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Show Switching Crews, Dispatcher Corps Added at Milford Orders received Sunday night by Station Agent F. E. Casterline to put on two switch engine crews of five men each, and the cominv this midweek of a full dispatcher' dispatch-er' force of five or six men, all in the higher wage brackets, taken in conjunction with the large increase in-crease of men noted last week in The News, continues to boost Mil-ford's Mil-ford's annual railroad payroll by the tens of thousands of dollars. George Wilson, bridge and building build-ing chief for this division of the Union Pacific system, was kept busily engaged in Milford the first of the week overseeing the work of getting the dispatchers' office in shape for starting work Wednesday Wednes-day or Thursday. Quarters for this department are located over the express office in Milford's $250,-000 $250,-000 station, and it seems mighty good to see the dispatchers' office again open after being closed for some five or six years. The one crying need of the community com-munity at the present time is housing hous-ing accomodations for the steadily increasing influx of people who must live here and who are anxious to bring their families here. Every Ev-ery house in the community is believed be-lieved to be filled and all hotels and lodging houses, offering accomodations accomo-dations for a hundred or more, are filled and turning people away every ev-ery day. Wednesday the Milford hotel, with about 40 available rooms for transients, turned away eight would-be gusts. |
