He eaya that all he has to do when he wants to sell anythicg bananas, fur instance is to get some one at the front end of the car to eating the fruit ho givei a few away if necessary and then everyone else gets hungry, and wants to eat bananas also. He says that ia true of any thing palatable, and he works the scheme regularly. TCicycleaon Kallroad Trains. Traveling men who use bicycles in "making" towns when the trains do not run to suit them, will linj a surprise in store for them on the Central Branch. There has been a squabble about taking bicycles on freight trains which carry passengers, and C. M. Hath burn has ordered wheels not to be carried in the way cars. At least this is what a haughty, high spirited conductor we3t of Downs says, and he refused to allow a wheel on the train under any circum stances. To Make a Tour. Robert Fleming of London, represent ing European bondholders in the Santa Fe railway, will make a tour of tho sys tem after the uanual meet.ng in Topeka. Mr. Fleming was m Kansas City several days ago, but is now in New York. OKLAHOMA POLITICS. j. v. Admire Says tho Territorv is Sure 2t- J. V. Admire, formerly cf Topeka, but now of Kingfisher. Ok., is stiil in poli tics, and writes to Colonel Dan Wya't that things are going "the right way" (Republican) in Oiilahonni this fall. lie writes: "We are having a big tight her, but will be able to tiuwn the opposition ia good shape, 1 think. I am chairman of the county committee, and giving mat ters my attention. I am inclined t o think we will at least carry tha legislative council, notwithstanding the most vil lainous gerrymandering ever worked. Things generally are in fair fchapo." An advertiser at Queneiio puts things in this comforting wjy: "A lool and his money are soon parted but a man woo is parted from his money is not necessarily a fooL" we km (Mag j Owing to the bargains offered and advertised from day to day last we el: our store has been crowded from early morning to closing time with patrons and buyer:;. All seem to appreciate what we were doing. Encouraged, therefore, by their appre ciation of the very low price we had made on different goods, we wish to say tin:; we will make offerings that will surprise even the most economical buyers. Dress Coeds. Head over carefully what Tve are offering this week: 59C. 1,000 yards Silk Velvet, splendid quality; all colors. This was bought for a 31.00 velvet but 59o will buy it this wTeek. You will save some money on this article. Here is another you can't afford to pass. 1.000 yards of all avooI French Suiting in the newest designs and colorings. 85c would have been cheap for this a few days ago. 45c will buy it this week. We Ars Money Savers. One lot of half wool Dress Goods in plain and fancy. This line of goods is well worth 30c. Only 22c this week. One lot of 40-in. all wool Dress Goods. These have been sold as high as 50c. Our price now is only 29c. Here are four very good things for you to buy this week. You won't have another chance to buy such values at these prices. STEVENSON Hdli. WiliianrLocnreri, 6 V the ola i-as shc.7n by the records end earnestly" ask that you review ViSible 0X1(1 ' e restored ccmplaiifs.of tats.. ona: f r i p xi ly. .consid e ration.- A Topeka man is thus seen to be the subject of in a tone so strongly partisan that apparently the files of his office, so returned it. J .'0 ClfuOliJbO & llluii jlb Millinery. New things arriving daily in this department. By the way, have you visited this department this fall? Most everybody has. If you have not do so before you make your selection. Everything exhibited is new, the latest designs and colorings, and we sincerely believe that a better line of goods can not be found in the west. Furs. AYe have just received another invoice of Fur Capes. Come and see our assortment and get our prices before you purchase. Handkerchiefs. 500 dozen Handkerchiefs received this week. All prices from the 4-cent qual ity to the fine Duchess wrill be found in our stock. 5C- 25 dozen Dadies' White Handkerchiefs with fine lace edge. See them, only So each. 50 dozen China Silk Handkerchiefs; plain white and colored embroidered edges. This lot will be sold for 12 cents each. & COMPANY, 717 and 719 'A l C crura " ty 'Dear .'S lr; t herew"ithenelose . to you ' c Ye tt er "f rem Mr . Aaron Charlesworth, whose're sidencc? is 125 Van Buren" street, Topeka, Kan sas, and wnose pension number is 6039691 know Mr.-.Charlecvortti personally ."and his statement s as to his democracy, social and fin ancial condition are trus. And "ho reduction" a pension, under the circumstances seeniS to be a terrible hardship in his condition of. life. As a matter of course I know nothing Of the" actual merits of consistent with Justice, at . SXo-per month, I .hODe 'it villi be dene.; I ain sorry to . say that! scar cely a day pajssesrfcut " wnat ..this kind ere made, to 1 ; earnestly invoke., in Very, re sp ccVfxA ly , Can'!- I'lvoly in r e Domestics. 3 HC One lot of Dark Challies that have never been sold for less than 5c. Our price to close out 3: cents. If you are going to make some comfortables this winter,why not save a few cents by buy ing the material now. 3 ?4 C Take a sample of our 4-4 Fine Brown Muslin that we are going to sell you for 3 cents this week and see if you can match it for less than 5c or Gc. You can't do it. 4C One lot of full Standard Prints that we have been selling for 7c; will try and close them out now for 4c a yard. 4 C 4-4 Bleached Muslin in manufacturers' remnants, running from 15 to 30 yards in the piece. These goods are usually sold for 7c when we buy in regular sized pieces. You can buy from 15 to 30 yards for a yard. aSBi2Li February '17, ;i894. M "clV-. Monino w ... w. w.,j in your. office. But I this" case, and if it be end right that this man's pension is by ; democratic: sold their. behalf your , most , SI the above letter from Senator Martin, written pension commissioner did not wish it in th:. r i 1 ri 1 r .J U . J V m i t m a. Another lot of Ifj-in ton Twill Crash, bh ; and unbleached. Souk it better than linen. 5c Will buy genuine In Blue Prints this wee':: best grade; our regal.; cent quality. Supply y self when they are 5c. 6c "Will buy this wo Fine 4-4 Brown Mus You are paying 8 cents our for the same goods. Buy when you can save 2c yard. O 1 3C Will buy the choice of a full line of Dark Out in;: Cloths, just what you nerd for winter wear. The-e arc; worth 12 1 c, a saving of 1c a yard. Only Qt cents. iir Will now buy our Fine Zepher Ginghams, sold in town for 20c. They won't last very long at 1 lc yard. Buy them now when they are selling at 11c yard. One lot ladies1 fast blac!. Hose this week only Jc uv, Kansas A- respectfully at all pos- ir irx. careful and