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Show ABOUT TUEUAPOADS. The Importance of Establishing Young Men'i Christian Assooiatiom for the Various Sailroads. A BOUT LOCAL AND FOEEIGN LINE3 The Rock Island ii Extending to the Oklahoma Country About the Mississippi Bridge. leans Traffic and Southwestern railway rail-way and steamship associations. General Agent D. E. Hurley has gone ot Butte aud will return next Tuesday W ith the reorganization of the Union Un-ion Pacific freight department on March 1 the employes of the bureau will hereafter here-after have less cash to bank on. Economize Econ-omize is the cry. "In addition," said a Salt Lake minister, min-ister, "to caring in a degree for their ! employes who met with accidents, the railroads should give more attention atten-tion to them in another way. 1 refer to the idea of establishing Young Men's Christian associations in places where the railroad men can attend and enjoy the meetings. In this part of the coun- try the Union Pacific leads in the work of the kind I moan. "A number of the leading railroad men of the east are deeply aud earnestly earnest-ly interested iu the work. They annually an-nually donate thousands of dollars which are spent for this purpose, The result is gratifying to the management man-agement 1f the various lines who have interested themselves in the good cause. (Jo to New York and attend one of the meetings aud notice how the railroad men are interested in them. The employes do not feel that they are being worked soul ami body only for the road that employs them. There is rest and comfort in hearing the word of life and the singing of a gospel song. "Then the good done by these associations asso-ciations is noticed in various ways. Of course all railroad men cannot be effectively ef-fectively reached for the same cause that all men in other occupations will not listen to the spirit of the meetings. One of the most important things or features of the work done by the secretaries of the associations it to endeavor to persuade railroad men, and others too, from the use of intoxicating intoxi-cating liijiicus. This is of great necessity neces-sity as the responsibility with railroad employes while on duty is incalculable. Oh, that all of the roads in the United States would refrain from employing men who drink while on or olf duty. The safety of the traveling public entirely depends on the management the train crews accord those in the cars. I "After local roads are making too much money why don't they assist in aupporting the Y. M. C. A. of this city r" Collections for Demorrat. The Denver Demurrage bureau has just published its quarterly statement of cars handled for the quarter ending January SI. The total number of cars handled were 83,805 against :M,84:i for the previous quarter, an increase of but twenty two cars. Thia uuumber was divided among the different roads as follows: Denver & Rio Grande, 5,083; Union Pacific, 17, W.'; Burlington & Missouri, 6,100; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, !H4; and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, U.S'iO. The average detention was 2.04 against l.KK days for the preceding pre-ceding quarter of the previous vear. The number handled in each month V 1 .... .... . 1 - . wai: iiuvenioer rj,!in, ueceniDer is,-7HII, is,-7HII, January 8,0118. The total number of cars handled in Colorado by the Denver bureau and the Colorado Demurrage De-murrage association was 55,923 against 55,4!4 for the previous quarter, and the average detention was l.'JU days. The Rnek Island Estendlng. El Reno, I. T., is now made the end of a division of the Rock Island railway for the freight department. They have nearly completed the survey of their extension southward to the gulf connections. con-nections. Work will commence on the division south of there in about thirty days. The Choctaw Coal & Railway company is advertising for 200 more hands to complete the track to Oklahoma Okla-homa City. This place is the cast end of a division on the Choctaw road. An order has been issued for the running of a preliminary survey from El Reno westward through the Cheyenne and Arapahoe country to Reavercnunty immediately, im-mediately, (ieneral Dodge, the well known railway builder, has obtained a charter for a railway line form there to Quanah, on the Denver & Fort Worth road, where it strikes the Panhandle of Texas. The Mississippi Brlrif. General Passenger and Freight Agent Howard Elliot, of the Chicago, Burlington Bur-lington &Quincy, was seen relative to the rumored plans of the Burlington of bridging the Mississippi river at Alton and gaining an entrance to St. Louis from the north in that way. ' "So far as I know," said Mr. Elliot, "there is nothing to the story, and I don't believe our people have ever considered con-sidered plans looking toward such action. To build a bridge across the Mississippi would mean an expenditure of some millions, perhaps, and one road would hesitate considerably before deciding de-ciding upon such a work. 1 do not think the Burlington is considering it at all. Railroad Changes. The new freight agent at the Union Facitic depot in Salt Lake will be Mr. St. Clair of Butte, This was offered John K. Killey but he said nay. Rumor says there will soon be a thorough installation in-stallation of employes at the depot. The changing mania has struck the D. & 11. G. Express ollice on West Second South. S. C. McCoddon, who has been general agent, will goon have a successor. Johu Kelly's hereafter will be a Mr. Clark of Leadville. General Agent Geo. W. Kramer, Assistant, As-sistant, Auditor Smetxer and Chief Clerk Frank McArthur having completed their labors are prepared to report. Kali road Notes-Lake Notes-Lake Park will bo opened in time for the bathing season. The Kio Grande Western will make all necessary improvements im-provements for the comfort of the 'public. The Northern Pacific has absorbed the Wisconsin Central aud on next Monday the former will operate it as a division of the great transcontinental system. The big excursion of Bostonians will arrive in Salt Lake in the morning. They will look at the sights, and leave tomorrow evening over the Kio Grande Western for Denver. It is stated the Great Northern and Seattle & Montana railroads are practically prac-tically consolidated, and through trains will soon be ruu from St. Paul to Seattle by way of Winnipeg over tho Canadian Pacific, Fairhaven it Southern, and Lake Shore & Eastern. Tho executive committee of the Southern railway an steamship association associa-tion will meet in St. Louis March 8. On March 6 there will bo a joint conference confer-ence at Kansas City of the rate committees commit-tees of the TraosMissouri, New Or- |