The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-15
CARS TRADE-MARKED.
Many Curious Emblems of Ownership
 to be Seen.

It is quite interesting to watch a freight train when passing through this city en route to points east north or west. and observe the many differ ent ways in which the railroads dec crate their cars with a trademark, as 1t may be called, The great business corporations and the corporations which rent out their own cars have nearly all adopted some especial mark by which their cars are distinguished, beside the name or initials of the rail road. Some of the companies simply paint the cars a certain color and usu- ally the cars belonging to one separ- ate road have one general color. Among the many common marks of cars passing through here in one day few are given below:
 The New York, New Haven and Hart ford has adopted for its trade mark the scroll that adorns the time tables of the company, painted in white upon red cars.
 The Grand Trunk railroad has green oblong space bordered by white band, and upon the space is painted National Dispatch" Most of the Grand Trunk cars are red in color and but few have any marks beyond the ordinary cars.
 The New York and New England has it's cars painted red and a few yellow, Upon the sides are large Maltese cross es of white with the car number in the center.
 The Hammond meat cars are painted yellow with a red diamond, bordered by a thin strip of black
 Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City railroad cars are decorated on the side by a black diamond, bordered by a white band, and in the center is placed a three-leaved clover painted in white. On the clover in black is painted "S. Dispatch" A car passed through here yesterday with Southwest Dispatch" on the clover.
 Minneapolis St. Paul and Sault St. Marie has black rhombus bordered with white, upon which is printed in white "Soo Line"
 The Quaker Oats company has the picture of the Quaker painted on the car door.
 The Fitchburg cars are usually vel low, with a black star at one end. | Cars of the Merchants Dispatch line are painted grey with broad bands of red, white and blue around the car.
 Lehigh Valley railroad has the cars painted red On one side is a pennant in red on a white staff with a black | diamond in the center of the flag, in the black diamond Il. V." is painted in white.
 The Pennsylvania railroad has two lines very common on the local tracks ] one the Union line, has a round back ground of white in which is a red star, The Anchor line has an outlined an chor and chain in white painted on | the side.
 The Central Railroad of New Jersey | has a red or pink circle circumscribed by a white band. The cars are vel low.
 | Cleveland Cincinnati, Chicago and | St. Louis railroad, known as the Big Four, has cars painted red. A maltese cross on the side of old gold, in the center of which is a black circle with a large figure 4 in gold, and the name oi | the railroad around the figure. l Toledo and Central Ohio has a star of red circumscribed by a band ot IN and the star filled in with black.
 Armour Beef company cars are vel low, and a band of red surrounds a cir I cle of black upon which is a picture in yellow of ham and bacon. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad has large B. & O. with a white globe be tween them on the car door, or a large oblong band in white with "Balt. & Ohio" in black upon it.
 Erie railroad has a white diamond with black circle inside, upon whicl is printed in white Erie"
 The Empire line is known by white oblong figure with a red arrow in it The cars are red.
 The Ann Arbor railroad has a very bordered by a band of white, forms z background for large gold coloret key. In the handle of the key is white figure, upon which is trans verse key in black. The cars are red.
 New York Central and Hudson Rivel railroad has many of it's cars not mark ed, but few have large white stars or l them.
 One of the Venice Transportation cars went through this morning. I had maltese cross of red on ground of white, surrounded by circular bands of red, then black and again red. II the center of the cross a small blacl circle is painted with the words Cen tral State Dispatch"