The Frisco Employes' Magazine, November 1924
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No. 2 NOVEMBER 1924 On time up-to-the-minute train service depends largely upon the accuracy of the watches carried by the train crews BE ON TIME WITH A 23 OR 21 JEWELS ADJUSTED TO 6 POSITIONS AND TEMPERATURES For sale by the best jewelers everywhere I'LLINOIS WATCH COMPANY SPRINGFIELD, U. S. A. Makmoffine wafcha for more than SO years ' US^ Coupon h/y when Din Set Ordering Dishes - MaN Today! We will ship the Dinner Set cornoleto. - and with it the ?-piece Porcelain Fish FURNITURE & CARPET CO. and Game Set absolubly FREE. Uae MARTMRN Dept. 6881 Chicago. Ill. both seta 30 days an Free Trial. See them beautiful dishea on your table Rint lnilial show them to friende. uee them-the; 110-Piece Dlnner Set make your decision. If not satisfied N0.320FFM/U~Price$35.8S aend them back and we will pay trans: and w11h it the 7-meee Porcelain Set nbsrlutely FREE. I am Lo pay nothrn portation charges both ways. If you for goods on arrival-only the smafl keep them. pay only for the IlBpiece freipht chargel. I am to have W days' Dinner Set-a little every month. Pay free trial If satisfied I will aend youb1.00 nothing at any time far the ?-piece monthly kt11full phee or Dinner Set 83.86 is paid. Will pagnolhin~stany ti&e for the7-Pieco Fish and Game Set. It in free. Send ~oredainSet. Title remains with you until paid in full. If the coupon - now. not satisfied after %days' free trral I willu shi all goods Order No. 320CFMAZS. hack and you will pay traneport~t& charges goth ways. 110-Piece Dinner Set. Our Bargain Price, $33.85. NO Money Down. 64.00Month)y. ?-Piece Fish and same Set is FREE. \&-J,..,*,r L (go0 NUFACTURERS&DEALhRS LL KINDS OF LUMBER MILLS AT HICKORY FLAT, MISS. SPECIALIZING IN ** RAILROAD BUILDING MATERIAL Sfrong as Ever for fhe "Frisco" GENERAL OFFICES P. O. BOX 1032 MEMPHIS, TENN. Phone Main 2312 // THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZIh II 645 FRISCO BUILDING .. ST . LOUIS II Edited by FLOYD L . BELL VOL . I1 NOVEMBER. 1924 No. 2 Permission is given to reprint. with credit. in part or in full. any article appearing in the Magazine Contents of This Issue PAC I? JOPLIN-An Imperial City ................................................................................................................5 Economies In Railroad Materials-By [I . I.. Il/ornrnrr ........................................................... 9 The Sand Springs Cotton Mill-By T . .I'. .5't1.flcrl ............................................................................I0 What Is Meant by Gross Ton Miles-By F . I: . Bcrtrs ....................................................................11 The Engineer-His Prayer-Verse ....................................................................................................11 Een McCrum On Initial Trip of "Southeastern Limited" ............................................................12 Trackmen May Aid Safety Movement-Ry K . IIollat~d................................................................ 13 Ilome Builders' Pagc............................................................................................................................ 14 Frisco Babies ........................................:............................................................................................... 15 Story of Recent Improvements In Locomotives-Hy 1'. 0 . kVood .................. ... .... ..... fi Re Carcful What You Say-Vcrsc .............. ...................................................................................17 The Greatest Fraternal Organization-By If'.. .C. .Ilrrclitrrr/ ................................................... I7 Interuicwing a Circus-By dlartho C . 310orr ................................................................................IS .%Insays Be Carefd-By Croryc L . Ball ............................................................................................20 Just Tlioughts on Things-By Sour A . Ilrrghcs ............................................................................22 Pastimcs ..............................................................................................................................................23-24 Editorials ............................................................................................................................................25-26 Proper Engine Handling Saves Fuel-Ry Frcrrrk Kerd ...............................................................27 Timely Tips on Handling Trunks-By 0 . I1 . C'J~n1r11ci.s.................................. 2 Homemakers' Department-I.orc/to A . Corjrior . Lditor ............... .. .............. A Charlie Baltzell Writes a Lctter ............... .................................................................................30 Frisco Employes' Picnic at Neodesha ............................................. .. ..............................................30 Letter Fronl Boy Who \Vent \Vest ....................................................................................................31 “Bobs"-/?!: Ploydirtc JIcCorirrock.................................................................................................... 31 Joplin 111 Pictorial Form.-.- ............................................................................................................. 32-33 Flashes of ;\[errinlent ....................................................................................................................... 34-35 T<eminiscence-Verse E . A'. StaPP ...........................................................................................35 "-4 Message to Gar&"-By Elbrrt Iflrbburd ................... ..........................................................16 The &Ian at the Ticket \\Jindow-I311 I.i.vlr B . ICrllogg ........... .. ..............................................38 Frisco Family News .................. ...................................................................:.............................. 39-(il THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE The Frisco Employes' Magazine 1s a monthly publication devoted primarily to the interests of the more than 26. 000 actlve and retfred employes of the Frisco Lines. It contains storles Items of current news. personal notes about employes and their families. articles dealing wlth various bhases of railroad work. poems. cartoons and notices regarding Lhe servicc. Good clear photographs suitable for repro- ductlon are especially desired . All cartoons and drawings must he in black India drawlng Inb. Employes are Invlted to write articles for the magazine. Contributions should be typewritten. on one slde of the sheet only. and should be addressed to the Editor. Frlsco Bulldlng. St. Louis. Mo . Dlstrlbuted free among Frlsco employes . To others. vtlce 15 cents a copy; aubscrlptlon rate $1.60 a year. Advertlslng rates will be made known upon application . FUEL CHART FOR SEPTEMBER IMPERIAL CITY OF A JOPLIN PROSPEROUS DISTRICT Elf; KEGlOS of which Joplin is the n~etropolis, year in tens ot' millions and now it is the greatest leatl incli~dinypart* of Mirroori. Kanias, and Okla- and zinc producing region in the world. honla, and, therefore, sometin~escalled the "Tri-Statc Very few realize the imrnensc value of the tnetals Ihstrict" and sometimes the "Joplin District," was protluced or the n~agnitucleof the industry. The four I\nuwn as a lead producing district previous to 1560. greatest gold protlucing states in the United States are. Lyp to that timc it had produced more than a million California, Alaska, So~ltl~Carolina, and Colorado. Ia tlollars worth of lead. In the ten years that fo:lo\vetl, 1923 the gold producctl in these fo~~rstates was val~~etl or Ixtween 1860 and 1570, it produced nearly a nil lion as follows : California 9;14,S29,100 ; Alaska $7,571,200 ; tlollars wort11 of leatl. It was in the early seventies South Carolina $6,711,100 ; Colorado $6,518,100. The that it rc~llybegan to he well known as a great pro- total is $35,929,500. 'l'he lead and zinc produced in ducer of lead and. at the same time, the importance of the Joplin District in the salne period was valued at its zinc was tliscovered. In the ten years betwecn 1870 $37,122,589. In other words, the lead and zinc pro- and 1880, the combined production of lead and zinc duced in the Joplin District exceeded in value the total increased to nearly nine million dollars, and in the next gold output of the four greatest gold-producing states ten years, it increased to more than twenty n~illion l)y more than a million dollars. Up to the present date rlollars. Since 1900 the value of the leatl and zinc pro- the 1924 production is ahead of the 1923 production. tlucetl in the Joplin District has been reckoned cach Joplim ores are being shipped direct to European smelt- FOURTH STREET. LOOKING EAST ers antl, therefore, Joplin justly claims that its market July is 87 degrees. 'Z'he annual average of sunshine is is the world. 72.6 per cent. The annual average rainfall has been 36.13 inches. With a very high annual average of In the early days the mining center was in Joplin s~mshineand, on the other hand, a fully sufficient fall and Webb City. In those days Joplin had all thc of rain, coupled with a good soil, the dairy, agricultural characteristics of a typical mining camp. Now, how- antl fruit possibilities are unlimited. ever, the actual mining field has moved down into Okla- homa and Joplin is changed into a flourishing coinmer- Joplin is peculiarly fort~lnatein its transportation cia1 city. Joplin is no longer a mining camp, but it is facilities. Few, if any, cities of its size have so many