The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-22
Road to Issue New Schedule, Which
is to go into Effect Sunday,
October 31st-Affects
Carthage Branch.
TO AGAIN SHORTEN TIME
Proposed to Shorten Time of Nos.
and IL, Both of Which Run
West From Chicago
Over Same Route.

Still another new time card is soon
to be made effective on the Burling-
ton system Officers Of the passen-
ger department at Chicago, together
with division officials are said to be
working now on the new schedule,
which is to go into effect Sunday,
Oct. 31st.
There is a report that when the
changes in service, provided for in
this card, are made, new passenger
train or combination passenger and
freight is to be put on the Carthage
branch to run from Quincy to Bur
lington in the morning, and from
the Orchard City to the Gem City
in the afternoon. Whether the 60"
officials really contemplate inaug-
urating such service is not definite
ly known, but the report is given
credence in several quarters, and
many of the railroad men, it is said,
seem to think that some change In
the service on that branch is to be
made sometime this winter.
A few days ago, merchants and
business men of Burlington had a
big banquet, at which petition was
circulated among them, all signing.
The petition was addressed to the
Burlington road, and asked that a
new train be installed on the Car
thage branch, to leave Carthage every
morning early enough to reach Bur-
lington before noon. 1t was also
asked that the train not leave Bur-
lington any earlier in the afternoon
for the return trip than absolutely
necessary to get the shoppers and
passengers to their respective home
stations at reasonable hour. The
idea of the Burlington people is to
get train that will carry shoppers
from the territory through which
the Carthage branch passes as far
south as Carthage, taking them into
Burlington and back home again on
the same day. In other words, they
want the same kind of service that
Quincy now has. and has had for
some time
At present, there is but one daily
passenger on that line. 1t leaves
Burlington at 7:15 o'clock in the
morning, reaching Quincy at 1O:1t
o'clock. Returning, the train leaves
Quincy at 3:40 p. m. reaching Burling
ton at GAO p. m. 1t is considered
here not likely that the 90 will rur
train only from Carthage to Bur
lington and back, ignoring the
southern part of the line. But to tbs
contrary it is believed that if an ad
ditional train is put on, it will BIZ
made up at Quincy, and will be run OF
the same schedule as the Burlington
Quincy train, only reversed.
An increase In the passenger bust
ness equipment on the Carthag'
branch will not be much more vel
come to the business men of Burling
ton than to the merchants of Quincy
or the people living in the it'll
towns and in the country along tina
line. Two trains will be of great ad
vantage to travelling men, and a
Quincy has number of concern
with representatives travelling in tina
territory, there is naturally more o
less interest in the report.
The Carthage branch crosses tn
Santa Fe at Lomax, ten miles soutl
Of Burlington the Clayton-Keokul
branch of the Wabash at Carthage
and the T., P. & W. road at Ferris
twenty-eight miles south of Carthage
A new train in addition to improving
the service will make for better cor
nection at each Of these points.
Recently, the Burlington system
shortened the time of its two flyers
trains Nos. and s, running between
Chicago and Denver. Now it is Pre-
posed to shorten the time Of train
Nos 9 and 12 both of which rul
west from Chicago over the sam
route. 1t is the plan to have all fou
trains operated on the same spec
schedule, the change in the time 0
trains and IL to go into effect tn
last of this month. 1t Is understood
there will be no other changes, bu
as no official announcement to tina
effect has been given out, there is n
way of telling what the %" may o
may not do. 1t is the universal hop
in Quincy, however, that the o. vii
put on second train on the Car
taage branch, and everything posst
BILE and reasonable will be cheerful
done to make it successful,