Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-09
NEW ENGINES READY
FIRST CONSIGNMENT OF FREIGHT
LOCOMOTIVES HAS LEFT
BALDWIN SHOPS.
Will Be Put In Service on Burlington
Main Line Between Galesburg and
OttumWa = Officials on Tour of In
spection Railroad Notes.
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
The first consignment of the forty
new engines of the r TIVE being
built for the Burlington, lave been
shipped from the BALDWIN locomotive
Works and 1t is thought vii. be put
in the freight service on the mein line
between Galesburg and this city with
in a few days. These engines are sir'.
lar to the R 3 engines now in use on
this division and ara monster piece.
OF machinery although not as large as
the D class.
Five Of the engines have been ship
ped and the others will be completed
as. rapidly as possible. They will be
numbered from 1900 to 1910. Tho
numbers Of the D engines which at
present run from 1900 upwards arc
being changed at the local shops and
taese engines will now be known Is
che 800 class.
Officials Special.
A special train consisting of private
cars Nos. 90 and 80, drawn by the in
! spection engine No. 1870 passed
through the city Saturday morning on
the Burlington, carrying party of Off
Icials. Among the members of the
party were President George B. Har.
ris, Daniel Willard, second vice presi
dent; F. A. Delano, general manager,
and H. G. Mutt, general superintend.
tent of the Iowa district G. w. Fabens.
superintendent of the Ottumwa divi.
sion accompanied the party from
fCreston to Ottumwa The officials
were on a general tour of inspection
and only stopped in this city a few
innfnC Nnn1,1pfn,, n
had charge Of the train from Creston
! to ottumwa and Conductor D. Boyer
OF Burlington, from Ottumwa east.
The engineer was Chicago man who
had charge of the engine on the entire
trip over the Burlington system.
creston- Des Molnes Line.
Regarding the many conflicting re-
ports as to the building of railroad
from st. Joseph, Mo-, to Des Moines
and as to whether the line is to be
steam or electric the Creston Advertis-
er-Gazette has the following interview
with one Of the officers of the Creston
Electric Railway. Light, Heat and
Power Co.:
I'VE do not care for a lot of news
paper notoriety, as we found too much
OF this when this compony was first
fromed. and found to our sorrow, it
did not build railroads as some peo-
pie seem to think from what they are
reading in papers,. I'VE do not at this
time care to make any definite state
Ipents, as to our plans; but as the
people seem to think the old COM
pany dead, will simply give you
few facts, to show the people that we
are still very much alive and have
not given up the field by any means.
I'm the first place, we feel the peo-
pie want an electric road, not only
that, but they want a local trolley
road, so constructed and operated as
to be able to not only handle the
through freight, but of such a nature
that all stops can be made to pick up
local business along and through the
country, in the way of farm products,
and passengers. That
such a service will be of much greater
value to the people than heavy
trunk line would be is proven by the
results Of such roads now in opera
ton in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and
are taking the business from the
steam roads, and fully meet the ap-
proval of the people; hence we have
stuck to the original idea Of building
a first class electric line.
while to the general public it no
doubt seems the old project is dead
we would say that for some time a
member of the old company has been
lgradually getting the project in such
shape as to insure the financing of
the road from Creston to Des Moines,
getting it in such condition that any
zone who puts dollar into the enter
prise will have absolute security for
his money, and insuring the com
plete success Of the enterprise, both
IN building and in operating the fin
ished road"
For Comfort of Lady Travellers.
The railroad passenger agents
throughout the country have lately
turned their attention to the safety
and comfort Of women travellers, who
are making long journey without the
protection of male escorts. The con-
lductorB and brakemen concerned have
received orders to find out who com.
pose this class of passengers and offer
them every attention and courtesy
possible. Some of the agents of the
eastern lines go SO far as to hunt up
the ladies that come over from a plea
sure trip to the old country unattend-
ed but who live many hundred miles
from the seaport. In order to get their
patronage over their particular line,
the agents employ subordinates, who
meet them at the steamship, look after
their baggage, assist them to reach q
good hotel if they desire to stop off.
and make it their business to see that
they have no trouble to reach the pas.
Benger station of their road later on.
Once on board the servants of the
company are indefatigable in their at
tertions to the fair traveller. All
things that would tend to worry an I'M
protected woman are taken from her
nina, and the journey from start to
finish is one OF unalloyed pleasure.
Rock Island Talking Trolley.
Persistent efforts are afoat to the