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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03
Santa Fe to Spend a MlIIiOH
Dollars For Equipment
Will All Be Expended Before
November l5.
TWENTY LOCOMOTIVES
They VIII Be Used to Pull Linn
tied Trains.
There Are 500 Refrigerator
Cars in the List.

Between this time and November 10
the Santa Fe company win expend a
million dollars in round numbers for
new equipment. 1t will be the heaviest
expenditure for such purpose ever made
by the road in a similar period of time
The new equipment, which viii have been
delivered by the middle of November, is
the following:
Fourteen dining cars to cost some
thing over $14, 900 each.
Two composite cars to cost $1,tUV
each.
Twenty passenger engines to cost $14,-
900 each.
Five hundred refrigerator cars to cost
$3.50 each.
The dining cars will be h finest ever
turned out for any road in the country
and will be operated on the California
limited trains. The composite cars will
also be used a part Of the equipment or
limited trains.
The 20 passenger engines viii be built
with particular attention to speed, ana
will be used in pulling the limited and
overland through trains. The refrlg-
orator cars are needed to handle the
fruit traffic of the road which is in
creasing annually.
The dining cars n composite ears
will be delivered in September and Oc-
tober. The passenger engines and re-
frigerator cars will be delivered in Oc-
tober and November, the deliveries to be
completed by November 10.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03
M1sTooK HIS CUSTOMER
How One Train Newsboy Caused a
Sweeping Order.

On September 1 the Lehigh Valley
railroad stopped all newsboys from sell
ing papers on it's trains. This rule, which
will remove from the road one of its
most picturesque features. is the result,
it is said. of a recent attempt of one OF
the newsboys to sell the president of the
road a little book of a Char
acter, sealed.
The president was going up the roe
and was attired in a golf outfit, with
knickerbockers and plaid stockings, and
the newsboy didn' know him. He showed
the little book into the lap of the pres
ident and whispered that the book could
be bought for so cents. The president
casually examined the whole stock of the
newsboy and a few days afterwards a
special agent from the coal regions was
given an order from headquarters to
make a study of the news business and
report to him. AS a result of the report
it is claimed that an order prohibiting
the sale of papers ON the Dad a been
issued.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03
KANSAS FAIRS IN 1900.

Following is a list. of fairs to be held
in Kansas in 1900, their dates. locations
and secretaries, as reported to the state
board of agriculture and compiled by Sec
rotary F. D.. Coburn:
Allen County Agricultural society-C. II.
Wheaton. secretary, lola: September 10-1&.
Brown County Fair association-John II.
Butter County Fair association-AIyah
Sheldon, secretary, Ell Dorado; September
Clay County Fair association-E. E.
Hopes. secretary. Clay Center; Septem-
Coffey County Fair association-J. q.
Woodford, secretary, Burlington; Septem-
Cowley county-Eastern Cowley Fair
association: ]. N. Henderson. secretary
Burden; September 1921
ISOLATION: -. c.. Griesa, secretary, Law
renee.
Finney County Agricultural society-D.
ranklin County Agricultural society
B. G. McQuesten, secretary, Ottawa; Sep
Greeley County Fair association 3
Newman. secretary. IrlDune; Gcso3er E ~:
associations. B. McGrew, secretary,
Holton; September Ll-lA - No
chanical Observation-Disclosures Snyder sec
rotary, Oskaloosa, September a..
Jewell County Fair ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. =.
Horne. secretary. Mankato; September
smith. secretzry, Nouas City.
Marshall county, Frankfort Fair asso-
FraanKfort; SEPTEMBER 25-2s.
Miami county Agricultural, Mechanical
Fair association-Jos. <. Trickett. secre~
tary, Paola; September z5-2S.
Morris County Exposition company: E.
]. Dill. secretary, Council Grove. Septem-
Der 1928.
Neosho County Fair -association-H.
Lodge. secretary, Erie: August 1881
Neosho county Chanute Agricultural
Fair, Park and Driving association-A- E.
Timpane, secretary, Chanute; September
At.
Usage County Fair association-C. b.
Curtis. secretary, B-urlingame; September
Riley County Agricultural society: R. z.
Worboys, secretary, Riley; September
Sedgwick county, Wichita State Fair
association-H. G. Toler. secretary, Wich-
tia; September Al.
STAFFORD County Fair ass~ociation-John
w. Lii, secretary, st. John: August 29-31.
Harvey County Agricultural society;
John @. Nicholson, secretary, Newton;
October rs.
Rocks county fair, at Stockton Septem-
Norton County Agricultural society,".
L. Miller. secretary. Norton, September
1871
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03

it built perhaps the largest locomotive
ever constructed. It was. No. $50. and
for the Illinois Central
The conpany is capitalized at $3,000,-
600, and nearly all the stock is owned
by Jacob S. Rogers Attorney General
James w. Griggs is a stakeholder.
It was the decision of one man, and
that man the richest man in New
Jersey, that fixed the doom of Pater-
sons biggest ndustry and made so
many families unhappy He is Jacob
S. Rogers, se~venty-six years old, and a
bachelor, who inherited the millions
that his father made out of the famous
works and added many more to them
Mr.. Rogers reason for ending the
career of the firm which has shipped
locomotives to every civilized country
on the globe is that he is growing old
and that, as the business is a little be-
hind the times in its equipment and
methods, it might become a losing ven
ture He declares it is making money
low, but says competition is getting so
sharp that he fears the business might
suffer and the honored name of Rogers
might be dimmed.
The works are located in West Pat
erson, remote from any railroad. The
expense of getting material to hi place
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03

copy for the printing Of the schedules.
The printing was done and the time ia
bles forwarded to S. B. Hovey, super1n-
endent-
over carefully. Upon later Investigation
he discovered the startling fact that no
meeting place was arranged for the
trains and that if run according to the
schedule a smash-up could be the only
result.
He Immediately sent a message an
~nouncing this fact to the Topeka office
The Topeka Office notified the Chicago
oface and within a few days Mr.. Hovey
will have his time tables with a meet
ing place for the trains arranged for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03

caps Of Joy bursting on rockbound
shores. From Aida to Lohengrin' is
like escaping from a drawing-room
wherein all of the perfumes known to
femininity are fighting for the mastery
into a cool space wherein blow the cool,
healthful zephyrs of the night-capped
woodland
Thus ingalls, went on for half an
hour or more. I knew that it would be
purely idle for me to try to switch him
to the subject of politics. Moreover, I
enjoyed studying the wonderful versa
tility of the man. I had never heard
him utter q word, publicly or privately,
he knew the difference between the
old Kentucky Home and The Pilgrims
Chorus from TannhauSer, and here he
was-tust for the sake of tanning me, /
well knew, and diverting himself at the
same tim=talking of the demi-gods of
music in a manner that clearly showed
him absolutely familiar with his sub
ject. It was all very delightful, and I
listened on, rs one in a sort of trance.
When he reached his final pause, how
ever, and turned to me with another of
those shrewd, quizzical smiles of his, 1
played a little card OF my own on an
instant's thought
said I. Tt beats anything you could
have said on politics all hollow. I can
dress up this talk of yours on music n
about two double-1eaded columns and
it'll sure make a hit I'll just run doWn
to the writing room and
But Ingalls, had me by the arm and
detained me. 1t was all good-natured,
whip hand, and he proceeded to give
me a scoop talk on politics, state and
national. that was quoted all over b
country for weeks afterwards"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03
stilwell Line in Mexico.

cially announce that immediate con-
struction will be begun upon the Kansas
City, Mexico g. Orient railroad between
Port Stilwel1 and Fuerte, Old Mexico.
Within the next few days Engineer
John L. Case will leave Kansas City,
with a party of IL and a corps of engi-
neers, and proceed to Guaymas and then
by boat to Port StilwelI. They expect
to have the new line under construc-
ton completed within Is months. The
distance from Port Stilwell to Fuerte is
rs miles. On account of the cheapness
with which it can be gotten Mexican la
Dor will be used on the new road.
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TO BUY ROGERS WORKS.
Paterson, N. j., Will Save Big Loco
motive Plant by Purchase.

The town of Paterson, N. J., is MAX
ing an effort to raise $500, 900 to purchase
stock in the great Rogers locomotive
works, which is about to be closed.
Ten thousand persons now derive
their livelihood from this source, and
should the plant be shut down Pater-
son would sustain a blow from which
the town would find it difficult to re-
cover.
Mayor Hindicliffe and representative
business men met last week and de-
cided that to allow the works to close
would be a calamity which no pains
must be spared to prevent
The Rogers locomotive works is
among the most famous in the world.
Tt a turned out 10, 900 locomotives and
has paid in wages since its organiza-
ton S36,000,000- Fifteen hundred men
are carried on it's payrolls.
It's two biggest orders were for 100
locomotives each from the West Shore
and Illinois Central Dads. Last year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03
SPOILED TRIBUTE.
IFrom the penver Trmes.l

II IVuI II DCINUE LEEEIINsI
I heard a good story the other day, and
maybe you nave heard it. too; but, any
way, it is worthy Of repetition:
Dan Grogan was a prosperous com
tractor, and he had four boys, great, big,
strappin' feilys, wild hands on ,em like
canvas hams, an wan day whin Dan dold
these same boccos had a floral pilly @lade
fer i'm, wild Papa in purphel immartels
ophon ct. Phwat DO yeeS tink av thin,
Papa and thin wild hans es big eS
hams?
"Well, they tuck Dan. pace be to his
soul, out ia the cimetary, and phwin they
got i'm thayre the ~pallbearers all Walkfd
along and dhropped a clod av dirt upon
i'm, and thayre whoit gloves as well. and
thin the undertakes kim along wild the
pilly. He bumped up against Mick McCarty
and knocked Off the p on Papa and ct
left only "A. P. A., Then they ~tellyphoned
fhar the caraner.n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03
Fumigate Sleeping Cars.

Denver. Sept. "a measure, which, If
passed by the council and signed by the
mayor, will result in the thorough fun
igation and disinfection of all sleeping
cars passing through Denver, was in
troduced by Supervisor Mitchell at the
last meeting of hat body. The bill is
intended to provide for the destruction
of all germs of contagious diseases, to-
gether with consumption, that may rest
in suspicious coaches. The health COM
missioner is to have free license in this
matter. Supervisor Mitchell avs that so
many complaints have reached him
about the lack of proper attention given
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03

is great. Then the shops, which cover
five city blocks. are inadequate for the
big business. Twenty locomotives are
turned out a month and many have to
be finished in the open air. It was re-
allied that almost 81, 000,0 900 would be
necessary to improve the works as they
should be. This Mr. Rogers, at his age
and with his trusted gone,
feels unable to expend. He has his own
method of doing things and he con-
cluded to quit the business He de-
clared yesterday that no more orders
would be taken, and that the entire es-
tablishment would be put on b market
to be disposed of h best way possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03
WILL SPEAK.
Promises to Welcome Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Engineers.

Governor Stanley has promised to de-
liver the opening address at the big
union meeting of railway enginemen to
be held in the Auditorium October 8. He
will introduce Chief P. M Arthur, of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
who will come to Topeka for the meet
ing. 1t will be Chief Arthur's first visit
here in several years.
Besides Chief Arthur and Governor
Stanley, there will be several other
speakers. Among them viii be Mr.. J..
D. NJ. Hamilton, claim attorney of the
Santa Fe, who will talk on 1.-THE Fidelity
of Railway Employees to the Company
and the to It's Employees"
Delegates to the meeting will be car
ried into Topeka free, and the affair
promises to be a big success
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03
EXCURSIONS TO THE EAST.
Kansas Roads Will Give People the
Chance to Visit Former Homes.

The Rock Island and Santa Fe rail-
roads have arranged for a series of home
visitors excursions from points in Kan
sas to st. Louis, Peoria, Chicago, Des
Moines and intermediate points. The
first excursion will be run on September
10 and the other on September %. One
fare plus two dollars will be charged
for the round trip Return limit Oc-
tober 81.
The home visitors excursions are quite
a novelty. The homeseekerS' excursions
have for many yearS had an important
place in the railroad business, but the
home visitors excursions will undoubt-
edly grow in favor and rival the home
seekers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03
NO PLACE.
Fatal Mistake in Printing Schedules
For New Rock Island Line.

a good story is cow going the rounds
of the Rock Island offices IN h operat-
ing department OF the same road at
Chicago.
The Anadarko line, which has only re-
Gently been completed from Chicasha to
Mangum, a distance of SO miles, was
opened for traffic today.
Two passenger trains and a freight
train are scheduled each way per day.
The operating department prepared ne
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03
MAY Be Truesdale.

The report comes from New York that
w. II. TruesdaIe, formerly vice president
Of the Rock Island railroad, and now
president of the Lackawanna, will be the
successor Of C. F. Huntington as presi-
dent of the Southern Pacific if the bank
ing firm of Speyer & Co., which old a
large amount of Southern Pacific stock
can control the election.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03
COLORADO FLYER.

Via aGreat Rock Island Route
Leaves Topeka $40 d. m, arriving
Colorado Springs 1926, Denver 11:O0
O'Clock next a. m
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ourist Rates to Colorado and Utah.

Tourist Rates to Colorado and Utah
Tickets will be sold from points OF
Missouri Pacific to Denver, Colorado
Springs and Pueblo, Colo. and Salt
Lake and Ogden, Utah, June 1st to Sep
tember 18th, at greatly reduced rates
See nearest ticket agent or write
Il. C. TOWNSEND G.. P. & 7. A.
St Louis. No
topeka. Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03

to sleeping coaches. that he felt compell-
ed to introduce a measure to lessen the
chances of ~contagion.
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BIG SAVING SHOWN.
Advance Information Concerning
Santa Fe Annual Report

Advance information Concerning
Santa Fe Annual Report
The Santa FEES annual report for the
fiscal year ending in June is not likely
to be issued for several weeks because
Of h extent Of h company's system
and the variety of the accounts. In view,
however, of the company's Importance
and the special interest in it's operations,
through the savings shown during the
year in its monthly expenses, the follow
ing figures have been cured giving
the allotment of the expenses for the
eleven months of the fiscal year:
Gross earnings .....$42,3S6,000 $S7, 29S, 900
Expenses
Maintenance of
Equipment -. j.. 4.sss.OOO 1887 900
Transportation ex-
Ipe enses 3'6 d7S egg cog T. SS9 Egg SOo
Total expenses !. .s25. $50. 900 s25,57s. 900
Net earnings. IL, 106, 900 1,715,0 600
1t will be seen from these figures that,
absorbed 341z per cent of the gross earn
ings, in 1900, up to May 81, they account
for only 31-S per cent, a very consider
able saving, considering the increased
volume of traffic carried. The proper
ton of the receipts absorbed by ex-
penSeS of maintenance of way was 1871
IN 15UU, ana ABOUT ~ per cent III 1889 -
may be pointed out, as a fair mpa
son, that at the reduced figure they are
practically the same as the charge for
maintenance of road on the Northern
Pacific in 1899. That company spent 1872
per cent of it's gross revenue for such
work, outside the special charges for
betterments carried in a separate ac-
count. The proportion Of Atchison's
equipment expenses to receipts Increased
to lis per cent, so that in 1900 over 20
per cent of the revenue was absorbed in
maintenance charges, against BIZ per
cent in 1899.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03
ROCK ISLAND ROUTE.

Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo
$1,000 for the Round Trip.
Tickets on sale August p, Sep
tober 81.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03

IF this world a no men in it." said
the philosophic summer girl, life would
be like one long visit to the seashore."-
Philadelphia Record
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03
COLORADO FLYER.

Via aGreat Rock Island Route"
Leaves Topeka $40 p. m. arriving
Springs 1895. Denver Hoo
o'clock next a. M
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$4.6e-wichita and Return-$462.

VIA ROCK ISLAND ROUTE.
Tickets on sale Sept. 3 to Z, inclusive;
final return limit Sept. Sth.
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uIU uET IdlHEI ~
"He said he couldn't understand why
I came to hfm-a11 his property was IN
his wife'a name"-Cleveland Plain
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03
$1,000 to Colorado springs, Denver
the Santa Fe Route.

Tickets on sale September 4 and 49,
Fifal limit October 81. Free chair
cars and through Pullman observations
e1aeuer-
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Maintenance Of
road ...-...... -.
Maintenance OF
49,. =.
Transportation ex-
penSeS .....-......
General expenses.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-05-08

held by the British. The latter
boldly attacked the Beers and then
De Vets plan was suddenly deve-
loped. The British found themselves
in beautiful trap, for they acere
commanded at every point by Boer
guns, while their force was separated
on two koljes with the Beers bet
ween.
"a sunrise on Wednesday the
Boer guns began to hurl shell upon
the devoted Irish-men, who refused
to surrended and fought with utmost
fierceness for three hours. At ten
o'clock, however, the British com.
manding officers saw that further
resistance would only involve a use
less waste of lite, as his military po.
sition Was hopeless, and he hoisted
a white flag.
"TEelve officers sorroUfully handed
their swords te General De Wet and
459 non-commlssioned officers and
men surrendered. All the prisoner,
we're sent to Thaba Nchu and Gen.
eral DE Wet continued his march
toward Wepener."
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-05-08
Death OF The Duke
Of Argyll.
Was Head Of The Greatest
Family In Scotland.

Advices from London state that
George Douglass Campbell, Duke of
Argyll died last week.
He was the eighth Duke, the Mac
OalIumss More, head of the great tam.
lily of Campbell, and was born April
80, 1923. He had innumerable tit
Leslie acas a duke, a marquis, an
earl, viScount, baron and father
in-law of one of the Queens daugh-
ters. He married three times, last
in 1895, a very charming woman,
young enough to be his granddaugh-
ter, the Hon. Ida Erskine Nc. Neill,
Woman of the Bedchamber to the
Queen. He has had eleven chill
dren, some of whom have been Gin
trade"-One or two in America. For
the Duke was poor, as dukes go, al.
though he owned an estate of 17O,-
900 acres.
Fortynine ye2rs ago the Duke
entered Lord Aberdeen's Cabinet as
Lord Privy Seal, and he held the
same offces.under Lord Palmerston
and Mr.. Gladstone. He had been
Postmaster General two or three IT,
mes and for six years he was Secre-
tary OF State for India. Indeed, it
seemed impossible for Liberal
Ministry to do without him, and
when the split in the Liberal party
on the HOme-Rule question occurred
the greatest blow that Mr.. Gladst-
one suffered, next to the secession
Of John Bright, was that of the Du-
Ike of Argyll.
He was Presbyterian by inher-
itance. One of his ancestors was the
first great parsonage in Scotland to
accept the doctrines of the Refor-
nation. He was educated privately
and was prolific writer on many
questions-sOcial, political, religious,
scientific. He wrote some poetry,
too, and amused himselfby studying
geology and Ornithology, and by
painting.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-05-08
Boer Trapat Red
dersburg.
Detailed Description of British
Disaster.

The following graphic and interest.
ing description of tie Reddersburg
ambush was published in South
Africa by the "Standard and Dig.
gers News"
A correspondent of the STANDARD
and Diggers News tells this descrip.
tion of the British disaster at Red.
dersburg, says a despatch from Lou.
renzo Marquee.
olive hunGred IRISH Rifles enter,
ed Dewetsdorp on ApfiI l under
Captain McWhinnie and demanded
the surrender of the town, aChich was
surprised to hear that Boer force
was approaching and promptly re,
treated on Reddersburg. General
DE Wet, fresh from his brilliant
victory at Sannas Post, followed the
retreat along range Of koPjes fol
hours.
"Tbe two opposing forces went
into camp on different side of the
range. General DE Wet, knew all
about the British positions and mo-
vements, but the Irish were unaware
of the proximity of the Beers. They
blundered again, as at Sannas Post,
and the sconts were not alert.
"Before sunset ON Tuesday, April
3, DE Wet had the British force in
his power, after an engagement shich
lasted all the afternoon. The Irish
made brilliant defence, but their
fate was never in doubt. During
the afternoon De Wet sent eight
hundred bqrghers to cut off their
retreat, and then moved forward 81
small force to the top Of the kopjes