The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-16

international Railway Congress
Has Adjourned.
Delegates Are Making Tour Of
the United States.
CHICAGO TO ENTERTAIN
VIII Be Guests Of Windy City
Four Days.
Gossip and Matters Of Interes
in Railroad Circles.
TO ENTERTAIN

Chicago, May 16--Four special trains,
carrying 300 foreign delegates to the in
ternati0naI railway congress, which
closed its sessions at Washington Sat
urday, are now touring the United
States. The foreigners are the guests
of the American Railway association,
and represent many of the European
governments and railways. The party
was divided into two sections. one going
by a short tour to Altoona, Pittsburg,
Clev Gland, Buffalo, Niagara Falls,
Schenectady, and Albany, reaching
New York May %. The long tour will
take in all these points, and in addition
Cincinnati, st. Louis, Chicago, and
Montreal. Elaborate preparations have
been made for the entertainment of the
delegates at all these places.
Two Trains Arrive Here Friday.
Two of the trains carrying the for
eigners viii arrive in Chicago on Fri
day next at 2 p. IN. over the Chicago
& Alton. They will be met by the fol-
lowing reception committee:
S. NJ. FELTON,, president Chicago &
Alton railway, chairman.
James L. Taylor, superintendent
Parmelee Transfer company, secretary.
J. W. kendrick, third vice president
Atchison. Topeka. & Santa Fe railway.
ID. Willard, second vice president Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy railway.
W. C. Brown vice president Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern railway,
Michigan Central railroad, and Cleve-
land, Cincinnati. Chicago & St Louis
railway.
J. T. Harahan, second vice president
Illinois Central railroad.
B. n. Austin, general passenger agent
Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
w. A. Gardner, general manager Chi
cago e Northwestern railway.
b. Thomas, president and general
manager Chicago & Western Indiana
railroad
A. b Stickney, president Chicago
Great Western railway.
W c. McDoel, president and general
manager, Chicago, Indianapolis & Lou
isville railway.
j. A. Spoor, president Chicago juno
tiOn railway.
II. r. Williams, general manager Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway.
j. T. Stevens, second vice president
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific rail-
way.
j. n. Fafthorn, president and general
manager Chicago Terminal Transfer
railroad.
j. p. sherwin. general agent Erie rail-
road.
b Thomas. representative Grand
Trunk railway system.
T. w Robinson, vice president Illi-
nois Steel company.
B. F. Homer, general passenger agent
New York, Chicago & st. Louis rail-
road.
j. C. sehaner, president Parmelee
Transfer company.
". H. Scriven, superintendent and
general agent Pennsylvania lines west
of Pittsburg.
r. A. Wann, vice president, Pere Mar
uuette railroad.
Joseph Ramsay, Jr., president Wa
bash railroad
q. F. Potter, general superintendent
Wisconsin Central railway.
Visits 10 Local Points
The delegates will be escorted to their
hotels, after which they viii be given
a theater party. The next morning
they will be taken to Pullman to in
spect the works of the Pullman COM
pany, starting for there at 8 o'clock
from the Union station The Illinois
Steel company viii also be visited. A
banquet viii be given at the Auditor
ium hotel in the evening. Sunday will
be a day Of rest, except for drives in
the parks and visiting other points of
interest throughout the city.
An automobile trip through the parks
viii open the programme Monday
morning, ending with a visit to the
stock yards In the afternoon a trip
will be taken down the drainage canal.
The party witt leave the Illinois Cen
trail station over the Grand Trunk rail-
way at o'clock.
Texas Board May ISetaIiate.
Austin, Tex, May 16.-It is an
nounced that if the railroads of Texas