The St. Louis Republic., 1903-09-21
ORDER MANY CARS
FOR FAIR TRAFFIC.
Railroads Preparing for Tremen-
dous Influx of Visitors to
st. Louis Next Year.
Big OUTLAY FOR EQUIPMENT.
Locomotives, Passenger Coaches,
Chair, Cafe and Combination
Cars Being Built for
All the Lines.
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II all the additional passenger coache.
| ordered by the st. Louis lines for The
Worlds Fair comfortably filed witt
passengers, were to arrive in Union Sta
tion at the same time. it is estimated
that 5000 persons would swell the multi,
| tude which the regular trains will con
stantly pour across the midway.
In this estimate no account is taken OF
the large number OF passenger coaches
which many of the lines have ordered
this year TO accommodate the greatly in
creased passenger traffic. and which will
be put into the Worlds Fair traffc as
soon as the Fair opens but the figures
are based only upon the passenger equip.
ment which would not have been ordered
had it not been for the Worlds Fair.
Many OF the lines, such as the Van
dalia. which are practically part OF the
great systems. will draw upon their sys.
TENS for extra equipment in lieu of build
ing more cars.
The Pennsylvania is noted for the large
amount of passenger equipment it carries,
and Is therefore in position to lend the
Sandalia almost as many cars as the
greatly increased passenger traffic over
Its line may need. AT the same time. in
order that II may not be found wanting.
the Nandalia has ordered sixteen coaches,
which will supplement the equipment
loaned to it by the Pennsylvania, and
travel over the Pennsylvania to the Fair
Is expected to be unusually heavy.
What is true of the Vandalia Is also
true of many other lines which form a
part of great systems, such as the Bur
Hngton and b. & o. S-W.. and which will
supplement- their equipment from the ad-
ditional equipment ordered for the sys-
TEN.
The Missouri Pacific will expend nearly
81 10000 for additional equipment. having
ordered thfrty-fve chair cars, i've mail
cars. five combination and five baggage
cars.
LARGE EXPENDITURE.
The Wabash additional equipment will
be as follows: Twelve combination cars.
ten chair cars. seventeen coaches and ten
baggage cars. The Wabash has ordered
twenty passenger locomotives, which will
cost $S50,000.
The B. s O. S-w.. while having the
main system to draw upon, will spend
ing ordered forty-f1ve coaches five diners
and three cafe cars.
Few roads have equaled the Frisco in
securing sufficient equipment for the pas
senger traffic, both for the present an.
the future.
Since January /. 1903. the Frisco has
fifty-eight chair cars, 1T6 coaches. sixty
one combination, nineteen postal and IO1
baggage, mail and express ears, a total of
To this equipment is to be added forty
additional cars, to be ready by MAY /
1904. in time for the Worlds Fair.
The Frisco has also placed orders for
2S3 locomotives, TO be ready for use by
May l, 1904.
Speaking of the equipment which the
Chicago and Alton win place in use for
1as asenf 65H Wa
C. & AS STATEMENT.
Performance is better than promise. A
money investment is more sincere than an
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Alton Railway has had faith from the be-
ginning in the city Of St. Louis, and in
the Worlds Fair management, Is attested
by its prompt action in appropriating a
the passenger and power" to pull the
heavy trains which will be run into st.
Louis next year via THE Only Way"
During the last year the Alton Com
pany has placed in service thirty new
coaches, especially built for excursion
travel. These so-called excursion cars are
modern. wide-yestibuled, extra large and
up to date in every particular. and were 1t
not for the conviction that the World s
Fair which Is to be held in st. Louis next
year. will eclipse every previous event of
that kind, the management might have
reasonably concluded that with this addi-
ton TO its former splendid equipment
further outlay would be unnecessary; but
as pledge of faith In the st. Louis enter
prise the Alton management ordered and
Is now receiving the following additional
equipment for Worlds Fair business:
Fifty additional passenger cars, each
one of which contains every modern APP
pliance for safety, convenience and COM
fort They are Y feet linches long
mounted on six-wheel trucks equipped for
heating by steam from the engine and for
lighting with Pintsch gas. They are elao-
orately upholstered and contain large and
finely appointed toilet-rooms for men and
women. The windows are strikingly wide
and are equipped with patent devices by
which windows may be raised or lowered
and securely adjusted at any desired point
with practically no exertion, and with per-
feet safety to passengers, the appliance
being such that windows cannot drop.
seating capacity of eighty-four passengers
each: twelve of them are chair cars. cap
able of seating sixty-four passengers
each; and eight OF them are 65-foot bag
gage cars. the longest baggage cars ever
built. All Of these cars are wide-yesti-
buled throughout.
During the last two years the Chicago
and Alton has added q number of large
new engines to its motive power but on
top of this ii is to have twenty-one more
new passenger locomotives of the fastest
and most powerful make. Twelve of these
have already been received and the o.her
nine will be -/feceived within the next
month or two.
1.-The Alton, being a short, compact line.
can turn its equipment back quickly and
get frequent use of its cars a fact which
must be taken into consideration when
figuring on the vast amount OF passenger
business which that line is prepared TO
handle.
'In the case Of The Only Way" there
fore, 1t Is not question of what il is
going to do. but OF what il has done. The
Alton IL now ready and waiting for the
great Fair to open. with equipment and
power that viii be fully equal to the great
Occa eion