The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-07-19
CAPE CIRARDEAU
NORTHERN PLANS
Service To Be Bettered By
Expenditure of Several
Thousands.
CHANGES ORDERED BY
COMMON PLEAS JUDGE
S21 900 Realized From Sale to be
Spent for Improvement of
Road.

Several sections of the Cape Girar-
deau Northern Railroad will be great
ly improved and the necessary repairs
to begin at once, it became known yes
terday afternoon, when Attorney John
Hope of st. Louis, representing the
receiver of the railroad filed several
petitions in the Common Pleas Court,
asking Judge Snider to make the or
ders for the improvements also for
the discontinuance of other sections of
the road.
The branch between Perryville and
Perryville Junction and the section be-
tween Ancell and several towns in
Scott County are the sections of the
railroad to be improved under the or
der of Judge Snider Service on the
railroad between Jackson and Perry
vile and Perryville and Pennington
will be suspended, temporarily at least,
while the service on the remaining
lines Of the railroad will be greatly
improved.
The cost of the improvements will
be betrayed from the $21, 900 received
from the sale Of two engines last
April. Ore petition relating to the
improvements of the road between
Ancell and Jackson, asks that $4,000
Re allowed for the purchase of rail-
road ties. This money will also be
taken from the fund created by the
sale of the two engines.
1t is further planned to erect
cradle for the road between Perryville
and Perryville Junction for the accom-
mediation of the coal car traffic be-
tween Chester, H., and the points in
Perry County along the railroad. This
improvement is estimated at $1,000.
Attorney Hope arrived from st.
Louis yesterday morning to attend the
special session Of the May term Of
The Common Pleas Coart, arranged by
Judge Snider for the convenience of
the railroad, in order to allow the pc
titions filed by the representative OF
the railroad Ralph H. Schultz, for
l1er manager of the Cape Girardeau
Northern, and B. w. Fletcher, his sue
cess0r, were the only witnesses heard
by Judge Snider before granting the
petitions filed by the attorney of the
receiver.
Both agreed that the lines asked to
be discontinued did not earn the op-
Grating expenses of these branches,
while the changes asked by the rail
road AMI the improvement planned for
the service of the railroad would great
" increase traffic on the lines to be
maintained in the future. The change
would mean a great financial success
Tor the railroad, the witnesses said.
The improvements asked and grant
cd seemingly strengthened the general
opinion that the Iron Mountain will
take over the Ancel-Jackson section
Of the Cape Girardeau Northern. Off
Gals of the former railroad said some
time ago after inspecting the lines.
they could not afford to take this
branch, because it appeared to be in
adequate for the purpose for which
the tracks would be used. It is be-
lieved now that the deal will be trans
acted as soon as the tracks have been
repaired and the railroad has been
put in frst-class condition.
An increase of business and reduc-
ton of the operating expenses as fore
cast in the petitions submitted to the
court yesterday are an indication that
the receivership of the railroad will
soon be lifted.