Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-18
orld is anticipating good results from
MiIwaukee's 100000 Coup.

Official notice has been given that
after November 1, the Judson COM
pany's personally conducted California
excursions will be routed over the Mil
Waukee between Kansas City and Chi
.cago. The change is the result of a
coup executed by the passenger depart
ment of the Milwaukee whereby that
road secures vast volume of passen-
ger traffic worth $1,o00,OOn annually
which hitherto was routed by the AL
ton.
The matter has been the subject of
bitter contention among the highest
traffic officials of the ST. Paul, the Har-
riman lines and the Gould lines, and
the feeling regarding the outcome is
intense in certain quarters. The
change in routing is said to be due
to plan on the part Of the Hartman
traffic officials to kill the personally
conducted tourist business.
Want Brokers Enjoined.
The Burlington and Santa Fe rail
roads have taken up the fight against
ticket brokers which was commenced
by the Missouri Pacific last week. Re-
garding recent proceedings in Kansas
City the Journal of that city has the
following:
Attorney Hale Holden for the Bur-
lington and Gardiner Lathrop for the
Santa Fee appeared before Judge Evans
yesterday and applied for restraining
order to prevent Charles e. Price, with
the Overland ticket office, en- Union
avenue, from handling cut-rate tickets
over their respective lines. This was
granted and made returnable at $3.50
o'clock Monday morning.
The same attorneys today will apply
to Judge Philips, If he returns from
Springfield in time, for federal in
junction against other brokers. The
order against Price was secured in the
circuit court because he lives in Kan
sas, and, being resident of another
state, Judge Philips would have no
Jurisdiction over him.
improved Service.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
has made several important improve
ments in it's dining service, wiping out
small yearly profit and creating a
not too large deficit, in order to give
a vesy much better service. The sys-
TEN has twenty-five dining cars in
daily use, and seven of them have been
built within the last two years, averag-
ing in cost about $4,000 each.
Within the past few months the
wages OF the stewards have been in
creased and premium placed on good
service and attention to patrons. A
travelling chef has been employed
whose sole duty it is to inspect the
Kitchens and instruct the cooks in
their work.
The new system has been effective
for several months, with the result
that the service is greatly improved
and the receipts larger.
The Grand Trunk Pacific.
The most interesting feature of the
railway situation in Western Canada
perhaps, is the new line of the Grand
Trunk Pacific. This line is q child OF
the we'll known Grand Trunk railway
system. 1t has, so to speak, been
adopted by the Dominion government
and is to be a full-fedged trans-conti
mental extending from Moncton in New
Brunswick to Port Simpson in British
Columbia, a distance of 5000 miles
From Moncton to Winnipeg, 1900 miles
the government is to build the line and
lease it to the Grand Trunk for fifty
years. From Winnipeg to the Pacific
coast the line is to be built by the
company, the government guarantee
ing bonds to the extent of seventy-fiv
per cent of the cost of the line. This
| line constitutes the chief issue in the
approaching elections in Canada, the
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