The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-25
RAILROAD NEWS.
Rock Island Has Arranged
Schedules of Refrigerator Cars.
H.A.Huber, Formerly of Topeka,
in Charge.
HELPS SMALL SHIPPER
Perishable Freight May Be Con-
signed From Remote Stations.
Gossip and Matters Of Interest
in Railroad Circles.
HELPS SMALL SHIPPER

H. A. Huber, who was for several
years assistant car service agent. of the
Rock Island with headquarters at To
peka, has been appointed to have
charge OF the refrigerator service of the
Rock Island system, and it will fall to
Mr.. Huber to inaugurate the plans
which the Rock Island has adopted to
break loose from the grasp of the pri-
vate car trust.
Mr.. Huber was located in Topeka for
a period Of about six years. Four years
ago his Office was removed to Chicago
and he was afterward promoted to
have charge of the distribution of pas
senger equipment. He was recently Sc
lected to have charge Of the refrigerator
service
The Rock Island has added / 500 new
refrigerator cars to those already in
service, and has established a reguIar
schedule of runs, giving excellent ser
vice from the most remote portions of
the lines to all markets.
The most essential point which is of
interest to the small shippers of per
ishable freight at way stations along
the road is contained in the two rules
promulgated by this company which
follow:
Freight charges onperishabIe freight
shipped in scheduled refrigerator cars
will be the same as in ordinary cars
All refrigerator cars are well iced
before starting and are re-iced in tran
sit when necessary"
The later rule indicates that the small
shipper may send his perishable pro-
duce to market in a refrigerator car at
the regular rates which apply in an or
binary car and no charges are made to
him for icing the car. The railroad
provides this service free of cost to the
shipper.
The company also undertakes to fur
extra charge for consignments of 10000
pounds or over where no scheduled car
is run
Shippers. may secure refrigerator
cars from the company for carload
shipments free; the shipment will be
same as If the consignment was sent
in an ordinary car. When shippers
use a car for carload shipments the
rate is lower than that charged for
icing charges are assessed the shipper
when he uses a whole car. However,
only the actual cost of ice and the
work of placing it in the car is
charged. The shipper has the privi-
lege of icing the car himself in which
case the railroad makes no icing
charge.
Under the new schedule of refrig-
orator car runs which has just gone
into effect, Topeka is the terminal of
nine runs. 1nIG6 runs DIONlQ0 LOI
cars being sent westward from Topeka
once a week on each OF the main lines
of road, one west, one southwest, and
the other south.
Six runs provide for two cars a
week coming to Topeka from each of
the main lines of road.
These cars are scheduled to stop at
all way stations, and shipments may
be received or delivered at any station
no matter how small. Similar sched-
uIes are arranged for every market OF
any consequence on the system.
Under this arrangement the small
shippers in the rural districts are in
dependent of the refrigerator car
trust, the commission houses or any
other institution. The small dealer
in the rural district may make ar
rangement by mail with a dealer IN
the city and may send his produce IN
a REFRIGERATOR car consigned directly
to the purchasers, thus giving the
shipper in the rural district the ad-
vantage of the profit made by the
middle man if he had been compelled
to ship to a commission house which
was powerful enough to own its own
REFRIGERATOR cars to be used in gather
ing shipments, the same as will here
after be done by the railroad com
n9nW.