Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-07

ge;her with the strength and equipment
Of our special cars. enable us TO run trains
one minute apart when necessary at rate
OF speed of forty 20 forty-hye miles an
hour. This was demonstrated on tho
opening day. Tho first train starts no .
O'Clock n the morning from Van Buren
street the last one comes back when the
last passenger Is out of the fair
grounds. The schedule time for the trip
either way ia fifteen minutes; il was run
10 thirteen minutes on Monday. Tram.
will be run every two minutes when travel
demands il. In this service we have H2
cara and forty locomotives. We Will run
thirty trains an hour, fifteen hours day,
If necessary. This means the transpOrta-
tion Of 1872 coo persons a day one way. or
so 900 both ways. lhis Is entirely practi-
cable under the system inauguTated by
this company.
Now word with reference 70 these
vollow cars which have been called cattle
cars. Their appearance IS against them be-
cause OF their resemblance 20 a freight
car. They are 50 feet long. built accord
ing 10 all standard requirements. equipped
with Westinghouse automatic Glr-brakeS
and easy-rldIng trucks. They were built
short and strong IN order that they
might be operated in TINS service AZ a
hIgh rate of speed with perfect safety.
AIItI lllf lAlT hitN Will bt i'ilADAAilAtA ann
used n eXpresS-car5 for shipping fruit
from Louisiana 10 Chicago
Il nav b. interesting TO note the cT-
penditures Of the Illinois Central con-
tingent on the Worlds Fair. Here IS IN
apprOXimate statement:
Three hundred special cars.......... 100000
Forty oxtra locomotives. s.............. 100000
Nine miles double track............ 45O.OOO
signal system. ......-.'.''''...''..' liE'on0
lutcrlO"king system. -............. 4p.OOp
Niaduct and terminals. $4,000
Elevation Of tracks ... ...::........... LJO0,OOO
Subscriptions 10 Worlds Fair stock. 100000
lOtal.................... 81, QUO
In reg'rd TO our regular suburban
service" SAID Mr.. Sullivan. "sOme idea
may be formed when | say that We are now
running l46 trains u day and I hat 10 al
dtl0ual trains will be put on, making a
tOtal Of 3lG day. The service will begin
on this scale: From 20 \. NJ. trains
ovcrv ten minutes; from 10 10 O'Clock,
every five minutes from 10 A. VI. 10 > 7.
NJ, every ten minutes from 20 o'clock,
every five minutes: from TO u o'clock.
every ton minutes; from midnight to y.
NJ. every hour
ALI CABRIED IUNCH-BAs1KTs.
The lunch-basket trade is looking up at
the fairgrounds, just as II Gld tho first
week Of tho centennial IN 1876. when the
providers Of prOvender IN FalrmOunt Park
quoted DelmCnico prices for Bowery fare.
The two days experience Of visitors III try
inc TO get decent meal at the fair for a
months salary has resulted in TIE spring-
ing UP ci a new industry outside OF the
grounds. and a dozen or moro of the fakirs
who we'll their wares ia StOny-lsland avenue
opened up new line of goods. They Of
fered for the "smail sum of quarter
the fourth part of dollar as they naive
ly put II, Ittle wicker basket, capable OF
holding three or four sandwiches, piece
OF PIE. and an orange or two.
Here's the way - beat high prices, y
was the form OF invitation held out to
visitors lust before they reached the fair
grounds. and "a good many OF them in
vested in the little basket. stopping at one
of the big luEch-roOms near the Sixty
fourth-strect entrance and having Il filled
for 2j OF 80 cents The same meal inside
the grounds would cost 10 cents or more.
The men who have inside conces-
sions Ito feed and pluck the unwary ="
were startled q little when they saw IA
long stream OF visitors swinging the neat
little lunch baskets rs they entered the
grounds. over 500 persons came III one
gate with lunch-baskets before 10 o'clock.
and about noon. when the employees
began 20 unpack their dinher-pals.
thousand or more visitors sus-
pended sightseeing to find convenient
seats in the big white buildings and at
tackled the contents OF their lunch baskets
or paper parcels. which they had brought
from home. There was a noticeable de
crease in the patronage of the regular
restaurants. some OF which make only
moderate charges for food. The majority of
them, il must be confessed. how
ever, have attached n premium of
from 20 to 200 per cent. above rea-
sonable tarIf on every article on their
bills of fare. IL was reported at the fair
grounds that the matter Of overcharee Will
be officially called TO the attention of the
national commission. accompanied by q
request that a standard scale of charges
be agreed upon by all the caterers. In the
meantime the lunch basket trade threatens
TO ieOpardiZe the hopes of quick and large
profits by the restaurant keepers. because
the practice has apparently come to stay.
TaE RICHMOND DISPATCH Is preparing to
appear in complete new outfit aud Is
having magnificent press. with the latest