The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-22

men on locomotives on the road be paid
the same overtime schedule. Under the
present system a fireman on a switch
engine begins to get overtime after he
has worked 10 hours, while man
working on passenger or freight en-
CINE is required to serve II hours be-
fore the schedule begins. 1t has not
yet been definitely decided whether this
request will be made.
Western lines are preparing to grant
the National Education ASSOCIATION very
low rates for its annual meeting at Los
Angeles next July. One fare for the
round trip. plus 81. which will go to
the funds of the association, is the rate
proposed, and liberal concessions IN
time limits and stopovers will also be
granted. Similar rates have been
adopted for the Baptist National So
cieties' anniversaries al San Francisco
in May. The Great Northern and the
Northern Pacific roads will apply these
rates to all North Pacific coast points,
and the transcontinental lines are look
ing for a very large tourist business 10
the coast this season.
The date of the convention is July II
to IA. Tickets will be sold from June
% to July s, inclusive, and the passeE-
ger must arrive at Los Angeles not
later than July II. the opening date
Oh l1le uleellHE. L us llllil lelui IL INIT
has been put at Sept. T. which will en-
able the tourist to spend a full two
months on the Pacific coast.
Stopcvers will be allowed either go
ing or returning at any and all points
west of and including Ell Paso, Tr'ni-
dad, Pueblo Colorado Springs. Denver
and Cheyenne and spondinaly
located points on the transcontinental
lines in the North. The Southern Pa
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Diego at a rate of SO for the round trip,
and other side trips will also be pro-
vided at low rates.
With the view of protecting their reg
ular business as far as possible, the
roads propose to make Les Angeles the
only destination to which these tickets
will be sold in all cases and say that
San Francisco. Portland and other Pa
cific coast common points must not be
included in these rates. The Great
Northern road has, however already
given notice that it will apply the rates
made for both conventions to all North
Pacific coast points and the Northern
Pacific will certainly follow suit. THIS
will give tourists to the Pacific coast
rates of about two-thirds of the Ordi-
nary round-trip fares and covering the
season from the middle of May to the
beginning of September.
The new fast train on the Burlington
road which carries the overland mail
between Chicago and the, Missouri
river, has again broken the time record.
On Feb. II it left Chicago one hour and
II minutes late after waiting fer the
eastern mail and made the run to Coun-
Gil Bluffs, a distance of 500.2 miles. in
554 minutes, including stops, or 524 min
utes actual running time, beating the
previous record of 563 minutes made by
the same road on Jan. ..
Gross earnings of SO American rail-
roads for the fourth week of January
are reported by the Financial Chronicle
to have been $11,345,173, an increase as
with the corresponding period
of last year of Sl,Q70,SS7, Or 1912 per
cent For the first week CT February
rs roads have reported gross earnings
of $7.469,7 29. an increase Of $234,4S1, or
8. "a per cent.
The 500 line has announced that it
would meet the cut made by the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific and sail
excursion tickets to points ON their line
and the Pacific coast at the same rate
made by the other roads. ..
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