The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24


Trade Train:
Scranton. Minneapolis.
Usage City. Beloit
Reading Delphos.
EmPOria. ClascO.
Strong City. Asherville.
Elmdale jamestown.
Cedar Point. Yuma.
Florence. COncordia.
Marion. Clyde.
Canada Clifton.
HilsbOro. Morganville.
Canton. Clay Center.
Mcpherson. Wakefield.
Lindsborg. Junction City.
Assaria- Fit. Riley.
Salina. Manhattan.
Abilene. WamegO.
New Cambria. Belleville.
solomon. St Marys.
Enterprise ROssviIle.
VIII go Topeka jobbers. wholesalers
and manufacturers be willing to pay $40
each for a weeks trip in August to the
towns named in the above itinerary2
On next Monday morning Chairman
w. L. Taylor of the transportation
committee. and Chairman Charles P.
Adams Of the trade extension commit
tee, VIII begin a canvass Of the city to
see If enough subscribers can be found.
Mr. Taylor, who worked up the idea
said: II am sure that We win easily
get enough Topeka business men to
make up the proposed train. / have
talked with number already and they
are very enthusiastic over the mat
ter"
The total cost of the train will be
about S22OO Explanatory of this Mr.
Taylor made this statement before the
Commercial club on Friday night:
We find the cost of this trip viii be
as follows. Two standard Pullmans
with attendants. S45 per day, making
a 70 r. a for fa frfv7 OV1n
dining car viii cost us $40 per day for
all the attendants from the time it
leaves Chicago until it is returned there.
The Pullman company viii furnish this
dining car. keep it thoroughly stocked,
plenty Of attendants and make a rate OF
rs cents per meal for not less than 60
meals three times per day This would
make charge of 1920, counting eight
DAYS, SO the dining careahd meals three
times per day for so people, would
amount to $40 for the week
We find it viii cost us about one dol
lar per mile for the use of an engine
and crew and the mileage while on the
Santa Fe track. 1t will cost US $3.50
per day for the baggage car. Now in
addition to the one dollar per mile paid
to the Santa Fe for the locomotive,
crew and operating of the train, we
VIII have to pay so cents per train mile
together with the expense of pilots
while operating over other tracks not
owned or controlled Dy the Santa F'e.
Figuring the dining car eight days,
the other cars six, and approximately
four hundred miles travel, meals for
sixty people for six days, amounting
to $50, and including the expense of
the baggage car, it figures a little less
than a total of $4,000. However, this
committee recommends that we raise
S2,400. This is equivalent to $40 for
each man counting sixty people to
take the trip"
The plan of the trip is to give the
manufacturers and wholesalers of To-
customers over the state. A great deal
OF goods are sold out of this city, but
in many instances seller and buyer
never meet. It is thought that q So
cfaI visit between the two viii help out
very materially in business way.
The train is to consist of four cars.
two PuumanS. a diner and baggage
car. The cars will be SO arranged that
visitors in the towns at which stops
are made can be entertained The
railroads will take special interest in
making such arrangements.
President c. K. Holiday read the
following communication with refer
enee to the Council Grove railway:
IAN unfortunate incident has occur
red in the onward march of Topeka
toward 1000 population in 1910, tO-Wit:
the failure of Mission township in this
county to vote $4,000 in bonds in aid
of the Topeka, EskEidge and Council
Grove Interurban railway.
Topeka had reason to expect that
Mission township, the township immed-
lately adjoining the city on the west
its western gateway in fact would be
imbued with the same spirit of progress
that characterizes other townships in
the county. ard that it would do all in
its power to help make Topeka the
actual practical railroad center we all
hope to see.
AT this critical period in the develop
ment of Topeka along Goth century
ideas. when cheap power in shane of
natural gas and crude oil is rushing
here; when the Union Pacific is double
tracking to Kansas City and the Rock
Island to Herington: when the North
western road is building and negotia-
tions pending with the Missouri P8cifc
a break in the chain of united effort
that might give Topeka her long de-
sired outlet to the southwest, is almost
a disaster.
Had Topeka not voted the money
necessary to buy the land. the big new
Santa Fe shops would not be here to-
day. Had LeavenwOrth voted to build
a bridge, it would have been what Kan
sas City is today
'If Mission township expects to get
an electric road to Council Grove, it
must bear its share Of the burdens and
responsibilities.
The Topeka. Eskridge and Council
Grove Interurban railroad is and has
been. one of the great projects Of the
Topeka Commercial club.
THE president and secretary of the
road are the president and. secretary of
the Topeka Commercial club and the
money thus far raised for preliminary
surveys and incidental expenses of the
road as far as Shawnee county is con-
cerned. has been met by this club and
the directors of the road, out of their
own pockets The officers and directors
OF this road ana this club are willing
70 do all in their power in way Of per
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