Show THE TRAIN dispatcher A man valio iho tile ille life I lle of every 11 g r 1 lu alli hall there 1 a 11 class of irule railway y employed emp loyes almost antl entirely r e ly unknown to pa passenger ss engen whose responsibility is so much greater and whoso slightest omission inight jeopardize the hars of people on trains more than any oversight on tho the part of con conductors doctors or engineers that it 1 Is indeed that they nrc are so seldom ingentio mentioned 1 in the public print prints this class aa is the train dispatchers whoso every order la Is implicitly obeyed by trainmen annl while tj tho crow fi one ono train la is responsible for the movements of that trail alone the dispatcher atcher holds hold lu in lt lila hands the altes 11 of ciery ry individual on every train on tho the road and on a road having a large traffic the duties poked tin on him nic tire ery very great and arduous ills position in fit the railway service Is 19 unique were nil all trains running on time and provided for on the periodical time table issued by the tile com compary papy he be mould would have no detles to perform but trains will get delayed and occasions will arise re lubring lul ring extra train trains or trains without any imp pr or rights bobc to bo run over the tho road and then his services service 1 are feces to nold avoid hours of delay AU all trains on railroads mil roads are divided in fit classes according to their importance generally two wo passenger and freight and all trains ot of one class running in a specified dareal direction on h have he e tho be right of the road 1 or need keep no lookout tor for trains of the same or a lower cal class ass running in the opposite direct direction IOL thus it Is assumed that on a certain railroad running ng training trains eastward have the right of wi way 0 over trains a running westward then an east bound passenger train can run the whole length of the road in entire disregard of all trains another passenger train going west need only to look out for the cast bound passenger train while wo tap ho freight trains must keep out of 0 the he way of both 1601 passenger trains and of 0 tile lie freight tran train which I 1 running in tho direction prescribed as bair having tig the right of road every one understands that all trains are chartered or have a time glen given for passing each station which time can in no instance bo be anticipated and hence all trainmen know where all other trains ought to bo do at pt iny particular mot moment ment if oat on alme 1 ml imas ant as s trains frequently and generally ii y get t late the train of interior inferior cla class ss must have its movement expedited by some extraneous cause or it may lo bo 10 delayed for hours awaiting a train that may have been wrecked or lias has been kept back for some other of many causes then the duties of pf the train nie are of importance he will probably give an order to the delayed train by y te telegraph A direct ing it not to go beyond y ond a certain place which he thinks it can tan reach without dit dif fl culty and he directs t the ho opposing train to proceed to the eane sane place and lind there pass pus the other train and in that manner the anro topa onvia other without any delay to cither either ilia ilis gr great at responsibility consists in ili that downy ho un have A dozen other trains in his charge at the 0 time me and in directing one train to go beyond its ta usual place to meet another he may neglect to give an order to alie second train and in huch ail event A r coll elon sion would probably ensyl much property be destroyed and find probably lives be lle lost it will readily be seen that the slightest mistake of i n train cause serious results and in 1 this lit P aits re la is probably 1 at gra greater r 11 that of any other individual whose charge the public lire tire placed philadelphia times timm |