Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-01
TRAINS CHANGE TIME.
New Gard on Burlington Goes Into
Effect January II.
NIGHT MAIL TRAIN TO Be TAKEN OFF
Nos. 4, 6, and 1e Affected by Change
in New card-Milwaukee to Put on
Chicago sIeeper-Rock Island May
Build Freight House.

Four trains will be affected by the
new time card which will go into effect
on the Burlington January IL. Train
No. liz, the morning passenger for the
east, which is made up here and now
leaves at $50 O'Clock, will on the new
time card leave at 7:15. No. 6, which
now leaves at o'clock, will depart at
1:25 p. m. after January II. Burling-
ton No. 4, which now arrives at Z
O'Clock and stops here twenty minutes
for supper, will come in at $50 p. m.
and leave at o'clock. No. "a, the
night fast mail from the west, now ar
irving in the city at 1880 a. m, will
be taken off when the new card goes
into effect and mail car attached to
No. IL, which leaves Ottumwa at 2:1O
a. m.
The new card will be approved by
the public. No 6 has invariably been
late into Ottumwa and one was COM
PEELED to be at the station at l o'clock
and wait until it came in twenty or
thirty minutes later. There will be no
difficulty in making the time on the
new card The change in the time of
departure of No. 16 from $3.50 to 7:15
will be welcomed, and the patrons of
the road will be better pleased with
the time of No. AS departure and the
cutting down of the stop for supper
from twenty to ten minutes. The Off
cial card has not been issued and it is
possible that other changes will be
made, but it is thought that the card
will be issued as above. Superintend-
: ent G. w. Fabers and Chief Dispatcher
G. w. Messenger of this division re-
turned last evening from Chicago,
where they met with the. other officials
of the road to arrange the new sched-
ule
1t is practically certain that there
will be no change in the division
freight and passenger department of
the Burlington road located in this
city. The statement was made some
months ago and las been frequently re-
ferred to since that the department
would be dividsd, the passenger SER
vice being divorced from the freight
and a new ditision agent appointed
over the former, while J. M. Bechtel,
at present in charge of the consolida-
ted department, would be division
freight agent
1t was limited that this change would
take place On the first of the year,
when the Burlington & Western and
Keoliuk & Western were absorbed in
to the Burlington system. But up to
date no order has yet been issued con-
corning any such change and it is a
foregone conclusion that no change
will take place at present.
1t is the opinion of local Burlington
officials that if the change is made at
all it will take place in very short
time. But there is very strong sus-
picion among them that there will be
no change and that the division freight
and passenger department will contin-
/ ue in the future as in the past under
one head, ]. M. Bechtel having control
of the entire business of the division.
The division freight and passenger
department is one of the best managed
and most important in the Burlington
system. 1t is stated that the work of
both passenger and freight depart
ments can be easily carried on by it's
force. Even with the addition of forty
stations after January 1 the present
clerical force, with the possible addi-
ton of one other clerk, will be able to
take care of the business without trcu-
BILE. To divide the Office would practi-
caily double the expense, and while
til. Burlington management is not fol
lowing the policy of cutting expenses
to the detriment Of the service, such
an item is one which they naturally
consider with care.
To Put On Sleeper.
A Chicago sleeper will be put on Mill
waukee train No. 8. when the new time
card goes into effect on that road,
January 8. The time of departure of
this train will be changed from $50
p M, to 1880, while the morning train
will be changed from 11:10 a. M, to.
1910 p. m. The official announcement
of the changes to be made has mott
been issued and it is thought probableI
that other. changes will be made.
May Build Freight House.
1t is stated that the Rock island
szEaS.sd is contemplating the erection oil
a new freight house in this city to-
displace the old one at the foot OF
Union street, which has been found
inadequate for freight handling facili.
ties. Little is known in regard to the
matter by the local officials, but they
state that the matter has been talked
over considerably in the past few
months. 1t is said that nothing will he
done at any rate until spring. 1t is
not known whether the road would le-
build its freigh house on Union street,
or buy ground in more desirable
location. A big appropriation has
been set aside by the company for tie
purpose of making desirable improve
ments, and it is stated that dozen
new depots will be constructed d1r-
ing the next year. One of the most
extensive of the improvements .on-
templated is the laying of doible
track from Iowa City west through
the state. Big improvements are also
to be made on the road bed.
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