The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17
Topeka Traffic Bureau Is Doing
Creditab1e Work.
sTt Is a Good Investment" Say
the Members.
THE BUREAU is GROWING
Jobbers and Manufacturers Are
Asking to Be Admitted.
Facts Concerning the Work of
the New Institution.

The Topeka Traffic bureau is de-
cided success. The results accom-
plished in the three months of its ex-
istence thus far have been such as to
cause the members to believe that they
never made better investment than
when they put in the necessary cash to
Join the association.
Claims have been filed in the sum
of $500, and considerable of this
amount has been collected, although it
takes some time for claim to go
through the usual channels.
A number of the members of the
association belong to the good fellow
class They Joined the bureau because
they didn't think it would do any harm
and because they were loyal to Topeka.
They had no idea of the real value of
a traffic bureau.
Now that the success of the associa-
ton is an assured fact jobbers and
manufacturers and others have begun
30 apply for membership.
Pleased with Bureau.
The following letter received by
Commissioner H, d. Driseeii is iliustra-
tive of the enthusiasm eviheed by
members over the bureau: "Encl6sed
find my check for $50 for the second
quarter trust that all the Nom befs
will come through promptly, We
surely have never had 4 better prope-
eition than we have IN the Topeka
Traffic bureau"
A steel tariff file was made to order
for the bureau by a local steel fixture
concern, and new tariffs are constantly
being added to the collection, although
those tariffs that are out of print are
difficult to procure.
The railroads serving Topeka have
been generous in the way of furnishing
wall maps, framed pictures, tariffs,
time tables, ETC., for the use of the
bureau.
Rate Adjustments.
Numerous rate adjustments have
been made since the bureau began to
operate. For example, there is now a
lower berry rate. Since July 1 the rate
On berries, carloads, from southwest
Missouri points to Topeka has been 81
cents per one hundred pounds while
previous to that date the rates were So
and 50 cents respectively. The less than
carload rate Cfirst class) is only 40
cents per one hundred pounds and is
nine or ten cents less than Topeka
shippers have been paying in carload
quantities. There is no item in the
tariffs that seems to authorize the less
than carload rate as maximum for
the reason that a condition of that kind
seldom arises. The question is being
handled with the transportation lines
and it is expected that the charges on
less than carload rate
There will probably be a change in |
the rate on molasses carloads. For |
merly a tank car of molasses weigh !
ing $4,000 pounds could be shipped to
Kansas City and reshipped to Topeka |
at a saving of SIS per car This fact |
was brought to light by The bureau, and |
the railroad companies have been re-
quested to re-adjust this rate. Many |
cars of this commodity are handled in /
shippers.
Returned Carrier Rate.
The bureau il attempting to arrange |
for return carrier" rate en- bagging |
and ties collected from bales of cotton |
linters, used in Topeka factories.
With low rate on this material it |
could be returned to point of origin of |
the cotton and used over again, but |
with the present rates on this COM
modify and the small allowance made /
to the shippers it is Improbable to |
handle it. About 5000 pounds accum- /
ulates monthly in Topeka Topeka |
Traffic Truths is the title of a new p-5-
ncatfon put out by the association for !
the members.
Commissioner H. d. DriscolI has had
considerable railroad and public utili-
ties experience. He is an expert who
knows how to meet the railroad men
and the government experts on their
own ground.
p II. OuckeIt, the rate clerk in the
once has had a diversified experience
In railroad work having served in va
ricus capacities in the employ of the
Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific, and Colo
redo Southern railroads.
Ofncers of the association are: George
p. McEntire. president: Samuel r Lux
vice president; George H. Fleishman,
secretary-treasurer. H. d. Drfscou.
commissioner. Directors: w. H. Davis
George P. McEntire, J. F. Haskell, S.
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Freshman and George w. Hackney