Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-17
Milwaukee Crews Will Make Their
Headquarters Here.
THE NEW PLANS FOR CUTOFF DAYS
Company Purposes Establishing Parks
at the Stations Along the Route
Trip Made by Officials Last Week
to Look Over Ground.
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
When the Milwaukee cutoff Is in
running order Rutledge will be busy
place. Four tracks, each $500 feet I'M
length, are being built at the little
way station now to accommodate the
rolling stock that will come to the
place. The real business will all be
done at Ottumwa, but to save a long,
hard pull up the hill between this city
and Rutledge, the trains will be made
up at the latter station.
To Run Three Ways.
1t has been announced by the Off
Gals of the Milwaukee that when the
new cutoff is put into commission the
crews will run three ways out Of OF
tumwa and will be in one big pool,
first in first out. Crews will run from
Ottumwa to Marion, Ottumwa to Chill
licothe and Ottumwa to Davenport.
This will give Ottumwa several addi-
tional trainmen, as this place will be
the central point from which the
start on all of the three runs will be
made.
A Boom for RutIedge.
Instead of pulling the trains up the
hill out of this city, using three en-
gines for the work, a change will be
made. A transfer engine will pull
cars from Ottumwa to Rutledge
where they will be set on the tracks.
Then the regular trains made UP to the
capacity of one engine, will leave OF
/ tumwa and proceed to Rutledge, where
they will fill up to the whole quota.
! The cars will be station-ordered and
billed in the Ottumwa yards and all
that will have to be done at Rutledge
will be for the engineers to couple on
| to the trains standing on the side
| tracks and start off for Davenport with
/ them.
To Have Station Parks.
| The Milwaukee is to inaugurate a
| new feature in Iowa. and within a year
there will be pretty little parks at all
or nearly all of the stations along the
line. This will add much to the beau
| ty of the depot surroundings and will
be popular feature for the company.
A special car bearing H. R. Williams,
general manager of the Milwaukee, w.
| D. Underwood, 3. D. Wright, superin-
| tendent of the Kansas City division,
and the official florist of the company,
Chicago woman, passed through OF
tumwa Saturday enroute from Kansas
City to Chicago.
I An inspection of the station grounds
along the route was made and infor-
nation given out at this point was to
the effect that the trip was made in
the interest Of the establishment OF
parks at various places, or rather at
almost every place along the line. An
all-night stop was made at Seymour
and it is said that the people of that
little town were wild with excitement
for time thinking that their station
| had been selected as the place which
should take the Chillicothe division
point Their interest, however, soon
subsidized, it is said, when it was found
that all the visitors intended to dc
was start little flower garden in the
4 vicinity of the depot.
Add Beauty to Grounds.
There is not the slightest doubt that
the money spent in establishing little
parks at the several depots along the
route will be invested we'll. There is
a place near almost every depot
where pretty little plot can be
made to look the more beautiful.
Flowers and green grass do much
more to attract the eye of the tourist
and impress him favorably than do a
pile of cinders or a collection of emp
| ty beer kegs.