Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-04
Railroad Notes.

! will meet in Denver to-day.
The Trans Missouri Freight Association
| Will meet in this city Tuesday.
| The advisory committee of the mileage
| ticket bureau will meet in st. Louis to-day.
the Burlington road has appropriated
SEQ 900 for the Mississippi exposition
| at Omaha.
r. T. Nicholson has been appointed So
| Iiciting freight agent of the Burlington at
| Kansas City.
George H. MacRea has been appointed
| assistant general passenger agent of the
| Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha.
c. H. Phillips has been appointed COM
merce agent of the Missouri Pacific and
| Iron Mountain, with headquarters at At
| lanta.
It is stated that the electric locomotives
of the Baltimore & Ohio are performing all
that the contract stipulated they should do
Three are now IN service at Baltimore.
w. S. Weed has been appointed freight
traffic manager in charge of all freight
traffic, both lake and rail, of the Toledo
st. Louis & Kansas City-the Glover Leaf.
Colonel Bill Shaw, the veteran travelling
passenger agent of the Burlington. has
been promoted TO the position of district
passenger agent, with headquarters at Gin
cinnati
]. B. Rishel has been appointed agent of
the Rock Island at Omaha, succeeding G.
II. Denton, who was promoted to the po-
sition of commercial agent of the company
at Omaha.
The special committee appointed by the
| Western Passenger Association regarding
division of Pacific coast business recon-
mends that no change be made, but that
the rate south from Chicago be increased.
Tracklaying on the Stilwell road between
Trenton and Pattonsburg is said to be
progressing rapidly and there are indications
that the line may be completed considerab-
ly within the time specified in the con-
tract.
A rate of 40 cents per 100 pounds on bois
dare wagon material in the white sawed
or turned to shape, has been authorized
from Texas common points to st. Louis
and Kansas City; class differentials to
points in defined territories.
Already the Southern truck gardeners in
the territory tributary to the Kansas City,
Pittsburg & Gulf are anticipating the COM
pletion of the line by largely increasing the
acreage they will cultivate. This line will
afford them direct route to all the North
ern markets.
Effective January 10, minimum rate on
beef cattle in carloads to st. Louis will be:
From stations on the Houston, East &
West Texas railway, north of Burke, to
and including Joaquin, Tex, 80 cents per
100 pounds; usual differentials to Kansas
City and Chicago.
The Southwestern exceptions 30 the
Western classifications have been amend
ed, effective January 9. to provide author
ity for fifth-class rating on north bound
shipments of manufactured tobacco, in
hogsheads. barrels, bales and boxes, mini
mum weight 10000 pounds per car.
The Santa Fe road is making some in
vestigations and experiments with refer
ence to the use of gasoline engines for
pumping stations. but General Manager
Frey says that they have not progressed
far enough TO as yet enable any conclu-
sions to be drawn as to the resultant saw
ing or the extent to which it will be prac-
ticable to use this form of power
The rate of 35 cents per 100 pounds. au-
thorized on potatoes. in carloads, from St.
Louis TO Texas common points. effective
January l, has been made to expire on the
10TH on which date rate of so cents per
100 pounds will be made effective. with us
ual dfferentialS from defined territories
The tracklaying on the Kansas CITY,
Pittsburg & Gulf was begun at Horatio,
Ark, Friday, and is now being pushed be-
tween Mena and Horatio from both ends
of the gap. One and siX-tenths miles were
laid Saturday and there remains but forty
four miles uncompleted of the line TO
Shreveport at which point connections will
be made for Galveston and New Orleans
IA regular freight and passenger service be-
tween Kansas City and these points being
established at once.
on some of the new monster freight
engines built for the Baltimore & Ohio by
the Pittsburg locomotive works the new
Bell spark arrestor has been applied. The
new arrangement consists of double per-
forated DETECTING plate, and the disposition
of the netting in "a series of inClincs, with
no horizontal surface except very mar
row one on each side of the~exhaust pipe
1t is said that this arrangement not only
prevents the escape of so many live sparks
but it preserves the life of the netting and
is, therefore, more economical and effective
than any spark arrestor now in use on any
other road.