The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-27
MORE FOOLING.
Missouri Pacific Announces a
Change in Time Table.
Passengers Tor Topeka May Now
Trade Here a Full Hour.
FREIGHT TRAINS TOO.
Shawnee Farmers Wishing to
Trade in Ft. Scott
Can Be Accommodated by q
Freight Arrangement.
FREIGHT TRAINS TOO.

The Missouri Pacific road has final
ly announced a new and improved
schedule for running trains into and
out of Topeka.
The Missouri Pacific Passenger de-
partment makes the people of Topeka
tired and also the passengers who ride
on the trains, 50 far as Topeka is con-
cerned. At the present time if a man
living at Overlook. Richland or LO-
max twenty-five of thirty miles south
east OF Topeka, a trading territory
naturally tributary TO this town,
wishes to come here to buy a
bedroom set or a new dress for his
wife, or an automobile for his family,
he must come up to Topeka and stay
two nights The present train service
brings the train into Topeka at dark
and takes it out of Topeka about day
light the next morning.
The Missouri Pacific now announces
a change and what a change it is! It
actually gives the people, who live
southeast of Topeka, an hour and
twenty minutes to do business in this
city, providing the incoming train is
on time.
The Missouri Pacific announces,
with more or less flourish of trum-
cts that its new tram service win
start Monday, October 80, and a regu-
lar passenger train will leave Fort
Scott on that day and daily thereafter,
except sunday, at I:2O IN the morn
ing, arriving in Topeka at 1910 p.
M that is, twenty minutes after noon.
1t will return to Fort Scott, leaving &
Topeka at clock in the afternoon
arriving at Fort Scott at 1880 D. m.
Now if this train should be sent out
from Fort Scott about 8 o'clock in
stead Of 1920, it could reach Topeka
at IL o'clock in the morning. 1t
could be held in Topeka, say untif~3
O'Clock, and then on the same sched-
ule reach Fort Scott at $3.50 at night.
This would give four hours trading
time for the people in the rich dis
trlct southeast OF Topeka to come to
their own town. Fort Scott people, as
a rule, do not take this train for To-
pel1a, SO the leaving time Of this train
i'm the morning would not be OF much
noWent to them. People Who come
to Topeka from Fort Scott go around
by Lawrence, which is a shorter route.
People who go to Fort Scott go the
same way or by Kansas City
So far as Topeka is concerned, the
important point is to get the people
who live within SO or SO miles of this
town in here in the morning and out
i'm the afternoon.
This is a matter that the Com
Inercial club ought to push to a con-
clusion.
something When the writer came tC
this town, twenty years ago. one of the
first enterprises he took hold of was
to urge the people of Topeka to vote
bonds for the Missouri Pacific road
from Fort Scott to this town. Tt was
then called the Kansas, Nebraska &
Dakota. Topeka voted the bonds, but
we have received slight benefit from
the road or for our money. The Mis-
souri, Pacific could help Topeka if il
would.
The freight business done by this
road is a good one, but the rates are
just as high and excessive on this roaC
as they are on the Santa Fe.
AS sort of sop to Cerberus, the pas
senger department announces that -
freight train between Fort Scott ant
Topeka viii run daily and have accom-.
modauOns for passengers" Tt viii
leave Topeka at 1880 in the morning
and get back here at 6:45 o. m. Thl
viii give any Topeka people who de
sire to do their trading in Fort Scot
about one hour and twenty minute.
between freight trains