The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-07

Receiver McEnfire Of the Wichita
and Western road has made an import
ant change in that branch which will
take effect in a few days. The new
time card is now in the hands Of the
printer and it about ready.
By the change operations on thirty
miles Of the road will be abandoned
temporarily, that is 10 say. from Culli-
son 10 Mullinville:
He has also made a change in the
train service that, doubtless, will be
much appreciated. From now on there
will be a passenger train on the road
from Wichita to Cullison. 1t will leave
Wichita at $40 in the afternoon and
reach Cullison about o'clock at night
not only enabling the western patrons
of the road TO pass from one point the
other in few hours, but giving them
all the comforts of first class accommO-
dations. Heretofore passengers from
Wichita to CulliSon, and vice versa, not
only had TO ride behind a freight train,
but were subjected 10 wearisome delays.
They knew when they started but never
knew definitely when they would ar
rive at their destination. Under the
new plan, or change, passengers can
leave Cullison in the morning at s
O'Clock and can reach Wichita at 10 a.
m. They will have adequate time here
to transact their business before 3
o'clock in the afternoon and can return
TO their home early in the night.
A freight train will be run on the
road every day. 1t will leave here one
day, arrive at Cullison that night and
return the next day. Freight can be
shipped from Wichita every other day
and the service promised is first class.
The object in cutting off operations
on the west end of the road is TO save
expenses. During the last year the re-
ceipts of that part of the line cut off
Were only about $500 while the oper-
ating expenses were $4,000, a loss to
THE company of s22, 800 per annum. In
flush times this would be a mere baga-
telle, but in hard times like these the
company is compelled to retrench in
every way possible.
Mr.. McEntire has been anxious for
long time to give the patrons of the
road a better service, but with the loss
es suffered by the operation Of the nom
paying part of the road he could not see
his way clear to do il. The fact is that
what he takes away from the non-pay-
ing part of the road he proposes to give
to the paying part in the way of better
accommodations. He takes a great deal
of interest in the road and has always
been very seriously anxious to give the
people the best service possible with
out voluntarily increasing the losses.
When asked last night about the mat
ter he spoke hopefully of the future
and expressed it as his belief personally
that the cessation of operations be-
tween Cullison and Mullinville will be
only temporary-thati is, that it will not
last very long. He says that the people
will not suffer any inconvenience as
the Rock Island road parallels that
part of his road west of Cullison and
that both the passenger and freight
traffic will be really as good, so far as
THE communities are concerned, as if
the Wichita and Western had been in
operation.
People interested in traffic along the
line believe the change TO be a very good
one and not a few of them approved
Of it personally TO Mr.. McEntire who,
they know is doing earnest work both
f the road and its patrons; and those
who know anything about the opera
ton OF a railroad during hard times
know that it requires no little brain
work to manage the Wichita and West
arm road