Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-07-19

carried, and one injured for every ISL
1893 carried. OF railway employees,
2,210 were killed and 34,923 were in
jured during the year.
The following changes, it is said,
will be announced on the Omaha road
in few days: w. c. Winter, superin
tendent of the northern division. goes
to the western division, vice H. Spen-
Ger, resigned; William Bennett, assist
ant superintendent of the western d.
vision, will be made superintendent of
the northern district. and T. w. Ken
nedy, trainmaster of the eastern divi-
sion, will be appointed assistant SUI
perintendent of the western division.
1t is probable that within a COM
paratively short time telephones may
supplant telegraph instruments on all
main lines of the Pennsylvania rail-
way system. Preparations are being
made to string additional wires along
the principal lines, which are to be
attached to special arms on poles and
signal bridges. When the work is
finished much of the business now
transacted by telegraph will be done
by means of the telephone
Officers of the Pennsylvania road
are wrestling with the dining car
problem. The most satisfactory way of
catering to its patrons is what they
are anxious to learn. Three plans
are being considered, as follows: Table
d'hote for breakfast, luncheon and din
ner, with a liberal menu, 81; la carte
for breakfast and luncheon, from So
cents to $1.75; dinner, table d'hote, 81,
and la carte for the three meals.
superintendent Trenholm of the
Omaha, who has just returned from an
inspection of the crops on his line,
says there will be no shortage in
Omaha territory in either Minnesota or
the Dakotas. The reports of crop condi-
tons farther north are encouraging,
and the officials are sanguine that the
damage done by the dry weather has
been greatly exaggerated.
Illinois Central gross earnings for
the fiscal year are in round numbers
$S7,500,000. This is an increase of Is
per cent. over the previous yearly
showing. The mileage of the road
during the year, however, increased s
per cent. 1t is confidently expected
that the stock will be put on a per-
manent per cent. basis. 1t now pays
per cent.
The new fifty mile feeder of the
Omaha from Lake Bingham to Currie
has been added to the service of the
Omaha. This branch was projected
two years ago. The line was opened
to LETTERS last fall, and the time card
extending the service to Westbrook
was sent out yesterday. Connection is
made at Bingham Lake with main line
trains.
A little treatise on Hay Fever and
How to Get Away From 1t has been is
sued by the passenger department of
the Chicago & Northwestern road. 1t
is, in effect, an interesting description
OF the Marquette, Gogebic and Ash
land sections of country, a region in
which hay fever cannot exist.
At meeting of the executive officers
of the roads east of Chicago in New
York next week the protest Of the ex-
press companies over the growing
practice of the railroads in accepting
business as freight that ought to go
to the express companies will be con-
sidered
A. j. McDougall has been appointed
general eastern passenger agent for the
Illinois Central road with head
quarters in New York city. Mr.. Nc
Dougall has had the title of assistant