Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-02-05

Western roads have agreed upon a rate
to Washington for the Inauguration Of
President Mckinley. 1t will be in effect
in all the territory east of the Western
State lines of Colorado and Wyoming.
The rate will be one fare plus 50 for
the round trip, except that from points
from which the local One-way rate to
any Of the Eastern gateways, including
Chicago, Peoria and st. Louis, is Sc or
less the rate will be a fare and n third
for the round trip to such gateways, to
be added to the rate rendered therefrom
provided that where the one-way rate to
Chicago is 50 or less 80 cents will be add
ed for transfer charges. In divisions the
amount in excess of one fare will accrue
to the lines west of Chicago, Peoria and
st. Louis. Tickets at these rates will be
sold Feb. %, March / and in the terri
tory east of Colorado and Wyoming and
in those two States Feb. 81 and % and
March l, but the sale Of tickets in all
cases must be so regulated that holders
will not reach the Eastern gatcways ear
lier than March ! or later than March 3.
Returning, the tickets will be good leav-
ing Washington up to and including
March S.
Illinois roads have agreed to the fol-
lowing rates for the G. a. II. encamp-
ment of the department Of this State to
be held in Peoria in May: A rate OF n
fare and a third for the round trip from
all points in Illinois from which the local
one way rate to Peoria is $3.50 or less;
a rate Of 50 for the round trip from
places from which the local round-trip
rate is 50 or more than $3.50, and a rate
of one fare for the round trip from ALI
other points in the State and from St
Louis.
A bill has been introduced in the Colo
RADIO Legislature making tipping" in
sleeping cars criminal offense.
The Rock Island has let a contract for
ten passenger coaches of the latest de-
sign for February delivery.
The pay rolls of the Wabash for De
cember were the largest ever recorded for
that month. In the shops more men
than ever were employed and the traffic
of the system has given employment for
every locomotive owned by the company.
With the taking effect Of the springtime
table the Canadian Pacific will put on
fast train each way between New IOrI;
and Puget sound covering the BOIL
miles in eighty hours, twenty-four hours
quicker than on any former schedule.
Charges of ticket scalpins have been
preferred against the Mobile and ONO
by the Illinois Central management.
The Burlington has closed n contract
with the Pullman company for fifteen
passenger coaches and five chair cars.
The cars will be sixty feet .cng over end
siIls. They will have wide vestibUles
and the interiors will be finished in Mex
lean mahogany.
An agency has been established by the
Santa Fe in Atlanta, Ga. Garrett A.
Dobbin. with the title Of Southern freight
and passenger agent, viii have charge Of
the Office.
An order for FIVE passenger engines has
been given to an Eastern firm by the
Pere Marquette company. This makes
eleven engines ordered by this road since
Jan. l.
AInch new freight and passenger equip
ment is being purchased by the roads OPP
Grating ont Of Chicago.
The Iowa lines Of the Burlington sys-
TEN are now operated in three divisions.
During the year ending June 30 last.
Jasper County. No. produced zinc fga
lead worth SJ.339.G29.
There IS !. shellfsh in the Ae@i,crra-
mean vaicu produces a good GHali'y Of
silk. Fabrics have been Manufacture
from II. but only as cETi0slirs.
The emigration Of Irishmcu % Ores
Britain FOR harvest has been steadily ia
creasin- FOR the lest ten years