The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24
Railroad War for Traffic to
Colorado Points.
Three Cornered Fight by Rock
Island, U. P. and Burlington.
TUHE ID T1C NEVW TRAIN
THE r. LIS NEW TRAIN
Will Reduce Time Between Chi
cagO and Denver.
Other Items Of Interest in
Railway Circles.

Denver, Col, May 24.-The three-cor
nered fight of the Union Pacific, Rock
Island and Burlington. roads for the
tourist traffic through Denver from the
cast is on in earnest.
The two roads first named have fired
their first guns and the clearing away
of the smoke shows the Union Paclnc
struggling manfuliy to regain its 1eet
and the Rock Island not only smiling
and unscathed, hut occupying vantage
roint to diclodge it from which will re
quire a mighty and unprecedented Ell
fort.
And to Denver fall the spoils of the
conflict.
The results of the first round in the
contest between the roads. which means
an earlier and more volumtnous lnHuX
of summer travellers. reads:
~ An announcement by the Union "a "a
csfic that it Will clip two hours on the
running time of its new Denver ana 81 81
Louis through train schedule and 81
minutes from the schedule OF us ne"
DenveS-Chicago train.
An announcements by the Rock Is
lard, made Immediately after the Union
Pacific fired its gun, that it would at
once nut on a new 29-hour limited train
between Denver and chicago: Inns
train will cut down the new Union IA
cific time for the same run just 30 min
utes.
Local railroad officials say that this
move of the Rock Island means that
railroad fur viii fly fast ant furiously from
row until the end of the tourist sea-
son, with the Rock Island apparently
irremovably in the lead and Denver the
beneficiary.
The Burlington also expects to put
on a new train between Denver ana
Chicago Sunday, May 3d. 1t promises
to make an effort to equal the tina
40 I.x~ he Island.
The new train of the Rock Island win
be known as the "Mountaineer." 1t Will
be placed in service on June 8. The new
flyer will give this road three daily
trains between Chicago and Denver Tor
the tourist season.
THE Rocky Mountain Limited OF the
Rock Island VIII continue 70 depart
from Chicago at $50 a. m. THE Noun
taine err will leave at 2:25 p. m. and
the Denver express at 1890 p m
A number of innovations will be in
troduced on the Rocky MountainLimit
For the FIRST time in the history of
western railroads free stenographic SER
wee will be provided for the patrons
Of this train, enabling business men to
board the train in the morning and
complete unfinished office details and
attend to general matters as readily as
at home.
A new feature of this train and of
the "Mountaineer,' will be the serving
OF 5 o'clock tea free in the observation
salon. A barber. a valet and maid
win be on each train and flyers will
receive stock market reports, and at
each stop the train will be provided
18th telephones for communication over
the city or long distance.
All the Colorado trains of the Rock
Island have arranged to give the base
tGll scores of the American, National
and Western leagues. with such other
information concerning the game as
viii be of interest. This service will
also be a feature of the Rock Islands
Golden State Limited
The "MoUntaiIeer" will arrive in Den
yer at 5:55 p. m. the next day after
leaving Chicago. The Rocky Noun
tain Limited will reach Denver at p.
nj. the next day. The Rock Islands
Denver Express will arrive in Denver
early the second morning after leaving
Chicago.
For a long while all the railroads op-
Grating trains from Denver to Chicago
had an agreement among themselves
that they would not cover the distance