The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-08-17
MOBILIZE CARS
OF ALL ROADS
TO MOVE Grain
Car Service Commission
Moves to Facilitate
Shipments

Fairfax Harrison, Chairman of the |
Railroads War Board, authorizes the
following: i
To facilitate the prompt movement /
of grain and food products, as we'll as
lumber and munitions, the Car Ser
vice commission Of the Railroads
War Board has ordered the inlmedi- !
ate distribution of 2O,790 additional
empty cars among the lines operating
in the South, the Middle West and the
Southwest.
This will make total Of los, 033
empty cars that have been ordered;
moved from one railroad to another,
regardless of ownership, during the
past two months in order to mobilize
in different sections of the country
sufficient number of cars to handle
the abnormal government and COM
mercial traffic that war conditions
have produced.
OF the latest cars ordered by the
War Board. to be distributed where
they will be most needed, 1900 are
to be placed in the grain producing
country. One thousand of these go
to the Southern Pacific, and five hun
bred to the Western Pacific, to insure
the speedy movement of a huge ship
ment of barley. Other roads receiv
Ing cars 10 dCCGlOIdt0 t1iC movement
of grain and farm products are the
Missouri, Kansas ahd Texas, the Mis-
souri, and North Arkansas. the Kan
sas City, Mexico and Orient. the At
Gibson, Topeka and Santa sFe, the
Missouri Pacific, the Wabash, the
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis,
the Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific,
the Illinois Central. and. the st. Louis
and San Francisco.
To protect the vegetables and
Southern watermelon crops, more
than 5000 cars have been sent to the
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic,
the Central of Georgia, the Seaboard
Air Line, the Atlantic Coast Line and
other roads operating in the south
east
Meanwhile. hundreds of cars are
being rushed daily to the lumber
states of the South to take care of
the tremendous movement of lumber
to the army environments and ship
building yards.
In addition to the demand for 1unn-
Der, the war has practically doubled
the orders for phosphate rock during
the past three months. This product,
which is essential to the operation of
sulphuric acid plants and the manu-
fracture of munitions, Is also used as
a foundation for fertilizer. In the
past, the coastwise vessels carried a
large volume of it, but with the re-
ductiop in the number Of vessels used
for freight purposes along the. coast,
practically all of this traffic has been
diverted to the Atlantic coast rail-
roads. AS result, it has been neces-
sary to send thousands of cars into
that district.
To protect the movement of sulphur
for the munitions factories. hundreds
of cars have been ordered tosthe Kan
sas City Southern, the Southern Pa
| cific and the Gulf Coast Lines.
More than a thousand stock cars
have also been sent into Texas to en-
able the cattle raisers there to get
their. herds into the Western pasture
country.
The roads to which the latest or
der of 20,790 cars has been consigned
together with the number of cars
| consigned to each, are as follows:
| Central of Georgia. 1900; Chicago,
Peoria and st. Louis, zoo; Mississippi
Central, 1875; Southern, 3025; Allan
| tic Coast Line, 1900; Illinois Central,
! 500; Georgia, Florida & Alabama, 80;
Missouri Pacific 500; Richmond,
Fredericksburg & Potomac, 100;
Georgia & aFlorida, 500; Tennessee
Central, 100; Georgias 200; seaboard
Air Line, 1000; Louisville & Nashville,
100; Mobile & Ohio, 1000; Louisiana
4 Railway and Navigation Co., 500;
| Wabash, 1000; Missouri. Kansas &
| Texas, 1000; st. Louis Southwestern,
| 500; Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio,
800; Chicago & Alton, 500; Louisiana
e. Arkansas. 200; Missouri & North
/ Arkansas. 800; Kansas City. Mexico
& Orient, 500; Chicago & Northwest
ern, 500; Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe, 500. Nashville, Chattanooga &
st. Louis, 800; Chicago, ROCK island
! & Pacific, 500; Southern Pacific,
/ 1000; Western Pacific, 500; st. Louis
4 & San Francisco, 500.
Fourteen thousand seven hundred
of these cars, or a little more than
two-thirds Of the entire order are to
be supplied by the Pennsylvania sys-
| tenn. The other roads that have been
ordered to supply "empties'' include
the Western Maryland, Philadelphia
and Reading, Cleveland, Cincinnati
IChicago and St. Louis, Boston and
Albany, Boston and Maine, Central
Railroad of New Jersey, New York,
IChicago, and st. Louis, Chesapeake
and Ohio and the Norfolk and Yves
tern.