The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-15
RAILROAD NEWS.
Santa Fe Declares That No
Agreement Exists
Between Roads Out of Chicago
as to Schedule Time
MADE TO KANSAS CITY
Extra Time of California Train
to Make Western Connection.
How Topeka is Disseminated
Against.
MADE TO KANSAS CITY

No trouble is anticipated by the Santa
Fe officials of this city from the Chicago
Kansas City lines as q result of the Santa
Fe cutting the time between Chicago and
Kansas city on California train No. to
Is hours. They believe that the other
lines viii look at the matter in a reason
able manner. and have no fear of a rate
war being started.
The greatest complaint about this
change in time comes from the diserim-
ination against Topeka and towns be
tween Holiday and EmpOria on the
main line.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Santa Fe has put on an additional
train, the service west out of Topeka
was never so poor. There is no way of
getting to Topeka during the day from
the west and back again the same day.
No train arrives from the west in the
day time till ESQ p. m, and then the
last train west has already gone q half
an hour before. There is no west bound
train on the Santa Fe between the noon
hour and midnight. Afternoon bust
ness letters out of Topeka are delayed
rom Y TO a hours. Mail sent out of
Chicago this afternoon reaches west
ern Kansas before letters mailed from
Topeka this afternoon. No express can
be sent from Kansas City now in the
afternoon for Topeka to arrive during
business hours. Kansas City merchants
can send express packages to Garden
City this afternoon to reach their desti-
nation tomorrow morning. If a TOpe-
ka merchant sends a package to the
same place at the same hour. it viii
reach Garden City twenty hours later
than the package sent the same time
from Kansas City
In regard to the action of the Santa Fe
in cutting the time between Chicago and
Kansas City. General Passenger Agent
Black said today:
We found that because of the increas-
ed travel to California since the winter
I'M rd u-aE 1ar 9aI-
Southern Pacific connections for San
Francisco at Mojave it was necessary for
US to make better time between Chicago
and albuquerque. West of Albuquerque
we were making the best possible time.
and the reduction had to come east of Al
buQuerque- The matter was taken up
and we found that between Kansas City
and Albuquerque it was also practically
impossible to make any better time. and
the only place that a reduction could be
made was between Chicago and Kansas
City. 1t was the question cf either cut
ting the time between Chicago and Kan
sas City or losing our Southern Pacific
connection for San Francisco at NIojave,
and of course it didn't take long to decide
10 cut the time Train No. / is a strictly
California train, carrying no sleeper for
Chicago Kansas City business. and only q
few stops are made between the cities.
The reduction in time not made as
ar attempt to corner Chicago Kansas
City business. and the other lines realize
this. We were simply obliged to mako
a reduction to make our connection at
NIojave. and it was impossible to cut the
time below the present schedule west of
the Missouri river"
The Santa Fe people state that the sup
posed agreement between Chicago Kansas
City lines to maintain the schedule be-
tween the cities at fourteen and one-halr
hours does not exist and has not existed
since the Worlds fair
The Santa Fe has by several miles the
shortest route between Chicago and Kan
sas City. and it would be impossible for
any of the other lines to make the same
time between the two cities.