Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-18
CUTS CHICACO.OMAHA TINE
Rock Island Puts On Train to Run in
Twelve and Half Hours.
NORTHWESTERN MAKES IT ELEVEN HOURS
speed War Held Back by Ruling OF
Western Passenger Association
f. Now On with a
Vengeance.

SuiCdBO nave LOCKED nOTnS IN n time con-
test, and the latest news from the front is
that the Chicago & Northwestern railway
will Sunday night inaugurate a new eleven
hour train between here and the Windy
City to Offset d new MISUNDERSTANDING
Rock Island train which is to leave the
same day on it's first trip. The Northwest
ern train will leave at s D. m, the Rock
Island at 5 a. m.
The Northwestern train will carry only
sleeping car passengers and will comprise
the handsomest equipment the road pos
sessee. News of II was received at $3.50 yes
terday afternoon from Chicago headquarters
by telegram, and no details are at hand yet.
This is a new phase of the action Of the
Rock Island in leaving the Western Passen-
ger association a short time ago. The as
ISOLATION made a ruling last November that
thirteen hours and thirty minutes should be
the time limit on the Chicago run. The
northwestern was compelled to extend It's
fast train schedules, and did not like to do
It The Rock Island also heightened the
time on a few trains and then withdrew
from the association. Being then free to
do ag 1t pleased it put in the twelve-hour-
and-a-half trip for today. The North
western got wind Of II and followed suit
with a vengeance. This is many hours bet
ter than any time that has been made over
this run for years.
Rock Islands Plans.
Charles A. Rutherford, general agent of
the Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific railroad
here, returned from Chicago Saturday
morning and brought with him from the
office Of General Passenger Agent John Sc
bastian announcement of several radical
changes in the running schedules Of Rock
Island route trains through Omaha. All
take effect Sunday, May IS.
Most important Of the immediate results
as far as Omaha Is concerned is the es-
Enlistment of a train from Omaha to Chi
cago, which will make the journey in
twelve hours and a half, just an hour faster
than any other train running between those
points and close to two hours faster than
the average passenger time.
This train will also be a daylight train
entire and will run every day In the year,
leaving Omaha at 8 o'clock in the morning
and reaching Chicago at 5 80 in the evening.
A corresponding new train is No. Al,
westbound. which gives a daylight ride
from here TO Denver. This train will leave
Chicago at S:45 p. m, reach Omaha at 6:45
q. m, leave here at $50 a. m, make Den
yer at s:45 p. m. and Colorado Springs at
$50 p. m. But passengers from Chicago to
Omdud neeu mot lehVe lnelT DeTlnS at tue
early hour of arrival, GAS a. m, for the
Omaha sleeping car will be cut out here
and allowed to stand in the yards by the
station.
Other Time Changes.
The schedule Of No. 6, running from
Omaha to Chicago, is greatly altered. It
now leaves here at 4:35 p. m. Sunday, and
thereafter 1t will leave at sos p. M, reach
ing Chicago at 500 a. m. in ample time to
make connections with the Lake Shore fast
mall east at $3.50 a. m. In view Of this
change No 2. leaving here for Chicago at
7:40 p. m, will be discontinued. The Daven-
port, Ia, sleeping car, which has been going
out on No. 2, will now be taken out on No.
6 at 6:O5 D. m. and cut of at Davenport.
One more change is with No. "a, the local
train to Des Moines, which will hereafter
leave Omaha at $40 p. m. instead Of Z p.
M, as now,
First Train on New Line.
On Sunday the Fremont, Elkhorn G Mis-
souri, Valley railroad will run its first
train over the new extension from Dead
wood to Lead City, S. d. The first train
will be a double one. however. for a COM
pauy of 300 delegates to the state grand
lodge Of South Dakota OF the Independent
OIueT Ol Ouu fellOWb Will De tue pdSbeu-
ger list for the initial journey over the
line.
All the track is now finished for the
road as far as II can be laid at present
1t reaches to the Star mill in the city Of
Lead and only a few hundred feet from the
station where 1t will ultimately end. The
Gold Run gulch must still be crossed by a
viaduct, the steel ror which has not yet
arrived. In the meantime a temporary
station house will be built at the Star
mill stopping point and business trans
acted from there. The permanent station
is in the heart Of Lead and on Main
street.
A great demonstration by the Lead resi-
dents marked the laying of the last rail
Friday. The hundreds OF steam whistles
about the various stamp mills and engines
were blown furiously and a great crowd as
sembled to witness the driving OF the last
spike.
The Odd Fellows to be carried in Sunday
come from the eastern part Of South Da-
kota and were taken out of Sioux City Sat
urday morning on a special train by the
Elkhorn.
Chief Clerk Mum of the general passen-
ger department at Elkhorn headquarters
here is In Deadwood waiting to take the
first trip. The distance by rail from Dead
wood to Lead over the Elkhorn is five miles,
three and one-half miles Of which Is new.
II is a three-rail track all the way, with u
maximum grade OF only ga per cent. The
road cost more than a dollar an inch.
Considering Script Mileage.
General Passenger Agent Francis OF the
Burlington has gone to Kansas City to at
tend there the meeting of the representa-
tiyes OF the transmissourt lines for the
purpose OF adopting an INTERCHANGEABLE
mileage scheme, the script method being
the one TO be considered. All passenger
and other railroad men in Omaha are await
ing with keen interest the result Of the
meeting. 1t is known that some opposition
to the scheme exists, as some OF the lines
are opposed to the script method. All
wish interchangeable mileage OF some sort,
however, as its advantages have. long since
become plain through the experience OF
eastern lines. II is thought that because OF
this desire for the new mileage the objec-
tion TO the script may be set aside by those
harboring It and the plan formulated by
Mr.. Francis and his committee accepted.
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