The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-04
RAILWAY NOTES.

When a half fare ticket is issued on
a train check, the fact must be deSig-
rated en- the train check. Otherwise
you are issuing a full fare ticket to the
passenger, and a connecting line will
require them to pay full fare. In one
instance the Burlington road would not
accept half fare and it was necessary
to charge the conductor for the differ
ence in the rate.-AdVice to passenger
men In Rock Island Employees Mag
azine.
According to a report sent the de-
partment of commerce and labor at
Washington, by Consul Alfred A.
Winslow, of Valparaiso, the railway tie
problem is now confronting the Off
Gals of the government railways of
that country.
In cowboy par1ance, the following
stem from the Washington, D. c., Post
might properly be called "a bum steer
by railway men: "Governcr Stubs of
while Lawyer Brandels cuts off their
expenses"
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas has
about completed its extensive car re-
pair shops at Denison' Texas. The mill
building is 101 by 800 feet, and VIII be
equipped with modern machinery, in
dividual motor drive; the power house
is 81 by 100 feet; the car repair shed
is so by 2z0 feet; the caboose shop is
As by 200 feet: office and storeroom
plant is to be completed by March Is.
There will be nc increase this year
in rates for summer tourist travel
This question was settled at meet
ing Of the Western Passenger associa-
ton when an attempt to secure CO.
operation in a move to raise rates be-
tween Chicago and various points in
the west during the coming summer
failed. While the eastern lines have not
formally announced that last year
xrvi1I yaiT Gao hO
territory it is regarded as a certainty
that they will.
Another big railroad line is headed
for Columbus, Ga, and the gulf from
the Great Lakes. It is stated that by
consolidation with other now suppos-
edly independent lines, the Tennessee,
Alabama & Georgia railroad, known as
the Tag Route shortly to enter Biz
mingham over the Seaboard Air Line
and later over its own rails, will be a
factor in one of the most comprehen-
sive railroad systems from traffic or
iginating standpoint now contempla-
ted.
The Pennsylvania railroads. net earn
ingS last year on its lines directly OPP
Grated decreased $2,07300e. AS it con-
templates putting out $40,000,000 of new
stock. the. company must arrange to
pay out $2.400000 more in dividends.
Hence the necessity for retrenchment.
The Rock Island is to have a new
-SnOTL line IOni OI. -GduA u hdilSct9
City through the acquisition by the st.
Paul & Kansas City Railroad COM
pany of Iowa, which is owned by the
Rock Island, of most of the stock and
bonds of the st. Paul & Des Mofnes
Railroad company, which operates a
line from Des Moines north to Mason
City, Ia. at which point connection is
made with the Chicago-St. Paul line of
the Rock Island. A new line will be
built from Allerton. Ia, which is on
the Chicago-Kansas City line of the
Rock Island, northward to Carlisle, Ia,
| which is near Des.s Moines. The road
| has the right to operate from Carlisle
into Des MONIES. where terminals will
| be provided. By this connection at
Des Moines the Rock Island will secure
the shortest line between Kansas City
and St. Paul.
The increase in general business of
the Mexican Pan-American railway for
1910 over the year 1909 ranges from Is
to rs per cent per month, both passen-
| ger and freight traffic having been
much heavier and more profitable.
| The New York, New Haven 6
Hartford railroad has made sHbstan-
tial increase in wages for it's employees
since 1908, and the increase was larger
among the lower ranks than among
the general officers.