The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-29
AMONG RAILROAD MEN.
Great Rush of Travel for the
Pacific Coast.
Santa Fe's First Train Out al
Noon Today.
Three Tomorrow and Three Thursday
lao Tourist sIeepers Secured
Rock Island and Union
Pacific Travel Much
Lighter.

Shortly after noon today a special
train pulled out of the Santa Fe depot
in this city bound for San Francisco.
1t was the Kansas Christian EndeaVor
special, and before it leaves the border
of the state tomorrow morning Will
carry in the neighborhOOd of 500 dele
gates to the national convention of the
Christian Endeavor society in San
Francisco. Fifty Topeka people took
the train here
The Kansas special was but starter
for the immense California travel which
will go through over the Santa Fe to-
morrow and Thursday. One hundred
and forty standard and tourist sleepers
have been secured from the Pullman
COMPANY by the Santa Fe passenger
department. and that number comprises
every sleeper available at the hands or
the great car company, to handle TINS
UNPRECEDENTED summer travel to Cali
fornia.
At noon tomorrow three special trains
of 10 and Il cars each will pass over
the Santa Fe as second sections of train
No 3 and tomorrow afternoon two sec
ond sections will follow the regular
California. train No. 1. On Thursday
there will also be three second sections
of train No 5 and five sections of train
No. l. In addition to these trains
passing through Topeka, three extra
be run over the cutoff from Kansas
City to Emporia and from there west.
REPRESENTATIVES of the Santa F'e pas
senger department will have general
charge of the trains. Charles L. Sea-
graves, travelling passenger agent, with
headquarters in this city, accompanied
the Kansas train, and the other
representatives who will accom-
pany the trains on Wednesday and
Thursday are: G. J. Webb, Topeka;
c. c. Campbell, Minneapolis; E L. Pal
Tner, Denver; E. T. Burnett, New York;
H. N. Butterfeld, Milwaukee,; L. F.
Bacon, Kansas City; J. N. Bastedo,
Cleveland.
Both the Rock Island and Union Pa
cific roads will also run special trains
for the accommodation of delegates to
the Christian EndeavOr convention, but
the travel over these roads will be small
compared to the travel over the Santa
Fe. The Santa F'e was made the Of
fetal road for the Kansas delegates,
but the rest of the business was secured
by hard digging The credit for Sc
curing the business is due to General
Passenger Agent Black, and the i'm
mense amount of it shows what an en-
ergetic western passenger agent can
do.
IN a letter to General Passenger
Agent Black today Mr.. c. A. Higgins,
assistant general passenger agent in
Chicago, quoted a conversation with
superintendent Reed of the Pullman
company in which he stated that to
accommodate the California travel the
Santa Fe had made the greatest de-
mand on the Pullman company for
sleepers that had ever been made by
one road for a single convention in the
history of the company.
Among those who left on the Kansas
special today are the following:
L. L. ROby and wife, F. T Vincent
state president; the Rev. F. E. Mallory.
first vice president; Bessie Shelton, the
Rev. NJ. E. Harlan, State Directors c.
l. Seagraves and wife, LOttie Finch,
Alice 3. Patterson, Mrs. Mary Mclean.
Matte Duggan, H. B. Hukill Marga-
ret Nesbaum, Mrs Robert Edwards
Ida NJ. Stage, J. E. kirkpatrick. Jane
T. Clelland, DR. and Mrs. r. s. Magee,
Linda r. Haines, Sue Stevenson, Mr..
and Mrs. James Wilson, Clara S. New
ell, Joseph H. Newell, Miss l. H. Bow
man, J. D. Bryan, LenOra Morrow,
Hetta Smith, J. E. Hazen, Stella Ever
sole, Burt WhittIesey, A. c. Strain.