Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-20
'.TRILBY's" FIRST TRIP.
The Train Service Increase On the Peoria
IT,. Begins Monday.

The Train Service Increase On the Peoria
Begins Monday.
Tomorrow the newly devised inn
provement in passenger service will
be formally inaugurated on the r. 1.
| & p. The new train, which has been
named ..Trilby." will make her ini-
tial trip Monday morning. The per-
manency Of this innovation of course
depends wholly on patronage, which
the management has every reason to
feel confident will be sufficient, and
increase as the improved service be-
comes better known to the travelling
public.
H. j. Horne will be .Trilby's"
chaperon. or in other words, con-
ductor, while Stephen Murphy, one
of the roads most trusted and de-
serving attaches, has been promoted
to baggageman.
Railway Notes or
F. W. Young, dispatcher for the
q. at Beardstown, arrived in the city
this morning to spend Sunday with
relatives, his wife being here on .
visit.
Travelling passenger agents who
had business in the city this week
were: M. S. Giles, of the Lake
Shore; H. b. Jagoe, of the West
Shore. and j. Holderman, of the
Wabash.
W. F. Fee. the gentleman who
keeps Rock Island trainmen posted
as to their departing time, has moved
from 1924 Fourth avenue to Column
bia park on FOrtieth street between
Sixth and Seventh avenues. ~,
A new engine, one of the largest in
this section and constructed in ac-"-
cordance with modern provisions for
speed and wear, was turned out of
the K. I. & P. shops at Peoria today.
This makes the company's number Of
engines %. The new iron steed will
be used in the freight service.
To catch the New York steamer
sailing from Liverpool on Saturdays
the London & Northwestern now
runs . fast train, leaving London late
in the afternoon for Holyhead. Dub
lin and Queenstown. reaching the
latter port early Sunday morning in
time to connect with the Cunard
steamer.
The Peoria railway will run a spe-
cial train Of three Coaches and two
baggage cars from st. Louis Sunday
morning, to convey the Liliputian
Humpty Dumpty company to Daven-
port. The train will leave St. Louis
at ! O'Clock and reach here at noon
Sunday. Il.
Steve Murphy was in the city from
Peoria yesterday, and his smiles be-
spoke double happiness-first. be-
cause of bouncing 124-pound boy.
which arrived at his home the other
cay, and secondly, because of his
promotion. If there are any two
things that Steve thinks most Of
they are home and his job.
The Chicago Tribune says that. as
was generally expected. the annual
report of the Chicago. Burlington &
Quincy railroad Company makes an
unsatisfactory showing. Gross earn
ings for the year ending Dec. 81,
1894. decreased $6,375,83 and net
earnings $1,351,924 The actual
length of road in operation Dec. 81,
1894. was $3.50 miles, against $500
miles at the end of the previous
year-an increase of 1874 miles.
Gross earnings per mile of road
operated were 1881, against 1852
in 1898; operating expenses. includ-
ing taxes, per mile. in 1894, were
1884, against $3.50 in 1898. The
percentage of operating expenses, in
Guiding taxes, to gross earnings in
1894 was 66.2, against 6S.57 in 1898.
Tons moved one mile decreased 1865
per cent. Freight earnings decreased
1865 per cent. Passengers carried
one mile decreased $3.50 per cent.
and passenger earnings decreased
1854 per oenA..i The percentage of
operating expenses to gross earnings
decreased 2.35 per cent.