The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-29
Mo. Pacific May Change Routing
of Main Line Trains.
RumOrPlaces Hutchinson onLine
From st. Louis to Denver.
HAVE NEW TIME CARD
Gould Line Plans to Increase
Service in Many Places.
Other Items of Interest in
Railway Circles.

Hutchinson, Kan, April 29.-Is
Hutchinson to have another train on
the Missouri Pacific road? 1t is ru-
mored, and some of the officials have
recently been talking about it, that
trains Nos. 3 and 4. now being operated
on the main line, from st. Louis via
Kansas City and Geneseo, to Denver,
are to run from st. Louis via Pleasant
Hill, Rich Hill, Fort Scott, Wichita,
Hutchinson and Geneseo to Denver.
1t is said that if the change is made
which is being planned by the officials
now, it will take place on Sunday,
May H. and that a first-class train,
To take care of the business through
this part of Kansas, will be put in
service. IL addition to the st. Louis
service in Denver and the Pacific
coast, which is now operated in this
train, it is said that through sleepers.
and possibly other through cars, Will
be operated from Little Rock and
Hot Springs, and others from Memphis,
over other lines of the Iron Mountain
and Missouri Pacific. connecting with
this train and running on west through
Hutchinson.
And there is a good reason why this
change should be made. The popuIa-
ton tributary to the line. with Kan
sas City left out of it and with which
city there would be through car con-
nection, is three times as great by the
teNNichita- Hutchinson lire as by the way
OF the present run through the center
of the state. The best and the biggest
towns are found on this line-and the
distance from St. Louis to Denver by
this line, over the other line, is but 81
miles greater.
In connection with this, it is said,
that there is to be a rearrangement
of the present time card on the main
line and on this line. to conform to
,1,a m, q hi CI This
service. The fast trains making stops
or this division only at Wichita, Hutch
inson, Sterling and Lyons, might pass
through here in the evening, going west
al about the time of the present even
Ing train. Going east the service would
be about the same time as the morn
ing train in Iteration now. Then there
would be a change in the operation of
the services which run at this time OF
day now to connect with other through
trains Nos. l and 2, on the main line,
at Geneseo. This would put a train
west from Hutchinson at about IL or
l. o'clock at night and east, at about
4 o'clock in the morning, making two
more good connections with the fast
est train on the Missouri Pacific road
to Denver and the coast.
The matter has gone so far that the
officials have talked about these trains
adding a mighty ticket agent here, the
addition OF a. basgageman and of
night towerman. not employed now
Superintendent A. H. Webb of Wichita,
has been here recently and he talked to
some of the employees here about the
change and the extra service.
Trains Nos. and now carry a
drawing room sleeper from St. Louis
10 San Francisco, tourist sleepers from
St. Louis to Los Angeles, chair cars,
st. Louis to Pueblo, coaches, st. Louis
and Kansas City to Pueblo and Den
yer. mail. baggage and express cars
through, and dining cars at meal times
mi j. -, 80 l.
same cars. with an additional sleeper
from Denver to St Louis. At the pres
ent this train carries sleepers from St
Louis to Kansas City, which are taken
on west from there by the Santa Fe,
through here to the coast. These sleep
ers would be brought to Hutchinson
and transferred to the Santa Fe here.
The Missouri Pacific road is after
the business. 1t wants it. The local
business on the division from Wichita
to Geneseo is said to be better than
on any other Kansas division. The
main line doesn't reach a great deal
of population but it would get to the
business of some excellent towns in
this way and make the trains more
popular.
At the present time tickets sold from
any point east of Pleasant Hill or
Kansas City to points west of Geneseo
give the purchaser the choice of going
Via either line, and many of the pas
sengers come this way. Many others
want to but do not because of no
through service over this line. And
the running of this through service
would make possible the connection
from Little Rock and Memphis, which
the officials have always wanted for
through service to Colorado and the
coast.
Coupled with this change is also the
proposition to operate the morning
train west on to Hoisington and Great
Bend. instead of stopping at Geneseo,
as is the case at the present time
This is what Hutchinson travelling men
want.
This would be a fine train service
for this part of the Missouri Pacific
road and the towns on this line 1t
would make the Missouri Pacific road
always popular with the travellers. a
still more popular line. for 1t would
be possible to get somewhere in these
trains without a continual change of
cars. If the new time card, which is
being worked over at this time. at
least in the minds of the officials.
calls for this service or something of