The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-16
Passengers Arrive
Daily in City of Chicago.
Something About the Immense
Traffic Facilities of the Town.
SIX IMMENSE DEPOTS.
Illinois Central Handles 49,
100000 Passengers Annually.
Suburban Passengers Far Out
number the Through Tickets.

VIM. E Curtis says in the Chicago
Record-Eerald:
Eleven hundred and thirty-eight
trains arrive daily in the city of Chi
cago upon twenty three railways,
carrying an average Of 100000 pas
Bengers
OF these trains SsS are for through
traffic and SO4 for suburban business.
The twenty-three railways combined
have a mileage of more than $1,000
miles. which is more than one-third of
the total mileage of the United States.
and within 1900 miles of the entire
mileage of the United Kingdom. Ger
many and France.
The 100. 900 passengers may be rough
" divided into 10000 suburban and 49,,
900 through passengers. The largest
number of suburban passengers are
handled By the Illinois Central railway,
while the Union station in Canal street,
between Madison and Adams, receives
and sends out the largest number of
through trains.
The names and locations of the six
stations are as follows:
The Central depot, four roads, viz
Illinois Genital. Michigan Central, Wis
cOnsin Central and the Cleveland, Gin
cinnau, Chicago & st. Louis C'Big
The Grand Central station. three
roads, viz-Baltimore & Ohio, Chicago
Great Western and the Chicago Ter
minal Transfer railroad company.
The La Sale station Gas the new depot
IS to be known. three roads, viz-Chi-
cago, Rock Island & Pacific, Lake Shore
q Michigan Southern. and the New
York, Chicago & st. Louis c'Nickel
The Dearborn station six roads. viz
Chicago & Eastern Illinois. Wabash
Grand Trunk, Chicago, Indianapolis S
Louisville C'MononD, Erie and Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe.
The Union station. six roads VIZ
Chicago. Milwaukee & St Paul. Chicago
& Alton, Chicago, Burlington < Quincy
and the two Pennsylvania roads; Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne & Chicago and Pitts
burg, Cincinnati, Chicago & ST. Louis
better known the Panhandle
The Northwestern station-The Chi
cagO & Northwestern railway
Taking the various stations in the or
der of the number of passengers car
ried it appears that the Illinois Central
with its two suburban annexes at Van
Buren, and Randolph streets handles
about $4,000 suburbaniteS daily. The
limit of its suburban traffic is drawn
about twenty-five miles south and
southwest of Chicago To take care of
this traffic it runs 122 suburban trains
in and 123 trains out each day. In the
course of a year the Illinois Central
carries something like 1S,0OO,OOO pas
sengers.
Illinois Central runs fourteen through
trains to the south and west CARRYING
from 1000 to 5000 passengers in and out
daily.
The several other roads using the
Central station run twenty through
trains both ways daily. making a total
of 316 suburban and through trains. and
carrying about $4,000 passengers daily
in and out of the station.
At the northwestern depot nearly TO-
100000 suburban passengers are han
died annually by the lis trains which
run in and out daily on the three
branches. known as the Milwaukee,
Cfalena and Wisconsin divisions of that
road. In addition to these there are
twenty-five through trains each way
daily, making a total of $50 arrivals
and departures every twenty-four
hours. The suburban passengers at this
depot number about $4,000 and the
through passengers 5000 daily.
The next busiest station in Chicago is
the Union. lying along two blocks on
Canal between Madison and Adams
streets. In this station the passenger
traffic is practically evenly divided be
tween subul ban and through trains,
there being siXty-six of the former each
way daily and hfty-nine of the latter,
accounting for $50 train arrivals and
departures daily. with something like
total of 10000 passengers. OF these
the great bulk of suburban traffic is
carried by the Chicago Milwaukee and
and Quincy.
Before the removal of the Lake Shore
and Rock Island trains to the new
la Sale station. the Grand Central
at Harrison and Fifth avenue accom-
modated ninety trains each way daily.
SiNty-ei-ht OF them are local or subur-
ban trains. and are credited with some
thing over $4,000 passengers a day.
How greatly the facilities for handling
suburban traffic viii be increased when
W the Rock Island. Lake Shore and Nickel
NSPlate remove TO the new station may
20 se judged from the fact that these
~ Dads take care of five-sixths of the
suburban and at least four-fifths of the
through passenger traffic now going in
and out at the Grand Central station.
The Dearborn station at Polk street
accounts for bout 5000 passeng gers ar
rivals and departures daily. OF these
fully so per cent. are looked after by
through trains. The suburban traffic
at this station has become so impor-
tant. however. that the Chicago &
Western Indiana (the terminal com
pany) has prepared plans for building
station extension to accommodate it