Show ONE MILLION ILLIO GIVEN AWAY I 1 officers 0 of f denver rio gr grange ande appreciate continuous service HISTORIC EVENT FOR CO elf stock ia 1 4 valuable and emp employed loyes laud tho the donors most mon highly one of the roost most gilts gifts to poor men evar ever offered was tho the gift of one million dollars by tho the officials of lio the denver and rio grande railway system to their employed emp loyes the stock when riven given away was worth 00 per share and ii preferred prof erred stock and while the stock has diminished to W 86 per share it haa has been paying a good dividend these many years and will likely continue to do so for many years 4 to come several engineers were rece cep pienta lents of stock and moat most of them are still in the service on the west end between helper and ogden and on tha the other branches they are J W stewart jim bell belis charley sherman ed Dart bartlett lett fred king C 0 dickerman E C baker P B Il haslet aslet A campbell ben don estes B J rugg C W tenney harry sharp dimus mcgraw ic AK AN OLD C VV dickerman hal hasl been palling pulling a throttle for 27 year years and is one of the oldean employees of tho the road mr dickman had been in the engineering branch of the sey vico vice 15 years before coming to utah when dickerman beean began railroading the train service waa was not regulated by telegraph wires at stations as they are now there waa was a time card and instructions instruct toni that eastbound train had tho the right of way these two conditions were the sole meana means by which continued on supplement 0 na r MIWON GIVEN AWA r officers of denver 1110 gra appreciate continuous service f cl HISTORIC EVENT FOR 0 stock is valuable and empei laud the sonora donom so nora moat t highly i 4 continued from rera ant rat page the train bervie wo il if a train was dua doe leave rock island going east at ata oclo a vi ami and 0 o to leave chicago roi got 4 at the eeme vr ilie ae ahey would I 1 course have a meeting point on an t time ard tard but if the aaa bound tr ww delay ayed 1 I 30 20 min minute ates aj would comp to to ri n 36 minutes bt late all the balance of ll 11 trip to destination and the west bow lou train after af ter arriving at the cef me ing point wait 86 36 minutes and proc 30 minutes for the train and 6 minu for variation of watches wa tchee speaking of or V variation of 6 fifty year years ago the allowed allow jd five live mm mw tee and now if an engineer hea haa a afe t piece which loose ten seconds in week he must secure another wat wate or give UD up TheRl the rio oGra gram n eng linit i r s moat most register liefer re their watch before leaving on each trip by fib 0 standard tan dard watch in the depatt whit anre re net set by telegraph from se st lou and the watch P eiyo tb W watcher watches attention once a month TI time 1 have certainly changed in the raille ti world tn in the lat last 60 50 years al well i in the engine he lie b hae never i act ett gotten a he ha has horev been in several bad wrecks and h hi had bad ome some very close calle if be ca finues to have halve good luck he wh n doubt live liv to eee see a double track ra rail road from helper to salt lake like cit CI wa that within a very few years dickerman is practically pension pen eione ea fur lang service on the road he ile Is duty about 12 hours out it take tak him 6 hours to RO go from helper to oad and he has a day off it takee takes him 12 1 2 li urk aci run froth frota ogden to help elp with ith another lay layoff of bf of 12 houra hours an am he usually goes to the pay par car bac baci month and set gets a check for about abe 1 oid engineers on thit road hav v better positions than the n of the road their hours are t and nearly as good pay and their posit ions lons are much surer as Dicker dickerman marq hai ha worked under about 15 16 tet en in the past 27 yeara j only one conductor had been in th ervice service long ions enough according to the tb h plant pl art allow him to be eligible t tu al jares ario waa was damok jamee hinea who was in n charge of a freight train i the train waa was between helper a and grand junction mr Hy hynetia Hyne aia a no now running a gnat grist mill at grand junction t 4 and la is a prosperous bo alnesa man general wm P palmer and george georg foster poster peabody were practically eole sole owners bf of the rio grand giand western rall yay lay operating oDe rating between grand junction and ogden this road waa was bought by geo goo gould and la now a part of the D R agn system and eventually will be he a grand trunk tine line between san francisco calif call and hew new york 1 city the building or controlling of a road between theme points haa has been th ufa life ambition df lof mr gould aside froia from giving the employees an interest in the road the corni company any has built COR corn In OdIOUS hoa at clear creek WInter quarters ant and 3 S if ayalde theme hospi hospitals are li lt the ervice of the railway men at any clr they need the aid of at a hospital hoe pital to this thi philanthropic echeme scheme haa has been added at helper a splendid building buil dine for the lae ae of the miners and conduct eau ea uder the of am CL A this gives the men a place to bathe to read to Flu sames and ancla place for the men 0 o get k good bed at it A d moderate rao price 1 I the of the D ar R G W were col D C dodge geni gen mgr A E L welby gent G shap gea gen mgr of the utah fuel FI co aft F cekol cailor K L A greenwood ant cashier Ca II 11 hlewa HL lewis ewi paymaster ai T milter miller |