Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-30
MERGING OF LINES
Rock Island System to Consoli-
date all Roads in Texas
Tomorrow.
FORT WORTH HEADQUARTERS
III. p. Greenough superintendent of
Amarillo Division-Other
Railway Notes.

Official announcement has been
made by the Rock Island officials that
the final consolidation of the system
in Texas will take place Dec. 1. I'm
der the act consolidating the system
in that state all the different lines
will be known after Dec. l as the Chi
cago, Rock Island & Gulf, general
headquarters Fort Worth, to which
place the auditing departments of the
different lines are TO be moved.
Dec. 1 the line between Fort Worth
and Dallas will be opened. Under the
consolidation there will be three di
visions, the southern division embrac-
ing lines from Dallas to Terral, the
Amarillo division from Amarillo to
TeXOla and the Mexican division from
Bravo to TeXokoma.
S. b. Hovey viii continue as vice
president and general superintendent
and have the supervision of the south
ern division. II. Z. Greenough, for
merly of this city, becomes superin-
| tendent of the Amarillo division, with
headquarters at Amarillo; II. p. Con-
Ion, superintendent of the Mexican
division, with headquarters at Dali
hart; j. Myers, division freight agent
of the consolidated lines, with head
quarters at Dalhart; j. c. McCabe,
| general freight agent, and w. H.
Firth, general passenger agent of the
merged roads.
Personal Conductors Discontinued.
Western railroads tomorrow will
advance the tourist sleeping car rate
from Chicago to the Pacific coast
from So to 81, and at the same time
/ they will discontinue the services of
the personal conductor. who came in
to the transcontinental service with
the inauguration of the tourist car
equipment. The new rate still leaves
a difference of 81 between the tourist
and the, standard sleeping car rates
on n trip from Chicago to San Fran
cisco or Los Angeles.
| The railroads hold there is no fur
ther use for the third conductor, as
both train and Pullman conductors
are present. Those who have travel
ed across the country on excursions
in charge of n special man Will miss
the personal" He was expected to
answer hundreds of questions con-
cerning the territory through which
they were travelling. find the berths of
the passengers. store away their
lunch baskets, tell them how to use
the cooking stove, mail their letters.
and send their kilograms. and attend
to their baggage and transfers.
| The runs of the personal conductor
! first were between Chicago and the
| Pacific coast, but later reached from
! ocean to ocean and back again. \
conductor would leave Boston with a
score or more of passengers and ac-
company them to San Francisco or
Los Angeles. During the trip he would
call attention to points of interest and
explain the features of the country
| At Los Angeles he would take the
next train back, resting in Boston a
week before starting on another tour.
Inspecting System.
The fact that II. r. Cable is making
tour of inspection of the Rock ISL
and System is taken by some of his
friends as conclusive proof that there
is foundation for the rumor that he is
to return to his former office as chair
man of the board of directors of the
company Jan. l. 1t is held that his
appearance on the road in company
with the officials who are in active
charge of various departments indi-
Gates that he is famiIiarizing himself
with present conditions that he may
be ready to deal intelligently with the
roads problems when he returns to
power.
Mr.. Cable is accompanied by b. F.
Winchell, third vice president; John
| f. Stevens, fourth vice president;
John Sebastian, passenger traffic
manager; j. F. Holden, freight traffic
manager. The party travelled by spe-
cial train.
Rail Notes.
The elegant new train on the south
western branch of the St. Paul road
which will be put on in the near fu-
ture, will be in Rock Island Dec. 3. on
which date it will be open to the in
spection of the public. The train will
be new and include everything up to-
date.
No. s. the eastbound fast mail on
the Burlington main line, made an
other record breaking trip recently,
going from Burlington to Chicago, a
distance of 200 miles, in a net run
ming time of 19S minutes The train
was Just 3s minutes late when it left
Burlington at 1888 p. m. 1t was on
time when it arrived in Chicago, at
2:20 O'Clock in the morning. Three
stops were made enroute, at Mon
mouth of two minutes and at Mendo-
ia of four minutes. This deducted
from the time of 207 minutes leaves
19s for the actual running time of
the train.