The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-02
RAILROAD NEWS.
Special Trains For Washington
Are Moving Today.
Rates From Kansas Have Been
Maintained.
FIGHT AT ST. PAUL.
Northwestern Roads Cutting the
Price of Tickets.
Specials Leave Topeka 4 O'clock
Today.
FIGHT AT ST. PAUL

Today the Kansas veterans start Tor
washington. D. c.. to attend the ma
tional encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic, and the passenger anu
traffic officials of all the Kansas RAJ
roads are rushed with business, ORDER
ing chair car here and tourist sleep
er there fixing up the route ana time
schedule and expediting in every way
possible the movement of the long sPe-
cial trains which are moving out OF the
state for the national capital.
Rates for the encampment nave DeeI
maintained in Kansas. In the northWes.
there is a general scramble among Int
roads and some SlaShing has been done,
though the officials vigorously protest
that everything has been fair ad square.
Chicago-St Paul lines met yesterday 10
see where they stood in connection WITH
Grand Army business and with the 1ued
of trying to bolster up the rates. IT
was soon discovered, however, that all
the business which moves by posts from
st. Paul and Minneapolis had been con-
tracted for Then charges flew FAST ana
thick and some owned up and some
didn't. The st. Paul, which has secured
the great bulk of the traffic, denied TAX
ing it at less than the agreed rate, ana
the Wisconsin Central asserted that II
had secured little business because 1t
had not>cut the rate.
The rate from Topeka to Washington
and return is S26T6, and when the vet
Grams reach Washington some very at
open to the veterans. Gettysburg and
return is 1875; Antietam is S1.95; Mt.
Vernon, via boat rs cents, or via rail 90
cents.
The Kansas veterans who travel over
the Santa Fe will stop over for two
hours in Indianapolis to enable old sol
diers and their friends to visit the sol
diers' and sailors monument. The old
soldiers of kansas are very anxious Ia
have a similar monument in the state.
In order to create interest in the sub
1ect, and that the plan may be intelli-
gently discussed. it is desired every old
soldier shall see this work of art. The
stop will also make a welcome break
in the long journey from mid-cOntinent
to coast While in Indianapolis the
Kansas delegations will be given re-
ception by the G. A. r. posts of Indian
aDolis
The Rock Island special train pulls
out of Topeka at o'clock this after
noon, and will take the Modoc club and
the majority of the Topeka members OF
the G. A r. The Hays City band will
also be on this train. which will reach
Washington Saturday afternoon. The
Rock Island promises that this train
will make a stop of 80 minutes at Har-
per's Ferry to enable the soldiers to see
the John Brown monument.
There viii be two special trains over
the Santa F'e, each consisting of clever
coaches. These are bOtk for Kansas
delegations. There is also a special traiI
from Oklahoma, of nine coaches, which
will not come through Topeka.
One of the Kansas specials Is over
the main line. and the other takes il
southern Kansas. Each train will b,
made up of Pullmans tourists and chail
cars, and there will be diner on from
Kansas City to Chicago. The Sterling
band will be on the main line train.
is expected that about Is passenger
will be picked IN from Topeka 1t il
expected that the Santa Fe train viii
pass through Topeka about 4:3O. Tn
specials VIII run out os Kansas City a
sections of No 6. From Chicago, tn
trains will be run over the Big Fou
and Chesapeake & Ohio.