Show i M Y INSTALL I I I i I I PHONE SYSTEM Salt Lake Route Supt of Tele Telegraph Telegraph Telegraph graph Favorably Impressed by New Method WILL SUBMIT A REPORT TESTS ARE AR BEING MADE BY MANY RAILROADS i system may telo tele ch t i t liln on the Salt Lake Route J f ime mt there has ha been talk tall of oC oCio ki io n aJon this line but buti butH definite regarding the matter maUer has hu hast hut H i g gI n out nl In pet tho the matter has hae hast t f g t f h fl decided yet but q mint nit to th t probability that teals or i nl du I within the next few month is IC II greatly strengthened rr tV c i j I that General Superintendent T r r i j ih h I T Dyer of oC the thc Salt Lake LakeN N h N h ome deeply Interested In the tVr WI iu i j has lias been engaged In studying i I xi recently made on several I rr r s tOI Mr Dyer was In Salt SaltA Salti his return trip A i Fr day starting on LS Angeles last night He came In niti rn m a trip tri to t North Platte Neb where here ment I nt especially to Inspect and get rr r nil in tn new flEW system At North orth Northa ortha tK a double metallic circuit has lIas been eri on Th th Union Pacific at ami Sydney and if it it is suc sue suetal tal ral j it t is said the will mil bo be taIe lalle 1 I on oth important divisions of oC off 10 f non Pacific and ultimately over i 0 p fhle bk system Astern 1 I think very fy pry well en of ot the system stat 1 l Mr fr V r yesterday I am not pre rd Jj rf to t say av that the Salt Lake Route Routt M IJ l the system hut but I 1 am very vet wll dl r O what I have seen of or It I Ia ILa Is s La a av an elaborate report to make what I have Horned about t tr wh r hn n fl I pet gEt back to Los Angeles I have of oC in studying i Lk k n D H treat great deal pains ut ouT a large larse number of or pho to tb illustrate the details The ph rth ff of f track on the Union Pacific 11 h T I visited which is now using the Mii tc is S a single track stretch and a aM an arv M rv I IY piece of or the Ule road The tele telephone ph phone phoI there Is proving a great help which Is made especially r tn th work is rather rattler elaborate but still r fl in ii n use UM The operators are pro 01 ii with headband appliances similar those used by the telephone opera 4 in r the exchange offices s The train patHier can instantly get in with any operator in his territory I 5 imply pressing a t 1 button In case casei i 6 n nil l I In I can ean talk with any an conductor conductor r r giner on any train In his territory dr Messages Are Verified In 1 Riving ing his liis orders the train dispatch t ritES the as he lIe speaks It Ite e ivi rd Ui takes It down The TheN TheS S i N then repeats the message messa e and andI andas underscores the words n as I OP w l repeats It he s 5 tie hI took th them m down When hen under r the h message shows that It has b n word for word Tn Salt Lake Lak Route now has a phone Is Used when train are arc ditched between stations or run Into blind sidings and all aU freight and pas passenger passenger passenger trains are arc equipped instruments ments by which communication can n b La bo quickly established with any station where telephones Sure are Installed This aye system SJ tern tem Mr Dyer says has bas proved yen verY satisfactory Indeed and has helped in si n number r of cases caes to facilitate matters an Prevent long loii 1011 delays in traffic The sta stations stations equipped with the telephones ar art Salt Lake Lynn Milford Caliente La JAS Vegas Otis and Los Angeles Angelel Tests of or telephone dispatching systems are being made ninth now by a large I of or railway For the past year ear several severa roads have hae been experimenting with them their themon theiron themon on certain stretches of track and it it is I Ithe the general belief belier in railroad circles that thai telephones t will eventually supersede the thc telegraph generally all over the country The New Nev York Central has yen very with its ILI si m between Albany and Fonda ind md the Penn Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sylvania railroad the first to take th the thesy system sy up for practical work has also BieC been successful Ul Tests Test of the telephone I system are arc now being made On greater or lesser II Fler scales and at different point points pointon on the Chicago Burlington t Quincy New York Central Lake Erie Western Santa Fe Canadian Pacific Shore Short Michigan Southern Delaware Lacka Lackawanna Lackawanna Lackawanna wanna Western Pennsylvania South Southern ern Cm Pacific Baltimore Ohio and Illi Illinois nois Central 0 O S L L NORTH OF CITY TO BE DOUBLE TRACKED The work of or grading and getting ready for laying the rails to double track the Oregon Short Line between Salt Lake City and Woods Cross the first station north of this city Is rapidly progressing now and It Is stated that it will not be belong belong belong long until the work ork Is completed This It Is I being done to do d away awa with the congestion congestion tion incident to freights often being obliged to wait walt at Woods Cros Cross for outgoing pas passengers rengers Fengers and fast freights or trains being held In the city to await the arrival of oC trains coming in from the north When the double track system Is completed there will be no wait walt waltIn In speaking of this work won orl an official ol of oCI I the O 0 a S S L yesterday voiced It as Ms his hi opinion that most of the roads In the west I would eventually double track all of oC the themore themore themore more busy bus sections of their roads rond It Is known that it Is the accepted nc plan to dou double double double ble track the Union Pacific from Crom Omaha to Ogden and it Is believed this will be accomplished d within the next three years ears The work has already alread been started a long longstretch longstretch longstretch stretch in Wyoming having been com corn completed completed the first of C the year ear The double tracking will wilt be done gradually the most busy stretches to be first attended to In Inthe Inthe inthe the order of oC their th lr Importance NEWS AND NEAR NEWS IN RAILROAD CIRCLES J S A Reeves general g freight agent for forthe forthe forthe the O 0 S L has gone to Denver to at attend attend attend tend a meeting of railway freight men to discuss the matter of readjusting rates for coal shipments asked for by b the coal mines of southern Bouthern Colorado Vice President C H and Gen General General General eral Traffic Manager A S Hughes of the Denver Rio Grande are arc here in a special car Their trip is a regular one for In purposes Mr states that the work on the new depot here bere Is to tobe tobe tobe be rushed as quickly as the new plans are I drawn and accepted acc and predicts that the structure will be ready for Cor occupancy within eight or nine months F P T Vincent representative for the Erie Eric lines In this territory is back after aCter a trip through Idaho and attending the Pocatello convention of oC sheep men He expects te to leave for Butte tomorrow and will make a trip through Montana J A Elger general livestock agent and John Petrie live lIe stock agent both rep representatives representatives representatives of the Burlington were guests over Sunday Sunda In this city of oC R F Nealen general agent of oC the same road in this ter territory territory They came down from Crom Pocatello after attending the convention and started from here to Denver to attend the western w stern live stock show there this week P J Plaisted traveling freight agent a nt for the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul railroad with headquarters In Boise Ida wad wa in the city yesterday esterday He came down Sunday Sunda after attending the National Wool nol Growers association convention In Poca Pocatello tello t llo last week and will leave l I ave ae for Boise today accompanied by b his mother Mrs T A Plaisted He reports business very ery lively In Idaho at present C I Tuttle assistant general freight agent for the Oregon Short Line has returned re returned returned turned from Idaho Ire lie attended the wool growers convention at tT Carpenters are arc at work remodelling the theoffice theoffice office rooms of oC the traffic department at atthe atthe atthe the general offices of the Oregon Short Line Partitions are being removed and several of the offices arc are being thrown into one large room This arrangement It Is said will greatly facilitate the work of the department It was announced yesterday esterday at the O 0 S SL SI SL I L general offices that trains over the i Southern Pacific are again running on onI I schedule time most of the damage caused by the thc recent washouts having been re repaired repaired repaired I paired The Southern Pacific is still II obliged to make a detour over other tracks to cross the American river but the bridge i which was washed out is being rebuilt by bya b ba a large force forre of or men and It Is 15 expected will be ready read to use us shortly shortt The trains i over mer the Southern Pacific ran on scheduled time Lime yesterday and It was stated there will willbe I be no further delay dela on account of oC the washouts Hugh Hulth John MacQueen and M 31 MP MI P Murphy all livestock agents for the I Chicago Milwaukee St Paul railroad j who had b been en attending the livestock mens convention In Pocatello were guests in this city yesterday or of C S Williams commercial agent for that road in this territory They say the Pocatello I meeting was as a lively lIvel one oneR I R n M u Calkins aikins general freight and pas passenger enger agent for the C M t St SL P at Butte Butt was a visitor v In Salt Lake City Sunday and yesterday lie He attended the wool growers and stock mens conven onen conventions Lions in Pocatello last week and ran down downto to o Salt Lake for Cor a and semi social trip Fred A Warm Wann ann general traffic manager for the Salt Lake Route arrived In this city yesterday from Los Angeles n gel es His Ills trip tr is a regular one for or Inspection General Superintendent R II E Wells of the Salt Lake Route Routt after aCter a visit In Salt Lake for or several veral days das laft last night for Los Angeles C S Williams commercial agent In company with C P Pruitt and P J J 1 Plais Plaisted Plaisted Plaisted ted traveling freight agents all of or the C CM CM M 3 St P railroad have returned from the wool growers and live stock mens conventions In Pocatello Notice has been received here that the theoffice office of or general superintendent of or the Denver Rio Grande railway has been abolished and that on Saturday Assistant General Manager W V S Martin of or Denver assumed the duties of ot both positions pos The Theoffice Theoffice Theoffice office of ot general superintendent was waI re recently recently recently made vacant by the thc retirement of oC ofA oCA ofA A E Welby VII by Mr Martin had been as assistant assistant assistant general manager of oC the road for tor about three years ears Mr Welby Welb resigned his position to take charge of ot the construction department of or the Denver Laramie Northwestern Among other officials of oC the D R n G railroad mil road now in the city on business con connected connected connected with getting work on the new depot again actively started are Joel F Valle general counsel and J J W V Gwyn chief en engineer engineer engineer D B Eldredge Eldrede traveling freight and passenger agent for the Rock Island road has returned from the Pocatello conven conen conventions conventions L 1 B Huffman arrived In the city elty yes yesterday yesterday yesterday morning from California and im immediately Immediately Immediately mediately took up the duties of ot the post position position tion to which he was recently appointed as assistant ticket agent in the Salt Lake office of or the Salt Lake Route |