Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-02
WILL TAP BIG IOWA TRADE
Proposed New Local Train Service Between
Omaha and Sioux City,
WILL BRING MANY BUYERS TO THIS CITY
Present Service So Timed that Mer-
chants of Iowa Towns Require
Two Days for Trip
to Omaha.

Two Days for Trip
to Omaha.
It now seems certain that the Chicago q
Northwestern railway is finally to take heed
Of the earnest and Iong-continued exhorta-
tions of Omaha commercial interests and
will shortly lnaugurate between this point
and Sioux City two new local trains, giving
daily service to Omaha and return from
practically every portion Of the valuable
commercial territory in Iowa tapped by the
Sioux City division of this railroad.
These trains will be the most valuable
ones in proportion to the length of the
carry than have ever run in here. For a
year past local business interests have been
e%xerting every influence to get this service.
and General Agent Cheyney Of the North
western is now enlisted on their side.
Manufacturers and jobbers have been
greatly dissatisfied because the railway has
failed to respond to the sentiment here,
thinking Omaha was not receiving proper
treatment.
Commercial men cannot say enough in
favor Of the proposed hew service. Its
value to omaha is simply inestimsble,"
said one. "It would be worth hundreds OF
thousands Of dollars a year at once and
would build to more than that with time.
This can easily be understood when 1t Is
known that all the merchants from that old
and rich and established section OF Iowa
can actually go into Chicago as easily as
into Omaha now as far as the expenditure
Of time is concerned.
Good Towns on Line.
The trouble is all from Missouri Valley
on north and east, and look at those good
towns along there. There's Mondamin,
River Sioux. Blencoe, Onawa, Whiting,
Sloan and Salix on the main line, and then
in addition all the towns on the branch
east from Mondamin and on the branch
east from Onawa. Between Mondamin and
Boyer there are seven good towns, and
nine more between Onawa and Carnarvon.
present the merchants In all this
score Of thriving little towns, although
within easy mileage Of Omaha, are prac-
tically hundreds of miles distant, Just be-
cause OF the poor service by rail. They
must take two days to get in here and
back home, and that is enough to keep
them away.
THE prime feature Of this new service is
that 1t would enable these merchants TO
come in here in the morning and go back
at night, with several hours interval in
" INV " w bholhCbb 4hdI Will " JUST
like a street car ride and they will flock to
us in fattering numbers when they are
furnished those convenlences Of time"
The time mapped out for the new trains
is to leave Sioux City about 8 a. M, land
Ing the people in here shortly before noon.
Then, returning, 1t will go out about 4
O'Clock in the afternoon, thus giving a good
half day here.
Burlington to Portland.
Final details Of the new Burlington time
to Portland were completed by the receipt
yesterday at passenger headquarters Of the
Northern Pacific schedule from Billings out.
This road will now have three through
solid trains each wa a day, two running
between st. Paul and Portland and one be-
tween Kansas City and Portland, with a
Chicago and Omaha connection at Lincoln.
These two will be Nos. Al and 40 to Bill
ings, where they become Nos. 8 and 6 on
the Northern Pacific rails, though they re-
tain their Identity as Burlington trains.
They will go via Helena, not taking the
Butte loop. With all times settled to the
minute, this service will now be from
Omaha: Leave here at lilo D. m. on a
Monday, reach Billings at 3:45 a. M.
Wednesday and leave at ago a. ID; arrive
at Helena at 1886 p. m. Wednesday, reach
Seattle at 3:15 p. m. Thursday, Tacoma at
3:05 p. m. and Portland at 11:1O p. m. the
same night. thus the run from Omaha is
just seventy-two hours.
Returning, No. 6 will leave Portland at
s:25 a. m, Seattle at $3.50 p. M, Tacoma at
2:O5 p. m. on a Monday, Spokane at 6:55
a. m. OF Tuesday. Helena at 1915 D. m.
Tuesday, Billings at $50 a. m. Wednesday
and reaching omaha at 8 p. m. Thursday
afternoon.
From Passenger Traffic Manager Eustis
been received new details regarding
the new through train from Chicago west.
which passes through Omaha. This will
leave Chicago at 9:15 a. m, carrying a day
coach to Lincoln and a buffet parlor car to
Omaha. where It will connect with a sleep
ing car to Deadwood. The time Of arrival
here is IL o'clock at night.
R~aiIrOaders to Play Bail.
Next Saturday afternoon eighteen Mis-
souri, Pacific employees in Omaha will
abandon time tables, tariff sheets and tele-
graph tickers for mitts, gloves and other
protectors, and will play what promises
to be as startling a game OF base ball as
was ever perpetrated in this locality.
The teams will represent the local ONCE
at Fifteenth and Nicholas streets and the
general office downtown. Clerks Of each
will comprise the mines. Assistant General
Freight Agent J. o. Phillippi will umpire
the balls and strikes from behind the bat,
while Local Agent M. LOTUS will take care
Of the bases and field plays. The boys
have planned to begin at noon so as to be
certain of finishing enough innings before
dark to make It = legal game, and Tom
Godfrey, who has been appointed ofacial
scorer, is looking for a large reversible
blackboard.
Railway Notes and Personals.
II. l., Purdy, travelling passenger agent
for the Erie railroad at Chicago, is in
Omaha.
F. A. Nash, general agent of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Pau road, has gone TO
Chicago.
j. J. Mitchell. a director of the Chicago
& Alton railroad, passed through Omaha
eastward from the Pacific coast to Chicago.
Eugene Duval. assistant general western |
agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee q st. /
Paul road, Is confined to his home with a
slight Illness.
S. q. Hatch, assistant general passenger
agent Of the Illinois Central railroad. with
headquarters at Chicago, was in Omaha
%enroute TO the Windy City from San Fran
cisco.
U. s. G. Hough, who has been travelling
passenger agent for the Chicago & Rock
Island railroad out of Chicago and Is well
known here, has just been appointed traV-