The dispatcher opened a loose-leaf reference book on the counter and then punched the first of a series of buttons on a panel.
The grinning dispatcher ducked into the back office and slammed the door.
The dispatcher picked up an electric pointer and aimed the light beam at the map.
The sweating dispatcher looked at his lighted map board and mentally cursed the lack of enough units to cover every exit.
The dispatcher glanced at the order board across the room where patrol car numbers and team names were displayed on an illuminated board.
I heard Sheriff Decker come on the radio and tell the dispatcher to get all of his men over to, and I thought he said Texas School Book Depository, but at least that was the overall gist of the conversation.
I don't remember specifically which window he indicated, but I immediately told that to thedispatcher and proceeded on up to the building.
Do you remember what number you used for calling the dispatcher that day?
My friend answered, and received from the dispatcher at Winnipeg a crossing order for a west-bound passenger train and an east-bound engine.
I received the order from the dispatcher at Winnipeg to detain the east-bound train at my station when she arrived, till the west-bound express crossed her--double tracks are yet unknown out there.
Then the girls were startled to hear the dispatcher at headquarters say: "Attention all scout cars!
Penny demanded of her chum as the police dispatcher went off the air.
As he saw Andrews, who was leaning out of the cab with an air of impatience that was partly real and partly assumed, the dispatcher drew back in surprise.
The train-dispatcher came running over to the engine, and doffed his cap to Andrews.
No sooner was "The General" motionless than a train-dispatcher emerged from a gathering of idlers on the platform and walked up to the locomotive.
Mac told the dispatcher they'd left an important piece of gear at Careless Mesa.
The dispatcherwas sitting right there, so I just kind of wondered aloud what a tracking team would be doing off the base at night.
The entire motorcade was on channel 2, and I believe there was a dispatcher at the central station on channel 2, that relayed some of the changes, and some of the messages were car to car, back and forth.
I proceeded to the basement after learning from Lieutenant Baker in the homicide and robbery bureau, who had made a telephone call to the dispatcher to inquire what was going on, that Oswald had been shot.
This would have been the dispatcher to me asking the question did we have him in the Texas Theatre.
The dispatcher stated it was Officer Tippit who was shot and he was dead, and so when I come back out of the office where I had used the phone, I requested permission to go to Oak Cliff and permission was granted and I took K.
At the time they were in the service station, I heard the dispatcher give a call that the suspect was just seen running across the lawn at the Oak Cliff Branch Library at Marsalis and Jefferson.
Then we left that location as we were proceeding west on East Jefferson, and as we approached the 100 block of East Jefferson, the radio dispatcher said that a suspect had just entered the Texas Theatre.
The chiefdispatcher looked at him steadily a long moment before answering.
I walked with the chief dispatcherinto the airport waitingroom, dull with the listless air, not of unoccupancy, but disuse.
The same thing is done in the succeeding throws; the dispatcher going into the box all three times.
Unfair dice are seldom submitted for inspection, as may well be imagined, particularly those of the dispatcher kind.
Securing, in an instance of this kind, is impossible; the cheating must be done by contriving to introduce into the game either a dispatcher or a loaded die.
If the player should happen to be backing a low number, of course a high dispatcher would be used and a high number secured upon the other die.
It is evident, then, that a high dispatcher cannot throw less than two, whilst a low one cannot throw higher than three.
Cheating is introduced into this game by the banker in the case of a player persistently backing a high number time after time, the method being to ring in a dispatcher which will fall low.
In a low dispatcher the process is precisely the same, but the sides are numbered with one, two and three pips, instead of two, four, and six.
Here he pats the dupe on the shoulder with the hand which has the dispatcher palmed within it.
The genuine die is turned over to show the same value as that given by the dispatcher in the throw.
In using a dispatcher the sharp always puts the box down with the left hand; this leaves his right hand free to ring the changes.
The latter is the safer thing to do, because a dispatcher will not bear even a moment's attentive examination.
No; the dispatcher didn't speak to us, but to the chief of police, that these men are a lot of rioters from Pittsburgh, and he wanted them off the property.
The conductor notified the dispatcher that the men had struck, and the dispatcher undertook to find men who would go, but all the train men refused.
I notified the dispatcher then that the men had quit, and asked what I was to do.
The train dispatcher wished to retain ten policemen as a guard for the property, and the question was referred to me whether they should remain or not.
I heard the dispatcher say, disperse this lot of loafers and rioters from Pittsburgh.
Mr. Thomas Scott, day stock agent at East Liberty, and the dispatcher both said to the crews that they would couple the cars if they would back the engines; but the crews were too much intimidated to do that.
Before I got down there the dispatcherasked me what I was going to do, and I said I was going down to see the fun.
People came to me and asked what to do, from even the dispatcher himself--he looked to me.
The yard dispatcher there and assistant train master told me that some of the men had refused to go out.
I had three telegraph operators, but I acted in the capacity of dispatcher myself.
Mr. Ross was dispatcher of the road, and they had taken possession of the railroad and telegraph office belonging to the road, and, as I understood it, put a telegraph operator of their own in there.
The dispatcher of the Fort Wayne road, and Mr. Ross is the chief of police.
I am a dispatcher at present," said Ralph, "and a trifle rusty at the old trade, I find.
The young dispatcher knew the schedule like a book.
The old dispatcherwas a good fellow all around; he had proven himself a loyal friend to the young railroader, and Ralph could not resist the compliment implied in entrusting him with an important mission.
Ralph had blocked out just what he was expected to do, but that day as he was led to the office of the train dispatcher by the superintendent he knew that he had no easy task before him.
Chief Dispatcher Fairbanks has already cleared the service, and the Great Northern can go on its way smoothly.
Glidden was the first trick dispatcher and was not on duty just now.
A case came up where the dispatcher desired to make a meeting point for two trains.
The better way is no doubt to leave to the Dispatcher the disposition of orders issued for a train afterward annulled, whether such train be a section or otherwise.
There is nothing but the care and skill of the Dispatcherto prevent the opposing orders from differing in some particular.
This, if carefully performed, assures the Dispatcher of the verbal accuracy of the message as the operator has it, and the Dispatcher admits this by the response "O K.
The reply that all is satisfactory, authorized by the Dispatcher personally, is then to be given in some prescribed form.
It is important that the Dispatcher should know that each has received the "O K.
The Dispatcher of course provides, by giving more definite orders as soon as he can do so, that no unnecessary delay arises to the superior train from the operation of the order.
Within the knowledge of the author a disastrous collision resulted from an oversight in regard to the delivery of an order where a skilful official undertook to assist a dispatcher in an emergency.
The objections to the Dispatcher transmitting orders himself are elsewhere considered, and it is designed here to point out a method by which the other plan can be pursued and the inconvenience referred to avoided.
Where the work of the Dispatcher is considerable, he will require the aid of one or more operators in the work connected with the transmission of orders.
After your dispatcherchecked you in what time did you leave that corner of St. Paul and Elm?
Do you know if your dispatcher keeps a written record?
You should not employ as train-dispatcher a person whose time-reactions indicate a tendency to confuse associated ideas.
Your own knowledge of the work of the world will suggest other employments besides that of train-dispatcher in which such a test could be used in hiring men to the improvement of the service.
The chief dispatcher will let freight be delayed in a yard for a full train with power needed at the other end, if he can start a light caboose without its being included in the average train load showing.
With headquarters at the hub, one superintendent and one chief dispatcher may comfortably handle three or four sets of dispatchers.
He cannot dictate, however, what particular dispatcher shall work the trick and give him his orders.
A trainmaster or a chief dispatcher is really carrying the responsibility of a superintendent without the title and authority necessary for smooth administration.
He usually says, "Let me see your orders," which is in effect asking the conductor what the dispatcher has said must be done.
The train crews are under the immediate direction of the yardmaster when in the terminal, and of the train dispatcher when on the road.
This gives greater opportunity for initiative and originality on the part of the dispatcher by making routine the detailed portion of the process.
It should be as easy for a chief assistant superintendent, familiar with the routine, to assume the superintendent's regular duties any day as for the second dispatcher to work the first trick.
When a conductor reports for train orders he has a right to know that a competent dispatcher is on duty.
The dispatcher not being a telegrapher, he wrote out his orders and handed them to a young operator to send.
Fear of censure for delaying some important train makes the conductor "leery" about starting and the dispatcher timid about directing a prompt movement.
For years progressive young railway men advocated the telephone only to be assured by old-time dispatcher officials of the unwisdom of such a course.
A dispatcher has a hundred miles or more over which to keep his trains apart, while a yardmaster finds his engines bunched within a mile or two.
They often stay around division headquarters until the chiefdispatcher is able to jar them loose and get them out on the road.
Besides, in that case why could not the train back down-- The answering signal from the dispatcher at Stanwood interrupted his conjectures.
The dispatcher from Stanwood listened to Banneker's brief report, and sent him back to Manzanita, with a curt word of approval for his work.
This train-dispatcher is to be notified by telegraph of the movement of each train, and is to give his orders to the officers in charge of each train, as to what points they are to go, where to pass one train and where to wait for another.
You see, there's no motive to trace," observed the dispatcher in a puzzled, baffled way.
Then he said: "Tell the dispatcher to get Clay City, and find out if the Midland Express over the Midland Central left on time.
Word came finally by messenger from the dispatcher at the station that the same was on its way to the Gap.
The dispatcher acknowledged the same sentiment, so had the engineer and the fireman, he said.
Reform has to begin at the top, and if the division is to be the unit the superintendent must be something more than a high-class chief dispatcher finding flaws in train sheets.
My Dear Boy:--Your chief dispatcher blew through here the other day on his vacation and dropped in to pay his respects.
A good dispatcher will know without being told that he has made a poor meeting point.
The absolute, unquestioned authority given a dispatcher in train movements breeds a temptation to be autocratic and unreasonable, to put out too many orders, to give too many instructions.
It used to be thought by some that the best dispatcher was the one who put out the most orders.
A dispatcher naturally wants to get all the trains he can into a terminal, while a yardmaster is doing his level best to get trains out.
One of the lessons a dispatcher has to learn is to know when he is up against it; when he has figured badly; and when not to make a bad matter worse by vainly trying to retrieve a hopeless delay.
So I felt rather flattered when your chief dispatcher asked me for advice as to what to study in order to get on in the railway world.
Forbid your dispatcher sending a stereotyped message to get written statements of all witnesses every time a personal injury occurs.
If there is trouble in a block, let the dispatcher give the delayed train a message to flag over.
When you see the train sheet, tell the dispatcher what trains should be kept on time as long as possible, what trains should be tied up to prevent a blockade.
As the yardmaster and the dispatcher must scatter their trains, so the superintendent must keep his staff doing different things.
I told your chief dispatcher that a knowledge of law is as important to a real superintendent as a knowledge of telegraphy.
The dispatcher has to send the operator outside with a clearance.
The later and better idea is that, generally speaking, the best dispatcherputs out the fewest orders.
Hold the freight," snapped back the operator beside Bob, and just then the dispatcherat division headquarters chimed in and wanted to know what it was all about.
The answer from the dispatchercame sharply, first a message to the freight.
The dispatcher had arranged a clear road for them.
They topped the rise at Cliff City and got orders from the dispatcher to proceed on the time of Number Eighty-seven, which chanced to be late.
He could obtain a right of way order from the train dispatcher on that grade, sometimes of an hour's duration.
Dispatcher says you can have Track Number Two West till the four-thirteen, westbound, is due.
A telegraph operator who had come down on the special was busy shinning up a telegraph pole to cut in his instrument and place the scene of the fire in communication with the dispatcher and other points on the division.
As a result the dispatcher had put out a slow order which called for a speed not in excess of thirty miles an hour over the bridge.
The dispatcher says the mail will be in on the advertised," he said.
Finally, he called Heilberg, the assistant dispatcher who was on the night shift, gave him a lecture concerning dispatching in general and the present situation in particular, promoted a date with one of the stenographers, and departed.
The dispatcher at Acme had the sense to cooperate with us.
When the dispatcher for Acme Interplanetary Express arrived at the office the following morning, a Special Message lay in sublime isolation on his desk.
Dispatcher to Numbers 7 and 4, have crew stand by to blast off in exactly 15 minutes.
I asked the dispatcher what we had working at Texas Theatre, and he advised me that it was the suspect who had shot Officer Tippit, that he had been arrested at the Texas Theatre.
When you left the city hall, did you make--did you report in with the dispatcher or anything like that?
That had given them time to call the dispatcher by phone for an ambulance, would be my guess that we were on Harwood Street at the time that it happened.
I immediately got in my car, got on there and told the dispatcher to gather up all of my squads and to have them to report to me code 3, at Parkland and followed the ambulance out to Parkland.
That I--well, I can say that I was told to tell the dispatcher that he was en route to the county.
So, you called the dispatcher and told him what you said you told him, and what happened next, to your recollection?
Did you hear the automobiles called in from the outlying districts over your radio, when you were listening to it; did you hear any communications from the dispatcheror otherwise, calling police cars in from the outlying districts?
I then returned to the city hall and en route had cleared with the dispatcher that if he didn't have further instructions for the group with me that we would return to the city hall.
