The Frisco Employes' Magazine, June 1925

VOL. 11 No. 9 JUNE 1925 JReady i. for Delivc THE COMPLETE

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Fitred in Wadsworth 10K \-.- Illu

ILLINOIS WATCH COMPAN

The Mount Vernon Car Manufacturing Co.

F+A , ----. - - - - . - -'7 Just completed, I New Rep a i r Shop, 500' x 150'. Capacity Fully equipped with 10,000 Freight Cars; Cranes, Electric 150,000 Wheels; Heaters, etc., enabl- 20,000 tons Forgings. ing us to work in all w~.------. 8. . -7:- - -. - ,.- -.- - ---__ kinds of weather. ..- 2 _ .-. .

BUILDERS OF FREIGHT CARS

MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS

R. F. CARR, Memphis W. E, LOWRY, Hickory Flat, Misa. II Prmaidmnt Vice-Prea. and Genemrl Mrnager

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SPECIALIZING IN RAILROAD BUILDING R! Strong as Ever for the GENERAL OFFICES P. 0. Box 1032 MEMPHIS, TENF THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE 827 FRISCO BUILDING .. ST. LOUIS WM . L. HUGGINS. Jr .. Editor MARTHA C . MOORE. Aaaocfata Edlfar

VOL . I1 JUNE. 1925 No . 9

Permission is given to reprint. with credit. in part or in full. any article appearing in the Magazine

Contents of This Issue PACE Largest Timber Belt in the South Served by Frisco Lines ...... 4- 5 Goggles Save Frisco Shopmen Their Sight...... 6 "Frisco Better Service" Contest for All Employes ...... 7 Our Frisco Veterans ...... 8- 9 Remarkable Evolution of Engine Building ...... 10-11 "The Frisco Club" ...... 12 "Among 0nrselves"-Trainmen and Yardmen-Bjr John L . Godsey ...... 13 The King's Highway Now Part of Frisco Lines...... 14-15 Carmen Make Record in Reb~~ilding...... 16 Western Carriers Ask for Justice ...... 17 East Thomas, Ala., Past and Present ...... 18 Campaign for Safe Conditions Among Shopmen...... 20 The Twilight Hour ...... 22 Frisco Babies ...... 23 Crews Continue to Save...... 24 Fuel Chart for March and April ...... 25 Flashes of Merriment ...... 26 The Crossword Puzzle for June ...... 27 Homemakers' Page ...... 2% Pastime ...... 29 Annual Statement, Frisco Employes' Hospital Association ...... 30 With the July Magazine...... 32 Editorials...... 33 The Frisco Mechanic ...... 37-43 Frisco Family sews ...... 44-59

I THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE I The Frisco Employes' Nagazine is a monthly ~ublication devoted primarily to the interests of the more than 2.5.000 active and retircd employes of the l+isco Lines. It contains stories. items of current news. personal notes about employes and their families, articles dealing with various phases of rnilr.ond work. poems. cartoons and notices regarding the scrvice . Good clcur photofiraphs suitable for repro- duction are especially desired. and mill he returned only hen requested. 411 cartoons Rnd drawings must be in black India drawing ink . Employes are invited to write articles for the magazine . Contributions should be typewritten. on one side of the sheet only. and should be addressed to the Editor. Frisco Building. St. Louis. Mo . Distributed free among Frisco em~10YeS. TO others. arise 1.5 cents a copy; subscription rate $1.50 a year . Advertising rates will be made known upon application . Largest Timber Belt in South Mississippian Kailway

Completion of 24 Mile Line from Amory to Fulton, Miss., Will Deliuer Millions of Feet of Lumber to Frisco Monthly

ITH the opening of the Mississippian Railway Estimates from experts were that the forest con- W from Fulton to Amory, ;Llississippi, the Frisco tained between 100,0,000 and 400,000,000 feet of Railroad has obtained exclusive railroad connections lumber-a supply that it would take 15 years to cut, with one of the largest and most important timber and then start on the second growth. of the Alabama, Tennessee and Korthern Railroad now it will be used by the railroad for a roadbe took up the scheme, and began the road. later will be shipped to places where gravel is net Two years ago, with steel furnished by the Frisco and backed by strong financial interests, the Mississippi Cross Tie Business Railway was begun ! The crosb tie business offers a splendid field ( Miseissippian Is Actuality tleavor. Many folks in Itawamha County had seen a cross tie at close range before the Mississ Today the "Mississippian" is a11 actuality. invaded that section. Now they are cutting cros The road starts at Amory, and the distance to its Thousands have been sold to the Mississippian and northern terminus, Fulton, is 24 miles. other thousands are stacked along the right of way, John T. ~ochrane,Jr., vice-president and general ready for shipment. manager of the "Mississippian", has superintended the The land through which this road runs is very fertile construction of this road, and it is with great pride and hundreds of acres are in cultivation, while open that he conducts visitors over the little railroad, which spaces where the timber has been cut out, are being is so important to the town of Fulton. plowed for planting corn and oats. Later on, cotton The Mississippian follows the valleys and for a time will be planted. runs along the banks of the Tom Bigbee River. It penetrates the bottom land of Itawamba County, where At another point on the line, a derrick is seen, drill- the huge timber district is ready and waiting to be cut. ing for oil, and still anot,her point a coal mine is being More than 465 mills are operating in the county, worked. getting the timber ready for shipment. Many of these For miles and miles on each side of the right-of-way mills ate small affairs but they can he moved from place there is a vast forest awaiting the invasion of men to place and this aids in keeping down expenses. There and saws to convert it into Iuniber. are, however, a number of big mills in the county and The little town of Fulton rests on top of a hill, over- the hum of the saws can be heard at almost every looking the countryside. It is typical of the small point along the route of the Mississippian. town, with court house, jail, several up-todate stores, The outbound business is increasing daily, but not all two banks and office buildings, a hotel, and various the cars returning into the tmv section, return empty. other business enterprises. The inhabitants of Fulton, White Springs, SmithvilIe Fulton seems to he awakening to her possibilities. and along the line need supplies. New industries are starting, more land is being culti- As a result of the visit of Frisco officials to the line, vated. Fulton is becoming acquainted with the outside a weekly merchandise car has been established and it world through a new channel, and her future seems is expected that within a short time this will be in- very bright, due to her abundance of natural resourc-- creased to two cars weekly ant1 more cars, as the Today, although the task is far from compret busineb justifies. trains are operating daily, inbound and outbound se After the Mississippian RaiIway has completed the ice shipments are increasing and big opportunities kit: placing of gravel ballast along the 24 miles of track, in store for Fulton country. there will remain large qziantities of gravel that may But, greatest of all and most satisfying to Fulton's be shipped. Gravel is plentiful in that region and it countrymen, is the fact that this railroad, talked of for has been used to good advantage in road making, but so long a time, is a reality.

A CLEARING IN THE INTERIOR OF THE TIMBER BELT Page 6 ~Z]:&O FMPLOK~=.S'~WZ~NE June, 1925 Three Frisco Shopmen Still Have Sight Due to Use of Goggles

Machinists Wells, Morton and Hunsaker only Slightly Injured when Flying Metal Shatters Glass Lens-They Endorse Goggles to Mates

The dearest thing in the world is health and the use of Hunsal

Gold Button to Man Employe With Best Business-Getting Suggestions-Gold Bar Pin to Girl OME enthusiastic, six-cylindered, .high pressured Mr. Tcoontz and the traffic department want to know S Frisco enlploye is going to wear a gold button in those ideas. his coat lapel next month, as a signal to the wide-wide Write them down and send them to Henry F. San- world that he is the most original "business-getter" on born, assistant to the vice-president, Frisco general the entire Frisco system. offices, St. Louis. And maybe a vivacious, peppy, all-for-Frisco girl You may either be general or specific, although spe- employe will w e a r a cific ideas are preferred. gold bar-pin, suitably en- Tell in your letter graved, as a token of her what particular business fine service to this rail- DID YOU KNOW- you believe the Frisco road. That during 1924, Frisco Lines Handled: could get, what 4s the And with these pre- '1,109,303 bales of Cotton best way to go about it, liminary remarks, t h e 123,206 cars of Coal and Coke where it is and approxi- Frisco EnzployeS Adng- 113,477 cars of Forest Products mately what it would azijze l a u n c h e s the 110,141. cars of Refined Petroleum and its Products amount to. "Frisco Better Service" 44,236 cars of Flour and other mill Products Make suggestions for contest-open to all em- 35,812 cars of Grain improvement on service ployes. 69,132 cars of Clay, Gravel, Sand and Stone to shippers, stating spe- J. R. Koontz, vice- 39,077 cars of Livestock cifically what improve- president of traffic, is 28,299 cars of Fruits and Vegetables ment you believe should the originator of a new 12,776 ears of Packing House Products, Poultry and Eggs be made, and what you idea for the Frisco's 11,249 cars of Ores and Concentrates consider the best manner future success in busi- 14,392 cars of Bar and Sheet lron to he employed in mak- ness promotion through 14,201 cars of Cement ing the change. the co-operation of em- 18,414 cars of Hay, Straw and Alfalfa Make your letter short ployes. 7,828 cars of Brick and Artificial Stone and snappy, and don't With this story there 3,681 cars of Salt '!cave out any important is printed a list of sev- 3,439 cars of Sugar and Molasses facts. eral of the largest pro- 1,283 cars of Pig lron Sign your name plain- ducts handled by the ly, stating position with Frisco Railroad in 1924. A N D the road, and office and Mr. Koontz believes 7,802,435 passengers? home address. these individual reports But that need not be can he c o n s i d e r ablv all if you desire to do swelled in 1925, throuih the earnest efforts of this more. There is plenty of business to be procured by a road's folks. little additional effort. If you can find time to do a bit Every employe, no matter what position he or she of personal solicitation of business-incorporate your holds, is eligible for the contest. results in your report to Mr. Sanborn, and it will be It is a contest of work, and wits, and brains and credited you in making up the best sug-gestions and loyalty. picking the monthly winners. The hearty interest of all cmployes should be given this campaign for better Each month the winner will be awarded the gold Frisco business. button for that particular month, and if a girl wins, In the July issue of the Mngnzine the name of the her prize will be a gold bar-pin. One of St. Louis' winner of the "Frisco Better Service" contest for best artist-engravers is now working on a suitable de- June will be announced, and a picture of the winner sign for these prizes. printed, together with a picture of the button awarded Here is the working plan: him. If a girl wins the prize, she will receive a bar- Every employe of the Frisco has an interest in the pin, and her picture will also be printed. road's frrture prosperity. He is striving each day to Honorable mention in the il/logazif~e will he given build it into a more workable, more perfect organ- those entering suggestions that fall short of winning ization. the prize, yet have merit. Many times ideas which could be turned to valuable Here's your chance to perform a rea!, additional, use in procuring both freight and passenger business, service for the St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad. are harbored by an employe. All together-let's go ! &eJ Hundred Thirty-seven - F r i s c o Pensioners Received $1 26,446.70 From Road in 1 924

4nnual Report Board of Pensions States Aoerage Each Month Last Year $1 0,337.23 -R. H. Briggs, 92, Is Oldest Pensioner

TOTAL of $126,446.70 was paid out in pensions its retired enlployes since the start of the board in 1913.

b to 337 pensioners by the Frisco Railroad during The average age of pensioners retired because of the year 1924, according to the annual report of the the age limit is 75 years 11 months, and the average pen: ;ion department made recently. length of their continuous service was 28 years. Among The average amount paid out each month in 1924 the pensioners retired because of disability the average

P. M. GAMBLE WILLIAM PAYTON McCOOL ELBRIDGE NEWTON STAPP totaled $10,337.23, and the average amount paid per age is 66 years and 3 months, and the average length man I was $33.35 a month. of these pensioners' continuous service is 28 years and Five hundred and ten employes have been pensioned 11 months. since 1913, when the department was created, accord- The average age of all pensioners is 70 years, and ing to W. D. Bassett, secretary of the board of pen- the average of continuous service is 28 years and 10 sion s, and 173 pensioners have died since that year. months. R.. H. Briggs, "grand old man" of the Frisco, is Anotl~txfaithful Frisco veteran was retired recently liste d as the oldest pensioner on the board's rolls. Mr. \\-hen P. 34. Gamble, operator at Neodesha, Kansas, Bri: ;gs is 92, resides at Memphis, and was pensioned received his pension after 17 years' continuous service. in 1913, shortly after the board was created. Mr. Gamble was born in Louisville, Tenn., in the l3&irnell Quick, 39 years old, \vho was pensioned in ).ear 1854. At the age of 18 years he learned telegraphy 3, because of disability, is the youngest pensioner. under the station agent of the Illinois Central Rail- Quick resides at Webster Groves and was employ- way Company, near Richview, Illinois. His first em- 1s a clerk in the accounting department at the gen- ployment ns telegrapher was on the Iron Mountain at offices in St. Louis prior to his retirement. Glen Allen, Missouri, in i873. -April 1, 1883, he en- he pension roll increased $20,000 in 1924 over 1923, tered the service of the Frisco as telegraph operator :ing a total of $725,207.07 paid by the Frisco to at Xeodesha, Kansas. During the year 1890 he served /' as train dispatcher at Beaumont, Kansas, when that abstract clerk in the accounting department. He was part of the Kansas Division's Southern Terminal was married on February 27th, 1876, to b4iss Sue Eldridge. Anthony, Icansas, after which he again returned to Mrs. Canman died January Sth, of this year. For Neodesha. During the year 1898, he was transferred several months before her death, she and Mr. Canman to Sapulpa, Okla., as train dispatcher This was dur- had planned the celebration of their fiftieth wedding ing the construction of the line from Sapulpa to Okla- anniversary, which would have been next Fehruary. homa C i t y. In Mr. Canman was a, brother to the late L. P. Canman, N ovember of who prior to his death was a broker here for many the same year he years and widely known. again returned Mr. Canman was very popular with his fellow- to Neodesha and workers, who presented him with a handsome smoking had been in con- jacket as a token of their regard, hoping that in the tinuous service smoke-rings he will see many pleasant pictures of their there until Jan- former association. uary 31, 1925, Elbridge Newton Stapp served the Frisco 27 years when he was re- and eight months before his retirement. tired on pension He was born November 29, 1859, near Ozark, Chris- aEter 37 years tian County, hlo., and first entered the service of the of c o n t i nuous old Memphis line as a bridge and building laborer in service. May, 1897. He was made carpenter a little later, and I. Gamble then fo1Iowed his promotion to foreman, bridge inspec- was a favorite tor and later he became pile driver foreman. He re- anlong the tele- sides at Lamar, Mo. graphers a n d William Payton McCool, agent at Harrisonville, Mo., has represented was born January 20, 1865, at Calhoun, Henry County, El them at 0. R. T. Missouri. His first service with the Frisco was as Conventions as agent and operator at Afton, Arkansas, where he be- a] a delegate o n gan August 1, 1886. He served continuously at va- several different OREN G. CANMAN rious stations until April 1, 1889, when he became occasions. Dur- agent at Harrisonville, Mo. His total years of service ing his lengthy service as an operator for the Frisco are 38 years and 8 months, consecutively. Mr. Gamble acquired many friends and was well liked Frank Moledor, was born March 25, 1859, at Ran- by all officials and employes who knew him as well as dolph, Portage by his operator friends. His many old friends among County, 0 h i o, L------. + his wide acquaintance on the Frisco railroad will be and entered the pleased to note that his picture shows him still hale service of t 11 e and hearty.. E'risco at the Mr. Gamble and his wife are lifelong members of S o u t h Spring- the Presbyterian Church, and live in a beautiful home field shops. He on blain Street in Keodesha. later served in Oren G. Canman, veteran clerk, and connected with the stores de- the Frisco in the local freight office at Memphis for partment and fi- the past 19 years, has been retired on a pension, hav- nally in the re- ing reached the age limit for service under rules of the clamation plant pension department. where he w a s - Mr. Canman was born at Shiloh, Ill., February 22nd, employed when FRANK MOLEDOR 1855. When two years of age he went with his he was pen- parents to Saint Louis, where he lived until 1904, when sionecl. He served the Frisco 32 years and 7 months in he came to Memphis and Atered the service of our the mechanical departmeilt and was pensioned because company, starting his work in the local office, Norem- of permanent disability. her 15, 1905, at which time G. F. Macgregor, now James Henry Boyle, also pensioned through total executive general agent, Kansas City, Mo., was agent, disability, has a total period of service of 34 years and and S. I,. Oliver, now local agent, was chief clerk to 11 months. He was born January 18, 1859, at Cleve- Mr. Macgregor. land, N. Y., and became a car inspector for the Frisco For the past several years Mr. Canman has been (Continued on ,Pnge 36.) Evolution of Engine Building in Forty Years Has Been Remarkable Achievement

"Old Thirty-seven" of 1885 'Seems an Oddity Compared With Modern 1500 Class Engine Running Over Frisco Lines Today

of the old I<. C. F. S. & XI. which is now a part of the Prisco Lines. The 1.500 class engine shown has a total weight of 532,700 pounds with length from pilot to tender coupler of S7 ft. 8% inches, the grate area is 70.3 square feet and has a tractive effort of 54,100 pounds. Ac- curate weight or dimensions of the F. S. & G. No. 37 are not at hand, but we are safe in saying that the total weight was less than 100,(300 pounds and no more than one of our modern all-steel pullmans or passenger cars. \\re are fortunate in having both a right and left side tiiew of engine F. S. & G. No. 37, and the following They had "Old 37" dressed ug on July 27, 188.5, when this picture was taken. .\fter tile water stop, the crew lined peculiarities may be seen which do not exist on the u11 for its picture. The names of the crew were not available. Does anyone know them'? modern locomotive in passenger service : The lubricators are located on the steam chest and URlNG the last few years the railroads have un- cannot be operated from the cab. A self-feeder, how- dergone a period of e\.olution almost as startling ever, is shown to be an advance even then of the as the evolution of man described by one Darwin, (at original necessity of pouring melted tallow into the present under ban in several schools of the land). steam chest while the engine was in operation. The From small powered engines and' dinky day-coaches, term tallow-pot is not now in general use but this was the present all-steel train has evolved, with its engine how it originated. of 500,000 pounds and its sixteen section Pullmans The long wooden pilot with the pilot bar for the with their modern conveniences. link and pin couplers. The ildngaci~rcrecently came into possession of two The oil headlight with flag staffs at either side of pictures of Train 31 and 32, on the old F. S. & G., the headlight cage. taken at Parsons, Kansas, in 1SS5. The diamond smoke stack. The pictures are faded and yellow, but the photogra- The water fed to boiler by pump instead of injectors. pher, one J. F. Standiford, knew his business, and The mud guards over drivers and back engine truck the contrast in lights and shadows enabled them to be wheels. accurately reproduced. The right angled hand rail bracket supports. The editorial offices requested Z. 13. Claypool, supervisor of safety, and a former test engineer, to compare Sander operated only by hand lever. the engines of 40 years ago with our present day 150 The fancy design of the bell supports. type, weighing 582,700 pounds, and add a little detail The bell cord running from the train to bell in cab. as to conditions at the time "Old 37" was in her prime. The small air pump on left side of engine, but the Following is the story Mr. Claypool wrote: absence from view of any brakes on drivers or sign The sturdy oak tree of today was only an acorn a of main air reservoir. few years ago, and while the present day oak tree Some of the working conditions which were in effect was having its inception and growing to maturity, the at the time the picture of F. S. & G. engine 37 are as modern passenger locomotive was having' its evolution. much in contrast with the present working conditions This evolution is readily apparent by contrasting the as there is contrast between the 1500 engine and its picture of one of our modern 1500 class engines with fore-runner. This contrast extends clear through the picture of F. S. & G. engine 37, taken at Parsons, various physical properties and operation of railroads Kansas, in July of 1885. The F. S. & G. was a part 40 years ago and now. We have come from 40-pound / Page 11

steel to 90-pound rails and from no time limits to 16 hour law ant1 an 8 hour day. \\%en the F. S. & G. No. 37 was in her prime and the giant of the rails, there \\-as no working agreement, straight time was paid and it was not uncommon for an engine crew to be on duty sometimes 36 hours. Twelve hours equaled 100 miles and regular engines were in style. An engineer went with his engine in emergency calls regardless of the class of service. The first wol-king agreement in this part of the country Do any of the Frisco Folks know the crew of this train. So. 31, F. S. & G.? This picture was taken at Parsons, Kan- was made about 1888. sas, July 27, 1885, md carried the following crew: H. C. Grady, conductor; J. Reffle, enqineer; A. Hayworth. fireman; Regardless of the inany other contrasts, some en- T. B. Ice~r,brakeman. C. 0. Evert, baggage master; W. H. Brown, mail agent, aid B. Brown, news agent. viable speed records were made 40 years ago and the iron horse was king without the competition that eF- For the convenience, comfort and safety to the travel- ists today with the automobile and airplanes. In spite ing public, the Frisco 1500 engines will, "take you of this competition, however, for long travel with there and bring you hack" on scheduled time, with a speed, comfort and safety, the modern passenger trair, cinderless ride free from SIIOCI~S of "taking the slack". with pullman sleepers, diners and closed vestibules Suffice it to say that for efficiency of operation and has not been excelled. Safety, every appliance on the 1500 engine is modern.

A MONSTER OF POWER IN USE TODAY

Twenty New Engines In August. ' Work is progressing rapidly toward the completion nearly all been approved, and are in the hands of these of the twenty new engines now being built for the Frisco inspectors. Frisco by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Phila- A. H. Oelkers, chief mechanical engineer, states that delphia, Pa. the locoinotive frames and other castings being made in These engines, which will be similar to the ones pur- the foundry are practically completed and the boilers chased in 1923, are being given the best possible super- are under construction. vision and all material is given the closest inspection. Thd delivery date is set for the middle of August, R. F. Peters, mechanical engineer, is now at the and the Frisco will he the possessor of twenty of the Baldwin Works making the final changes in the de- newest type engines in the country. signs of the new locomotives. Feeling that many of the Frisco employes would John Forster, J. P. Malley and Matt Christman, like to know the different steps in the construction of locomotive inspectors, are assigned to special inspection one of these huge pieces of motive power, it is the work. purpose of the Magazine to print, as soon as consistent, G. E. Burkholtz, traveling boiler inspector, is direct- a complete story with pictures, of the construction of ing the construction of the boilers. these engines from the ground up, showing in detail The plans and designs of the new engines have the new devices incorporated. Page 12 June, 1925

"The Frisco Club" PLAN t,o provide a summer camp, with club house, bathing beaches, A tennis courts and other amusement and recreation features, for the thousands of Frisco employes, is under process in the Frisco general offices at St. Louis. E. B. Rives, voucher clerk, and B. J. Steele, of the passeiiger accounting department, have had the "Frisco Club" idea for several months and believe the plan could be successfully consumated - providing Frisco employes want it. Rives and Steele have searched up and down the Meramec River for suitable sites, and several are now under consideration for leasing. The plan is for a club house with a pavilion and dancing hall, dining room and reading room. The club house mould be built on the tract a short distance from the waters of the Meramec and a bathing beach and boating pier for canoeing are inclucled in the tentative proposals. It is entirely possible that tennis courts, horse-shoe diamonds, a baseball park and other recreational features could be provided. It has been suggested that Frisco employes who reside in or near St. Lonis, where they could attend the Frisco Club often, be charged a resident membership fee of $5.00 a year. "Non-resident employes," a term which embraces the entire system outside St. Louis and immediate vicinity, might be charged an annual due of $2.50 a year, with full privileges to use the club whenever they are in St. Louis. Under the proposed charter, all white employes of the Frisco mould be eligible for membership. The dues, it is believed, will care for the erection of a nucleus for a club house, and as the organization grows, additions may be erected from time to time. Both Rives and Steele believe that in the course of a few years, the "Frisco Club" can be made one of the joy spots on the system. President J. M. Rurn has heartily seconded the plan. But it is now waiting on a concerted action from Frisco employes over the road. Do you want a club of this sort P Would you favor the establishment of a summer camp, conducted by Frisco people, for Frisco people, where you could spend a week or two weeks, or even longer? Messrs. Rives and Steele want to hear from you in this regard before they proceed with the plans. Write them your opinion, care this .Waga.xigze, and if you Frisco Folks are for it-the "general office gang" will put it over! June, 1925 7%F/T@~0 ,@XO~%S*&%~Z~NE Page 13 Page 14

The King's Highway Four Hundred Years Ago- Today Part of Frisco Lines

Crack Trains of River Division Run Thru Towns Touched by Trail of Creaking Ox-Ca rts and Spanish Ad~enture rs Centu vies Past

This story of the King's Highway the earliest trek of Spanish adventur- of Louisiana declared it a public road and its glamorous history, is taken ers and later settlers of the middle in 1807, and in 1812 the legislature from an article appearing in APROPOS of the new Territory of Missouri es- recently, written by Mr. Allan Hinchey. west. Missouri State Historian. and is used tablished upon it a postal route. Since in the Nagazine througli the courtesy Old 400 Years Ago that time it has been the chief north of Harold -4. Perrill. editor of APRO- and south road through the eastern POS. Even when DeSoto used the trail, nearly four hundred years ago, it was part of southern Missouri. T is an easy, pleasant journey these At numerous places monuments of days from St. Louis to Memphis, an old path and along it could be seen I evidences of the occupancy of its trib- Missouri granite have been placed, by Tennessee. utary territory by a people long ante- the Daughters of the American Revo- Passengers may board the crack dating the Red Man, in the form of lution to mark the historic old trail, Frisco "Memphian" at St. Louis the mounds, plentiful in Southeast but they do not tell the whole story of El Camino Real. Union Station at 9:30 in the evening, Missouri, which stand as mute monuments to the mysterious "Nound Beginning at St. Louis, going leave at 11:30, and arrive in Memphis southward to the Xeramec, past Builders", of whom we have no his- the ancient manufacturing place of at 7:30 the next morning. They tory save the speculation of scient- sleep in clean, comfortable Pullman ists, and no records, save the pottery Herculaneum, to Ste. Genevieve. and the bones found within those every mile of the old trail is berths. All modern conveniences ara rich in history and in legend. Over at their disposal-even to a club and mounds. it went the warriors of the Osages. This historical highway, used long dwelling to the north, when they en- cafe car. The return trip from Mem- before the Spanish regime in Ameri- tered the country of the French set- phis to St. Louis is also an overnight ca, received its name "El Camino Real", tlers to burn, pillage and slay. Over from Spanish authorities, since it was run, fast and silent, sure and safe. this old trail Renault, accompanied During the night the speeding train the connecting link between the four Spanish posts of St. Louis, Ste. Gene- by his army of adventurers and his takes them through Crystal City, Ste. slaves from Domingo, made their tor- vieve, Cape Girardeau, and New Mad- tuous way into the lead country of Genevieve, St. Mary's, Cape Girardeau, rid. This section of the state has aptly Potosi. Over this trail was hauled Morley and Sikeston. goods from the old town of Ste. If a person chooses, he may ride been called the "Cradle of Civilization Genevieve to be retailed in the new West of the Father of Waters", as 801 to Memphis, on the "daylight into it came the adventurous spirits village of St. Louis. Along it were train". No. 801, leaving St. Louis at of three Christian peoples, French, tragedies taking their tolls of the pioneers' lives in the great adven- 8:05 a. m., and arriving in Memphis Spanish and American colonists, to ture of opening up the wilderness. at 7:35 p. m. And he may return on blaze the paths of civilization in the vast wilderness beyond the great Over it hurried the volunteer troops another daylight train, Frisco 802, river, and from it went courageous of early times in defense of the scat- tered peoples of new country-dur- leaving Memphis at S o'clock a. m., men and women to extend the civili- a zation toward the Pacific Coast. ing the Indian wars and in the second and arriving at Union Station, St. war with Great Britain. Louis at 7:47 in the evening. Along this road are the oldest communities of the western half of our Oldest Burial Ground The towns and villages that swirl country, communities which were for In Ste. Genevieve is the oldest behind the flying Pullmans mean years the outposts of civilization. So. nothing at all, probably, to the in these communities are to be found Christian burial ground west of the great river. In it are graves of men travelers. the traditions, and legends, the ro- mances and tragedies, that tell of and women who, in the past century, But through those towns almost struggles, trials and suflerings of directed the destinies and were the four hundred years ago, a trail was those who have left so rich a heri- social arbiters of a new civilization. followed. On their grave stones are inscriptions tage. in Latin, French, German and English. Instead of steel rails, there were Trail Formed By Savages And the names thereon are of men dusty plains and deep ruts of wooden This highway has its origin in St. and women who should be remem- ox-cart wheels. Louis and its southern terminus at bered with reverence due to the mak- Rolling carts and prairies schooners New Madrid, more than two hundred ers of our country's colonial history. miles away, but it passes through the The highway continues to Perry- served for the all-steel Pullmans 01 towns of Ste. Genevieve, Perryville, ville, the Barrens of a century ago. these days. Cape Girardeau and Sikeston before where was established a seminary that The pleasant overnight or daylight reaching New Madrid. These points, became, and still is, the mother house run of 1925 comprising 305 miles of excluding New Madrid, are served by of the Vincentian order in America. the Frisco Lines. and from which went the flrst resident track, presented a windiqg, agonizing The old trail having been formed by bishop of the Catholic diocese of St. journey of weeks and months to the the travel of savage people and wild Louis. The tourist today may see the pilgrims of the early days. animals, it naturally followed a course sacristy in which that venerable pre- For El Camino Real, the King's avoiding mountains, swamps and late was won't to perform devotions. streams. For this reason it was used Underneath Perryville are numer- Highway, starting at New Madrid and by the earliest white adventurers. ous caverns and passages, through extending northward through towns After the purchase of the country which flow a subterranean stream. In now served by the Frisco Lines, was from France the American Territory that stream are fishes without eyes. ]/HE /~@CO ~MPLO~S'~ZINE Page 15

imth of Perryville is the country La Riviere a la Pomme, where th~ manons had their village of Chilli- cathe, the largest village of the tribe. La Rlviere a la Pomme, now called AP IPle Creek, is one of the most beau- tilu11 streams of the Ozark foothills. Wh ere the Kingshighway crosses it the stream is the dividing line be- twe,en the Counties of Cape Girardeau andI Perry. Feast of the Small Grain Vhere Chillicathe once stood is the sent-day village of Longtown. It ru~ghtbe well for the tourist in passing through this village to know something of its predecessor, the Chawanon village of a century ago. The Shawnee Indians, who came in- to the country with Louis Lorimier, during the Spanish regime, were on terms of friendship with the French ritlmna of Ste. Genevieve, by whom they wt ?re called Chawanons. In th e autumn of the year it was customriry for the people of Ste. Genevie!ve to visit the village of Chilli. cathe arnd join with the Indians in their a nnual sports and feasting in La Fet~e du Petit Ble, the Feast of the Sra all Grain. Amon~g the Chawanons were two young 1whites, a man and a girl, who had bee n captured in infancy and who had bet ?n reared as members of the tribe. rhe young man was Mark Con- standinc3, a French Canadian. The girl, St lzan Henn, was probably of German descent, as she had been captured b:y the tribe in Pennsylvania. At th is annual festival there were races, irrchery and other sports engaged i n by the young men of both races, the victor being given tha privilegle of naming the Queen of Love ar~d Beauty for the feast which closed t he day's activities. To orbe side of the field in which the con tests were held was a large dais, dtxorated with ripened wheat and Ind ian corn, upon which sat the Indian tchief, the military commandant and the Catholic priest from Ste Genevte ve. On on e occasion Mark was declared victor Iand to him was given the privileg~e of naming the Queen of Love a nd Beauty. He placed the crown or golden wheat upon the gold en trescses of Suzan and conducted her to tl he queen's throne. Then he asked the old chief's permission to make Suzan his bride. The chief consented and married the young couple by the rites of the In- dian tr~ibe, after which the priest from Ste. Genevieve joined them in wedlock according to the beautiful ritual o~f the Catholic church, this probablq being the first marriage by a Christ ian priest in Missouri. Naming of Cape Girardeau Crossi ng La Riviere a la Pomme the old trail traverses a picturesque country, wilnding along ridges, slrirtinq beautifu;[ valleys, until it reaches Cape Girardea u on the bank of the Father of Watt?rs, where, nearly two cen- turies a go, a young French ensign, Sieur Girardeau, came to trade with (1 Co+ltinttrd o+i Page 36)

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A. C. Patek, St. Louis, Appointed Western Carriers Say Their Situation Assistant General Freight Agent Demands Rate Increases Author of "Traffic Management" Has Served Frisco in Traffic Depart- ment Eighteen Years Ask I. C. C. to Consider Western Rate Problem Announcement of the appointment of A. T. Patek to the position of as- Separately-Reductions Already Eflected Haoe sistant general freight agent, with Hurt Their Earnings and Credit headquarters in St. Louis, effective April 1, was received with pleasure by The brief which the western and Mountain Pacific Railroads filed with the his many friends on the Frisco. Interstate Commerce Commission on April 20, contrary to the impression gained in some quarters, was not an application for increased rates. It was a memorandum submitted as the result of an invitation extended by the Com- mission regarding the rate structure investigation to be undertaken in accord- ance .with the HockSmith resolution approved by Congress in January. The purposes of the brief and the points which it brings out are: 1. That the earnings of the West- with this recommendation and pub- ern roads since 1920 have at no time lished the reduced rates. approached the "fair return" and "In the same year the Commission have, at all times, been considerably ordered the carriers in the Western less than the earnings of the Eastern District to take off one-half of the in- and Southern roads. creases in the rates which had been 2. That although the purposes of authorized in 1920 on wheat and its the Transportation Act, so far as they products, and on coarse grains and pertain to the maintenance of ade- products a further ten per cent below quate system of transportation, have the reduced rates on wheat and pro- been fully realized, so far as the re- ducts, in all except the Pacific Coast habilitation of the credit of the car- territory. riers is concerned, they have not been Present Rates Almost As Low fully realized. As in 1919 3. That for these reasons a gener- "The effect of this order was to al rate investigation must show that reduce rates on wheat and its prod- the facts warrant rate increases ucts by 13 per cent and on coarse rather than rate decreases. grain by 21.7 per cent, or an aver- 4. That in any consideration of the age reduction on all grain and grain rate structure, the present condition products of over 17 per cent. The of the Western carriers makes it im- drastic nature of the reductions and perative that Western rates be con- the resulting preference to agricul- sidered apart from the general rate tural products is shown by the fol- structure of the country as a whole. lowing statement of the Commission The carriers of the Western district in its 1924 decision reviewing the ef- and the Western and Mountain Pacific fect of the reduced rates: A. C. PATEK. groups comprise 132,377 miles, or 56.2 "'Generally stated, the rates on Assistant General Freight Agent per cent of the total mileage of the wheat and its products, as well as Class I railroads. hay, in this group are now 117.5 per Mr. Patelr's ~romotioncame through Rate History Since 1920 in the West the recent death of F. C. ~umbeck, The brief of the Western carriers cent, the rates on coarse grains assistant general freight agent. J. 105.75 per cent, and the rates on all M. Strupper succeeded Mr. Dumbeck first recites the rate reductions which other commodities 121.5 per cent of they have already been called upon to the corresponding tates in effect at and H. P. Norden succeeded Mr. accept in the last four years. The the end of Federal control.' Strupper. Mr. Patek took Mr. Nor- brief says: "The carriers complied with these den's position. "The railroads in the Western Dis- recommendations and orders and also Mr. Patek has spent 18 years with trict had been called upon to make reduced the rates on other products this railroad and has made a thorough sacrifices in their rates and revenues of the farm and ranch, including the study of its territory and its prob- for the purpose of ameliorating the short-haul rates on live stock, by 10 lems. agricultural disco~tentwhich had fol- per cent, on or about January 1, 1922. He entered the service of the lowed upon the decline of agricultural Subsequently, as result of the Com- freight traffic department in Septem- prices in 1920. They had reduced a ber, 1907, serving in various steno- their rates on the products of agricul- mission's action in 'Reduced Rates, graphic and clerical capacities. Dur- 1922,' supra, they reduced their rates ture more than on the other commod- generally on other commodities by 10 ing the past eleven years he has ities which they handled. per cent. handled freight rate and tariff mat- "In 1921 this Commission had re- ters and made a comprehensive study viewed the rates on live stock in the "With slight modifications all of of freiaht rate structures and related Western District and had recommend- these reductions have continued in problems. ed a reduction of 20 per cent in the effect and there have also been numer- In 1923, Mr. Patek published a 400- long-haul rates. ous other rate reductions, some of page book on "Tariff Management", "As shown by t,he decision of the them accorded by the carriers without which was immediately received as a Commission in that case, the live formal orders and some upon formal nleritorious work. stock rates were not considered ex- orders of regulatory authorities, in- His book has been adopted as a cessive from a transportation stand- cluding the state commissions. text by the Ohio. State University and point, but the rednction was recom- I. C. C. Has Twice Said Reductions the University of Syracuse, (New mended 'to assist in tiding the live Unwarranted York), and is being used as a refer- stock industry over its present period "The Commission has twice re- ence book in a number of schools of of adversity and to hasten a return viewed its action in respect to its in- business administration. to hetter conditions and business vestigation of the rates o-n grain, grain Mr. Patek is married and lives at erity.' The carriers complied (Continued on Page 31) 3309 ~u~phreyStreet, St. Louis, Mo. Page 18

mer, is responsible for many ship- Romantic H is t o ry Blends With Modern ments or iron and steel products. The coal mines are but a short distance Industry at East Thomas, Ala. andployed the in Mallet the servicetype enginesto more are heavy eni- tonnage of coal which is mined for about 75 miles along the road. East Thonias is also important be- Fine Frisco Shops Stand on Site of Indian Massacres-Creek cause it is the ter~ninaipoint for steamer merchandise from the sea- Indians Grew Tobacco Where Locomotives Roar Today coast to various points in the west. The most modern equipment was HE City of East Thomas, Ala., is begun to build a yard to serve future used in constructing the new yards T located half way between Birminp traffic problems. The vast level fields and the large electric turntable which ham and Pratt City, in the valley be- easily afforded this expansion from will easily accoinmodate the largest tween North Highlands and Acipco. time to time. John Connelly, a veteran engine, is one of the features. The The name was inherited from the own- of 36 years' service, was handling the pits in the roundhouse were all blast- er of Thomas furnace which located work train at this time and unloaded ed out and are solid rock. The.power near the west end of the yards. The thousands of cars of material to fill house, machine shop, and lumber mill East Thomas yards run along beside in the low places. are equipped with the new and latest the banks of Village Creeli, which is The yards were soon opened for machinery. historically famous in the history of actual service and a joint terminal, - Alabama. with the Central of Georgia and Illi- L. H. Gomer says he has under his Village Creek was so czlled because nois Central established. A small supervision, men he would not trade of the many Indian villages which yard office, without light or heat was for gold. were at one time located along its the only office for these yards in those Not long ago engine 1617 broke a picturesque banks. These were tribes days. crown pin. The engine arrived at of the Creek Indians who caused so In 1922 it was decided to move the the roundhouse at 2:30 p. m. Mr. much trouble by their many horrible Ninth Avenue yard office, shops aiid Gomer advised his men he wanted a massacres of the white settlers. They roundhouse to East Thomas, and wick job of netting the wheels out. At 4:00 D, m., his force had dropped two pair of wheels, and had them ready to be shipped to Memphis.

-- I A Lesson for Everyone! I It only takes a bit of courtesy to malce boosters out of uninterested folks. When Ticket Agent J. A. Frye, of Tulsa, Okla., rendered a personal service to B. L. Singley, president of the Meadeville, Pa., concern of Key- stone View Company a few days ago, he turned Mr. Singley from a traveler with only a casual interest in railroads, into a 100 per cent, day and night booster for the particular brand of Frisco service. Mr. Singley left his overcoat, with pockets full of valuable matter, in the Tulsa station, when he left for Chi- cago. Ticket Agent Frye found the coat, sent it on to its owner and the coat was again on Mr. Singley's back SCESES AND FOLKS AT EAST l1HO31AS shortly after he arrived at the LaSalle Photvgraph No. 1 shows engine 2006 after being overhauled. Standing at its Hotel. . head, is F. A. Beyer, Jr., machine and deadwork foreman. This picture shows the Following is a letter from Mr. Sing- Lewis Draft Appliance, which gives to this huge freight engine. additional ley to Ticket Agent Frye, which, indi- power The appliance is at the front of the engine. No. 2-left to right. F. B. Couchman, roundhouse foreman and F. A. Beyer, Jr., cates beyond a doubt what he thinks machine and deadwork foreman. of the Frisco: No. 3-shows engine 2002 just after being overhauled, and the crew that accorn~lished this task. Standing on the front row, reading from left to right. Mr. J. A. Frye, L. H. Gomer, general foreman (with the hat on); F. A. Beyer, Jr., and D. J. -Brisco --~.. DeDot. Cutcliff, boiler foreman. Tulsa, ~kiahoma. Dear Mr. Frye: work begun to enlarge the yards. The I want to thank you a thousand were finally overpowered by General times and more. too, for the kind Jackson at Horse Shoe Bend. The new yards were completed and open- service you rendered me in ship- present East Thomas Yards were the ed for service in 1924 and the entire ping my overcoat. It arr~ved ~n old corn and tobacco fields of the forces moved to the new location. Chicago on Monday morning, when Creek Indians and the creek is but a it was uncomfortably cold. I took One of Largest Terminals a taxi to the Hotel LaSalle and im- few minutes' walk from the yards. mediately after lunch the coat was The construction of what is now This made East Thomas one of there with all its contents and per- fectly satisfactory. I hope that East Thomas yard. began about 15 the largest -terminals on the entire some day when I am In Tulsa, I years ago, when the freight yards in system. In handling commodities can have' the pleasure of having Birmingham were congested with cars. such as iron, steel and coal, the East you wlth me for lunch or d~nner. Again thanking you very kindly, East Thomas yards were first built Thomas yards exceed all other yards I am, as storage yards, but its value as a on the system. The Bessemer Branch, Yours very sincerely. large terminal was foreseen and work running from East Thomas to Besse- B. L. SINGLEI'.

Campaign for Safe Conditions Among Frisco Employes Is Large and Important Work

Steady Decrease in Killed and Injured Denotes Co-Operation on Lines

The activities of the Frisco Lines Attempt to Reach All the men, and I have found that most in connection with safety work, not "We attempt to reach the entire of our employes are ready and willing only extend throughout the eight- range of rank and file on the Frisco to co-operate with us in our efforts to state territory to the children in the through fellow employes on safety save them personal injury-possibly schools, as the Magazine described committees," Claypool says. "Bulle- death. Now and then we find a man in its May issue. tin boards at various points carry who thinks this inner-organization Within the Frisco's own organiza- illustrated safety matter intended to safety work is a hard-hearted policy tion, a safety movement organized catch the eye of those who need to of the road to save itself money in and moving at top-rate speed, is reduc- read it, and throughout, we use mod- paying claims. But that man is not ing the number of accidents and in- ern advertising methods, pictures and found often nowadays. By far the juries to employes. posters, to drive home our safety great majority of our employes know Under the able direction and super- program." that we are doing this intensified vision of Z. B. Claypool, a Frisco safety work to save them from the veteran of 20 years' service, now hold- loss of an eye, arm or leg-and not ing the title "Supervisor of Safety", a from any selfish reasons." determined campaign is progressing The safety work does not stop at among shopmen for the elimination local conditions, however, but goes of unsafe physical conditions as we:l straight into other divisional acci- as unsafe practices. dents. Claypool's work has to do with the In the shops of the Frisco the in- promotion of safety in the shops and juries (of more than three days' lay- during the seven years he has spent up for the patient), reported were in Frisco safety work, he has talked 40 per cent more than the reportable to and met with the 6,000 mechanical shops injuries in 1924, Claypool as- men several different times. serted. Early in his safety work, Claypool "I attribute that fine decrease to began the organization of safety com- our intensified safety work in all of lnitees in the shop crafts throughout its many ramifications, and to the or- the system. ganization we have built up within Today organized safety committees the shop crafts for the promotion of are working and co-operating on every safety." division of the Frisco. Supervisors Made Responsible Records in the office of H. W. The twenty-five supervisors were Hutlgen, chief claim agent, prove made responsible for accidents to conclusively the worth-whileness of men under their charge, recently, and this work. a big campaign was begun for lessen- In 1923, 54 Frisco employes were ing in accidents and injuries. A great killed and 6,651 injured. deal has been accomplished through In 1924, 33 employes were killed and the whole-hearted co-operation of the 5,859 injured. men themselves, although there is a large territory still left for improve- The reduction in 1924 over 1923 was ment. 21 employes killed, and 792 injured. "Safety can become 100 per cent The first three months of 1925, for only with a whole-hearted, interested shop employes, are indeed banner 2. B. CLAYPOOL and unified effort," Supervisor Clay- ones in this respect. No shop employe pool says. has been fatally injured or killed, Safety committeemen are trained A systematic inspection of line- and only 665 have been injured. While to observe unsafe practices as well shafting, belts and pulleys once every in the same period of 1924, 4 had as unsafe physical conditions. three months on Sunday and holidays been killed and 816 injured. A dif- "Remember that nine out of ten brought defects to light that were ferential of 151 injured is shown in injuries are caused by unsafe prac- henceforth remedied. comparison of the three months' tices, and only the tenth is caused by periods in two years. Locomotive shopmen and car shop- an unsafe physical condition," Super- men made terminal inspections once Meetings of the committees cork- visor Claypool reminds. sisting of master mechanics, crafts- a month. Lockers and rip tracks were men, supervisors and others, are held At each meeting the report of the given a thorough once-over for possi- monthly at terminal and headquarter accidents which occurred since the ble hazards to safety. Tools were in- points, and local committee meetings last meeting is thoroughly gone over, spected and locomotive shops gone are also held at various sub-terminal explanation found and remedy sought. over. stations. The supervisors of the sub- Reasons why the accident happened Supervisor Claypool is on a constant terminals are then required to repor: are followed closely with remedial lookout for ideas in improving safety to the divisional meeting. measures to prevent a recurrence. conditions for the army of workers As an example of the efficient or- "I find a great deal of good in these on the Frisco Lines and will welcome ganizing, the Springfield shop proper- close-at-hand contacts," Claypool says. suggestions from any and all em- ties have six independent committees. "It serves as a drawing power with ployes. June, 1925 F~%&~COFMPLO*S'&~GVZ/NE Page 21

BERRY SHIPPING STARTS Fort Worth Freight Office Force

Strawberries From Van Buren, -- -. .- Ark., Formed First Express Shipment Frisco Will Handle 1,619 Cars of Berries to Every State in Union

A total of 1,619 cars of strawberries from the strawberry country of Mis- souri and Arkansas, will move over Frisco Lines during May and June, according to a report from Ray E. Bagent, assistant supervisor of perishable freight at Springfield. Berry picking began the last 10 days of April and the first express shipments from Van Buren, Ark., went over the Frisco April 20th. The strawberry country extends from Mansfield, Ark., north to Spring- field, Mo., east to Crocker, Mo., and south to Vinita, Okla. The largest part of the strawbemy crop is grown in Arkansas and Missouri, however. Carload lots of the berries increased 616 cars this year over last year, Mr. Bagent reported, when 1,003 cars Those enterprising Fort Worth, Texas, folks are on their toes again this were handled. month, and as a result the following picture was sent in by H. A. Granger, The berries travel via Frisco to claim clerk at the freight office. Last month the Magazine carried a picture every state in the Union and on into of the ticket office uptown, and its force. Send in your pictures, folks. So Canada. far Fort Worth leads the field. Seated, left to right-Rex Cooper, passing clerk; Mable Dozier, stenographer; Reece Saw Exciting Times J. C. Moorman, cashier; D. 0. Etter, assistant agent; H. A. Granger, claim J. W. clerk; Ruby Long, stenographer. E. Traiitham, messenger. In 34 Years' Service Standing, left to right-Q. Taylor, bill clerk; N. L. Law, switching clerk; R. F. Cooke, rate clerk; Joe Duran, special agent; P. C. Reeves, accountant; Retired Engineer I1Toted Artillery" In Historic Railroad War of 1878 G. E. Littlefair, general agent; A. S. Lehew, warehouse foreman; A F. Plam- beck, check clerk; A. W. Labhart, assistant accountant; Garnett Parrott, J. W. Reece, retired engineer, of collector. Memphis, is one of the grand old veterans of the Frisco. New Reporters Appointed for Oklahoma City and Paris. Texas. Reece drove an engine on the Tupelo Southern Division Hear Safety Principles Sub-Division for 3.4 years prior to his The most imDortant thing in Thp retirement from active service last - - Frisco Emplogcs' Magazirte is the Harry Harrison Before Kiwanians June. family news. This news is forwarded He worked for from everv division where reporters and Boy Scouts in Interest of 1 the Chesepeake are appointed. Safety .'A and Ohio as see- It is the desire of the il.laoa,-i~~eto - :?'& I tion man in 1872, have each department and each point c:J:Iand went to the represented, and to this end, the fol- Mr. Harry Harrison, who with Mr. Santa Fe as a lowing new reporters for the Southern J. W. Morrill, works in the interest of brakeman in 1878. Division have been appointed: safety first among the school children, aided the Kimanis Club of Oklahoma He w a s trans- Birmingham, Ala. ferred from Em- City in a safety first campaign during Miss Violet Goldsmith, dispatcher's the week of May 3rd to 9th inclusive. poria to Pueblo office ; Miss Ethel Copeland, terminal in '78, given a auditor's office; T. L. Collins. store- Mr. Harrison addressed the schools Winchester rifle keeper's office; R. E. Breedlove, gen- and various other meetings in the in- and a Colt revol- eral foreman's office. terest of safety and stressed the ver and stood "ABC" of the present day, which is guard in the San- Memphis, Tenn. ALWAYS BE CAREFUL, to Okla- ta Fe shops at Ralph D. Williams, accountant's homa City folk in a new and forceful Pueblo d u r i n g office; B. S. Linville, agent's office; way. F. J. Walsh, superintendent's office. the historic rail- There were window displays on road war of that Amory, Miss. ,. ,. REECE safety first and many programs of ti me. He fired J. C. Allen, storekeeper's office; A. interest. out of Sandusky on the C. S. & C., fol- W. Holmes, cashier; E. W. Flinn, lowing his Santa Fe service, and in trainmaster; J. M. Sisk, storekeeper's On April 26th, Mr. Harrison answer- 1889, came to the Frisco, then the old office; Joe Jessen, roundhouse fore- ed a call to address the Boy Scouts Kansas City, Memphis and Birming- man; Geo. Hunt, reporting for round- at Paris, Texas, on safety first mat- ham, in 1889. house. ters. "I didn't like it at all when I was New Albany, Miss. Practically every citizen is familiar retired," he said recently. "But I had W. A. Moore, local agent, and Paul enough with scout laws to know that a long service and never had an acci- Poynor, ticket agent. they are taught safety first and many dent or a scratch. The only thing Aberdeen, Miss. lessons in first aid. about retirement is that time hangs Miss Pauline Schatz, of the agent's Mr. Harrison had a most appre- pretty heavy." office. ciative audience. Grown-ups A Page

Be Quiet Children

THE OL' SWIMMIN' HOLE He went right down, to the old swim- going to take a trip to New York! min' ground, Oooh! Yes and they're going by Jimmy Boy was still in the pond. Niagara Falls where almost all the So he grabbed a shoe and then with- water in the world goes over a big drew, high bluff. Mary Ellen says she's Like a little vagabond. heard all about it and how some folks try to go over the water falls in a He carried the shoe, by the laces, too, barrel, but nobody ever has yet! Mary And dropped it before Jimmy's Ellen says for the Twilight Lady not mother. to worry that she don't intend to get That night Jimmy ate no peaches and so very close to it, and she says she cake, knows her little brother Ted won't, But fared on bread and butter. 'cause he hates water so much he won't even wash behind his ears! Fido got n bath, a meal and a half, Where in the world do you suppose And a nice soft place to snooze. little Joe Barnhart intends to forget But next day at the swim, there hung all about his readin' and writin' and' .on the limb, 'rithmetic? He's goin' out on a scout Besides all the clothes. Jimmy's camp! 'Course it won't last a whole shoes.-Martha C. Moore. three months, but he's goin' for as. long as they will let him stay. Joe Hello Frisco Kiddies : says he went last year, and it was great. Killed a big black snake right How does it feel to be out of school, in camp one day, and another day he -, 2 n'everything and three and a half saved one of his little buddies from "Swimmin' Time" months yet before you'll have to look falling in the water and maybe get- Now June is the time, when the water at another hook? tin' wet. Wasn't very deep and Joe is fine, Do you know I've received the most won't take any credit for maybe And school is out-Ah, me! letters from little Frisco folk and let savin' him from being drown, but any- And the sun is high, in the Eastern me tell you how some of them will way, Joe, the Twilight Lady is mighty sky, spend the summer: proud of you. And you're lazy as you can be. Here's one from Betty. She says Oh, oh, oh, oh! Can't begin to tell she is 9 years old and that her grand- what's in all my mail, and where all Jimmy boy was fond of a swim in mother lives way out in the country the kiddies are going. But I'll tell you the pond, near Ash Grove, Mo., and that she is this much. They're going all the way And every day you could see going to spend her whole vacation from New York to San Francisco- His clothes a-swingin', a-danglin' and there. Betty says there are the most down on grandfather's farm, and to, clingin', things to do at grandmother's. First, visit Uncle Jim and Aunt Mary. Not To the limb of a hickory tree. grandmother has all kinds of little a one of them have even hinted that maybe they'd come to St. Louis and Fido always would go to see the show, baby chicks and duclrs and geese to play with, and Betty has one old goose look up the Twilight Lady! But he took no part in the fun, who is a pet and she calls him See how jealous I am? If mother He sat on the bank, from the water he "Henry". Then grandn~other can and daddy do go through St. Louis- shrank, you ask them to bring you to the To wait till the swimmin' was done. make the only gingerbread cookies in the world-yon lmow, the kind! Umm- office of the Frisco Employes' Mag- One day just for spite, Fido got quite um! Just melt in your mouth and she azine, and ask for the Twilight Lady. a fright, makes them in the shape of little men Bet you don't even know what she For Jimmy Boy pulled him in, and women. No wonder Betty wants loolrs like? Wonder if you'd like to. He got all wet, now you can just bet, to go to grandmother's. meet her? She'd like awfully well to. From his tail to his fuzzy chin. Now, 7-year-old Alfred writes that meet you, and she wishes you'd pay he has an uncle living way out in her a visit. Fido then left for home, he was all Kansas-near an Indian reservation. xo~I can just imagine my little alone, You can imagine where Alfred is going Frisco folks, all tucked away in a All wet and dirty. too, to spend his time! He has been living Pullman berth, speeding along on the So he sought a place on a clean pil- in St. Louis and has never seen a Memphian, the Texas Special or any low case, really truly Indian, only in a circus other of the Frisco's nice trains, just Where he'd dry out through and and you can't talk to them, you know. snoozing away, while the old engineer through. He tells me that he is going to learn keeps a watchful eye on the throttle, to ride those little western ponies the fireman feeds the old engine the The bed was great, 'till he had to oil to make her go, and the pullman vacate; bareback, shoot with a bow and arrow and learn at least one Indian dance! porter sits up all night so if there is Mother hurried him from the room, anytlling you want-a drink, or some She scolded him hard, sent him out Oh, yes, he said he is going to come back to St. Louis with a real Indian more cover, he's right there to give in the yard, it to you. St the end of a big long broom. teepee. That's the Indian name for tent. The Twilight Lady hopes he'll Then when you get off you feel so send her some postcards. nice and rested and there's grand- His feelings were hurt; he'd been mother right at the station to meet treated curt, My, what lovely vacations my little Frisco folk are going to have! Here's you! Nobody quite understood Be good, be careful, and hurry backf Who pulled him in, or where he'd a note from Mary Ellen Barbara and been, you'll never guess what she is going Bye, And he'd tried to be so good. to do! Her mother and father are THE TWILIGHT LADY. FRISCO BABIES l.-l\7nrren .Toscl)h ICratky, dgc 8 mqnths; nephew of Uhcstcr Kratky. secretary to J. >I. Kurn. 2.-Frances Carolyn Rlsser, age 15 months; granddaughter of 0. I.:. Rissrr. conductor. Southern Division. 3.-NarY Angelin' 14anibcth, age 75'2 months; claughte~.of hIel Larnl)eth, Sl~ringfirld,No. 4.-Xargarat Kendall. age on6 yc!ar: granddnufihter of Charles Smith, signi~linspector, a.-i\randa 3ionte, age 5 years; daughter of G. TIr. Xor- ton, genernl yal.dmastrJr, Ft. Smith, Ark. 6-Sernfln und Soah Serrirno, nge 6 and 3 years, sons of Cosmi Ser- rano, Sa~)ulp:l,Oltln. '?.-Evelyn Tatc, granddaughter bf (:har.lex Smith, slgnal inspector. H.-Frank, Jr.. and , Betty, age 2 and 4 years rcspectlvely, childrcn of F. .J. Hnrpcr. general car inspector, 0.-Frnnlc Edwin Clinc. age 2 years: prize-winner in baby contest; son Forem*~n\\:m, R. Cline. 10.-Hugh and 1,enn-Mae Walker. son and daughter of 1.. S, UTalltcr, agent, Holmes, hro. 11.-Lorlne nnd Narv Jean Banks, twin daughters of V. L. Banks, agent. Hiwasse, Ark. 12.-LaVerne and LaNell .Johnson, daugliters of W. L. Johnson, switchman, Bir- , mingham. Ala. Page 24 ;IHE/?&w ~MPLOX%S'~ZINE June. 1925

lons of oil, which shows 6.77 gallons Crews Continue to Save With Record to the 1,000 G. T. Miles. April lst, 1925, train 634, engine 1615, Engineer Keiller, Fireman Bram- Performances in Fuel Conservation mer, Pawnee to West Tulsa, handled -! 1,677 tons on 1,350 gallons oil, which -- shows 6.7 gallons of 011 to the 1,000 4 G. T. Miles. Engineers Eckles and Huddleston of Southern Division March 30th, 1925, train 36, engine 33, Engineer Adams, Fireman Dow- Make Exceptional Records den, Springfield to Newburg, 58 loads, 2,833 tons. On duty 7 hours 20 min- Engine 1214, Engineer R. L. Lauter- utes, one hour and forty-five minutes Who Can Beat This Record? bach, Fireman Brown, Sherman to delay. Consumed fifteen tona of coal. West Yards, handled 167,910 G. T. &I. No coal taken at Lebanon. 337,127 G. EngIneer Wilder and Flreman T. Miles, which shows 89 pounds per MeNeal, handling train 131, April Burned 1,580 gallons oil, or 9.4 gallons per 1,000 G. T. M. 1,000 G. T. Miles. This is the best 2nd, englne 1285, from Memphis to performance made by a 71 class en- Amory, handled 23 loads and 11 Engine 714, train extra south, gine between Springfield and New- empties, 144,858 GTM. March 19th, Engineer J. Carroll, Fire- burg. This engine has Walchart valve The fuel consumption amounted man C. Stafford, Ft. Smith to Hugo, gear, 7% inch open nozzle. te 7 tons of coal, which averaged 144 miles, handled 156,000 G. T. &I. April 8th, train 1/38, Engineer Ege, 96.6 pounds of coal per 1,000 gross Consumed 14,000 pounds coal, or 89 Fireman White, Monett to Springfield, ton miles" and the time on duty pounds per 1.000 G. T. M., terminal 40 loads, 49 empties, 3,205 tons. This was 5 hours 50 minutes. consumption included. was the heaviest train ever handled Who is going to break this record March 3, engine 1234, train extra on a 71 class engine from hlonett to or make another one as good? north, Engineman R. P. Hawlrins, Fire- Springfield. man L. Cowan, from Ft. Smith to Central Division from Hugo to Hope Mr. Robert Collett, fuel agent, sent Fayette Junction, 61 miles, handled and return, 242 miles, March 28th, in some record fuel performances 68,381 G. T. RI., used 147 pounds coal 1925. Engine 103, Engineer Lyons, made recently on different divisions per 1,000 G. T. &I. Fireman McBee, three cars in train, over the system. March 13, engine 1406, train No. 6, made 726 passenger car miles, con- Special attention is called to per- Engineman W. A. Davis, Fireman J. sumed 8.060 pounds of coal, which formance made by Engineer Eckles, W. Thomason, from Talihina to Ft. shows 11.1 pounds of coal per pass- Fireman Turner, Southern Division on Smith, 68 miles, handled 340 passen- enger car mile. March 7th, with engine No. 3. This ger car miles on two tons of coal, or All terminal consumption of coal at train ran from Springfield to Thayer 11.7 pounds coal per passenger car Hope and firing up at Hugo is includ- for coal with 1,616 tons, burning 12 mile. ed in this performance. Tank was tons of coal. This train went from March 10, engine 60, train No. 36. weighed before and after engine was Cedar Gap to Thayer, a distance of Engineman Dooley, Fireman Moon, coaled at Hugo. No coal was taken 97 miles for water, which is an unus- from Springfield to Newburg, 119 at Hope. ually good run. miles, handled 329,392 G. T. M., used An exceptionally good trip made on 122 pounds coal per 1,000 G. T. M. the same date, same train, engine 719. March 12, engine 1502, train No. 1, Fuel Chart Explanation Engineer Huddleston, Fireman Car- Engineman Sprohs. Fireman Wolf, Several have asked for a more de- gill, from Thayer to Harvard-1,918 from Springfield to Newburg, 120 tailed explanation of the fuel chart. tons, burning 8 tons of coal. miles, handled 1.080 passenger car You will note left hand corner of Performances follow: miles, on 807 gallons oil, or .74 gallons Eastern Division freight fuel perfor- March 4th, 1925, train 332, engine oil per passenger car mile. mance, the three arrows. 1269, Engineer John Koehler, Fireman March 13, engine 1505, train No. 10, First arrow points to the dotted R. L. Chilcutt, handled 177,000 gross Engineman Donahue, Fireman Thomp- line which was the 1924 performance ton miles. Wichita to Neodesha, in 6 son, from Newburg to St. Louis, 119 in each month. hours and 45 minutes on duty. COII- miles, handled 1,547 passenger car Second arrow points to the line sumed 8 tons of coal, or 90 pounds to miles, or 8 gallons oil per passenger which indicates standard or goal set the 1,000 G. T. Miles. car mile. for each month in 1925. March 7th, 1925, engine No. 3, extra March 5, engine 708, train 735, Ell- Third arrow, or small black line, south, Engineer Echols, Fireman Tom gineman R. R. Skelton, Fireman 011 shows each month's performance Turner, departed from Springfield 7: 15 Stump, handled 56,592 G. T. M., used currently. a. m.. arrived Thayer 12:15 p. m., made 4 tons coal, or 142 pounds coal per 1,- The May number shows January only one stop for water Cedar Gap. 000 G. T. AT. and February performance. This is- 1,616 tons in train, consumed 12 tons sue includes the March performance. Fuel performance of engine 710: It is interesting to know that for of coal; 106 pounds per 1,000 G. T. Engineer J. A. Campbell, Fireman E. Miles. the system (as shown in the lower J. Bray, Paris to Fort Smith, 169 miles, right hand corner) in freight service March 7th, 1925, engine 719, train on duty 11 hours 30 minutes, handled extra south, Engineer Huddleston, we were well below the goal set 1924 Fireman Cargill, with 1,918 tons, left 194,000 gross tons, consumed 18,000 and 1925 performance in both freight pounds of coal or 92 pounds per 1,000 Thayer at 1:30 p. m., arrived Harvarcl G. T. h4. and passenger, but in switch service 6:45 p. m. Consumed 8 tons of coal, we reached the goal and on some divi- or 60 pounds per 1,000 G. T. Miles. Fuel performance of engine 714: sions beat it. March 7, engine No. 3, extra south, Englneer J. J. Carroll, Fireman C. E. White these lines showing goal for Engineer Eclrles, Fireman Turner, Stafford, Ft. Smith to Hugo, 144 miles, 1925 and performance made in 1924 Springfield to Thayer, handled 223,- on duty 10 hours 50 minutes, delay do not appear to be very far apart on 000 G. T. &I. Burned 12 tons coal, or 3 hours 50 minutes, handled 156,000 the system on any division except 106 pounds coal per 1,000 G. T. 31. gross tons, consumed 14,000 pounds for the month of December, we are March 7, engine 719, Engineer Hud- of coal, or 89 pounds per 1,000 G. T. &I. told that to make the goal it will mean dleston, Fireman Cargill, Thayer to March 31st, 1925, train 634, .engine a saving of more than $500,000 in 1923 Harvard, handled 252,912 G. T. MI. 1625, Engineer Gehrean, Fireman Par- over 1924. Burned 8 tons coal, or 63 pounds coal ker, Enid to West Tulsa, 36 loads, 1 Surely this is something worth the per 1,000 G. T. M. - -' empty,1,718 tons. Consumed 1,398 gal- very best efforts of all of us. ' FREIGHT LM. VCR I000 GTM.

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FUEL CHART FOR MARCH AND APRIL "What's the difference between a Our Own Puzzle hill and a pill?" (Hebraic) "Hill's hard to get up; pill's hard (Read It Rapidly) to get down." A B C D Cockroach - L M N 0 Cockroach "Why is she so fond of that hotel 0 S A R Cockroach clerk?" "Because opposite her name on the "What are you taking for your register he wrote, 'Suite IF." cold ?" "Hard to say. -Make me an offer." Promoter-"I can let you in on a "What do you think is the best ap- good thing." petizer?" Investor-"Good for me or just for "Probably lack of the price of a you?" meal." - "She's a nice girl but rather loqna- "Something seems to be preying on cious" his mind." "Yes, and besides that, she talks "Don't worry. It will die of star- too much." vation." - "I Don't Know, Do You?" Where can a man buy a cap for his knee-or a key to a lock of his hair? Can his eyes be called academies, because there are pupils there? In the crown of his head what gems are found, who travels the bridge of his nose? Can he use when shingling the roof of his house, the nails on the end of his toes? Can the crooks of his elbows be sent Noblesse Oblige to jail-if so, what did they do? He: "I don't know whether to give How does he sharpen his shoulder 'I'ourlSt (Lalcmg a ueep uwaw uu you a book or a kiss." blade-I'll be hanged if I know, the observation car platform) : "Isn't She: "I have a book." do you? this air exhilarabing?" Can he sit in the shade of the palm Porter: "No sah, this air Jackson- City Life of his hand-or beat on the drum ville."-Southern News Bulletin. The city lad went home with his of his ear? country cousin and during the visit Does the calf of his leg eat the corn Too Much was giving the place the once over on his toes-if so, why not grolv Policeman (producing note boolc) : and came across a pile of milk cans. corn on the ear? "Name, please." He shouted to the country cousin: "Oh, come here, Jack, I've found a Motorist: "Aloysiuse Alastairs Cy- His Present prianus." COW'S nest." Policeman (putting book away),: - It was a slovenly but kind hearted "Well, don't let me catch you again. Well? home and the family was gathered - In a western town there is a sign about the supper table. Not So Dumb! reading as follows: "What shall we give the baby for Tourist: "How's the best way to 4076 people: died last year of gas. his birthday present?" asked Ma. raise cabbage?" 39 inhaled it; Farmer: "Well, there's several 37 put a lighted match to it; "Well," said Pa, as he balanced ways, but one good way is with a 4000 stepped on it. some fried potato on his knife, "we -Atlantic Coast Line News. might wash the window and let him fork! " - see the street car go by." That's Enough, Sonl "I Do!" -Atlantic Coast Line News. Little Bobbie: "Dad, what do you Mike: "Who wrote the greatest call the last three hairs on a dog's war song in the worl?,?" The shortest verse ever written: Ike: "Mendelssohn! tail?" "Rocked boat, Wise Dad: "The 'tail-end' I guess." Mike: "What was it?" Little Bobbie: "No-dog hairs!" Ike: " 'Here Comes the Bride.' " Wooden overcoat." Page 27

Here's Puzzle for This Month i6-~-Feflx meaning out. 17-The opposite of a spendthrift. 19-A conjunction allowing- discrlml- nation. 20-Back- also, as a verb, to raise up. 25-A liiuor much mentioned in sea stories. 27-A suflix showlnP- contlnuatlon. 29-Refuse. 30-An Indiana railroad. 31-Unusual or original. 33-Imnelled. 34-~oxkumed. 35-Encountered. 36-A boy's name made famous by cross-word puzzles. 38-Original form in which metal 1s -fni~nd. - -.- - . 43-Hasten. 45-4 token bought for conveyance on a commoi carrier (pl.)' 46-Objective and possessive form of a feminine pronoun. 48-Pierce with a sharp instrument. 51-Not early. 52-A long pole used as a walking stick. 51-A mouse-like rodent. 54-A vessel. 66-Worn out or hackneyed. 68-A negative answer. 60-Form of the verb to be. 62-A portion of a curved line. 64-Past (adv.). 66-Alternative conjunction. 68-Thlrd person singular, present tense, of verb meaning exist.

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Well, folks, no casualties reported on last month's cross-word puzzle (and very few cross words heard in working it out) so, we're giving you another one, which will perhaps cause you to forget to lock the front door, leave the light going all night, or some such. Not only were we delighted to receive this puzzle as a contribution to our magazine, but delighted in another way. It was contributed by W. S. Wood and Jim Hamel of the Depot Ticket Office at Springfield, Mo., and is their initial bow to the Frisco Family. So get out the old dictionary, get the family all seated around and work this ~uzzleout-if YOU can't get- it all. watch the next number of the magazine for

Food Preservation The Month of Roses evening program, have your sewing The very mention of the month of bag handy. What a glorious opportu- The arrival of warm weather makes nity to fashion one of those alluring the question of food preservation of June makes one instinctively think of roses and the countless beautiful butterfly luncheon sets in crepes of the utmost importance. In fact this rainbow hue! is so vital a matter that the govern- stories and legends associated with ment has distributed bulletins warn- them. One of the recent magazines fea- ing us to keep all food containers Among the Greeks, the rose sym- tures an exceptionally attractive set scrupulously clean as a means of bolized secrecy and it was customary, with befringed cloth and napkins, the guarding against the trouble-making in the olden days, to suspend a large corners delicately embroidered with germs that lurk in half-spoiled or un- rose over the table when guests were airy multicolored butterflies hovering clean foods in summer. entertained in token that what was over blades of grass. heard around the board was not to be The average small home refriger- repeated. ators are by no means perfect in con- Your Hair struction. Therefore, the greatest A very pretty custom that is rapid- care should be exercised in keeping ly taking hold on popular fancy is the Whether you wear it long or short. them absolutely spotless and well giving of rose showers for brides-to- begin tomorrow to give thought to your filled with as much ice as they can be on the day before the wedding. hair. It pays in more ways than one. hold. Homemakers, who are in the One has only to set the date and hour Care not only adds to the health and habit of allowing the ice to run low. and ask each guest to bring a rose. beauty of your hair, but it adds to are taking a serious chance with the This idea might be utilized also for your own health and beauty as well. family health. birthday anniversaries and for hos- No woman can possibly Peel well if pitals and institutions. she doesn't look well and, every wom- When meat is delivered it should an who knows that she is looking her be immediately removed from the best is going to feel her best. wrappings and placed in a clean While "Listening-In" china or glass dish on the ice. Never With few exceptions all women are permit meat to remain in paper nor Politics, clubs, bridge and the auto- more attractive with curled hair. to stand for any length of time out- mobile, for a time, forced needlework However, do not permit yourself to be intq the background, but, with the led into the curling iron habit. Too side the ice box. present radio craze, this occupation Fish should be rinsed with cold many applications of hot irons is at once a pastime and an art with bound to prove ruinous in the long water, dusted with pepper and salt, women, is coming into its own again. wrapped in a clean linen binder and run. Get a good set of curlers, rub One cannot converse, or indulge in your favorite tonic into the scalp and laid on the ice until needed. Only mah jongg while "listening-in", but boiled fish should be used in "next while the hair is a bit damp, wrap it one can ply crochet hook or needle to softly around the curlers. By this day" dishes. When planning to use her heart's content. boiled fish in "left-over" dishes, re- method most hair can be made to move the meat from the bone, So when father "tunes in" on the stay in curl for two or three days. sprinkle with salt and pepper and place in a clean covered dish. Never keep fruit nor vegetables in the ice box long enough for them to Recipes For Clewr Cooks wilt or begin to decay. Milk and cream must be placed I next to the ice and should always be covered. Keep cheese covered in its Chicken or Sweetbreads With Left-Ove rs own jars, in tinfoil, in china or glass Mushrooms When chops or steak are left from receptacles. a previous meal, it is a problem to re- Fats and fat food should be kept One-half cup mushrooms, 2 cups heat these without cooking them too in a cool place in light-proof contain- chicken or sweetbreads, diced; 2 hard on the surface. To avoid this, ers, to prevent their becoming rancid. tablespoons chopped almonds, M cup put two or three tablespoonsful of hot Flour, sugar and other dry stuffs milk, cream or mushroom liquid, $$ water into the frying pan. When should be stored in perfect contain- cup chicken or sweetbread liquid, salt, very hot, drop in the steak or chops. ers so that insects cannot penetrate. pepper and ginger, 1 teaspoon chop- Steam on both sides slowly. It may Bread and cake remain fresh longer ped parsley. Blanch the almonds, even be necessary to add a very lit- in a tin box or stone crock. drain the mushrooms. Take equal tle more hot water. By the time the Keep all canned goods in a cool parts of cold, boiled chicken or sweet- water is all absorbed, the meat will dark place and as soon as cans are breads, diced, and mushrooms. Heat be steamed through and hot without opened remove the contents and butter, add flour and gradually one being toughened. The addition of a place in a clean covered bowl until cup of hot liquid, milk or cream with little fat is the next step. Fry lightly ready to use. mushrooms and chicken or sweet- on both sides. Remove to a hot plat- The homemaker should try to pre- bread liquid. Boil until smooth, add ter and dot the surface with a little pare just enough food for each meal,' seasoning and almonds and parsley. butter! Sprinkle with salt and pep- but if there are any left-overs every Place in large pudding dish with but- per, and set in the oven a moment. precaution should be taken to prevent tered crumbs on top and brown in the Then serve before the meat begins to them from spoiling. oven. dry in the least. June, 1925 7Z77iic0 FMPLO~S*~W~INE Page 29

Frisco Bowlers Hold Third Place In Inter-State Meet I Frisco Railway Bowling League Norden, Kranefuss and Spinner Did Heavy Work in Five-Man Event Finished the Season April 24, 1925, Reinheimer, Auditing ...... 1.50 as Follows: McAuliffe, Auditing ...... 1.00 In the Inter-State Railroad Men's Buchheit, Revising ...... 1.00 Bowling Tournament held in St. Louis, Team Standing Rolilfing, Revising ...... 1.00 Mo., from March 21st ending March Place Kame of Team Prize Grob, Revising ...... 1.00 29th, the Frisco Traffic Team shot in- Kinworthy, Auditing ...... 1.00 to third place in the five-men event 1 Interline ...... ,...... $42.00 Weisheyer, Tower Grove ...... 1.00 with a score of 2,833. The team did 2 Engineering ...... 40.00 Durfield, Auditing ...... 67 its heavy work in the last game when 3 Freight Traffic ...... 37.00 Eichnauer, Passenger ...... 67 it bowled 966 scratch. The "big noise" 4 Tower Grove ...... 37.00 McLean, Revising ...... 66 was H. P. Norden, who scored 234, 5 Passenger ...... 34.00 E. Kranefuss 212, F. Spinner 190, H. 6 Auditing ...... 31.00 Gauvin 169 and F. W. Rose 161. The 7 Revising ...... 31.00 S General Freight ...... 28.00 team shot 2,668 scratch and received I Notes on Frisco Teams 55 pins a game handicap. Norden also led for the high total for the Team High Three - - three games, rolling 568, Kranefuss 1 Interline ...... $5.00 Charlie Welch is again organizing was second with 566. 2 Tower Grove ...... 4.00 a baseball team for the 1925 season The following prize winners of the 3 Engineering ...... 3.00 at East Thomas, Ala. Every year he Frisco Bowling League who took 4 Passenger ...... 2.00 calls together his "gang" and this part in the tournament which just 5 Freight Traffic ...... 1.00 year, so he advises the prospects are closed : bright for a good team. Five-Men Teams Team High Single Names Place 1 Interline ...... $5.00 Brakeman John Ward, recently cut Freight Traffic ...... 3rd 2 Freight Traffic ...... 4.00 off the board at Birmingham, Ala., is 3 Tower Grove ...... 3.00 now doing duty on second base for Doubles 4 Auditing ...... 2.00 Hattieshurg. Miss., in the Cotton Kinworthy-Reinheimer ...... 3rd 5 Passenger ...... 1.00 States League. Maybe the league Burgdorf-Tschampers ...... 25th has found a second Walter Johnson. Individual High Three Singles 1 Conley, Tower Grove ...... $5.00 Dispatchers Ben Tate and Clarence Bullerdick ...... 8th 2 Wilson, Engineering ...... 4.00 Jones are gathering together all the Burgdorf ...... 16th 3 Bacon, Interline ...... 3.00 baseball fans around Ft. Scott, and Rose ...... 23rd 4 Braun, General Freight 2.00 giving them a spring work-out. So far Jochum ...... Ath ...... 5 Spielman, Tower Grove ...... 50 the team has not been selected-but Petera ...... 35th 6 Tschampers, Interline ...... 50 it is a certainty that Ft. Scott will Eichnauer ...... 36th have a good one. Curran ...... 45th Individual High Single 1 Bacon, Interline ...... $5.00 2 Buchheit, Revising ...... 4.00 Shopmen Organizing Baseball LeRoy Prater and Loren Loveless 3 Duffy, Interline ...... 2.00 Star in Circus 4 Conley, Tower Grove ...... 2.00 Team at Memphis 5 Spielman, Tower Grove ...... 2.00 Springfield Friscoans Take Part In An- Entrance in Amateur League Planned High Averages nual Indoor Y. M. C. A. Event When Team is Perfected Tschampers, Interline ...... $5.00 - Conley, Tower Grove ...... 4.50 They're playing ball in Memphis, LeRoy Prater and Loren Loveless, Spielman, Tower Grove ...... 4.00 of the Frisco offices in Springfield, Mo., and the baseball fever has hit the em- Gauvin, Engineering ...... 3.50 ployes of all departments. were prominent participants in the Schaffnit, Passenger ...... 3.00 Y. M. C. A. indoor circus given on Bacon, Interline ...... 2.50 The shopmen are organizing a team April 16th and 17th. Duffy, Interline ...... 2.50 and will apply for membership in the This was a take-off on Barnum and Shad. Tower Grove ...... 2.00 Amateur League. Bailey. minus the usual sawdust ring, Burgdorf, Interline ...... 2.00 Entrance fees to this Association. but in its place were found Y. M. C. A. Rose. Freight Traffic ...... 2.00 including uniforms, bats, halls, etc., clowns, who performed on the hori- Houlihan, Passenger ...... 2.00 will average about $200, and this oh- zontal bars, wooden horses, flying Wilson, Engineering ...... 1.75 ligation must be assumed before they rings and other gymnasium apparatus. Sullivan, Freight Traffic ...... 1.75 will be ready to compete with other During the month of March, these Norden, Freight Traffic ...... 1.50 teams in the Association. two employes were sent to Joplin, Zeis, Tower Grove ...... 1.50 At the present time they are con- Mo., to put on an acrobatic stunt for Jochum, Freight Traffic ...... 1.50 sidering ways and means of raising the Joplin Y. M. C. A. annual circus. Petera. Interline ...... 1.50 this sum. Page 30 June, 1925

Frisco Employes' Hospital Association The "Seven Nevers" Rccell~tn nnd Dinbursementn nfter December 31, 1924, through Mnreh 31, 1925 NEVER cross the tracks by night or by day, Balance brought forward from December 31. 1924...... $ 15,797.96 Without stopping to listen and RECEIPTS: look each way. From assessments on members...... $56,816.25 " Interest on daily balances in bnnk ...... 75.45 " interest on securities in treasury...... 3,936.89 NEVER walk along the railroad " donation by St. L.-S. F. Ry. Co ...... 125.00 ties, " sundry accounts collectible...... 1,737.73 You can't always trust your ears " proceeds U. S. A. 4% Treasury Ctfs. of Indeb.. Series TM-1925, due Mar. 15. 1925. and eyes. sold Jan. 13. 1925...... $10,000.00 " premium on above Treasury Ctfs...... 12.50 NEVER hop a freight, for nothing " nccrued interest. 3 mos.. 29 davs...... 132.60 10,145.10 quite heals, proceeds U. S. A. 4% Treasury Ctfs. of The bruises you get from grinding Indeb.. Series TN-1925, matured 3Iarcli wheels. 15, 1925 ...... nroceeds U. S. A. 3% Treasurv Ctfs. of - Indeb., Series ~~-19i5,due D~C.15,1925, NEVER, on a hot or a sunny day, sold Mnr. 25, 1925...... $10,000.00 accrued interest. Nar. 1, to Mar. 25. 1925.... 8.33 Sit beneath box cars, to rest or play. NEVER crawl under a car of DISBURSEMENTS: For Payrolls...... $24,680.71 freight, " professional, ordinary and emergency services...... 10,924.73 It won't hurt a minute-to stop and " labor, material and supplies...... 5,808.47 wait. " provisions ...... 6,098.93 " drugs ...... 5,325.43 " light.... water. . ice. gas. fuel and telenhones...... 2.370.75 NEVER board or alight from a " all other expenses...... 1,403.36 train in motion. " $10.000. face amount, Edison Elec. Ill. Co. of Boston, 435% Coupon Gold Notes. (ma- It'll make you as dizzy as crossing ture Jan. 15. 1928). purchased Jan. 13,1925: the ocean. @ 99.31, flat as of 1/16/25 ...... $ 9,931.00 Less: int. discounted @ 5% from 1/13/25 to 1/15/25 ...... 2.50 NEVER play games 'round a railroad station, " $10,000, face nmount, Canadian National Ry.'s There are much safer places to 4%% Guaranteed Gold Bonds, (mature Feb. 15, 1930), purchased Feb. 20, 1925, seek recreation. @ 99% ...... $ 9,987.50 and accrued interest...... 6.25 4,000, face amount, St. L. S. W. Ry. Co., Proof of the Pudding Equipt. Trust 5% Notes, (mature March 1, 1929), purchased Mar. 9, 1925, @ 101.082 (4.70% basis) ...... Thirteen Hundred Pounds of Nails 4,000, face amount, St. L. 5. W. RY. Co.. Equipt. Trust 5% Notes, (mature Sept. in Three Months 1, 1929). purchased Mar. 9, 1925, @ 101.204 (4.70% basis) ...... and accrued interest @ 5% from Mar. 1, to Here is a graphic. lesson! Mar 9, 1925...... - The photograph below shows the 80,000. face amount, U. S. A. 3% Treasury result of an extensive campaign in- Ctfs. of Indeb.. Series TD-1925. dated augurated about a year ago to reduce Mar. 16. 1925. mature Dec. 15, 1925, pur- loss and damage claim payments by chased Mar. 16. 1925, for...... ,10,000, face amount. St. Louis Bridge Co., removing protruding nails from floors 1st Mtge. 7% Bonds, mature Apr. 1. and sides of freight cars. 1929. purchased Mar. 25, 1925, @ 107.92 (4.80% basis) ...... t and accrued Interest ...... Balance, March 31. 1925. P. M.. at First National Bank, St. Louis, No ...... 12.877.42 -- $188.642.71 THE ASSOCIATION OWXS: Par Value

These nails were removed from merchandise cars at Memphis Freight House during a three months' period, December 1, 1924, to February 28th, 1925. The actual weight of the nails is 1,312 pounds. Nails protruding from floors and aides of cars have been a prolific source of damage to freight, particu- larly sacks of flour, grain, etc., unloaded at local. stations, and this campaign is eliminating many causes of damage claims.

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FRISCO WINS CUP WITH THE JULY MAGAZINE- St. Louis Team Takes Prize in Y. M. C. A. Campaign

The editorial office wishes to announce an important change in the Total of $26,442.75 Raised by Frisco Magazine publication date, effective with the July number. Workers for Three Million That issue will be received by Frisco Employes on July 1 or 2, instead Dollar Fund of on June 15, as has been the policy to date. - The change in the date of publication has become necessary for several A beautiful loving cup reposes on reasons. the top of the desk in the office of L. E. Martin, assistant to the presi- The Frisco Employes' Magazine is not of a "National" calibre. We dent, these days. as n tribute to the might as well admit that openly. hard work of the Frisco Unit in the It carries a small amount of fiction, but for the great part, its reading $3,000,000 development campaign held matter has the "time" element involved. in St. Louis May 13-23, 1924, for the It is the editor's wish to present in each issue, the complete news Young Men's Christian Associations along the Frisco Lines, for the month just past. Under the old arrange- of St. Louis. mwt that is not possible, due to a publication date two weeks ahead of The Frisco Unit under Mr. Martin's the'date month. chairmanship, led the railroads of St. Hitherto the June Magazine has gone to the printer on May 1, the Louis in raising money, reporting $26,- July Magazine on June 1, and so on. 442.7.5. All railroads with lines in St. Beginning with the July number, the forms will be "locked up" and Louis entered the contest. all matter on the presses by June 22 for the July number, July 22 for the August number and so on through the year. s When you receive your July copy, it will contain June events, as it should, instead of May news as has formerly been the case. This change in publication date has the sanction of J. R. Koontz, vice- president in charge of traffic, and will be effective with the July issue. This announcement is made to inform the employes why they will not receive their July number on June 15. The Editor wishes to urge that all material sent into this office for publication, deal with news of the current month. If matter is sent for the July number-let it deal with June performance. Let us have July news for the August number. The Editor firmly believes this change will greatly benefit the employes in that it will enable them to receive "spot" news in the Magazine, insofar as it is possible to give it in a monthly publication. The reporters for the Magazine have been notified to send in their copy between the fifteenth and twentieth of the month, instead of by the twenty-fifth of the preceding month, as has been the custom heretofore. Positively nothing can be published if it is received later than the twentieth. The cup was presented Mr. Martin REMEMBER, The Frisco Employes' Magazine is printed by Frisco recently by Dr. John R. Mott, general employes, for Frisco employes, and of Frisco employes. secretary of the International Com- It is up to you to make it what you will. mittee of the Y. $1. C. A., a man of world prominence as a Christian statesman and humanitarian. Mr. Martin was in the Frisco Hospi- Americans Are Best Paid Workers higher than those paid by other indus. tal in St. Loqis at the time of the -England Labor Gazette tries, according to figures compiled by presentation, and the cup was re- the National Industrial Conference ceived for him by A. N. Laret, assist- Board and the Interstate Commerce ant to Vice-president Ben T. Mood. And Railroad Employes Are Best Paid Commission. Fifteen Frisco men led the work of in America, English Publication the Frisco Unit, all of them from St. Asserts A statement recently issue[! by the Louis. They were: R. V. Hart, L. 0. National Industrial Conference Board Humphreys. R. V. Cooper, A. N. Laret. shows that in 17 industries in the R. E. Fitzgerald, T. U. Young, R. P. Figures compiled by the Interna- United States (not including the rail- tional Labor Office show, according Cummins, E. R. Fette, R. A. Clark, ways) the average hours worked per James i\Ioore, J. S. Jowers, P. A. Car- to the Ministry of Labor Gazette of week by employes in December, 1924, England, that "real wages (that is. ter, A. J. Moxley, A. C. Penn and L. E. were 48 and that the average earnings Martin, chairman of the Unit. wages measured by their purchasing made were at the rate of $26.85 per power) are higher in the United week. States than in any other country". In the same month-December, 1924 Harry Hatcher, Former Friscoan, Taking the "real" wages paid in -as shown by the statistics of the Now a Dairy Executive London as 100 per cent, it is found Interstate Commerce Commission, all Mr. Harry Hatcher, of Birmingham, that the real wages paid in typical employes of the railways worked at Ala., former. City Passenger Agent. centers of population at the present the rate of 48 hours per week and with the Frisco for nine years, is now time in other countries are as follows: made earnings averaging $31.25 a connected with the Jefferson Dairies Lisbon, Portugal ...... 29% week. It will thus be seen that the Company as traffic manager of the Amsterdam, Holland ...... 85% average weekly earnings of railway Birmingham District. Sydney, Australia ...... 14470 employes exceeded by 16 per cent the Mr. Hatcher . has many friends Ottawa, Canada ...... 16470 average earnings of employes in the among Frisco folk, and remembering Philadelphia, Pa...... 221% industries included in the survey of his pleasant connection with the On top of this, the average wages the National Industrial Confere'nca Frisco, he routes many of his ship- paid American railway employes are Board. ments over our line. The FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE A Thought for June Published on the Fifteenth of Each Month IK a lhighly departmentalized industry such as By the railloading, employes and officials alike oc- St. Louis-San Francisco Railway casionalll\- lose account of the "personal" ele- Edited by WM. L. HUGGINS, Jr. ment. It is only natural. Certain groups 827 Frisco Building St. Louis, Missouri perform certain speciffed duties, and many times a member of this group or a director of Thls magazine is publlshed in the interests of and for free distribution among the 26.000 employes of the St. a group, will think only in terms of the whole. Louis-San Francisco Railway. All articles and communi- cations relative to editorial matters should be addressed to This system, unavoidable as it is, has both the editor. its advantages and its drawbacks. Single copies, 15 cents each Such a sensitized organization is one of the Outside circulation, $1.50 per year utmost efficiency. Co-operation is expected Vol. 2 JUNE, 1925 No. 9 and received. Duties are performed thorough- 13- and exactly, and errors are rarely ever found. As a wholc it makes for better busi- ]less operation, better service to the public. But there is another feature. Through each enlploye of such an industry (and the Frisco is a typical example), the public is reached-and judged. The efficiency of Frisco service as far as Mr. *4verage Man is More Stories Needed concerned, is oftentinles judged by his acquaintance with Brakeman Tom Jones, or Clerk Har- HERE seems to be an idea along the line ry Black. He lrnows him, likes him, recognizes T that reporters, officially appointed, are the his good qualities and his trustworthiness, and only persons anthorized to send in news to the realizes that the Frisco must be a great system illagcrzim. to attract such men as this friend of his, for This idea, if it exists, is sadly in error. service. But on the other hand, a slovenly, careless, Correspondence from any Frisco employe is irresponsible person represents to those who welcomed. If you find a story (and there are know him an entirely different sort of railroad. many of them for the close observer), write it, Which man or woman would you prefer to and mail it to the Xaquxi~zeoffice, Room 827 represent Frisco Service as the fine, efficiently Frisco Building. organized thing it is? Let's make this illagaziue a family proposi- We think your answer is the same as ours! tion from start to finish!

Future Magazine Features Send In Those Pictures! HE featuring of cities along the Frisco ORT WORTH folks hare caught the pic- T ceases with this issue of the Nagaai~ze,and F ture idea! a broader method of acquainting Frisco folks Last month the Mu!juai~~eran a picture of with the territory served-by this railroad, mill be begun in the July number. their ticket office, and this month another of A feature story of the Alluvial Land Belt of the force in the freight office. Missouri and Arkansas, one of the richest agri- That should be an inspiration to other points cultnral sections in the United States, served along the Frisco system. well and thoroughly by Frisco Lines, will con- The Magazine wants pictures of people, stitute the lead story in the July number. It places and things. will present to readers of the Magaxi~ze a We'll use all of them possible-we can't get thorough description of the resources of this too many. section, replete with pictures. Send in that picture of the veteran trainman Following in consecutive numbers will come feature stories on the cotton belt, the oil fields -of the office force-of an unusual stunt-of of the southwest, and cattle country, the mining a picturesque place-or of any of the hundreds districts, and other sections 'in the Frisco terri- of interesting people and places on the Frisco. tory that contribute largely to the welfare of Do it now! the nation-via Frisco Lines. Frisco Chief Engineer Honored by Polish Card of Thanks We tnke thin opportunity to thnnk Medal for Service in France the men of the Rrineo System for the benutiful flowers nnd wonderlnl worde of eonsolntion durfng the ill- nerta nnd denth of our beloved hun- bnnd, Pntlner nud brother. Your great-henrted uympnthy in our hour Col. Frank D. Jonah Made Member "Swords of Haller" of need hnn helped un to benr our lonw, nnd for you, hie frlendn. we by Commander Polish Army will ever hold the kindeet of thoughts. Mrs. Areh Cnmpbell nnd An honor that has been given few Translated, the award reads: Fnmily. men in the United States, mas con- "The Polish Army, in France, Diple Catherine Cnmpbell. ferred upon Col. Frank D. Jonah, chief ma, Frank G. Jonah, No. 898, Honor- Dunenn Cnmpbell. engineer of the Frisco Railroad, and able Cause, receives the Order of the former chief of light railways in 'Swords of Haller' in commemoration France, by General J. S. Haller, com- of his faithful service to the Father- First Car of Radishes Handled mander-in-chief of the Polish Army, land in France and Poland, 1918-20, during a recent visit by the General Commander-in-Chief, (Signed) J. S. by Frisco to St. Louis. Haller." - Col. Jonah was awarded the Polish Shipment From Blytheville Topped decoration, "Miecze Hallerowski", the Market at Chicago and Arrived Order of the Swords of Haller, for in Fine Condition "his faithful service to the Father- land in France and in Poland, 1918- The first carload of radishes ever 1920." produced in Frisco territory was ship- The Frisco's chief engineer had a ped from Blytheville, Ark.. on Satur- brilliant career as a soldier during day, April llth, reaching the Chicago the late World War. market, Monday morning, April 13th. He went to France as a Lieutenant- These radishes were of the early scar- Colonel early in the war days, and in let variety and packed in bushel bas- August, 1917, went into the front line kets with alternate rows of radishes with the Twelfth Engineers. He snd Ice, 600 baskets t~ tha car. About served in Picardy on the British front 4,000 pounds of Ice was placed on the until October 27, and was then as- load inside the car and the radishes signed to the General Staff at G. R. moved under refrigeration. They ar- Q. in Chaumont, France. He became rived at the Chicago market in excel- chlef engineer of the department of lent condition and the trade was so Hght railways of the American army, well pleased wlth the quality and pack and for 19 months was continually in that they topped the market. the zone of advance in charge of the From present indications. there will transportation of supplies and equip- be approximately twenty-four addi- ment. tional cars of radishes shipped from Col. Jonah knew General Haller Blytheville this year. There will also well, and as chairman of the execu- be carlot movement of radishes from tive committee of the St. Louis Ameri- Leachville, Bay and Herman. In ad- can Legion, entertained the General dition to radishes, this section is this on a visit to St. Louis in August, 1923. year producing commercially, spin- The accompanying picture of the nach, cucumbers, cabbage, early po- award shows a replica of the medal tatoes and cantaloupes, an estimated itself, in the upper center of the pic- movement of approximately 150 cars. ture. The diploma pictured above, was In the lower left hand corner the awarded Col. Frank D. Jonah, chief signatures of the president and secre- engineer of the Frisco, by General .I. tary are attached, with the official S. Haller, Commander-In-Chief of the Frisco Special Trains Will Handle Polish Armies, in recognition of his seal of the Order of the Swords of Confederate Veterans Haller. "faithful service to the Fatherland in France and Poland, 1918-1920.'' Reunion at Dallas May 19-22 Will Draw United Confederates From Tulsa Retail Merchants Take Here's a Good Example for Many States Frisco for Fast Service Everyone They tell this one on Geo. Mc- Dallas, Texas, will be the scene of Special Carried 129 Excursionists the United Confederate Veterans Re- From Vinita to Tulsa and Return Brayer, car inspector at New union, May 19th to 22nd, 1925. Two - Albany, Miss. special Fr'sco trains will handle the A special train movement, accom- He was recently In a shoe shop Veterans, Laughters of the Confeder- modating the Tulsa Retail Merchants having some repair work done, and acy, Sons of Veterans and visitors to Association, called Trade Excursion a leather salesman came in. the Dallas reunion. Definite advice No. 1, consisting of 125 people, moved After interviewing the proprietor as to the number of special trains has over Frisco Lines from Vinita to and displaying his line, he sold a not as yet been secured, outside of Tulsa, April 28th. bill of leather. But before he left, the two mentioned above, but the Mr. McBrayer had interviewed both This special was handled in three veterans will be handled from all parts the salesman and the proprietor of the south in special trains. steel coaches and two steel baggage and arranged for the leather to cars, delivered to us at Vinita by come via Frisco! Last year the number of veterans the RI-K-T from their special train. Moral! You never can tell just to be handled so far exceeded the This train left Vinita at 3:05 p. m., where you're going to pick up some number originally planned for, that April 28th, arriving in Tulsa 6:23 p. business for the old Friscol special trains were made up at the m., same date. last hour. Veteran of Forty-three Years he was appointed as freight and coach Happy and Contented With inspector, three times as freight inspector and four times as passenger JUDGE EVANS I Garden and Home coach inspector, being at St. Louis, William Frank Evans, peneral Mo., St. Charles, Mo., Jeffersonville, solicitor of the Frisco Railroad, A. Schuler, Now Retired, Served in Ind., and also at Pullman, Ill., three died at 7:30 o'clock Saturday morn- Many Departments of Frisco times having 87 cars at one order, ing, May 9, at St. Anthony's hospl- which he handled alone. Geo. Han- tal, St. Louis, Mo. Judge Evans Down in Springfield, Mo., a seventy- cock was superintendent of motive had been in ill health for several five-year-old Veteran lives in solid power and appointed Mr. Schuler as months. contentment among his flowers and coach inspector. He was born In Monroe County, garden. Although his service of 43 When Mr. Schuler returned from years on the Frisco was terminated lowa, November 17, 1859, and was Pullman, Ill., he found the old north admitted to the bar in 1884, begin- in 1920, he is still a Frisco man at side shops preparing to move to the heart, and spends a deal of his time ning his law career at Centerville, new west shops. He was then trans- lowa. around the offices and shops of the ferred to west shops as cabinet maker Frisco Lines at Springfield. Judge Evans came to the Frisco in July, 1908, which position he held in 1904 as assistant general solicitor until December, llth, 1920, when he and was made general soilcitor In was retired account of the age limit. 1907, which position he held at the In all, he served in different capaci- time of his death. ties for tbe Frisco, 43 years and 8 months at time of retirement. He was a man who made and He was married at Seneca, Mo., to held friends, and his death plunged Miss Pauline Myers, December 24th, the general office employes into 1875. deepest mourning. Every Frisco Mr. Schuler enjoys The Frisco Ent- official and employe was shocked plojies' dfaga,-i;te, and looks forward to and grieved to hear of his demise. lt with pleasure each month. The Magazine will print a full Mr. and Mrs. Schuler reside at 1858 story of Judge Evans' eventful and North Robberson Avenue, Springfield, interesting life in its next issue. hlissouri.

Changes and Appointments

Again we have a long list of agents W. J. Paschal installed temporary appointed, agencies changed, and agent phillipsburg, Mo., April 1st. (B. transfers made. C. Jones in charge station from March By the printing of this list each 27th, handling in Foster's name untit month, we hope to keep all those in- transfer.) terested, informed of the different Ray Harpham installed permanent changes : agent Plantersville, Miss., April 1st Effective March lst, Wayne, Mo., F. DeBerry installed permanent made a joint agency with the M&NA, agent Hancock, Mo., April 1st. ADOLPH SCHULER controlled by the Frisco. J. W. Hull installed temporary C. B. Simmons installed permanent agent, Soper, Okla., April 1st. Adolph Schuler, born in Alsace, agent Fairland, Okla., March 19th. France, December 6th, 1850, moved to E. L. Duren installed permanent Effective April 1st. Emmet, Mo., St. Louis, U. S. A,, with his family agent, Winfield, Ala., March 20th. ticket only agency closed. when he was three years of age. His A. E. McCans installed permanent Effective April lst, Pennsboro, Me., education was received in the public agent, Kiefer, Okla., March 20th. ticket only agency closed. schools of St. Louis, where he learned 0. L. Jenkins installed permanent Effective April lst, Pilgrim, Ma.. the trade of cabinet and mill worker agent, McMnllin, Mo., March 24th. ticket only agency closed. and went to work. Effective March 23rd, Jericho, Ark., Effective April lst, Seligman, Mo., He worked for the Frisco in Spring- (Southern Division Memphis Sub-Di- made a joint agency with the Mis- field for a time and then went to the vision-MP 468.5) closed. souri & North Arkansas R. R., COD- Missouri-Pacific and the Atlantic and Effective AIarch 25th, E. W. Sher- trolled by the Frisco. Pacific. man acting agent St. Louis-Broadway, Effective April lst, Clinton, Ma.. He returned to Springfield March. vice M. H. Rudolph. deceased. (South Station) will be handled 5n 1877, working in the B&B Department Effective March 31st, Oronogo, Mo., name 3f C. 0. Claiborne as %gent at until March, 1878, when he was trans- ticket only commission agency closed. both Clinton, Mo., and Clinton (South ferred to the coach department as F. M. Garlock installed temporary Station) however, separate accounte cabinet maker. The work consisted agent, McBride, Mo., Marc11 31st. will be maintained at South Station of repairing coaches, building loco- Effective March 30th, Beasley, Ark., by an assistant agent-cashier. motive cabs, office and station sup- ticket only commission agency closed. Effective April 2nd, Lazarus, Kans., plies. The cabs were built at that Effective March 28th, Leith, Ark., ticket only agency closed. time of black walnut with ash panels. ticket only commission agency closed. Effective April 4th, Oronogo, Ma, Promoted to Yard Foreman H. W. Bray installed permanent ticket agency re-opened, Bert M. Pip July, 1887, Mr. Schuler was bromot- agent Collins, Mo., March 31st. pin re-installed ticket agent. ed to freight yard foreman, which po- L. H. Lokey installed temporary W. 0. Batts installed permanent sition he held for seven years. At agent, Myrtle, Miss., March 31st. agent. Wilmot, Kansas, April 6th. that time they began to change from Mrs. 31. L. Stringer installed per- F. K. McDaniel installed permanent link and pin coupling and air, to the manent ticket agent, Heyburn, Okla., agent Henson, Kans., April 3rd (0. EL present coupler. In 1894, Mr. Groves March 30th. Ransom in charge of station from was in charge as Master Mechanic Leslie H. Jaynes installed perma- March 24th, handling in R. C. and Mr. Schuler was returned back nent ticket agent Tallipoosa, Mo., Schooley's name until date of trans- to bench work. In subsequent years April 1st. fer.) Page 36 June, 1925

Frisco Pensioners try by the United States this influx Commendation of Service of Americans became greater, so that (Continncd from Page 9) I in the early days of American occu- Enld, Okla., Mnreh !M, 1026. pancy Cape Girardeau became a place at Kansas City, Mo., in January, 1890. PR-C. He served faithfully and well in va- Mr. F. W. Coleman, rather cosmogolitan and decidedly ex- rious positions in the mechanical de- XannPord. citing. partment until his recent retirement. I hnve just been Informed by 31r. Naturally, homeseekers in the coun- Canady of yonr noticing brnke benm try beyond the Father of Waters Iook- Pat Dewine, retired at the age limit donn nnd dras~lngon Estra 1013. ed upon Cape Girardeau as the gate- 70 years, has 33 faithful years' service Conductor Oliverson. E n 6 I n e e r with Frisco as switch engineer at Thomas, this ~norning,nnd my nd- way into the Promised Land. Thus, vice in that you stopped the train. after weeks or months of slow and Monett. He held his first position in notlfied the trnla crew, whu re- tortuous travel from the Atlantic sea. December, 1891, at Nonett, and re- nzored the brake benm. and in nll mained as switch engineer at that probabfllty, your netion avoided board, their hearts were gladdened some trouble. to see Cape Rock standing on the far point throughout his entire service. I to thank YOU kindly for I shore of the stream which bordered tbin service a~~dto co~uplimeni you John Henry Hough, clerk, comp- on Yonr nlertnesx, and it is with the land of their destination. trol1er;s office, St. Louis, has had a pleasure that X nm crediting yonr varied career of 25 years and six record with fifteen merit nn~hrkrr. Old Churches Still Stand months in railroad service. He was (Sfid.) W. H. BEVANS. In the fertile valleys near Cape Gir- horn at iiIascoutah, St. Clair County, Superintendent. ardeau, Americans first tilled the soil Ill., January 21, 1855, and entered the west of the Father of Waters; withiii service of the old I<. C. F. S. & 31. as First Circus of the Year Handled a few mllea of the village, in 1806, a clerk in the office of the car ac- by Frisco ware established the first Methodist countant at Kansas City in November and Krst Baptist church west of the of 1884. He served at that point and Gollman Bros. Show of Five Cars river. A little farther away was start. in the office of the cashier and pay- Ran From Aberdeen to ed the first Lutheran school and master. Some years later he resigned Sulligent, Ala. church on the western continent. Tho and took service with the K. C. P. & - old school building still stands. G. railroad, with whom he remained The Gollman Brothers Shows, num- In the village of Cape Girardeau, in until August 1, 1899. He then return- bering 70 people, was handled by the 1806, was opened the first licensed ed to the Memphis line, later coming Frisco, as its flrst circus train, on tavern in i\Iissouri. Between two Cape to St. Louis. He is widely known in April loth, for the southern states. Girardeans was fought the first duel the offices at St. Louis. This train consisted of three sleep- by idissourians, in which the clerk ers and two baggage cars and was of the first territorial court dew the handled on March 10th from Aber- keeper of the first tav~rn,to whom deen, Miss., to Sulligent, Ala. From he had, just four months previously, Car Rebuilding this point they went to Carbon Hill, issued a license to conduct his hos- telry. (Cotttintred front Page 16) Ala., to show there on the 13th. While this circus was a small one, In the clear waters of Rand01 creek, Miner A-2-X friction draft gear, 2446" it created a great deal of travel to the near Cape Girardeau, Mrs. Agnea Bal- pockets and Imperial type "B un- points where its tents were pitched. lou was baptized by the Rev. James coupling lever attachment. All lad- and for miles around the above named Johnston in 1799. it being the first der and grab irons are made of %'' towns, farms were deserted while baptism by a Protestant minister west iron, end ladders are riveted to lad- everyone attended the circus. of the Mississippi River. der stile and ladder stile riveted to In the old cemetery at Cape Girar- steel end. End sill grab irons are deau are the graves of Don Louis all riveted to end sill. Side ladder The King's Highway Lorimier and his Indian consort. In and grab irons are all bolted with (Contkued from Page 15) this same old burying ground are the 46" bolts and all sill steps riveted to graves of two Revolutionary War side sills. the Indians, although he Aid not es- heroes, of a cousin of George Wash- tablish a permanent post. ington, and of scores of men and w0.m- All joints of these steel cars were Later, in 1789, Don Loiiis Lorimier en who helped to carve an emp~re cleaned off and painted with Lucas established a post and becaine its from the wilderness. No. 1 cement before riveting together commandant under the Spanish crown. Just south of Cage Girardeau, on and all steel parts of car painted with But the name of Cape Girardeau clung the Kingshighway, are the Capaha Lucas No. 1 cement, inside and out, to the post, as the coureurs des boisa Bluffs, near which once dwelt the war- before applying decking and side had long known the promontory by like tribe of Capaha. Near these bluffs, hoards. Side boards painted with No. that name, it being one of the marks in 1541, De Soto camped for two days, 136 primer, with one coat of Lucas along the river by which they could while two of his soldiers, accompanied No. 1 cement on top. This Lucas Ce- tell their bearings. by Indian guides, went into what is ment is a flexible corrosion-proof ma- This promontory is still known as now Ste. Genevieve County, to obtain terial. Cape Rock and today, where once salt for the Spanish army. Capacity, 110,000; axle carrying Ensign Girardeau traded beads for On southward, over the famous old capacity, 169,000; load limit, 127,500; pelts, the citizens of the modern Cape road, one passes one of the first four light weight. 41,500; cubic feet, 1,742; Girardeau swing clubs different from farms tilled by a white man in the length inside, 41' 6"; length outside, those of the Red Man and, instead of new country. As he passes this farm 42' 8"; height, 4' 8" width inside, looking for scalps, endeavor to go he may see, standing on an eminence, 9' W"; width outside, 10' 2%". around in par or less. And where, in a monument erected to the honor of the long ago, the red-faced tribe Lieutenant - Governor Wilson Brown, The splendid organization which danced to the music of the tom tom act of the state legislature more than we have at Yale is responsible for about the'council fire, today the palo- three-quarters of a century ago, and the cars being turned out so rapidly faces step to the noises of the saxo- said to be the only monument ever and the workmanship is of the very phone under electric bulbs. erected by the state legislature to highest class. The up-todate appli- During the last years of the Span- honor a man who died in office. ances which were placed on the cars, ish regime many adventurous spirits During the Civil War, the Union and the grade of material used in from the new American states along troops built four forts at Cape Gir- their construction, together with the the Atlantic seaboard crossed the ardeau, one at each corner of the high-class work done at Yale, make river at Cape Girardeau, to become town. Today the sites of those forts these cars the best equipment of that subjects of the Spanish monarch. tell the story of a united and pros- type which we own. Following the purchase of the coun- perous people. Page 37

MAGAZINE WITHIN The interest of the F. A. of M. C. & 6. D. //MAGAZINE Frisco Mechanic VOLUME I JUNE, 1925 No. 9

The FRISCO MECHANIC Published and Edited as a Department Combustion and the Mechanical Stoker of the By CARL D. JONES, Mechanical Expert-The Locomotive Stoker Company Frisco Employes' Magazine

WM. L. HUGGINS, Jr...... Editor The particular attention of Frisco MARTHA C. NOORE.... Assistant Editor which we breathe. The other element enginemen is called to this interesting of the composition is nitrogen, con- Associate Edltorn discussion and analysis of fuel saving sisting of four-fifths. These, elements WI. .UNDERWOOD ...... Chairman by proper use of the mechanical are not chemically combined, but are HOWARD PICKENS...... Secretary stoker. It is gratifying to note that so mixed together that no chemical Mr. Jones pays high tribute to the action is necessary to separate them. The Editor will be glad to receive Interesting contributions at all times. efforts and efficiency of Frisco engine- Burning cannot start, nor continue, men when he says, in referring to their unless oxygen is available, and as the record for 1924: ''The records speak oxygen has a greater liking, or af- more eloquently than words for the finity, for the volatile gases, than it "Sit Up and Take Notice" proficiency of Frisco enginemen." has for the nitrogen, it leaves the ni- A rousing interest in fuel conserva- -W. L. H., Jr. trogen and mixes with the volatile tion has been built through giving a The writer, in preparing this paper, gases of the coal. In that the air to gold star to the crew making a record takes the view that each engineer be admitted over the firebed for the fuel performance each month. and fireman, in that he may conserve combustion of the volatile gases may The following letter, although ad- the company's fuel, should have at be heated somewhat before entering dressed to Messrs. Magers and Har- least a practical working knowledge the firebox, stokers are so arranged vey, is in reality for every engineer of the study of combustion. As the that the air in being drawn through and fireman on the Frisco system: first consideration in a mechanical the orfices provided, comes in contact stoker should be the job of stoking with heated parts of the stoker or Springfleld, Mo. that it does, it will be shown how the boiler sheets, absorbing some of their Xarch 16th. 1925. engineers who have designed ple- heat before mixing with the firebox Mr. E. L. BIa~ers. gases immediately adjacent to such Mr. J. L. Harvey: chanical stokers have not lost sight Dear Sirs: of this important consideration, and orfices. The air also, in being drawn We wish to advise that engine have designed the machines to con- through or around these parts which 791 is one of the engines on the are subjected to the heat of the fire- Eastern Division that is going to form with the rules of coal burning in wear a gold star for fuel perfor- locomotive practice. box, tends to keep them at less than mance during the month of Febru- First, we will consider the composi- fusing temperature, prolonging their ary. This was made possible tion of bituminous coal, which is more life. The holes in the firedoor also, through worltinx reverse lever to are provided for the purpose of pro- center ana by $roper control of generally used in locomotive service. steam expansion. Taking the Carbon Hill, Alabama viding heated air for the combustion We feel very proud to have this coal as an example, we find the fol- of the volatile, as the air is drawn honor bestowed upon us and would through the holes, striking the red- like to have this letter' printed in lowing analysis : the Nagazine to encourage the en- Fixed carbon, 51.74%, consists of hot firedoor liner and being deflected gineers and firemen to "sit up and colce, which is combustible; volatile around this liner, absorbing its heat take notice" and endeavor to carry before entering the firebox. a star on every engine on the East- matter, 33.15%, consists of combusti- ern Division. ble gases; moisture, 2.58y0 water; ash, Fixed Carbon Burned Next Respectfully, 12.53% slate-bone-iron pyrites-clay, T. E. Burgess, Engineer, The next thing that happens to the D. B. Aldrick, Fireman. etc.; sulphur, .73%, a poor combusti- coal after the volatile has been dis- ble, gives off little heat. tilled off and burned is that the fixed Assuming that the locomotive is carbon, or coke, is burned. Coke re- Safety Committee Appointed at working hard on the hill, the temper- quires a higher temperature and a ature in the firebox will be around 2,- longer time to bum than gas, as it Amory. Mississippi 300" F. Then if a charge of coal be forms the bed of the fire, and burns placed on the firebed, the first chemi- slowly, from the outside, without W. H. Williams and J. E. C. Hunt cal change that takes place is that smoke. The oxygen for the fixed car- to Inspect Tools, Lockers and the moisture leaves the coal, as we bon, or coke, is drawn through the Other Equipment have it subjected to this temperature grates, by the vacuum forming ten- and water boils and evaporates at Messrs. W. H. Williams and J. E. dency of the exhaust steam in the 212" F. At the same time, the volatile front end. After the coke is burned, C. Hunt have recently been appointed matter, or gases, are being distilled nothing remains on the grate, except as a committee on Safety First, fire out of the coal as it requires from the iron pyrites, sulphur residue and prevention and tool inspection. 400 to 900" F. to cause coal to give ash, which last named consists of the Each Monday morning these men off its gases. The temperature re- purely non-combustible matter, such go over the entire grounds and dif- quired to ignite these gases is about as clay, bone, slate, etc. The iron, ferent shops at Amory, Miss., inspect- 1,400" F., so the 2,300" F. we have while it gives a slight heat, is a very the tools and clothing lockers, locat- caused them to quickly ignite as they objectionable property, as is the sul- ing small clefects, collecting once in are given off and burn completely phur, as both are left in a molten a while a tool which is worn or which during their intrainment through the state and any agitation of the firebed, will soon be unsafe for use, and mak- firebox, providing that a sufficient as from grate shaking or the rake, ing recommendations for changes in amount of oxygen is supplied and causes the ash to mix with the molten facilities in the interest of safety first. heated to the same temperature of matter, which cools and forms a clink- Their object is to eliminate any the gases. Oxygen forms one-fifth er when the cold air strikes the mass. possible cause for an accident. part of the composition of the air (Continxed on next page)

June, 1925

Mr. Pullar formerly was empl as apprentice instructor for the Steady Growth in Membership of Frisco tem, traveling over the lines, m: a point a day, where he held cla Apprentice Night School at Springfield While he does not get out so : at this time, there are a numb' schools established over the sy, under the leadership of the diff foremen, giving to the appren J. A. Pullar, Former Apprentice Instructor for System additional training. R. R. Runge and W.J. Bryant Teach Nightly In all branches of work today, the need is for the trained man. This school has for its object, the training There always seems to be a way to Two months later. H. L. Worman, su- of apprentices so they will be fitted to accomplish things for those who are perintendent of motive power, upon step into better positions. They are ambitious. learning of the interest taken by the given as much practical experience In September, 1923, a little band students and of the increased number and technical training as is possible of apprentices petitioned J. A. Pullar, every month, offered Mr. Pullar Room to give a training school class. at that time employed as a first class 413 in the Frisco Building, together Last minute advice is that H. L. machinist at the west shops, Spring- with the use of the Frisco models. Worman, superintendent motive pow- field, Mo., to give them private lessons This room was occupied by the er, has granted permission to open from his experience. school up until October 15th, 1924, the night school at the north side, On September 15th, 1923, the first when the high school offered to start Springfield shops, where school will be held every Tuesday and Friday nights, from 7:00 p. m. to 9:00 p. m. A Group of Night School Apprentices This will sever the connection with the High School school and make it purely a Frisco affair.

M. L. Ryan Appointed Safety Inspector at Springfield

Former Electrician Will Oversee Safety Work- at West Shops M. L. Ryan has been appointed Safety Inspector of the Springfield west shops, Springfield, 510. Prior to being appointed to this position, Mr. Ryan was an electrician and also served on the Safety First committee. He spends his entire time in the inspection of shop tools and macain- ery at this shop, and anyone familiar with the west shop layout will realize that this is a real job, es the shop buildings cover several acres of ground. All of the employes are safety first agents and co-operate in every way Bottom row, from left to right-Earl Moore, Robert Dewar, Mathis L. Ryan, with Mr. Ryan, who reports any de- J. P. Clem, J. A. Pullar (apprentice instructor), Carl Oberlander, Joe Schell- fect existing, as well as recommend- hardt, H. T. Champieux, Pierce Eaton and Joe Harting. ing changes in equipment and facil- Second row-N. L. Linquist, Fred Reynolds, Alf Elkins, Wade Fulbright, ities, which might cause an accident. J. F. Blackburn and J. C. Brightwell. Third row-Joe Smith, Ralph Ruggles, Sherman Tuter. R. H. Briggs Sends Greetings Top row-R. K. lndermuchle and Tony Kennedy. to the Veterans

Frisco Apprentice School was started a night school along the same lines Frisco's Oldest Pensioner Recovering by Mr. Pullar in his garage. Their for those attending high school and Form Illness at Memphis only equipment were some benches who wished additional instruction. which they had constructed, but the The high school offered to pay for R. H. Briggs, of Memphis, known class opened with eight students. Six the services of the Frisco instructors and loved by his many friends on the weeks later the number increased to and the Frisco forces united with the Frisco, is recuperating from a severe twenty and it was found that the high school forces in conducting a illness. His son and daughters were "class room" was entirely inadequate much bigger and better night school. at his bedside for several days, but for their needs. The attendance increased from 30 he is now well on the road to re- The class was handled on a busi- to 60 students who attended this covery. ness-like basis, and each student re- school on Thursday and Friday nights Mr. Briggs recalled the Veterans quired to pay an entrance fee of $4.00. from 7:00 p. m. until 9:00 p. m. Reunion of 1924 as one of the happiest Through the kindness of A. Bates, As Mr. Beyer was transferred to moments in his life. It is his wish president of Draughton's Business Birmingham, two new instructors that he may be able to attend again College, permission was given Mr. were appointed, TV. J. Bryant and R. this year, £.or his thoughts are ever Pullar to use a room in the college, R. Runge, both of the high school, with his busy life in the service of paying half of the amount of each and together with Mr. Pullar, they in- the railroad, and his friends made tuition fef.. structed an average of twenty-five during his long service are most com- The se vices of an assistant instruc- students a night. The high school at- forting to him. tor was needed and F. A. Beyer, Jr., tendance runs around 20, while that Very few persons have had the ex- came to the assistance of Mr. Pullar. of the Frisco is between 4@and 60. (Continued on next page) Page 40 June, 1925

such shipments as are liable to damage Authorized Schedule Cars From Twenty- by freezing. The latter are known as "frost proof" cars. Packers at various points load iced eight Stations Handle Package Business refrigerators with their products for peddling on different parts of the line. L. C. L. merchandise originating at Phase of Frisco Seroice Is Important to Whole points other than the larger stations mentioned in the foregoing is given and Gives Valuable Service to Shippers the best possible movement to destination, it frequently being possible to By H. C. HOLRIES, Transportation and Station Inspector move to one of the larger stations and there worked into schedule cars. It may be of interest to those who Car No. 2: Loads daily, Catawissa Unless some means can be found do not come directly in contact with to Bourbon except Sullivan, station to prevent, the railroad merchandise the operation of the Frisco merchandise order, Red Balls Pacific train 4/35 business will suffer greatly from un- or package car system to hear some- flrst day, peddles train 43 first day. just motor truck competition. Many thing about the manner in which this Provision is made for the loading of these trucks are operating on high- particular class of traffic is handled. of what is known as "repeater" cars ways directly paralleling the railroads All who take pride in those things when one car will not contain all the and with practically no taxation, while that reflect to the credit of the Frisco merchandise offered or where neces- the railroads have been taxed hea~ily can well be proud of the fact that the sary to make a "set out" car in order for the building and upkeep of these arrangement for handling L. C. L. to relieve a local freight train crew highways. merchandise from the merchandise from unloading an excessive amount This article has only outlined the loading stations on the system has of freight at any one station. handling of package freight, however, been one of the studies on the part of Service to Frisco patrons is given pages could be written on the details all those interested. The plan of the first consideration in the arrange- of the various plans that have been handling is no recent innovation, ment of merchandise schedules for in worked out to prevent loss of or dam- having been started a number of years most instances a patron will route age to this class of traffic, but that ago and continually improved until car load freight over the same line as is another story and will appear in a the present state of efficiency has the L. C. L. merchandise, therefore, later issue of the Adagasiite. been developed, and it will continue it is important that the L. C. L. offer- to be changed in order to keep step ings be promptly handled. Peddler Briggs' Greetings with changing conditions. It is no cars are arranged with a view to re- /Cot~tirszccd frnrn Pnaa 79) uncommon thing to hear or read of lieving local freight crews from un- periences Mr. Briggs has been privi- some change being made on other loading just as much merchandise as leged to enjoy. He likes to tell of lines in the handling of some feature possible. the days long ago, when the coaches of the merchandise traffic and this Process of Loading and engines resembled the old time heralded as something new, but which stage coach, with huge wheels, and the Frisco has had in effect for some When an L. C. L. shipment is ready of the crew, consisting of an engineer, time. for loading at a station it is marked fireman and wood passer. There are twenty-eight principal or "blocked" for the proper car, He remembers, far back in the year merchandise stations on our line trucked to same and carefully stowed of 1840, in a little shop in New York. where the daily merchandise loading therein. When the loading of the car where a friend of his, Mr. Austin, is handled on authorized schedule is completed, it is inspected and any was working on an invention, which, cars moved on designated trains as necessary changes made in the load- when completed some years later by follows: ing in order to prevent shifting in a man named Howe, was called the Birmingham, Cape Girardeau, Chaf- transit. Then the car is switched sewing machine. Impossible, they fee, Dallas, Enid, Ft. Scott, Ft. Smith, into the proper train and given red thought it was then, and they laughed Ft. Worth, Hugo, Joplin, Jonesboro, ball movement to the point where the at him as he labored away. Kansas City, Madill, Memphis, Monett, car is due to be opened or what is Mr. Briggs wishes to say to the Muskogee, OlrIahoma City, Okmulgee, termed the "break bulk" point. The veterans that he is glad he is still in Paris, Pittsburg, St. Louis (Seventh transportation office keeps a complete the land of the living, and he sends to St.), St. Louis (Broadway), St. Louis, record of the movement of these mer- each one of them his greetings, and (Cupples), Sapulpa, Sherman, Spring- chandise cars exactly as that kept hopes he may see them all again at field, Tulsa, Wichita. of cars carrying red ball commodities the 1925 Reunion. Transfer and Peddler Cars and up-to-the minute information can Each of these stations is provided be obtained on any particular car. Birmingham Hangs Up a Record with a merchandise loading schedule Upon arrival at destination a "trans- on Unusual Shipment showing the cars that are to be load- fer" merchandise car is placed to the ed, designating each by a schedule or freight depot platform and worked. Exactly One Hour Consumed In Hand- "block" number and for what points The freight for that particular point ling Stock Extra Recently the different cars will carry freight. is made available for delivery while Information relative to train move- that to be transferred is loaded in the Handling a stock extra is something ment and delivery of the merchandise various schedule cars. very rare at Birmingham, Ala., but is also included. The following shows There are many package cars load- feats are accomplished whenever the the lineup of two cars from Seventh ed at different points off line for occasion demands. Street Station, St. Louis; one known working at stations on the Frisco, Exactly one hour was all the time as a "transfer" car which makes a some of the merchandise froin East- 21 cars were in the terminal limits direct move to the destination given ern ports, moving part way by ocean when this stock was received at 9:42 and there completely "worked" while and the remainder by rail. p. m. on the 19th of April. This cut the other is what is known as a "ped- The Frisco also operates iced re- of cars was inspected by 9:57 p. m., dler" car which delivers freight to dif- frigerator or "cooler" cars on some and the waybills ready at 10:lO p. m. ferent stations from a local freight parts of the system for the handling The train was. by the freight yard train: . of L. C. L. shipments of butter, eggs, junction at 10:42 p. m. with engine Car No. 50: Loads daily, Tulsa etc., while during that part of each No. 32. transfer, carries freight, Salsman to year when there is danger of certain Movements like this req~.irethe co- Damson, West Tulsa to Steen, Red commodities freezing, refrigerators operation of all the forces md gives Balls Tulsa Trains 1/35-1/435 same without ice are operated on schedule another record for the force? at Bir- day. Works Tulsa second day. where necessary for the handling of mingham.

LOCAL NO. 16-WICHITAj KANS. is now back on the job, feeling OK a gold medal for being the best con. EUGENE TODD, Reporter again. ductor. The orchestra was awarded Local No. 16 held a good meeting. During Claude White's absence, John a cash prize. of $125; she took first Had good attendance. B. G, LMorgan White (no relative of Claude) has place, too, w~thher boys' Glee Club general foreman, and S. B. Ramsy, ca; been holding down the job of pipe- and violin solo, and second place with foreman, each giving a good talk. E. fltting. In view of the fact that John the Girls' Glee Club, soprano solo and doesn't like night work, we wondered mixed chorus. C. Hadler, boilermaker, also responded Miss Nelson is supervisor of muslo ' wlth a good talk. We received the why that broad smile all. the time. applications for two new members. until we learned th3t the new bunga- in the Winfield Hlrh School. Mr. Nel- The followms men were appointed by low on Division Street Road is nearing son has good reasons to feel proud of the president as an entertainment completion. his daughter's accomplishments, and Fred Bullington is another member we congratulate her. committee: E. C. Hadler, John New- Ed Thompson went to St huh to felt and Jess Burdick. We are expect- of our night family that is wearing ing these men to arrange several good a new bungalow smile. receive treatment to his eye at the socials for us during the summer. Glenn Wall spent a short vacation Frisco hospital. We decided to give an attendance at Buffalo. Of course, Buffalo being Jim Boughman just bought a new an inland town he traveled via the Willys-Knight touring car. It sure is prize each meeting night. Someone a good looker, too, and Jim has good will donate the prize and let the mem- F. O. R. D. rout'e. Alvin Mothershead is our new extra reason to be proild over it. It is the bers draw to see who sets the lucky best looking car in Neodesha. His number. We believe this will stimu- man. While he has only been wlth us family made a trip to Kansas City in latte a great deal of interest among a short time, he is already hitting 'er it and report a quick trip, without the men and increase attendance at up like a regular. any trouble. our meetings. We have a new bridegroom on the The little box I placed near the time Sure having flne weather here now. force. He is rather reticent as to who clock, for items, has brought results. Everyone talking baseball and flshing. the lady was or where she came from, There were eight items in it. At-a- WG are especting some good flsh but Mrs. Otis Booker is making things boy! Let us have more news about stories. brighter around home for our outside the family, and anything that happens, Mr. Dingman, company inspector, engine watchman. and if we all pull together, we will spent a day in Wichita. Fred Barnhart has graduated from make the Neodesha news items so in- W. G. Hall, assistant master me- the flivver owning class and he is now teresting that everybody will turn chanic, was a visitor at Wichita. burning the product of "John D." in a to tlic,m flrst when they open our Iril (Jack) Fleshman, night foreman, Studebaker light six. magazine. is gettin6 along fine and is well liked The Frisco unloaded 100 carloads of by all the bovs. TELEGRAPH GANG-ROLLAi MO. cattle in Greenwood County, Knns., last he wester;-~eague baseball season B. IV. ELLIOTT, Reporter week. opened yesterday. Wichita going down All Rang foremen attended a safety The new Frisco depot here, is half to defeat at the hands of Denver. first meeting held by the Western way completed. It will be a very good The writer's wife is on a vislt in Union at Kansas City the 27th of looking buildina. I'hone to send in a Nebraska. so he will try the bachelor AIarch. picture of it nest month. life a while. The boys all agreed that Slim Has- B. G. Morgan likes Wichita fine. and selbring should practice some more on ROUNDHOUSE-AMORY, MISS. we are glad to have him with us, as low poles out of town, and then next J. E. C. HIJNT, Reporter he is having the lace shined un. We time the High School girls are watch- Our general foreman, D. D. Briggs. boast ours-is tlie cleanest on ing he will not set a high pole on fire. was called to the bedside of his father, the system. S. B. Jlusgrave, general foreman R. H. Briggs, of Memphis, Tenn., but paid us an official visit. He said thai due to his father being greatly im- TELEGRAPH GANG-FRANKS, MO. there were too many democrats around proved, has returned to work. Mr. BRUCE R. DAVIDSON. Reporter here for him, so he did not stay long. Rriggs' father is well-known by the S. B. bIusgrave, general foreman of Smiles Worthy had the misfortune Frisco family, having been in the the telegraph line, paid his respects to bruise his hand. So he is at home service for many years as master me- to the gang here at Franks, No., re- for a few days. chanic. He is 92 vears old and me all centlv The boys are getting lots of rest as wish him :r speedy recovery and hope I?. >I. Burton, traveling foreman of it rains every night. that he may enjoy many years. the Westcrn Union Telegraph Co., Our thy rourldhouse foreman is visited camp 83 of the Frisco Line LOCAL No. 10-NEODESHA, KANS. sDortina a new Nash car. Can't find gang on a recent date and seemed to anything wrong with it, only I haven't be well pleased with the work that is WILLIAM J. EGERER Reporter one just like it. But engine inspectors being accomplished. At three p. m.. ~aturdai.April 18t11, are not supposed to own a car for Alfred (Pa) Tribble, lineman, was a peculiar noise mas heard around the they would be always wanting some of sent to Memphis. Tenn.. to do relief chimnes at the Larkin home. Sam fhe pounds taken out of the main bear- work for the division linemen of that looked around and noticed the plaster mgs, or a pair of wheels retired. place. We understand the division breaking away. all at once a great Our annual picnic was held May 30. lineman of Memphis is ill with typhoid big stork. fluttering down with a large, We mill have to let our visitors tell us fever. fat, smiling. husky twelve pound boy. whether it was better than the one we News reached this camp that Everett Cigars were being smoked around the had last vear-but both of them would Taylor, who was assistant foreman of roundhouse all Sunday and Monday. be hard -to beat. camp 83, had lost his wife. Nr. Tay- Frank Velton spent the last money Engine 2004, a big Mallet engine. lor had taken his wife from Cuba, No., that he was able to call his own, when came to us recently from S~ringfield to St. Louis hospital to have an oper- he treated us all with cigars, to cele- shops and they say-it was overhauled ation performed for an abcess in the brate his marriage. We married men therc, but honest, it loolcs like a new lungs. The boys of camp 83 extend are glad to welcome you into our engine to us. We have three of these their heartfelt sympathy. ranks, but remember, the flrst hun- hia enaines in with the 71 class ~001. Most of the boys of this camp spent dred years are the hardcst. We wish and wl;en the Pork Chop train ariives Easter at thcir respective homes and you good 1uci;. from the north, it don't appear to reported it was one of the best Easter Walter Shoup sure likes prize flght- make any difference if it is a Mike Sundays that they had enjoyed for a ing and he is some fighter himself. or a Mallet, the hook right on the long time. In order to do justice to all, I am cars and take the train through to The reporter of this camp had a forcctl to report the following, al- southern points. pronto. meek's vacation and spent same visit- though I do not believe it. "The night We are a little slow in getting starting the cvclone ruins of southern Illi- hops at Neodesha all smoked cigars the ed with the gold and silver fuel stars. nois. 5th of April. as Peet Toomie was daddy hut we have them now and so you en- This gang is making rapid progress one more time." aineers and firemen watch your step repairing all damage done by the Nr. and Xrs. R. E. Goorwin and for me are having to change those sleet storm this last winter. The small son. Junior. made 2 trip to stars and that advertises who saves storm left months' of work in its trail. Wichita. Kans.. recently. Spent a flne coal or rather who saves the most coal. J. H. (Captain) Thompson was pro- dav and had a royal good time. I am doing my best to help save coal moted to a lineman in the month of Xewtie Moore has had a good busi- hv reporting steam leaks and report- April. ness in the silk hose department. He inr other work on our engines so they Our crumb boss. Char;. Robinson, left sold two pair thc first day and has will perform 100 per cent. here for St. T,ouis to receive hospital other good prospects. treatment. Russell Reid is acting The new three-T Westinghouse triple MEMPHIS LOCAL No. 19 crumb boss for the time. rack has hiten installcd at Neodesha. W. 4. Hutton, local car foreman, at- MEMPHIS, TENN. tended the safety first meeting at Kan- OTTO ICalifornia points even though we you will get ahead much fast have not yet announced our summer This division was or- rates. than the man who trusts to lu~ Speaking of Ash stories-hope to be ganized at the suggestion able to tell you a new one next month. for promotion. For you kno. as Traveling Freight Agent Stender spent the Sunday on the river. Think of prominent railway offi- just as well as we do, that the he took one minnow along expecting to ratch half the flsh in the river. cials who saw the need of Jimmy Gardner. the office boy, is is no investment that pays sporting a new gray suit. Look out. flappers! some central organization well as spare-time study. Chief Clcrk B. F. Thompson and J. XV. Shill attended the regular mecting to supply practical instruc- Write to-day for 48-page Fre, of the Better Service and Freight

Claim Prevention Committee~~.- last~ -~ meek..- Booklet which describes thes and report a good attendance and live- tion to railway employees ly interest in the work of this com- Railroad Courses in full mittce. who were anxious to get ------TEAR OUT HERE----. Employes of each department extend to J. W. Shill, soliciting freight agent. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL their decnest svmnathv in the loss of ahead. BOX 8621-B SCRANTON, PA. his stepf6~therrecently. Explain without obligating me how I can qualify for Our superintendent of terminals, G. ~ositiodor In the subject. befdre which Imarlc X. R. Carson, walked in the other morn- The plan was an imme- LOCOH(YfIVE ESIiISEEll ing ncaring a lovely rose plnned to Locomotivc Fireman Traveling Enp.ineer his coat lapel: he said several girls diate success, and in the Tmvellng Fireman stopprd him on the street to pin that Air Urako Inspector rose on him. Oh, well, such is life. Air Urakc Ilepoirmer, last twenty-six years thou- Round House Forenmn STORES DEPARTMENT Trainmen and Carmen Railway Conductor BIRMINGHAM, ALA. sands of railroad men have XEOIIASICAL 6hOlNEER hlcrl~oniculDrnflsnmn THOM.1S L. CONNER, Reporter Machine Shop Pmctice Who said we did not have some studied the courses of the Toolmokec kcen visitors recently? We occasion- Roilrr DInkcr br Dralpmer ally havc our major and minor officials Gal Engine Operotmc to visit us, but at last, but not least, CIVIL ENGINEEIl International Correspon- Snrrsrinl and Mapplnr we have had the long waited for visit- R. 11. Construclinp or, Nartha C. Maare, who was accom- Bridge Enzineer panied by Mrs. 6. J. Thompson, Miss dence Schools and found ARCHITECT Arrbilootnr.1 Dra1hrn.n Goldsmfth !Violet>, IIlss Col~eland Aschltects' Blue Rinta (the lightlvelaht), and Mrs. Launa M. the way to better positions Contrtlclor and Duilder Chew. They werc received verv de- Slrucrursl Engineer lightfully and were shown over the Concrete Builder storcroom and shops. Received many and larger salaries. CHEMIST compliments from the "gang" and Miss Name Moore especially (thanks). Well, at To-day the practical value Present Enlploped any rate we certainly were glad to see Occu~ation BY them, and are anxiously waiting for Street their return. I am speaking to the of this plan of instruction is so and No. "ganf' in this last sentence. Suppose we were not the only one that was welt recognized that it is en- sorry to sce them depart, as it cried (rained) just after their departure. dorsed and recommended by Xow, listen! Who was the bohunk that said "ah comon, let's go north?" Employees of this road will receive a Special Discount AGENT-TERMINAL ACCOUNTS bered by old timers as general superin- STORES DEPARTMENT BIRMINGHAM, ALA. tendent of the old K. C. B. S. & N., ETHEL COPELAXD, Reporter and superintendent of maintenance on MEMPHIS, TENN. The efticiency committee, consisting Brisco, later general manager of the WARREN PUCKETT, Reporter of Messrs. R. L. Schoeneberg 0. L C. & E. I., now retired and living on We mere mighty glad to have with Young and. J. A. Hutchison, are'spend: an estate near Chicago, was at various us recently Martha Noore, associate ing: some tlme in Birmingham and East points on the Southern Division recent- editor, Frisco Employes' Magazine, who Thomas. ly, calling on old friends. spent the day with us in behalf of the A certain crossing watchman in Bir- The superintendent, accounting cn- Magazine, "additions and betterments". mingham, trying to flnd a Quid of gineering and other Memphis okices '3Iiss Moore was successful in signing tobacco in his pocket, fell out of his gave their first picnic of the season up Ralph D. Williams as reporter for chair. Yardmaster King says he was Saturday, April 26th. the accounting department Afcmphis. asleep, but said watchman exhibited Messrs. J. H. Fraser and F. H. Shaf- Come and visit us again, iiiss AIoore, the tobacco to prove his alibi. fcr were visitors in our office for a as we are always glad to have you. Our honorable chief clerk, Mr. mil- day. Also J. H. Brennan was a AIem- Johnny Kerr, traveling storekeeper, kinson, is one who welcorncd spring phis visitor. Springflcld, paid us a visit recently on with a smile, for now he has taken The JIemphis relay office is the business. out the screen from his window near proud possessor of a telegraph-printer, Irene Snvder. comptometer operator his desk and can get a better look-at recently installed. and her lithe daughter, Narjorie, spent# thc girl nest door. liarry Tobin, former yard clerk is two weeks with her mother at Waverlp, They sap that a ~heiRis one who now located in our office as timeke'ep Tenn., recently. rides on a horse and captures women, er, relieving J. E. Patton, transferred Gladys Irvin has accepted the part but here is one that does his sheiking to traffic department. We are glad to as leading lady in the play "3Iiss in a car. It all han~enedlike this- have Mr. Tobin with us, even though Somebody Elsc", which will be given A girl with a red-hess passes the we do miss "Pat".- -. . at Goodwyn Institute sometime in the office at noon. a certain young fellow Ross Aton and Russell James have near future. We are mighty proud of jumps in his Dodge roadster after her. been spending some time in XIemphis. Gladys as we did not know that she all happens in a jiffy and just like Fred Mansfleld, formerly dispatcher had the ability to go on the stage. you would see in the movies. Boys, on the I<. C. C. & S.. succeeded E. A. Irene Snyder will also assist with the watch your step,,s these short, bright Teed as car service agent, Memphis. music in the play. colored dresses show does catch the Mr. Teed promoted. The old saying has been in the past, eye. that women are afraid of rats, but here E. H. Darrah, team track clerk, just 1s one that you can't beat. Just recent- came back from a week-end trip to DORA, ALABAMA ly a little mouse was found in one of Xemphis and the first thing he asked F. 31. SCOTT, Reporter the desk drawers in the master me- 31onday morning wh(>n reaching the Conductor XI. I<. Dacus was united chanic's office and after three men had office was. "IVi~ntcolor hair would you in the bonds of wedlock April 11, 1925. teased the mouse for some time asking call this-it's not red, and vet it's not The honeymoon was spent in Wash- and pleading with him to leave the brown?" Poor hoy, I see where all my infiton, D. C. We all wish the newly- drawer without further delay. they be- pass blanks go to now. weds the best of luck, happiness and came worried and c.alled Irene Snyder I have been telling you all about the long life. to remove the rat, which she did with- "chickens". now 1'17 ko to the other We have the word of Conductor Joe out the least bit of worry. The names kind of "chicks". Mr. Mealy, our new Henry Roberson, Fireman Rube JIanac- of the mcn will not be mentioned un- record clerk. who succeeded Mr. Hatch- so and Warehouseman "Pete" Grisson 1css sonieone desires to know. er. is raising just oodles of them, his to the effect that they are all honest report this morning is that 73 hatched. to goodness Grottoians. The Grotto Good luck. Mr. Mealy, if you need any goat having butted them recently. help when it comes to eating the fried That's a good goat, too, you can tell WESTERN DIVISION lsy the liml~s. Not the goat's limp I I chicken. don't forget that the office force craves fried chicken. either- .- .. - . J. C. Bates, bill clcrk, is lcaving our Yard Clerk Cooper is now existing office for East Thomas. We shall miss 011 soup-he having had both his teeth TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT Mr. Bates very much. extracted as the flrst step to some ENID, OKLA. Pauline Schermann, of Wichita, store bought molars. He talks with Knns.. left for Wichita Anril 20th. after the cutest little lisp now. A. L. KINKADE & ELJIA WILLIAMS, fllllnfi. :L teml,or:lry :~ssiinmentof two There will be several glad to know Reporters months at Hirniingham. We all en- that Jim Connell's bird dog is improv- This is our slogan: "BOOST OR BLOIV" joved JIiss Schermann';: stay in Bir- ing nicely. ?Are are keeping Roadmas- Congratulations to the Nucltolls', an- mingham and hope she will Eome back t~rSmith informed daily as to the other boy. Little Dick wanted a sister real soon. dog's condition. Xr. Smith is very fond of this dog. -but fifteen years from now he'll be We regret very much to learn of the dad- it wasn't. death of 0. L. Young's father in the Cashier Luther Nerren is again strutting his stuff after having been a Roadmaster Hinkle recently spent early part of April. The Birmingham a few days at Guthrie visiting his son. belt office extends its sympathy. patient in Employes' Hospital in St. Our general stenographer-says no Messrs. Geo. B. Davis and H. W. Louis. douht the reason they place trash Johnson visited our office the flrst part Operator Louis Shiflett was off a few receivers near post boxes is because of April. We hope that they will be days having his tonsils removed. Operator-L. R. Borders recently as- most letters nut in bv mistake wo~~ld-.- with us again at an early date. not be misplaced. ' signed second trick, freight yard At a recent Western Division Fuel SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE Junction, was formerly on second trick here at Dora. We were all sorrv to Conservation Committee Meeting, As- MEMPHIS, TENN. see Roy leave, but think he maae a sistant Superintendent Gow made the BERTH.4 HARRIS, Rcporter good move and hope that lie will soon motion that we ndopt as a slogan for J. M. Van Dover, of our engineering be doing his stuff where all ham oper- this division. "SAVE ONE MINUTE". .department, is accepting congratula- ators endeavor to get-and what all This suggestion heartily accepted by tions over the arrival of Jackman conductors think they can do better all and we are now working under Thomas Van Dover, April 10th. We than the man that has the job. same. Have you saved your minute hope to have a picture of the youngest Engineer B. B. McGowan, and wife today? member of the engineering force for off on trip to California, via Shriners' Dr. Allen Lowrev companv physician the Baby Page before long. Special, Birmingham to Los Angeles. at Blackwell, and'kife, rethned some B. S. Shirk, assistant superintendent, via southern route, returning via little time ago from a month's visit Amory, Miss., is spending a 60 days' northern route. Kansas City and the to Cuba and Florida. They report a leave on his citrus grove in Florida. fine time and nice weather. They say good old Frisco back to Birmingham. Mrs. A. B. Cox. of Sarcoxie. Mo., and R. R. Hammond, who will be remem- This trip to take fourteen days. daughter. Fern, came to Enid and spent a few days with Claudine short time aao. No, it didn't make Claudine homesick, she's a big girl now and likes to be assistant roadma~ter. Easy Now to Own a Fine Auto! We were sorry to lose Dispatcher Only 1# hay Stand Between Yon and This Essex Coach or a 1925 Ford! Constant from our force, but we hope it will not be for long. Wallace 1s working as extra dispatcher at Fort -Smith - .. . - .. . --cam lhat you could be proud to own. Conductor J. R. Dunworth, who has NO mtLawhere you live jwt so you re- been ill for some time, part of which side In the United States, ou are welcome & has been spent in the, St. Louis hospt- to mite to me about L auta* ~f tal. has returned to Enid and looks yon -t to ov. your omcar. ia =oar ffi fine. We are glad to have him with golden opportunity. - Rev. Chas. Wentworth, of the First Methodist Church. Enid. performed the ceremony April 8th. which united in marriage Mrs. Lena Anderson. of Los Angeles. and Conductor E. M. O'Brien. the vows heinp said at the home of Conductor Erwtn. The bride, previous Pnge 47 to her marriage, was head lady for the future. Leon was very nice about it, by his promotion will be filled by J. W. Hartsook Studio, one of California's so nice that he wouldn't let any of the Tempfer of Quapaw, .Okla. leading photograph studios at Los office force know anything about it. The regular monthly sollcltatlon Angeles. Conductor O'Brien is well- However, the fact became known the meetinr was held March 30th. there...-.. known to every Frisco employe on this day before. It takes these office girls mas a-good attendance and m&h en- division, having been here for the past to find out what is going on. Leon has thusiasm shown. Tom Holland, of twenty years. The marrlage of these been with the Frisco for about five Neodesha, was a visitor, he prefaced people is the culmination of a school years and is a very capable young the talk which he made, by saying he dav friendshin which started in 31is- man and surely will make good. believed Joplin had Xeodesha beaten so;ri where 'they attended the same Chief Clerk T. W, Moreland has re- in some resuects at this meeting, as school years ago. A wedding dinner turned to his duties after an absence there were -several women empioyes was served after the ceremonv with a of about two months account a verv present and that the women had never number of Frisco employes present. serious operation. Hc is feeling likE attrnded any of their meetings. \Ye following a trill to Kansas City they his old self again, in fact a lot better believe the women employes should be will make their home at 922 West Ran- than he has for months. He had a encouraged to attend these mcetings dolnh. Enid. back set or two before he got out of as it gives them a chance to get ac- 6id you know that. since July 1st. the hospital but did not retard his re- quainted and to learn somethinr of the last year, to date, the Western Divi- covery to any great extent. ways and means of getting business sion has moved 7.533 cars of grain? for the road. "Did vou hear about the Al. Davidson, traveling accountant, The Northern Division fuel mccting .. .- - . has taken the position of shop account- was held in Joplin April 3rd. John own: "No, where was it?" ant at Ft. Scott, in the place of F. C. Whalen was in charge of the meeting. Hitch: "Out in your back yard." Hughett, wlio has gone to St. Louis Sessions were held in the morning and Brown: "Ny back yard'? What was to take a similar position. We are evening and nt the close of the evening it..7" . very glad to have Davidson w~thus sesslon, pictures of fuel conservation Hutch: "Counle of clothes uins held as he is a very fine fellow. wcre shown at one of the local thea- Clarence Higdon has taken a posi- tvne up a sheet." tion with Division Accountant I". G. -.\ .,. Enid and the rotary convention is Ward. Clarence formcrly worked at Benj. F. Cox, of the store department one grand phrase. Special trains be- Kansas City in the mechanical depart- and Mrs. Ella Osborne, were quietly gan pouring into Enid night of Ap1.il men t. married March 21st at Butler, No.. the 15th. and by morning of the 16th. the Just watch Chief Pard Clerk Jones. former home of the bride. We have town was completely captured by Ro- Timekeeper 3Iarvin Darling and Ma- been waiting patiently for the cigars tarians and Rotary Anns. All report chinist Norman Xiller. meed out west and candy to be passed. If Nr. Cox a big time and express their thanks of town every evening: hey are erect- doesn't come across before long the to Enid and also the railroads for their ing a cabin on Conductor Jim Niller's committee will have to fulfill their special favors. Agent Schofleld, of place to spend their recreation time. promise and give him a bath in the Blackwell, and C. A. Reddcn, escorted The lure of the ripples and the cinder pit, and no one knows better the Arkansas City-Winfield and Black- sparltle of the deep, the quiver of the than Mr. Cox what a plunge in the well special, while Passenger Agent minnow is seen in his slee~,the lme pit is like, especially on a cold winter Douglas nccoml>anied the special from is cast, the bass has struck,-and that's night. Altus and Hobert. L. W. Price, of what makes the 691 figures run a- Walter J. Miller, formerlv a machin- Oklahoma City. was also in Enid dur- muck. Virgil Briggs is the expert 691 ist at this point, has been-transferred ing the convention. clerlc in this office. and these warm to the west shop at Springfield. Elzada Mac Lockheart and Rrske- spring days makes.him think of the Virril Black. of the store depart- man John C. Ridenour wcre married at old fishing place. merit,-is all smiles these days account Perry on April 1.5th. They will make The Knizhts Temnlars in full uniform of being grandpa to a baby girl who their home in Enid. Congratulations. attended I!%ster services here on Easter arrived Aprll 20th at the home of hls Sunday, witnessed by a large audience daughter. She has been named Edith and (!ommander Ben R. Tate dls111ayed Nell. I NORTHERN DIVISION unusual ability in that position. I I TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT KANSAS CITY YARD FT. SCOTT, KANS. A. W. AIICYER, Reporter Ed Cahill, yardmaster's clerk, lost a OZARK REID DARLING, Reporter ten dollar bill some time ago. Sure Leon Huff, the popular file clerk in you didn't buy magazine subscriptions this office, permitted himself to be a with that ten, Ed? party of the second part few nights A. Scherr, fruit dispatch messenger, SUMMER RESORTS ago by becoming engaged to one of is showing lots of pep lately. He may our young school teachers. The wed- have had spring fever hut it took the ding is to take place in the near greatest war song in the world to cure him-"Here Comes the Bride." L. V. Copley and T. A. Ryan are the Walnut Grove Lodge owners of new Fords. The era of pros- on Gasconade River, 138 miles from St. Louls, perlty has hit the yard clerks-or may- v~a Frisco R. R. and Stale Hlghway No. 14. be it's because summer is coming. When sou think of spending your racatlon, Mike Cosgrove works as extra yard- come to Walnut Grove Lodge. A place you master. All transfers shove cars high will feel a1 home. Enjoy good eats, good flshing ANAEMIA for him. Say, Mike, if you could look and plentj' of recreation. back at your funeral procession, I'll bet you would yell at the hearse driver, W. A. UNDERWOOD A remarkable discovery has enabled "Pull into clear at the other end, some Dixon. Mo. thousands of worn-out, tired, nervous. yard clerk might have to check this anaemic people to increase their drag." strength and energy, often in two weeks' Slim Engberg, champion caller for Cottages For Rent or Sale time, and to quickly change their leaden the Frlsco, borrowed some soap the - pallor. and listless look to the pink skin. other day. Slim's hands turned green. Furnished--on beautiful site of the JIeramec rosy lips and sparkling eyes of glowing I wonder why? at Merunec Stalion-3 rooms each. Screened health. Formerly they were given the Some of the things that never hap- porches, good bathing. Excellent place for a old-fashioned tinctures and pills made famils to spend their summer vacatlon. Rent .-nen ' from mineral iron, which many doctors Swede Olson ,buying a package of $250.00 per year or $15.00 per week. now say are scarcely assimilated at all, cigarettes. and so give little benefit. But since the Address Mlss A. Jones. H. L. Meyers trying to sing? ? ? ? Telephone Labadie. Missouri discovery or a new combination of organic .John Hunt losing his temper. iron-Nusated Iron-which, being like the or- H. J. ?~IcNultycleaning his pipe. ganic iron in our own blood, Is promptly taken R. E. Marlng parting his hair in the up by the blood, thousandn have found that middle. thep can banish every trace of tiredness and Jack Burch cussing? ? ? ? WOODLOCK'S dizziness. those peculiar pains and that nemous- Sparkplug McKiel filling water cool- Modern furnace heated Hotel open all ness lncident to old age, In a few short weeks. er with ice. year. Also cabins and cottages, wlth sleep- Furthermore. Nuxated Iron does no1 Injure the H. J. Hoke pestering John Hunt. ing porches. Excellent food-plenty oP it. teetllor dlsiurb the stomach. It qulckly helps Dutch Graff passing up a limberger Good flshing, swimnllng, horse-back rlding. bulld up rich, red blood that carrles new feed. hlklng, tennis, dancing, hay-rldes. strength, vitallty and youth to your whole body. Rates: $2.50 per day, $15.00 per week No mntler how weak and 111 you feel, or how many other medicines you hare trled In vain, ROUNDHOUSE OFFICE Address: WOODLOCK'S, CRAWFORD CO., nuke thls conrincina test: Take Nuxaled Iron JOPLIN, MO. DAVISVILLE, MISSOURI for just two weeks, and 1P you do not notlce a AGNES SEANOR. Reporter wonderful improvement In strength and energy and look years younger, the drugglst will Clyde L. Pender. former chief clerk promptly refund your money. Nuxated Iron in the Joplin yard-office, has been pro- is sold under thls absolute guarantee by all moted to a position in H. W. Johnson's Write THE TWILIGHT LADY good drwgiats. office. Springfield. The vacancy caused I I Page 48 June, 192.5

MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT MASTER MECHANIC'S OFFICE gines. Our engines will now compare FORT SCOTT, KANS. very favorably with any operating KANSAS CITY, MO. out of thls terminal. WALLER R. HECK, Reporter H. F. SHIVERS, Reporter We oRer as suggestion that we have Sam Hudson spent three days this our passes made like a shipping tag, month visiting his parents at Jenkins, H. L. Johnson, timekeeper, has made that is with an eyelet in them so the iMo. He was accompanied by his sis- several trips to Springfield lately for young ladies on the Southern Division ter, Mrs. Elmer Hill and her husband, some unknown reason. can tie them around their neck so they "Lefty" Hill. All report a fine time W. B. Berry, master mechanic, has won't lose them. and Lefty said the fish were biting been trylng to be a boy again as he Don't forget while on your vacation fine. has been having some- trouble with this summer to sell Frisco service Machinist Floyd Nason was married his tonsils. He went to the hospital wherever posslble. on April 2nd to Zelma Matthews, some time ago for the purpose of A. H. Dingman, locomotive Inspector, daughter of "Red" Matthems, gang havlng them removed. but when the was a Kansas City visitor recently. foreman in the B&B denartment. doctor began to lay out his tools, iii-. Frank Haungs, boiler inspector, has Our General Foreman P. J. >loore is Berry suddenly came to the conclu- returned to work after having been brivlng a new Wiilys-Knight. Mr. sion that he was wanted at home. confined to hls home several days wlth Moore was very much dissatisfied with Frank Loyer, mill shop foreman, the flu. hls new car for the first day or two went fishing some time ago mith the Federal Inspector Rodgers paid us as it did not pull very good, but he usual luck of all devoted disciples of an official vlslt some time ago and re- likes It better now. He says it pulls a old Ike Walton. Frank says he thinks ported everything in good shape. lot better when he leaves the emer- all the Ash froze to death last winter. EPPective April first, we started run- gency brake off. Arthur Thompson, machinist appren- nlng all freight engines from Kansas P. 0. Wood, R. H. Kerr and D. L. tice, has purchased a motorcycle and City through to Springfield, Afton and Forsvthe were with us for about a is setting some high speed records as a Monett. Heretofore it has been the week the flrst part of April, getting result.-.-~~-. practice to cut out freight power at the roundhouse force lined up In re- Several of the boys at the north car Ft. Scott. gard to running all 1300 class engines yard came very near having to go The present system in effect enables through Fort Scott. We have these home in a barrel some time ago as a us to get our hlgh class trains over the engines going through here in fine result of some unknown party slip- road with as little delay as possible. shaoe and the enaines are now making ping into the office while evervone The engines upon arrival at Ft. Scott, considerably mo'e mileage than for- ivas out and helping themselves to are cut oB and put over the pit where merly. We have also whiteleaded six what clothes they could find. fires are cleaned, given coal and water 1306 class engines after we began run- We will soon be fixed up to enjoy and any necessary minor repairs and ning them through. life at its best, as we will soon have adjustments are made after which they Mary Purdy, clerk in Mr. Ipsen's a full fledged doctor in the superin- are aaain placed on train ready for office, took a week's vacation this last tendent's office. In case one of us departure with an average delay of month. She visited her home folks at takes suddenly ill. first aid will be thirty minutes. Manson, No. close at hand. After we recover from The old saying' that youth mill have Fireman Geo. Davls has tradea hls our illness and find our personal ap- its way is very aptly applied to Bob Overland for a new Studebaker coach. pearance somewhat below par, we Brown B&B foreman, as he has been George said he disliked to part mith have in this office an embrvo beautv sporting a fiaming red necktie for his Overland as he has owned it so specialist who, just for mere-fun of iE. some time. All he lacks now of being long it seemed like one of the family. will take pleasure in remodeling our a real cake eater is a pair of bell- Engine Inspector J. D. Andcrson and facial beautv and restorina- it to its bottom trousers. wlfe are vlsitinp relatives at Monett. former glory. We are all wondering when the Xvhchlne Shop Foreman Harry Moore You have heard of Fords that had Metal Craft and Car Department em- has been absent account of sickness a tendency to want to climb telegraph ployes are going to have another one slnce March 24th. He was in the St. ~,oles? Well. Eleanor Forster has a of their entertainments. Naybe Frank hula hospital for sevcral weeks, but bodge that tries to climb trees. Junlcins can tell. Is now at home. However, he is not Engineer ChaS. Irsh, of Casey Jones' improving as he shou,ld, and does not fame, has placed orders for trans~or- know just when he ~~111be ablc to re- tation that will take him over practi- sume his .duties. His place is bcing cally the whole western half of thc I RIV~RDIVISION I filled by Jfachlni4t Roy Whitc. United States and a portion of Canada. Arthur Hare. Jr., little son of the .In interesting feature of his trip is counter clerk in tho storeroom, is con- that his pass reads single to Los fined to the hospital mith kidney Angeles, but from that uoint on he OFFICE, DIVISION ACCOUNTANT trouble. We Is Improving according secms to commence to run double CHAFFEE, MO. to last reports. header. Congratulations are extendef R. G. LANGSTON, Reporter H. F. Shlvern, reporter of Frisco to both for a long and uneventfu, itcms in the mechanical department journey along life's highway. H. L. Bird and R. W. Benson, travel- R€ Kansas City, and Frank Loyers, mill Engineer D. J. Mnllane will sail from ing- accountants, have about complet- shop foreman at Kansas City, spent a Sew York the first of June for an ex- cd their check of joint facilities on Sunday at Fort Scott recently, fishing. tcndecl visit with relatives and friends the river division. Mr. Bird has ar- Mr. Shivers and Loyers are expert fishin Ireland. rived at the opinion that Chaffee isn't ermen but unfortunately the fish were Joe Schmartz, erecting shop foreman so bad after all. He has been initiated not hingry the day they were there. will be one of many from this point at: into the mysteries of frog hunting at tending the Shrine convention in San night, taken several trlps through Francisco this year. southeast Missouri, both by motor car BORMERLY BRISCO Paul Hendricks, clerk at north yard, and automoblle and has given us his I MAX I had one of the meanest tricks played assurance that we are fortunate in on him some time ago that we ever being surrounded by such a live bunch FRANK W. DAVIS heard of. He drove his car in front of fellows. Mr. Benson has spent part of an accessory house on Grand Ave- of his time in Springfield with E. G. LIFE, ACCIDENT nuc and went in to buv him a lock , and chain for his spare 'tir~,.when he I The Travelers Insurance Co. came out, someone hail lifted said I snare and Eone. and now Paul has a 1 5 E. wall st. FT. SCOTT I good lock -and chain and no spare I JOHN J. COLLINS I to put it on. One of the latest model air brake (Incorporated) triple tcsting racks has been installcd I lWNERAL at the 12th Strcet frelght house which iiF9 AUTO RUNS will enable us to get our allotment of air brakes cleaned. 57 MiLES ON P. F. Spangler, supervisor of car repair bills, mas in Kansas City some 41 GAL of "GAS' time ago and we believe he will Dar- --- don us for quoting him as saying that. A new automatic and self-regulating the system we have of Aling forms device has been invented by John A. hIP3 and hIP76, covering repairs made Stransky, 490 Fourth st., Pukwana, in the train yards. is the best he has seen on the railroad. South Dakota, with which automobiles We wish to extend our deepest sym- have made from 35 to 57 miles on a pathy to EImor Gower, car repairer. gallon of gasoline. It removes carbon north yard in the loss of hls wife, whose death occurred Agrll 15th. and reduces spark plug trouble and As another step towards rnakinE the overheating. It can be installed by Sorthern Dtvisian n pace setter, any one in five minutes. Mr. Stransky Roundhouse Foreman Medlock has hlt wants distributors and is willing to upon the idea of painting the builders AMERICAN SHOW CARD SYSTEM. LIMITED send a sample at his own risk. Write badges on smoke box of all engines 824 Adam Building Toronlo, Canada with gold paint which enhances the 1 I him today. already neat appearance of our en- Page 49

Sperry, store accountant, but now in- not wish to come back to Missouri, al- C. Giesike, timekeeper, with their tends to stay until the work has been though I have nly doubts, as this old families, formed a pleasant all-day com~leted. state is hard to beat after all. motor party a few Sundays ago, vlsit- Norval E. Wadlow resigned from R. H. Powell. of the aeneral mana- the Illmois storm center during the the accounting department to accept per's office, spent a couDle of days in day's tour. a position with the mechanical depart- Chaffee the latter part of this month. We are glad to see Nrs. Mitchell ment. Kow that me have a re~resentative back at her desk after an absence of W. R. AIcDonough is once more our from some of the division- accountinfz two weeks account illness. general clerk, he having bid fob in offices reportinp~regularly&ch mont6 A1 E Gisi transportation clerk, ana when same vacated by Mr. Wadlow. let's see if we can't make it 100 per family 'spent) Sunday, April Itth, visit- Mr. McDonough was formerly located cent in order that each division kKow ing relatives in Ste. Genevieve. in division accountant's office. Mem- what the other divisions are doing. Mr. AIcBroom, chief clerk, looks wor- phis. ried. It is about time to start summer B. D. Harsha and H. L. Bird spent SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE vacations. Easter Sunday and Monday in St. Louis Have you noticed the quiet evenings? on business. Mr. Bird reports that CHAFFEE, MO. It is a11 because Bob Langston, B. D. Easter Sunday was ideal for the usual AIACTE 1'O~'lSRS. Reporter Harsha, Gem Morgan, and a few others parade in the vicinity of Grand and \V. 11. Broolce, genzral foreman B&B. of our force have either captured or nlivo---.-. D. E. Qelwis, cliv~sionrnaincc.r :rnd H. fri~htened-- all the bull frogs in our W. C. Henke, shop accountant, has swamps. started negotiations for the estahlish- h new time card May 3rd. Xlss ment of a tennis club among the Frisco SERVICE COURTESY RELIABILITY Daily in the assistant superintendent's em~loyesat this ~oint. Several have office will be a mighty busy girl tor a expressed a favorable opinion and it is few days. hoped that such a club w-ill be firmly Alonzo Finn of the engineering. de- estabtished in the very near future. partment and "Hoot Gibson" Fatchett. Go to it. Bill. 691 clerk, are having troubles of their T. J. ~weeney,our red-headed com- own. The baseball club does not seem pletion report clerk, has promised to YELLOW CAB CO. to be getting along as it should. give us a write-UD on Chaffee. so let's Anna Golden, assistant timekeeper. see you go. .Terry.- had Easter Sunday ruined for her ac- Mattie Hoplrins, comptometer oper- Rent a Car, Drive It Yourself count spraining her ankle when step- ator, has definitely decided that her ping from train in St. Louis. Damaged marriage to Paul Krueger, secretary a brand new pair of shoes, too. to Superintendent Moran, will take Bonded Baggage Carriers Several agents attended our better

place clurin~the month of June. She servirr..- ~-- meeting. ~ - Hone they Continue sava that the intervenin~- Lime will to come. never pass. PHONE 5000 Up to April 21st. River Division has Alonzo Foreman. former general originated 15 carload shipments of clerk. is now located In Pomona. Call- radishes for the Northern and Eastern fornia. and according to latest reports. Divisions. Expecting about 45 carload intends to stick. Likes St line and does SPRINGFIELD - MISSOURI shipments during the season. This is

SPRINGFIELD I Phone 963 519 McDANIEL ST. I TRACTION CO. I LEE SAVAGE I SPRINGFIELD Painting and Decorating f~t Economical Springfleld, - - Missouri GAS & ELECTRIC CO. I Transportation Eslabll#hsd 1866 Incorporalad 1910 A. E. REYNOLDS Vice-President and General Manager Paxson Undertaking .Co. I (Incorporatedl - Funeral Directors Standard Motor Go. SPRINGFIELD, MO. and Embalmers 468 St. Louis Street Ambulance Service Day and Night Springfieid, Missouri 410-412 South Ava. Springfield. Mo.

I PHONES 3630 and 4585 I I. H. BRIDGER GROCERY CO. 1 I Colonial Hotel We Keep Business Up by Keeplng Prlces Down I JNO. MaOLSEN I Springfield, Mo. TWO GOOD STORES I GENERAL CONTRACTOR I THE LARGEST AND BEST 204 East Commercial St. BOX 326 S. S. STATION 436 East Commercial St. Service Our Motto SPRINGFIELD, MO. I SPRINGFIELD - MISSOURI HOBART-LEE TIE COMPANY Railtoad Ties and Timber ROBT. E. LEE, President BERT S. LEE, Vice-Pres. and Treas. LESLIE LEE, Assistant to President A. C. DAILY, Secretary Operating in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas WE HAVE SUPPLIED THE FRISCO CONTINUOUSLY FOR OVER 40 YEARS Landers Building SPRINGFIELD, MO. Page 50

new business on River Division. We Fuel Department, have been with us are also expecting to move about 20 several days this month attempting to ST. LOUIS ADVERTISERS carloads of strawberries from Cape locate some of the causes for unneces- Girardeau and vicinity, which is also sary waste of fuel, both coal and oil. new business on this line. Judging from their care-free appear- Mr. Mornn spent a few days in ance, their work has been light and S~rinpfieldthis month. pleasant. MARYLAND HOTEL 'It was with regret that we received Next to Frisco Building the news of Arch Campbell's death at ST. LOUIS. MO. Enid. Okla. Mr. Campbell was train- TEXAS LINES POPULAR PRICE EUROYELY HOTEL master-~- on this divlsion for several I I Absolutely FlrepmoK years an~dmade many friends among Rates: $1.50 and Up Per Day his fellow-workers. The sympathy of STORES DEPARTMENT Electrlc Fan (Free) In Every Boom the River Division employes is extend- SHERMAN< TEXAS EATS :-Unexcelled CAFETERIA and ed to the family in their bereavement. IVA SEWELL, Reporter COFFEE SHOP Service Tmlnlnnrtter'n Office R. L. Cooper, dispatcher, is working The clerks and storekeeper in this temporarily at Amory. ,Miss. department learned something from "Bolo" Horn, caller. 1s proud parent the April number of our magazine, and of a wee girl called "Betty Jo". that was how to spell "Asafoetida". Frank DeGroat moved from Main Which Droves that we never get- too CIGAR CO. Street to South Third Street to de- oldCto learn. * crease his mileage (where?), and me &mil 1st. L. McMillan opened up his FRISCO BUILDING are wondering why he walks home at heart and passed the gum and we all I I noon when he eats downtown. We Carry Your Favorite Smoke Dispatcher Dean Underwood has purchased the beautiful bungalow on Parcel Post Paid Anywhere south Main Street owned by former Master Mechanic Gamble. We are afraid Dean is aoina to have to work overtime to keep the lawn mowed and garden weeded. 1 If We Want Good Candy Harold Hopkins, one of our amiable call boys. Is now exerting his surplus energy trying to form a tennis club. We believe "Hoppie" will succeed. B&B nnd WS Dcpnrtmcnt 3bs;~n's; \IT\'. S. Foreman Pryor and gang are 910-912 OLIVE drilling a well for relocating- water station at >lingo. I 1 W. H. Brooke, general foreman, reported the storm at Nurphysboro much BOMONT 414 BOMONT 41 5 worse than anyone could imagine. Saw 75 blocks in residence district razed to thc ground, to say nothing of damage done to business district and MBO Becht Laundry Co. terminal buildings. Figured would not We Specialize in pet town cleaned up this summer, as there are many streets that cars can Family Laundry gct through only in single file. Un- able to understand just how the death 3301 -1 1 Bell Ave.. St. Louis. Mo. toll could be so small in comnarison with the damage done. Bridge Engineer R. E. Miller has a Your valuable papers stcsel bridge gang on the division ncar Mingo thi~month. bridging one of our drainage ditches with overhead through are not secure at home. ~I'UOS spann, and we are expecting a second steel Kana to shift the 140 foot - They may burn or be oth- span ffom the present plle piers to new concrete piers at Ranneys. Span erwise destroyed, or lost will have to be rolled endwise 28 feet. Mrs. C. H. Trammel. wife of W. S. or stolen. XIech~nicTrammel. is' visiting for a Pew days at Afountain Grove. No. LEADERS IN THE BLB department has just completcd veaetable shed at Blytheville to pro- a If you place them in a MIDDLE WEST tect loading of radishes at that ~oint. Some radish mowers have as much-- ax-~- Liberty Central Safe De- FOR- 40 acres planted to radishcs. Expect to follow up radish movcrnent with posit Box they will be Dotn toes and cucumbers. BRzB denartment also building a 24 safe, easily accessible, foot by 100 foot extension to the Blytheville freight house. Blytheville and always ready when FURNITURE is one of our most progresuide towns in thc south and is continually calling for more facilities to handle the vol- you need them. ume of husinesx. It is a competitive CARPETS RUGS point with Cotton Belt and JLCBE. Mr. Morgan, from Bridge Engineer Boxes ready for immedi- JIlller'8 orice, was on division recently looking over permanent work now DRAPERIES under constructlon, and locations for ate use-$5 per year proposed permanent work. Foreman Watson has just completed and up. cotton platform at Naylor which is LINOLEUMS comn~tltive point w i t h Nissouri- Pacific. Rae1 Dcpnrtment Messrs. Whalen and Conlep, from the Fuel Qepartment, attended the regular LIBERTY montl~lyfuel meeting held in the City Hall recently, where a large and en- thuslastic gathering of employes from all departments discussed fuel economy. safety Rrst and other important subjects concerning train operation. Mr.--- Moran and Mr. Kixon wesided over SAINT LOUIS the meeting. Our friend. R. S. (Dick) Edwards. BROADWAY 8 OWE eneineer on St. Louis Sub.. has in- heFitcd a X75.000 legacy. hfessrs. Rodwig and Beshears, from

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beautiful doll and a couple of entering trio with a cousin of his, who is April, 1905, transferred to the position taining books. a widower of some ten year$ stand- of late night chief at Memphis in Sep- The employes of the Frisco building ing, and a retired express messenger. tember, 1909, and in November, 1912, held a dinner dance at the Chamber of He declined the invitation and so the was assigned the position of manager Commerce the 17th. The manaaement widowed express messenger, who de- and wire chief at Ft. Smith. where he neglected to provide tickets for the lights in roaming around over the has been located until his assignment press, consecIuently this reporter was Ozark hills with a rifle and canoeing to Sapulpa. unavoi,kbly absent. However Ann along its southern streams with a rod, A. T. Thorson succeeds Mr. Holland says: All the artiflcials were p'resent wrote Mr. Todd the following letter: as manager and wire chief at Ft. except Mr. Shaffer. Mr. Fraser made a "I still enjoy my single cussidness. Smith. Mr. Thorson entered the serv- most interesting talk. nominating Mr. Happy and free. No one to say, ,'where ice as operator in "SY" office, Spring- Stephenson his substitute for the danc- are you going?' Hurry back! Where fleld, in August, 1911, and worked as ing. Mr. Stephenson never missed a have you been?' No one to cluestion operator and agent-operator at various dance and was very popular in the or doubt my word. No cow to milk; points, transferring to the SpringfleId cut-ins." no horse to set; no chickens to feed; relay office in May, 1918. He has also Tom Feeham has forsaken his mus- no clothes line to put out; no cat to worked as relief manager in several tache in anticipation of a hot summer. put out; no clock to wind: uo nnrthinc. offices. As Frank Norev passed me the other Just sit in mv comfortable room and Miss Deming attended the Flower day rushing to the scene of an auto read, and not-a wave of trouble rolls Sbnw in Kansas City recently. accident on St. Louis Strect. I heard across my lazy breast." Ray Soper suffered an attack of him say: "I'm going to conduct formal Sometimes waiting Days and some- acute appendicitis. He has recovered investigation and assess effective dis- times it does not. is one case and returned to work. Guess he cipline." where it did not. Miss Natalie Mayer couldn't stand to be away from Char- was talking- over the phone to Sapulpa. lie Denham and the "Noon" any OPERATING DEPT. STATISTICIAN the operator cut in and said "Hurry longer. SPRlNGFlELDj MO. up". Xiss AIayer politely informed her that she was waiting; the operator Some sure signs of spring: Tulips on MALLIE L. KING. Reporter says. "Well :,know you are waiting, Arthurs' desk and ball game jackpots. Air. Todd. who has pronounced do- hut hurry up. Takes two to hurry in Mr. Brennan attended a meeting of mestic tendencies and an adhesive na- this case. the American Railway Association at ture for sticking close to the office. Wc were not very well represented Toneka on Anril 17th. was recently asltcd to take a long flsh- at the dinner dance givcn by the gen- stella ~ea'ttewent to Portageville, eral office force at the Chamber of 1\Iissouri, on April 1st. on account of Commerce. Dora Weigle says the rea- the illness of her mother. son xhe didn't ro was not because she Mrs. Dolsen. second trick operator at didn't have a chance, but because she Memphis. underwent an operation at had rather eat at home. Glad I don't the St. Joseph Hospital. Memphis. I Metropolitan Cafe 1 April 7th was a RED LETTER DAY have to diet. Meal Tickets at H. J. Hesdlee was called to Los An- -at least it was for 3Tildred and my- geles. Cal.. account death of his self. It was the day we had been look- Special Rates brother. We extend our sympathy. ing forward to for sometime. General Lillian Brooks spent a week of her Foreman Sfusgrave had promised us 6 North Main Cape Girardeau, Mo. vacation in the hospital at St. Louis. that when one of the telegraph gangs Sot a vcry pleasant vacation. located near Springfield he would take Helen Xotz has been absent from the us to visit them, and when Mr. Mus- office account her mother having had grave makes a promise we know it a serious operation at St. John's hos- will be kept. pital. Ollie Ousley played the part of the I St. Charles Hotel I We hope to see in the magazine soon 1,er.o not long ago. He was at Crystal ONE BLOCK FROM DEPOT the picture of Mary Patricia McDonald, Cave with a party of friends when he nge 3 months, daughter of Mr. and discovcred a "dark-complexioned, ex- E. G. GRAMLlNG. Owner and Proprletdr Mrs. B. C. AIcDonald of Camden, Ark. treme-line-body" :snake; in other Her mother was formerly a reporter words, a black snake, about flve feet American Plan for the magazine (Miss Irene Corn- long. After moving several boulders CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI well). out of the way he finally succeeded I Conductor J. J. Graham and his in killing the snake and was there- brakeman on the Southwestern Division after proclaimed a hero. paid us a visit on April 10th: explain- Hildrrd I.r.Holt has returned from ed some of the hieroglsrphics on the St. Louis where she attended a Zeta wheel reports. We always welcome Beta Tau Fraternity dance at the visitors of this kind. Chase Hotel. LUMBER COMPANY Bob Langston, of Chaffee, who was Jimrnie Moore is hack on his old job called to Springfield account death of at Springfield. Seems natural to see (Incorporated) his grandfather, droppcd in the office his smiling face again. for a short visit. Hrlen Binley was unable to be at HARDWOOD LUMBER We were also favorcd with visits the office for several days on account from several of the assistant superin- of illness. CAPE GIRARDEAU tendents: H. R. Gabriel of Thayer; 0. AIiss Deming is still "holding out" on I X. Watts of Chaffee and others. the barbers. S. W. Booth, division accountant. Mr. Musgrave has about concluded Memphis, was in Springfield the latter that the party who took his pen must E. W. BOYER, Local Agent part of March. recuperating. be a sufferer of "Cross Word Puzzle- Russell James. traveling accountant. itis" since his dictionary has now dis- Farm and Home Saving and Loan Ass'r St. Louis called at the office immediate- anneared.- - ly upon his arrival in Springfleld to Ethel Hill. telephone opcrator at OF MISSOURI give us his itinerary while in the city. Sprinpfleld, visited St. Louis. I un- He knows the citv prctty well. though. derstand she has had a stiff neck ever 218 Liberty Natl. Life Bldg. Sir. and >Its. J. E. O'Brien. of Detroit, sincr from looking up at the high hlich., are the proud parents of a son, buildings. James Edward. Mariguerite is also Ethel Holland and Stella hieatte the proud aunt. Hope she don't teach went to Kansas City to see "Rain." him any of her habits-like cllewlng. Girls, why go to Kansas City and spend You should hear oun quartette prac- your money when you can see "rain" tice: never heard them do anything in Sprinafleld most any old day? Gerhardt Construction hut rehearse-some performance clerks. Ollie Ousley attended the "Spring- If you want them to perform for you. field Night" program of the Pathflnd- Company just call on any of the four: R. K. Ma- ers at Joplin on April 15th. Eers: J. R. Edwards; L. E. Blevans and Pat E. Paulsell, telegraph operator General Contractors Harry Martln. at Sleeper. Missouri, has volunteered Almost forgot to tell vou about our to report the Rolla and Lebanon Sub- other fuel performance clerk. T. J. Ap- Division telegraph news. I will be CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO. pleby, attendinq a fuel meeting at glad to hear from other volunteers. Afton. Understand they had eats, a 1dance and evorvthin~. This explnlns whv- fuel- meetin~sare so interesting. TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT Southeast Missourian SPRINGFIELD, MO. Real Estate and Insurance Security Savings Bank Building NAETER BROS., Inc. LILLIAN HULTSCH, Reporter I I W. B. Holland was assigned the posi- HOMES sold on payments like rent. Has More Subscribers Than Any Other Largest RENTAL list in city tion of manager and wire chief at Sa- INSURANCE Dally Newspaper in a Mlaaourl City pulpa, Oklahoma, on April 13th. Mr. I We sollclt your Under 40,000 Holland entered the service of the CHAFFEE. MISSOURI railroad In "S'office at Spring-fleld in I I BANKS ALONG THE FRISCO LINES u I Okrnulgee, I The American National Bank Oklahoma I

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"Bank with Security" BANK NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE The Peoples Bank EXTRA INTEREST of springfield, Missouri (3% PLUS EXTRA !la%) I CAPITAL, $50,000.00 SURPLUS, $15,5CUL00 EXTRA HOURS WeAppreciate (9 TO 5 EVERY DAY) Sapulpa, Okla. Your Business EXTRA SAFE FRISCO DEPOSITARY (INVESTIGATE) We Appreciate Your Checking I OUR MOTTO EIGHTH STREET Account COURTESY, FAIRNESS Between Olive and Locust Streets 4% Paid on Savlngs Accountr ST. LOUIS, MO. AND EFFICIENCY

)When You Think of Banks. A~~ Comalete-- Bankina Service I 1 . ~ - I Think of First National First Featuring Commercial. Savlngs. Investmant and Trust Departments. Establish your Farmers State Bank Oklahoma City connection here. ROGERS, ARK. OF CAPE GIRARDEAU American National Bank First Bank OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA I Where the Frisco Banks I I RESOURCES MORE THAN $21,000.00 I

I FIRST NATIONAL BANK 4%and Safety I We seek business on a basis of sound co-operation. 1 CHAFFEE. MO. Member Federal Reserve System I We'd be glad to talk to you. Eatabliahsd 1872 The Merchants and Planters National Bank cud Suv,us l,200,000~oo First National Bank I SHERMAN, TEXAS Will Appreciate Your Account MONETT. MO. EASTERN DIVISION Pacific sccond, bumping R. Wills: JO Helen at Newburg likes the tenor going to Moselle third, displacing P. solos sung by "XO" in UD, St. Louis. P. E. PAULSELL. Reporter E. Paulsell; JIA going to Sleeper, Honest, he can sing. Sleeper, No. humping 0. 0. Gilbert; G going back J. 31. O'Halloran, third trick oper- Well, here goes nothing. This is my to extra board Rolla Sub-Division. It's ator BID Sheffield, visited his daughters first attempt at writing somethings, all in a lifetime of a telerranh-- oner-- in Sleeper last week. and expect it will run into nothings, ator to be bumped. A. E. Trotter, successful bidder on but, please, excuse me If it don't suit Chub Rose took a few days off last second triclc Sleeper. Xaybe we can anybody. month and visited "S" office and says get him to sing us a violin solo some thcre are some wonderful contrantions night. Hope so. Charlie Roberts, former agent and there. Guess I'll have to go see: Heard on wire 13 other night, sent mayor of that prosperous City of St. Does anyone know how to answer by an op'erator who had bought a new John, has bid in on a third trick, re- the telephone without getting off their "bug". Sow does it Hound?" Other sult being third triclc at Pranks an a hack? Please send all answers to Hilo operato'r, "Hounds OK". new "Coop". Roach. St. Clalr. Wonder if the dispatchers have any- D. A. Adkins, second trick operator, These third trick boys are all musi- thing to select their messages with Globe, successful bidder on St. John cians. Nearlv everv nirht there is now? Heard they were going to lose first trick. some kind of music goiig on, from their old selectors. Regular little bumping bee going on French harps to trios. Got some good Anyone that knows any news please last month; Kermit Leek bumping talent. believe me. Someone tell me call me and give it up. I don't know Roderick at NY, Monett; RD going to how to play a trio. anything about the extra men or where they are working, and who lays OR A. R. Davis has been absent from the denlure resort, dinner on the grounds and who relieves them. Just call me office Saturday account illness. n'everythlng. on the wire and give me the dope and C. A. Craig, our night chief, has been T. E. Hart, 6ur night messenger, is I'll try and keep us represented in this absent attending a Shrine cerenionial now spending a few days in St. Louis. magazine. held in this city. Now if this gets into print I'll try Am glad to report that Mrs. G. A F. L. & D. CLAIM DEPARTMENT another one next month, so GN and Burd has returned to her home and is SPRINGFIELD, MO. 73's to all.. rapidly recovering after undergoing a serious oncration. CHARLENE WILLARD, Reporter SPRINGFIELD RELAY TELEGRAPH After ivatching the man plow the Nabel O'Brien, file clerk, has just OFFICE garden, B. L. Kennedy's little daugh- received news of the birth of a baby C. H. McDONALD, Jr., Reporter ter told her daddy the horses were boy, born to 311.. and Mrs. Ed. O'Brien named "Whoa Jim" and "Come on Boy". of Detroit, Nich. Mrs. O'Brien, before W. I. Christopher returned to Hume. Not bad Frisco names, eh? her marriage, was Narie Behrens, for- Mo., to accompany his wife and little D. 31. Pickle, relief telegrapher in merly dictaphone operator in the office daughter, Patricia, home, after a visit this office, was transferred to Memphis of the superintendent of tmnsporta- with Mrs. Christopher's relatives there. April 15th. to fill a newly created position. Ed. O'Brien, who is a brother to Barney Lutes tells us that Pat tion in that office until permanently Mabel, was an electrician at the West Flahcrty's unusual smile is due to the assigned. Sho~mfor a number of vears. warm weather. He doesn't have to The Telegraph Department recently ~atherineYoung spent a week vis- push the flivver now to get her started. purchased two printers and installed iting Mrs. Ella Chamberlain in St. It is reported that Messenger Col- at Springfield and Xemphis, and of Louis, who was formerly an employe lins ("Half Pint") mas overheard ask- course they are proping successful. of this department. ing the chief messenger if Birmingham, Mr. Pickle. of this office. is oneratina- A great deal has been said about Alabama, was in Missouri. The chief tho Memphis end. the hunting trip of the famous Roose- immediately referred to the station B. P. Schneider has now joined the velt boys. but nothing compared to the book, furnishing the information de- ranks of the ten million "A Ford". conversation that has been broadcasted sired. C. i3. Crump spent a Sunday, recent- since Ray Lodge and Earl Head B. L. Kennedy was absent several ly, in Kansas City visiting relatives planned their fishing trip, and Mamma days on account of the death of his there. Lodge "played 'possum" right at the father in Oklahoma. E. B. Shepherd spent a week-end last minute so Jimmy's pa could not A. T. Thorson, "Q" telegrapher and flshing on the Nlangua River. Shep re- get away. However, the readers of relief wire chief in this office, has been ports about a four foot rise in the this column are promised a treat next assigned to the position as manager rivcr and fishin? not so good. time-maybe Some ~icturesand funny and wire chief in the Fort Smith Re- Barney Lutes Aspirin (Buick) is stories about the fishins trip that is lay Office and took charge there on just out of the back shop, paint shop, sure enough going. to happen. Aprll 13ti. vice W. B. Holland, trans- and has taken its dace on the hiah- What's the mystery. Minnie Bossert? ferred to Sapulpa. We hope Andy will way. Barney tells- us about passTng All this quilt making and sewing of be well pleased with his new position the boss up, and we wonder why he various kinds? Let us In on the secret. and home. nainted her the color of a caboose if Min. W. 0. Long, late night chief in the he is going to lead. Ft. Scott Relay Office, formerly telegra- C. H, McDonald underwent a minor Approximately eighteen pints of nher in this office. was a visitor in oneration in the St. Louis hospital sweet milk are delivered dally to cer- "S" recently. and in o, k. at this writing. tain Pair ladies in the Ty~inaDenart- J. W. Constant, telegrapher and re- B. L. Kennedy gave our late night ment, who have aspiratidns tG talie on Ilef dispatcher, Enid. Okla.. dropped Chief Christopher a lesson in flshing a few pounds. in to say hello while going through yesterdav. It is reported Kennedy got From the ammaranee of Tom Quinn's Sprlngfleld, enroute to Fort Smith. the fish 'and Chris the experience. Too beautiful marcel, we belicve he must Arkansas. to do some relief work in bad. Chrls, not even a bite. be attending the same beauty parlor Barncy Lutes spent a Sunday at Lin- that '(V. A. Cri~vs~atronizes. the dispatcher's office there. Ruby Northcb'tt fs planning a trip to California during the month of June. STANDARD for 30 YEARS Elsie Venner Weddell, our young flapper, who boasts that she can stay I La Fredrick Cigars I up all night and not soldier on the job the next day, also, that there is nothing like goat's milk as a beauti- fler, left May 9th for a vacation :rip to Princeton. Ind. Corner Pharmacy On April 16th the employes of the 1 Monett Drug Co. 1 "The Busy Corner" Frisco General Office Building enjoyed a dinner dance given in the PAUL RUSSELL, Proprietor H. E. CARTER. Proprietor rooms of the Chamber of Commerce. Approximately 150 people attended the Prescriptions Our Specialty delightful affafr. DRUGS SODAS BOOKS Angeline Golden is going to have Phone 43 MONETT, MU. her Ford painted a brilliant yellow, very much like the trucks of the Naf- -- ziner Baking Co. We believe in color harmony, Angellne. YOU CAN clothe the entire family It is rumored that C. H. Rice, head with Guaranteed Merchandise Glves All the Home News--Best Ad~ertlslng of the 0. S. & D. De~artment, will FOR LESS at Medium In Two Counties start a goat dairy very soon out on Blaine Street. Daily. $5.00 per year by carrier: $4.00 per Vida Whitsett has again resumed MILLSAP BROTHERS year by mail. Weekly. $1.50 by mail her studles in the art of rope twirling, And We Really Appreciate Your Trade TIMES PUBLISHING CO. somewhere down in Texas. She in- forms us that the course will be com- MONETT, MO. pleted at the end of her two-weeks' .- - - - vacation and that she will return promptly to the oRice at the expiration THIS AD GOOD FOR ONE GIFT WITH A of that time. However, we have our The Best in Ready-to-wear PURCHASE doubts and will look for her when we Dry Goods and Shoes see her. SHEPPARD BROS. On the evening of April 14 the girls "QUALITY BAKERS" of the P. L. & D. Claim Department en- I ~urnilDry Goods Co. I joyed a hamburger fry at Phelps' Grove MALTED MILK BREAD Park. The delicious hamburgers and MONE~~,mo. PERBECTION BFLEAD Vlsit Our Barmain Basement Store coffee, prepared by Mary Lohmeyer's The Baroaln Center of the Southwest PHONE 113 MONETT. MO. father, would do justice to the famous I Fred Harvey recipes. However, the best thing on the program was a leap frog contest (after the sun had gone McKee's Drug & Book Store down and the park was deserted) and SHADEL & ASHBY only the wood nymphs, fairies and We Flll Your Frlsco Hospltal hobgoblins were present to testify to Prescrlptlons JEWELERS the agility of the performers. It is I I said that Mrs. Loree Acton leaped DRUGS. BOOKS higher and over more frogs than any STATIONERY. PERFUMES I I FRISCO WATCH INSPECTORS I other contestant. 1 The employes of the F. L. & D. Clalm 310 BROADWAY Phone 15 Department extend sincere sympathy to W. D. Shumate, who lost his father, by

Page 56 these men have had their teeth extract- E. potts. They say Hornsby can't hit E. H. Carstensen. of Ft. Smith, at- ed-and are just as patient as they can a wild pitch. Jlr. Potts' greatest tended the Shrine ceremonial and inci- be, waiting for their store teeth. weakness is for Overland automobiles. dentally paid us a visit. Glenn V. Stone. chief clerk to divi- He recently acquired his fourth gas We have a new clerk. Frances Mc- sion storekeeper; was absent from burner of this species. While dicker- Clernon. who is getting along nicely work a few days this month account ing with the owner of the machine, with her work. of a severe attack of tonsilitis. Mr. Potts' young son came out gave Raymond Blankenbaker has joined Glad to see Ninnie Van Maneen the Willys-Knight, Jr., the once over. Jerry Anderson in the "flopper" ranks. back at her desk. She was absent from then looked up at Mr. Potts and inno- He is sporting a pair of new gray work account of having the flu. cently asked. "What are you doing, trousers. Since reporting the last meeting of Dad, buying or selling?" Mr. Caldwell is batchin' again. Mrs. the I. W. W. Club. we have had the E. E. Bell, chief material inspector. Caldwell is in the hospital taking the pleasure of meeting with Gertrude whose headquarters were transferred rest cure. He says she has improved Crow. Gertrude was formerly an em- March 1st. from St. Louis to Spring- greatly and we hope she will com- ploye of the store department. The field, is making lots of friends here in pletely recover soon. last meeting was held at the home of the office. He added several to his Our traveling men, S. P. Enslen, C. Beulah Shepherd on Benton Avenue. list.. - - the.- - - other- dav when he donated F. Davidson and N. R. Rickman, are There is a slang phrase in vogue the girls a nice box of candy. giving Jlonett, Yale and Birmingham around the general store, "Do your In war times wy, used to say, "NO a treat. stuff". Recently it was necessary for news is good news, but history is not Joe Drennan to "Do his stuff" as he quite ready to repeat itself, therefore, CAR ACCOUNTANT'S OFFICE had been riding the night before and we cannot accept this as an alibi from SPRINGFIELD. MO. was on short time trying to make gen- the "tee-square dukes" up in our draft- eral. store before the whistle blew, Ing room, for not getting into print in MARY HOWELL,'R&,A~~ run out of gas three blocks from the Smiling Bob Lewis and his gang of the Myazine. Cecil Waits boasts, demurrage twisters arrived from St. storeroom and when asked as to why "Wait till I take my flshin;, trip!" he did not show some speed getting Louis last meek to make their perma- gas and going on to work, discovered Don't quack that duck at us, Seese," nent abode with us. The management he was out of money also. It made prohibition jokes are more popular. sent them to St. Louis several years It very embarrassing to Joe account Now Let Us Tell One ago, expecting to make real city folks of running out of so many things at Raymond Ivey is back with us again out of them, but after years of patient one time. after a two-weeks' vacation. Ray- waiting it was given up as a bad. job. John Sprohs, supply car clerk, pur- mond saps he spent a very nice time Welcome back home, people. There Is chased a Dodge coach recently. visiting Chief Clerk Guinney at Sa- plenty of room, and we like to hear pulpa. That was a good story alright, about the perils of the great City of MECHANICAL. . -- DEPARTMENT but we got Lane on the 'phone and he Louie. SPRINGFIELD; MO. gave us the girl's name. Local per diem clerks thoroughly en- LOYD LAMB, Reporter joyed a chill party served In their de- DeVerne Houston and Earl Dieck- AGENTS' ACCOUNTS DEPT. partment recently. There was plenty of ST. LOUIS red pepper on tap. and all agree that man, two of our electrical experts, as an artistic chili slinger Mrs. Kath- have been zealously working for some We are very glad to report that the months past on the perfection of a "grip" has somewhat loosened its hold super, long-distance, "foreign shore in the Agents' Accounts Department. eavesdropper" radio receiving set. and most of our victims have returned They recentlv completed an experi- to duty. TIRES WITH 500 NAIL HOLES mental hooklup and prepared for a Our Uncollected Department has festive evening. Satisfaction was writ- been minus some of its best looking ten across their respective counte- clerks for the past few months since LEAK NO AIR nances as they heard issuing from Paul Strauss, Steve Kane and "Beau" A new puncture-proof lnner tube has been ln- the loud speaker the strains of an un- Grummel, not forgetting Mr. Griffith, mistakable Scottlsh melody, rendered have been lending their assistance at renled by a Mr. T. S. JIllburn of Chicago. In by an inspired orchestra. Ah! A new the Seventh Street Station. Hurry aclual test It was punctured 500 times without chapter in radio science was about to back, boys! But, we must take off our the loss dl alr. Thls wonderful new tube ln- be written! Edinburgh? Surely! Then hat to the remainder of the depart- creases mileage from 10,000 to 12,000 miles and came the cruel announcement. "Exlde ment. who have so nobly been !,oing ellmlnutes changing tires. It costa no more Battery Statlon. Springfield, Nissouri!" double time for the "other fellow. than the ordlnary tube. Jlr. T. S. JIIlburn, (They were only a few blocks distant Wonder if Harold Doerr will con- 331 West 47th St., Chicago wants them lntm- from the Exide Battery Station, and tinue balancing right oB the reel, since duced everywhere and is maw a speclal could have probably heard the orches- he may be called upon to miss some tra, directly, had they put thelr heads of that regular sleep, walking the new oRer to agents. Write him loday.-Adv. out of the window.) daughter at night. Wish you luck, This office should be well repre- Harold. I I sented at the veteran's picnic. We The first of February a pleasant ad- have enough whiskers in our depart- dition was made to our department Nichols Transfer & Storage to. ment to make Rip Van Winkle look when J. C. Briggs and his secretary, DISTRIBUTORS OF CAR LOADS like a safety razor salesman. Beatrice O'ReiIIy, were transferred. A I Everybody has a weakness of some hearty welcome is extended to both, to THE OLDEST AND MOST sort, including Roger Hornsby and J. say nothing of having the traveling RELIABLD auditors again show their smiling faces I I on the thirteenth floor. North Boulder and Frisco Rloht-of-Way I FT. SMITH ICE AND We all express our sympathy to Ed- I Phone 2-1117 L 2-Ill8 TULSA, OKLA. I na Dolen in her bereavement at the FCOLD STORAGE CO. death of her brother. Mr. Dolen, it COLD STORAGE FOR ALL PERISHABLE may be remembered, was formerly MERCHANDISE auditor of the Cape Girardeau North- Storage Capacity, 125 Cars ern R. R. Dally Ice Making Capacity, 125 Tone Oklahoma FORT SMITH - ARKANSAS OFFICE, SUPERVISOR CAR REPAIR BILLS SPRINGFIELD, MO. Steel Castings Co. We recently had a luncheon and PALACE DRUG STORE shower in honor of Lois Hughes, who MAKERS OF 603 Garrison Ave. Ft. Smith, Ark. by the time this is published will be Mrs. N. H. Cunningham. We are sorry Railroad, Oil Field and I We Plll the Prescrlptlons for the to lose Lois, but wish her lots of hap- Hospital Department piness and prosperity. Commercial Caetinge in I Cora Wolkins attended the mite I Will Be Glad to Supply All Your Shrine dance at Nonett. Says she had Drug Store Wants I a line time OKLAHOMA Rexnll and Whltman Agentu Ida Blood will be the first to take I her vacation in our office. ELECTRIC STEEL Mr. Spangler has a new Buick coach. The boys say traffic jams bother him EUPER SAND COMPANY not as he drove through the "square" Tulsa, Okla, Box (168 FORT SMITH ARKANSAS at five o'clock the second day he had - his car. ARKANSAS SAND AND GRAVEL COMPANY HARVESON (& COLE Magnolia at Fifth Avenue VAN BUREIN - ARKANSAS FUNERAL DIRECTORS FORT WORTH, TEXAS erlne Beegle heads the roster. There were no fatallties reported up to the time we go to press. Ruth Hart has returned to work Our system of lab4Dratory after a very pleasant visit with her sister in Tulsa. The roads must have analpis and control assures been in good shape as Ruth audibly uniform quality of m aterial, and wistfully wished that all weeks were as short as that one. made right for your water Easter toggery in thIs onlce was not conflned to bonnets and ensemble suits, conditions. Constant, Iregular for Ellen Johns came out in a new application on basis directed Ford tourlng car and Grace Hanes in a Ford coupe. Merrill Findley had a will guarantee you the de- new coat of bell blue paint put on his sired results. Moon: but Mary Jones led the procession wlth her new Dodge sedan. Now. Mr. Rockefeller have a heart. On April lst, 'Mae Welch, assisted by And DEARBORN Service Accompanies her mother and her sister, Hallle, entertained in her new six-room bungalow on West Lombard. A large num- DEARBORN Products-Al~uays ber of employes from various offices in the Frisco Building attended, and after complimenting Miss Welch on her well-arranged home, they filed into the large livlng room where Grant was producing melodious atrains of music. Dearborn Chemical Company The remainder of the evening was spent In games, card playing and square dancing. 310 South Mlchlgan Avenue FRISCO BUILDING, ST. LOU18 Pearl Grace left the office Thursday with the npparent intention of driving CHICAGO C. S. Murrayi Manager across the country with her nephew to Moberly and Rraymer to visit the old home, but when she was seen In Kan- sas City Sunday evening with Jean Saylor, a former Frlsco employe noted for hls sunny smlle, serious doubts of time and became kiddies again. ing to get in shape for some real games crossed our mlnds that we had been They were entertained In true kld thls season. The team wan organized mlsled. Anyway, we now know why fashion by Ulldred Prophet, Iva Mil- thls month and R. W. Harper was she got her permanent wave. ler. Theda Pyland and Mrs. Btllle Al- elected manager. There eeems to be a SpeakIng of permanent waves, our derfer at Miss Pyland's home. A baby world of good material thls year and eagle eye is on Alene Gammon, Lena picture guessing contest along with we are hoping to hang up a few good Chrisman. Coila and Cuma Melton. several kid games furnlshed the even- records for the Frisco, A couple more What are the wlld waves saying? ins's entertainment. Mrs. Amy Cum- weeks and we'll be ready to take any We rejoice that nearly all our glrls mings won the prize for the best cos- of vou on. are back on the job after a long lap tume and Mrs. Bertha Newton won The tire turning machlne Invented off. Thls indicates that business is second prlze. The party was voted a by T. J. Tatevlch was put to good use good on the Frlsco. Beost traffic# success by all and we have felt thls month. He was called on to send down wllh tho motor bus competition. vounaer ever s~nt-A. Flashlight photo- a machinist famlliar with the machlne Luna Wllder and her mother have graph was mot taken. to Sherman, Texas to turn the tires on bought a new Ave-room cottage on St. Myrtle and ha Miller spent Easter Engines 4036 and 4032. The flrst en- Louis Street. They have moved In and Sunday in St. Louis vlsitlng thelr she's tires were turned in 19 worklng are happily and comfortably located. father who han recently moved to St. hours ancl the second engine In 14 After a two-weeks' vacation, Mar- Louis from Nawburg-on-the-Piney. worklng hours. Thls is considered garet Wiener and Catherine Lyons are We don't know whether Ola Barnes quite a savlng in time and labor, over back on the job. They visited the is a nurse or a gardneresa at this time the old method of tying up engines and Grand Canyon of Arizona and rode the of the year. At any rate, we never dropping the drivers. burros: saw Catalina Island and rode refuse the lovely Rowers that she Well, we were slipped up on agaln. in the glass-bottomed boatsv Los An- brlngs to us. The little blrds that she This time by our blacksmlth. F. B. geles Pnd rode the street c'ar (?) to found on the sldewalk passed away Phillips, who was married this month Hollywood: San Francisco. with all after two days of tender care. Their sometime anc? slipped away from us the good-looking sailors; Long Beach; food was bread and water and n grub when the stores were closed and no San Diego, et al. They spent a pleas- worm which was larger than the birds. rice in the house. Welt. good- luck to ant day wlth Edlth Chambers Young. Their warmth was furnished by. an both. formerly of the car accountant's office, army canteen, whlch we thought was We have qulte a few amateur fl8h- now of Pasadena. Calif. purchased for that purpose. but Ola ermen at Fspulpa this year. Harley A group of twenty-flve or more from says not. She says the canteen will Dillon, chief car clerk, Rolland Snod- this office just turned back the hands come In handy on long drives In the grass and Mr. Bumgardner from the car, and between the blankets on her Car Denartment all went for-a flshlng sleeping porch next winter. trip a few days ago and satd the flsh Mrs. Katherine Beegle. Mrs. Mary were biting so good that they had 10 I CLASSIFIED ADS 1 Jones. Mrs. Billie Alderfer, Iva Miller stand behind the trees to balt their and Theda Pyland left for Kansas hooks so the Rsh &ouidn;t get RWay City. March 22nd, to attend the annual with the bait. 1 flower show which was belng held in Mr. Dillon has a black and blue spot Clasalfled advertising under thls hand- Electrlc Park. Never In the hlstory on hls knee whlch he claims was ing will be charged lor at the rate or of Electric Park has a more beautiful caused by a fish that ran him behlnd 6 cents per word, wlth e mlnlmum or or wonderful sifiht been afforded it# a tree. Another report Is that he was vidtors. Landscapes, gardens, sum- 76 cents. Cash must accomnanv. - CODY.-- an "pr6sate property" and got tangled mer houses. trcllises and fountalns. A up with the dog and a fence. We're AGENTS-WRITE FOR FREE SAX- fatryland of gorgeous coloring. The incllned to believe the latter. Any- PLES. Bell Madlson "Better-Made" crowning glory of it all was the old way, they're all good boys and will Shirts for large Manufacturer direct garden of Acacia with its surpausing make good fishermen when they grow to wearer. No capital or experience collection of orchids. UP. required. Nany earn $100 wceltly and Apple blossoms are coverlng the Wl~llewe are after Mr. Dlllon, let's bonus. JEADISON FACTORIES. 505 hills of the Ozarks. Foika are begin- tell It all. Anyone wantlng to know Rrondwny. New York. nlng to wonder how the roads are to if a stiff straw hat will make a spring Holllster and Lake Taneycomo. They're seat, ask Harley. He knows all about OZ ARK SPRINGS Health Resort on the good. I'll say! it, but close your ears for he mlght Gaseonztde River. Fine flshtns, huntlnr. say something that Isn't in the dlc- Kew lo s cabins completely -furnished. tionary! $10.00 1veelcly. Edmund Steckei, Rich- Mr. Gaddy, flreman at Sapulpa, hna land. Missouri. SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION purchased himself a new Auburn Beauty Six coach. Henry, there Is FRI!SCO WATCH INSPECTORS MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT only one thlng wrong with thla car, BAPULPA, OKLA. that we can see, you forgot to put O. m. H1ALTOM. R. R. Watch Inspector. an arm rest on the left side so you Fort IT iorth. Texan. R. W. HARPER and L. A. HACK can hang out the cab window and feel Reporters nt home all the time, work or play. FARlCtE:R-CANNON JBWELRI C 0. The Brlsco baseball team has started Herschel C. Prlce. machlnlst at Sa- Watch Inspectors. Blrmlngharn. Ala practicing in earnest now and are try- pulpa, is the proud father of a ten- Page 58 June, 1925 pound baby boy that was born this a cow path lumbering ahead of the often. Understand his wife goes down month. Can't hardly get him to speak traln. and i~inniegot all excited, be- there to see her folks and the only to anyone yet, but guess he'll get gan hollering, "Shoo, shoo!" waved her way for Harris to get her back is to go kinda used to being a father before arms as an unheeded crossing watch- after her! long. Can't blame him much, though, man-and forgot all about the whistle. E. L. Wood, larmerly of Fort Scott, for they are all welcome around here No, the cow dldn't get hlt, but Minnle was appointed terminal trainmaster at and worth all the trouble and cigars. is golnp out on some rtadent trips be- Sapulpa sometlme ago. I guess Price forgot there was a mas- fore-. she again takes over the impor- Stop! Look! Listen! ter mechanic's office here. We like tant dutles-of flagman! cigars, too. Mrs. Bevins, formerly Mlss Aleen For Women Only The reaurar monthly meeting of the Schall and former stenographer in the Division Safety First Committee mas superintendent's office, was up to sec How to drive a nail without a ham- held in the master mechanic's office, old friends recently. 41een has been mer: Aprll 14th. 2. B. Claypool and E. L. living In Cltlcago but evidently doesn't Ask your husband to drive a nail. Wood were visitors. All regular mem- like the "Windy 'city,'' as she Is com- He will inquire: "Where's the ham- bers were present. A very interesting ing back to Oklahoma to spend her meeting was reported by all. "old days." mer?" L. T. Rogers, second trick ticket Tell him it's where he left It the last The regular fuel meeting was held clerk. Sapulpa, has been transferred to on April 21st at dfton. While there BIadill as ticket clerk at that point. time. was not a large number present, there He will be back soon, though! Haven't He wlll Enquire: "Where's that?" was n very interesting program given vet seen anyone leave Sanul~a. - volun- and enjoyed by all. H. R. Foley, fore- Ask him how you should know. iarily and not come back! He will reply: "Well, who should?" man, at Afton, had a pleasant surprise Fred Drewell, former yard clerk at rvaltlng in the evening. At 6 p. m. Afton has been assigned to the ~osition Ask him Cf he married you so that everyone was served with a delicious of record clerk in- the ~apulpayard you might keep track of hammers. chlcken dinner. Good for Henry, he's office. He will answer: "Darned if I know a Teal host. Everyone is wanting an- Frank Campbell had to lay off half a other meeting at Afton soon. We all day to work on his Ford. Now he wants what I married you for." like chicken. to know if that can be charged to State that neither do you. The old flag pole that has stood by "nick- - - - leave."- .- Old Lizzie mas sick! This will hit the nail on the head. the master mechanic's office here for She wouldn't go! so long, was taken down this month Fred Morgan, chief timekeeper, was If necessary, repeat. as a safety flrst move. We have been the proud exhibitor of the head of a trying to determine the seniority day bass as big as a whale. Fred says it A Mad World on this pole, but haven't been able to was so biz it nulled him into the creek. get hold of any two tales that agree. but by use of-his famous skill he man- "How was it you got all mixed up?" To hcar Mr. Guinney tell it, the pole aged to tie it with the fishing line and asked Mrs. Santa Claus, as her hus- has been here ever since about B. C. get up on dry land. We know he got band returned with the confession his If so, we all agree that it's time it the head. went on the pension list. Lee Ford, who was secretary to the trip had been a fizzle. superintendent, couldn't stay away "I had a fine collection or gin flasks, SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE from Sherman; he had to go back. We hair clippers and cigarettes to deliver," would sure like to see what she looks mourned Santa, "and I didn't know SAPULPA, OKLA. like, Lee. RTHUR T. JESSEN, Reporter Ford was relieved by Robert Beard, whether to put them in the socks or former a s s i s t a nt superintendent's stockings." Thi? Southwestern Division April clerk at Fort Smith. Bob didn't know Fuel Meeting was held at Afton, April there were so many railroad cars till EXISTENCE 21st. About seventy were present, of he came to Sapulpa. A YAWNING whicl1 about twenty were high school W. B. Holland, wire chief at Fort "When a feller works a thld trkk studente. Mr. Baltzell emphasized the Smith, has been transferred to Sapulpa From twelve till after dawn, imp01rtance of the Stop-Look-Listen as wire chief. Somebody is evidently Law to these young people particu- spreading the news in Fort Smith that His life is just one stretching lick- larly. Various other safety first and Sapul~ais a good place to be at! A dot, a dash, a yawn. fuel matters were discussed and when C. J. Quinn, car distributor, Sapulpa, the Ineeting was over, Afton citizens is now a full-fledged agent. He dates treat,ed the visitors most royally with his letters at Davenport-when he You grab the key to make that "I" a chi,cken dinner and dance afterwards. thinks of it! Sometimes he forgets, Before the guy is gone, Af tor1 certainly put that meeting over and writes Sapulpa-as usual. Good the t But ere you get to ope the key- On! luck, Corridon. You steal away a yawn. Tal!king about fuel meetings, reminds N. H. Burch, former wire chief at us 01 the time some of the girls from Sapulpa, has accepted Quinn's former Sapu ipa went with Mr. Baltzell to the job, but is taking a long, deserved va- And when you start to make those meetina at Sulphur, last summer, and cation. bills whenI backing the train up from Scul- C. E. Harris goes to Luther ever so lin I:o Sulphur, Blinnie June ICruse, You cannot finish one, master's clerk. Sanulna. was dele- Unless you stop your worn-out mill 1 to have charge if-th'c tail hose Telephones: Main 172-Central 1304 And give away a yawn. tle on the 1300. Mr. Baltzell in- !ted Minnie very explicitly that if I MISSOURI LAMP L MFG. CO. anything loomed up ahead and the \lanuf'actureru of So life with me is just a yawn track wasn't clear to blow that whistle LAMPS. LANTERNS From dusk till after dawn, most violently. 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Wllh tho object in view of having every ofPiee nnd clenartnnent on the from 3Iem~hiSon January 1st. So far another tussle with another heavy reel Frixro ltailrond reDrewested ia the we only know him to be a very shy of rope. He has since been given,,€he Frlxro Ennl~loyeu*Jlnynzlne, Mix8 Mar- and unsophisticated young man, but nick-name of "Rubber Foot Mack. fiuerlte Simon hns been olmointed re- peppy as a cyclonc. Sho' nuff, Elmer Catherine Barrett continues to look porter from the General ~R;nt'u offiee. Henry knows his groceries and knows through the window here at Seventh Chienfiu. 111. them well. Street, always towards the East. We Mian Simon enjoys the diatlnetlon of Ralph Bowden, city passenger agent. wonder why: beinfi the only "OB-line" reporter eon- Also from Memphis and kind-o-new in the big city. -4 nice young man, es- Ed. Linton says he would go out to trihuting newa to the Mafiezine. peclally to the ladies. but "deep" as a Catalina Island again this year if be The Magazlne extend8 to the Chiengo well. Ralph, you wouldn't tool us, werc sure that man still had the blg offlee, fireetinfin! Give 11s n breeze would vou? Not much! sail fish alongside of which he was per- from the Windy City! Marguerite Simon, the private and mitted to have his picture taken. social secretary of the passenger de- Catch one yourself, Ed., there's more nartment. Ye renorter. Words fail kick in it. Oh, yes, Ed. is an orator, me, boys. too. Now that we have made our "debut" Adam Erlinger (the sea captain), our lnto Frisco society, we hope to broad- veteran angler is expected to be seen cast in the magazine as often as pos- stealing along some of Missouri's sible. shady streams in quest of some of tlle flnny tribe. SEVENTH STREET STATION Speaking of anglers, Geo. Louvier ST. LOUIS and R. E. Murphy are the best little AGNES 31. LARKIN, Correspondent anglers you ever saw. They caught St. Louis Seventh Street welcomes some big Ash last year, but intend to the opportunity to contribute news use that size for bait this year. items and hopes that these items may James Brown, the old war horse Of be the means of our employes getting the north side platform, has about better acquainted with the employes of worn out Pour of his front teeth on his some or the other statlons-that Its old pipe, but he states he will get a items may tend to create a spirlt of new set of teeth before he will give friendliness, co-operation and help up the old' plpe. among the employes of that station A review of Seventh Street's afflce that mill mean for better service to the force: Road. We are glad to welcome back in our Tallest ...... R. Fitzrerald- midst the smiling countenance of Eu- Smallest ...... " Dapper Dan" Kene Znber, who has been absent from Stoutest ...... O'Neill (Balloon Tire) Leanest...... 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Carey in the bright lights of Broadway some Most Popular...... J. Lueke day. Movie Nut...... Geo, Burkhart The baseball bug a€ the cashier's Can't Get Out...... A. Sullivan . I OFF LINE POINTS office is at it again. He used un four Always Out...... L. Flynn hours of his qacat~on 1n seeing the Most Ambitious...... S, Welsheyer Browns play Cleveland at the opening Richest ...... J. Fawcett CHICAGO, ILLINOIS game of the season. Harvev's idea of Next month we will publish a review l\IARGLTERITE SIMON, Reporter a wonderful vacation is one spent in of the girls at Seventh Street. Sportsmen's Park, watching- the John Spielman is coming lnto the Introducing "'Yours truly" the new Browns in action. Iimelight by prolrlng hlmself a worthy reporter for the "Speed nrii~,. ai the Ma1 Daly exgecta to have a wonder- bowler. Recently, Johnny entered the Frisco Railroad, bctter known a3 the ful time whlle attending the B. of R. C. City Handicap Tourney and with his Chlcaso office, and when I say "speed", Convention at Kansas City during the partner bowled the score of 1,300. All I mean speed. early part of May. He will see the the girls are now putting in their bids For the benefit of those unfortunate country now as he has a pretty annual as Johnny's cactdle. Fr~scoemployes who have never met pass with the B. of R. C. emblem con- Getting down to brass tacks and the Clricago force, an informal intro- spicuously shown thereon. Hurrah for business, our general foreman. R. L. ductlon follows: Mal! He has worked hard and we all Ktein, states that he a~ldhis men are TV. B. Wells, general agent. Came hope he has a good time. going to try to win that pennant in Lo us from Texas two years ago, and Julius Stark ifl headed toward South- Springfield for the fewest number of even wild Chicago hasn't ruined his east Jfissourl with intentiona of bring- errors. sweet disposition-as yet. ing back one of the largest fish that The general foreman's clerk, Arthur F:. I<. Yaeger, commercial agent. was ever caught. Knapp, is wishing for the good old frelght department. Our "Flaming Curt Valtin, our suburban friend day.;. that is, the days when there were Youth". He has no cqunl. Nuff sed. and fellow-employe, has his beautiful no telephones, for he states that if It Charles L!I. Cary is awaitinfi a favorable them all the luck in the world in their act, but "serious" Jim to the office opportunity to hie away to that beau- little love nest. force. tiful city among the Ozards, i. e., Mid- Nlss C. Chapman has the honor of . Ed. Hsnsen, reconnigning clerk. The dlebrook. being. the first of the fair malds to most ambitious young man in the of- It has just bcen brought to our at- take her vacation. Catherina is seelng Aee. You must know Eddle to appre- tention that wc have a clerk on our St. Louis flrst. ciate him. platform who has rubber feet. This Should Joe Higgins lose hls appetite. Helcn Simon. Iwlvate eecretary to was brought about the other day that's a restaurant owner's chlef the freight boys. -4 sweet and demure when this individual had occasion to worry. little girl, partlal to dark hair and roll a reel of wire weighing' about Chas, Shoemaker has recently pur- dark eyes. 1,500 pounds over his large toe. Unon chased a Chevrolet. After trying out Sow last, but not least, our passen- examination, the toe appeared flat 2nd the Pierce-Arrow and Lincoln, Charlie ger department: Elmer H. Jordan, dis- then within two hours this same party decided the "Chevvie" was the best trict passenger agent. 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