The Frisco Employes' Magazine, September 1933

EHP!!OYZ!ZSMAGAZINE Vol. XI SEPTEMBER, 1933 No. IX A SCENE AT THE BIG PICNIC OF ST. LOUIS CLUBS, ST. LOUIS, MO., AUGUST 6th FEATURES IN THIS ISSUE PROGRESS IN ADVANTAGES OF R. R. TRANSPORTATION EMPLOYES' CLUBS (Pages 3-4) (Page 5) BLYTHEVILLE, ARK., W. L. McDONALD AND HAS WOMAN OPERATOR W. 0. DODGE PROMOTED (Page 6) (Pogr 8) American Handle Company I Loean" Iron and Steel Co. I I CWWwBooth& Cow Manufacturers of Railway Supplies High-grade Hickory, Axe, Adze, I Genuine Wrought Iron I I Pick, Sledge, Hatchet, Hammer and Railroad Tool Handlee WORKS: BURNHAM, PA. RAILWAY EXCHANGE BLDG. I I I CHICAGO, ILL. JONESBORO - ARKANSAS GUNDLACH COAL COMPANY CHAS. R. LONG, JR. MINERS AND PRODUCERS OF HIGH-GRADE FUEL P. 0. Box 241 COMPANY EDGEMONT STATION EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL. LOUISVILLE CHICAGO The New York Air Brake Company for Manufactures the SIGNAL SERVICE Car Wiring. STANDARD AIR - BRAKE Lighting EQUIPMENT and Power GENERAL OFFICES All kinds of Railway and In- 420 Lexington Ave., New York City dustrial Paints. Varnishes and Service WORKS Lacquers. TB KERITE%2"&X COMPANY 1% Watertown, New York MEW YOU MI- M MI- I Magnus Company INCORPORATED JOURNAL BEARINGS and BRONZE ENGINE CASTINGS Page 4 At the World'e mIr in Chicago, in regular voyages in small vessels. The 1893, the crowning exhibit in the world was circumnavigated in small transpodation line was Engine 999, wooden sailing ships. Columbus of the New York Central, which reached America in a small frail craft, hauled bhe Empire State Express at amd the Norsemen, centuries before sixty miles per hour. As illustrating him, in small carriers. World trade the progress of one hundred years was established, and some of the this line may be taken as typical. The greatest of naval battles were fought line from Al'bany to Schenectady was Skiit Rafts for Transportinp Stone on in wooden sailing vessels. opened in 1831, with a train of con- the Tigris River, About 1,000 B. C. There were no speedy voyages, as verted stage coaches hauled by the we understand i.t now, until the steam- DeWitt Clinton, an engine weighing highway, and the future of electricity ship was developed and mechanical sir tons, and making a speed of frfteen in the transportation fleld will be in' propulsion used. Here, too, the de- miles per hour. In 1893 Engine 999, the conversion of certain sections of velopment has been almost entirely weighing one hundred and two tons, steam railways to electric traotion. within the last one hundred years. making sixty miles per hour, and At the World's Fair in Chicago in The first steaimship to cross the At- today engines weighing three hundred 1893 there was no hint of the automo- lantic was the Savannah, in 1819, a and twenty-nine tons. pulling trains bile, and at the World's Fair in St. steamer with side paddle wheels, but of double the welght of those in 1893, huis in 1904 it appeared as the with a full mm(p1ement of sails. The and capable of making eighty miles "Horseless Carriage," but the perfec- navigators of that day were not will- an hour. The DeWltt Clinton and tion of the internal combustion en- ing to trust entirely to machinery. Engbne 999 are exhibits at the Century gine has led to the manufacture of Now we have great ocean liners, of Progress Fair. antomobiles, busses and trucks by the veritable floating palaces, and furn- The "Royal Scot," a famous British m.il1ion and has practically revolu- ishing the moat 1uxur.ious fo~mof all train, ie on exhibition here also. This tfontzed our transportation on land. transportatian, making speed of thirty drain has the fastest schedule of any Water Transportatlon: miles an hour. Fast steamship travel steam train in the world-88 miles an It is not known when man first has meant much to the progress of hour. used the waterways, but it was doubt- clvillzation, as It enables the products The Germans have broken the rec- less at a very early age in his hlstory. of different countries to be quickly ord for speed on rails-143 miles per for the ancient civiiizatIon was de- interchanged, and contact of travelers hour. This was with the propeller veloped along rivers, and maritime with the people of different lands has Rail Zeppelin in 1931. between Berlin countries. done much for the international and Hamburg, on a long stretch of It is thought that a floating tree or friendshllps whlch we so highly prize, tangent track. but this speed u-as too clump of driftwood first suggested to and upon which the pace of the fast for track with curves, and now savage man that he too might be world so largely depends. they have a stream lined train, elec- borne along by the current of rivers, For a time prior to the dsvelopment t~icallydriven, Diesel motored, that and possibly a raft was the first form of the railway, considerable transpor- makes a maximum speed of 100 miles of waterborne craft. Then, perhaps, tation in this country, and a great Per hour, a somewhat similar train a log hollowed out with fire or stone deal in other countries, was done on will soon be on the Union Pacific. axes. Another ancient form was the canals, and canals are still in use in Other speed records are: raft bouyed up by inflated skins. many countries for the movement of An Italian Airplane, 426 miles per which is still in use on the Tigris heavy freights-4111 In use in tbis hour. and Euphrates. Another form is the country, but their traffic bas been Sir Malcolm Campbell, 272 miles wklret basket covered with pitch, the largely diverted to the more rapid per hour, in a racing car on a Florida kind of vessel in which Moses was movement by dl. beach. exposed upon the Nile-still in use Interoceanic. canals have been built Gar Wood, 124.91 miled per hour, in Mesopotamia. Man first poled his to shorten the passage of sMps at in a speed boat on the DetroIt river. craft along. or paddled with branches, sea. as the Suez and the Panama About forty yeare ago the electric so the first voyages were doubtless canals. railway was developed, elect& trac- made on rivers and lakes. It is Aerial Transportation: tion became universally popular for cklmed the first sea voyage of which Man has longed to fly evm since he urban, interurban and snburban lines there is any authentic knowledge was flrst beheld the birds wheeling in -advantages were being clean and made by the Egyptians to the coast flighi, and in early mythology and noiseless, and ability to traverse city ot Greece. legends we have accounts of his hav- streets, places where steam railroads The first boats were moved by oars ing done so. We have the tale of would not be tolerated, but the elec- --man power-then the sail, and with (Now turn to ~aje8, please) tric line is passing before the bus and the use of a keel and rudder mam was automobile on the parallel concrete embled to navigate against head winds and current. The sail was possibly suggested by the force of winds against the body or its action in bend- Ing trees. We have known that boats were developed tor extensive use at a very early date, for Egmtian lnscri.ptions refer to them 3000 years B. C. For cemturles water transportation was fa^ in advance of transpor,tation & '. on land. We And the Phoenicians, An Indian Drag as Used in North Early Wheeled Assyrian Chariot later the Vikings, making long and America Page 5 ADVANTAGES OF R. R. EMPLOYES' CLUBS OME few years ago the Frisco from the depot to employes OP Afton, seeing A Contribution Entered in ~~~~t~r~~~hat was before the S the business of the town the Olson Rug free door delivt?ry. being diverted to other channels; One of our merchants had realizing that the "Good Road" Contest been buying hi is groceries from m o v e m e n t was becoming a several houses . Part of these momentous question in the trans- By H. L. FREEMAN made delivery by their own portatlon o f merchandise into trucks and othlers supported the the town; realizing that unless some that was afforded their loved ones trucking firms. A1 lter our meeting, expedient action was taken on the when traveling by rail over that of salesmen calling oi o him were told part of someone, our railroad would bus. Without exception, at the close that unless they could ship by lose the business which it was right- of that meeting, they pledged them- rail he was not 81 ble to give them fully entitled to, and the forces tak- selves to rail movement. This has an order. He was not able to find ing care of that ,business would, of a been lived up to by them and as ex- any who were willi~ig to assume this necessity, be curtailed-a meeting amples of just what our organization expense and he ch ~anged his entire was called and the employes of this has done; I wish to cite two examples: line of groceries and lined up with a station \were organized to do their The owner of one of our drug firms firm which would make RAIL de- part in recovering the business lost was in that meeting. He stated: livery. Since that time we have en- and to work and strive for more joyed all of this business.

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