The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-26

The plan formerly was in vogue on that
| distributing checks through the agents OK
the road has been followed The metnoo
of using checks, it is understood. will be
continued, but instead of distributing
them through the agents they will be dis
At the next meeting Of the Americans
| Railway association. to be held in Phila-
will recommend that employment I'm the
operating department Of railroads be
rigid physical examination. After en-
ployment periodical physical examina-
will be requirement that the emplOye
shall keep to a certain physical standard
accepted, as many railroads have been
considering this method of raising tho
PPnyslcal STANDARD OF operating employees.
in certain classes of employment, such as
firemen, but so far as known 10 road has
adopted the method for all operating en-
ployes.
:. H Jenkins of Herington. who was hurt
ao ROCK Isian an. wreck AMI sued ed for 81
81. The . new freight house at New Orleans
Southern Railway is approaching COM
Pletionand will be ready for use in a
stall freight service to New Orleans via
Tupelo early in October. The PASSENGER
station, which will be the handsomest IN
eral months. Temporary terminal ar
rangements, however. may be made Tor
The average cost of moving freight in
various countries has recently been stated
miles; Austria, S205: France, &; Germany.
dSs; Russia, A.75; the United States. -
railroads so far in advance of their E,u-
ropean counterparts that there Is no
is one of the best operated of the English
roads and here the cost is placed at 81 a.,
the average train load being Y tons. With
average train load of 3S7 tons, the New
York Central exhibits a cost of ais cents,
while the Pennsylvania, with 15s tons,
operates at cost of 40 cents
Recent improvements in maintenance OF
way and structure on the Chicago and
Northwestern include the erection IN place
of wooden structures. OF sixty-two new
steel bridges on masonry and thirteen on
length and containing 2,524 tons OF bridge
metal; the repla cement of other wooden
length, with masonry arch and box cul-
ing fIled with earth; bailasing nearly Ia
miles of track with crushed stone, 70
miles with gravel and H miles with Gin
replacing RAGS of lighter weight ON i46
miles of track with heavier steel.
H E. Herr; formerly master mechanic
Va, has been appointed assistant to the
vice president. OF the Denver and Rio
Grande, with headquarters at Denver.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
road has ordered from the American Car
seventy passenger cars to be delivered as
fast they can be built. The road is also
tives.
The Michigan Central Railroad has al
lowed a stopover Of 30 years to a passen-
began in 1874 The entire distance Travelled
was only 81 miles. but it required three
decades to complete it In 1874 {. ".
Slayer bought d railroad ticket over the
Michigan Central lines from Galesburg to
Pokagon. In these days stopover priv
ileges were allowed. and Mr.. Slayer found
1t necessary to get OF at the Grand Rap
han flta.7 f1rra
train. If he did not stay around alama-
Zoo ZOO J bil ttol t0r So years ne al least
time.
The largest passenger engines ever built
for railroad in the northwest will be
turned out din the spring at the West Nil
Waukee shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee,
and St. Paul company. The engines viii
215,000 pounds, or one-third more than the
big engines now hauling the Pioneer linz
Cities. The driving wheel of the new en-
gines will be Y inches n diameter, the
cylinders q by 20 inches, and the work.
ing steam pressure 30 pounds. It is es-
ttmated that the new engines Will be
powerful enough to pull a train OF twenty
loaded passenger cars at the rate OF "a
pleting a number of very large freight
ed cars from Milwaukee to Chjcs 20 rDsE
ing the run in record time
NJ c. Byers has been appointed assist
ant engineer of maintenance of way of
headquarters at st Louis.
report was sent on from Cleveland
yesterday that President W. H. Newman
of the New York Central and several 9TH
er Vanderbilt lines, was to retire from his
position. The report was promptly and
authoritatively denied in New York city
]. H Jarrett has been made the general
agent Of the Burlington at Atchison Kan.
to succeed H. B. Segur. decea sed. Mr
Jarrett IS at present chief clerk in the Of
nee of d. Q. Ives. general freight agent at
Omaha. Harold Buckingham, an employo
in the freight department at Chicago viii
succeed Mr.. Jarrett.