The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-04
TAKE OFF TRAINS
Santa Fe to Curtail Its Passen.
ger Service.
Seventeen Trains to Be Taken
Off Sunday.
TOPEKA LOSES TWO.
No. 113 Westb0und and ia
EastbOund to Go.
Hostile Legislation Given as
Cause of the Move.

AS a result of the decreased earn
ings which are being felt on the Santa
F'e, and are attributed to the recent
noslle legislation. especially in Kan
sas and Oklah oma, the Santa Fe has
adopted a retrenchment policy which
will result in the taking off of seven
teen passenger trains in these two
states. The changes will go into eff
feet next Sunday. The abandonment
OF the trains in some cases will take
on the entire train while in others the
trains will be run over only q small
portion of their usual route
we must curtail our expenses be-
ings of our road,'' said General Man
ager j. E. Hurley, this morning. LAS
a result We have decided to retrencn
In our passenger service, of which We
and of which we will still have more
than any other road. We should hava
done so sooner but we did not like to
and have held on hoping that earnings
would soon again turn on the incline"
These changes in the passenger SER
vice have been made at time card
meeting which has been held in To-
peka for several days, at which the
leading officials of the operating de-
partment were sin attendance. The
business of the meeting was not finish
ed until last night
The changes which will be made and
which will be effective at 12:Of Sun
day morning, February 9, were an
nounced by General Manager Hurley
today as follows:
3The Santa Fe will discontinue
trains Nos. 113 and ia between Kan
sas M City and Florence No. will. do
merly performed by No. 113 These
trains will be continued between Flor
ence and Arkansas City. No. 113
leaves Topeka at 1902 and ia east
bound at 1:25 p. m.
Trains Nos. 115 and lie will be dis
continued between Newton and Pur-
cell:
Trains Nos. 19 and 20 will be dis
continued between Guthrie and
Gainesville. This WILL however. leave
double daily service between Arkansas
City and Purcell.
Trains Nos. 4o9 and 40 will be
discontinued between Skedee ana
Guthrie
Trains Nos. 2o3 and 204 will be
discontinued between Independence
and Wellington.
I'VE will discontinue trains Nos. 20s
and 210 between lola and Tulsa and
ence and Tulsa and 245 and 246 be-
tween Chanute and Pittsburg. Trains
203 and 204 that have been operated
into Wellington will now be run
through to Tulsa instead.
1--WE have also discontinued trains
Nos. $50 and $40, local service be-
tween Dodge City and Syracuse. How
ever, there still are ten daily trains
left on this territory.
Train No. 10, eastbound, which has
been operated via Ottawa and cutoff
will with new time card in effect be
operated via Topeka and will reach
Kansas City at $50 p. m.
Train No. II on new card will leave
Kansas City at $40 p. m.
Train No. 203 on new card will leave
Kansas City at 12:15 a. m, breakfasting at
Chanute
Train No. 116 will leave Newton 2:15 p
M. pass Topeka at TAO and arrive Kansas
City 9:55 p. m.
Pullman service trains Nos. 203 and
204 will now be extended to reach Tulsa
THE changes will affect Topeka but lit
tle No. will do the business of No. lib
and run on practically the same schedule.
No. 10 will run to Kansas City a little
later in the afternoon but will make but
little difference on this account.
t"Trains No. 5, which will reach Topeka
at :35 and No. 116 which will reach here
at TAO will stop in Topeka for dinner and
supper respectively, instead of at En-
poria as they do under the present sched-
ule.''
quite reduction in the force of local
trainmen. Many who now hold good runs
and many will have to be reduced from
engineers to firemen and from conductors
to brakemen. Seniority in the different
positions will play very important part
in rearranging the runs
These changes will probably prevail un-
til the earnings of the road begin to
sumo their normal proportions