The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-15
COOPERATING WITH RAILROADS.

vidual shippers in all parts of the country are
CO. operating with the railroads ''to make one
car do the work of two,' it is only required
that the report of the railroads war board be
given publicity. Checks made recently in
Florida and Georgia on loaded potato cars
show that cars are carrying two hundred bar
Irels this year against 125 barrels last year. .
Checks made in Chicago show that cement
cars are now carrying II 900 pounds as against
10000 pounds last year.
In Pittsburgh, tin plate cars that carried
ninety two per cent. of their marked capacity
on June twenty-seven last, are now being
loaded to carry ninety-eight per cent.
In Minnesota, the average carload of flour
lin 1916 amounted to forty-six thousand two
hundred and fifty pounds; this year the average
carload is sixty-one thousand, nine hundred
and twenty-three pounds.
In New Orleans, sugar cars that were being
loaded to carry only forty thousand pounds
three months ago, now carry an average load
of eighty thousand pounds. In other parts OF
the country, sugar reineries have voluntarily
increased their minimum capacity twenty-five
per cent, or from forty thousand pounds to
fifty thousand pounds.
Some figures that throw clear light on the
efforts that both the shippers and the rail
roads are making to relieve the coal situation
are supplied by the Western Maryland railway.
la check Of five hundred and forty cars of coal
loaded on its line showed only seven cars that
were loaded below marked capacity. The
average lading of the five hundred and forty
cars was about twelve per cent.
AS result of these cooperative activities,
the movement of thousands Of carloads Of lum-
Der and other supplies to the environments has
been accomplished practically without hitch.
r., of tbo of
eminent, plans have been perfected whereby
one million men are to be moved from nearly
five thousand different training camps for the
national army and national guard, by October
| twentieth About one-third of these men, the
national guard, are already under way and are
carving their tents and equipment with them.
This means that in addition to the coaches and
tourist sleepers occupied by them, more than
twelve thousand freight cars must be trans
ported.
No special difficulty would present itself in
accomplishing these troop movements if they
represented all that the railroads were being
called upon to perform at this time. But the
movement of these million soldiers to their
training quarters must not be permitted to in
lterfere with the general movement of freight
and passenger traffic, if such interference can
possibly be avoided.
Now that congress has adjourned and La
Toilette. Gronna, Stone and the rest have no
place to 90 but home, it is but natural that
tbev should feel somewhat like the boys de-
tected in the act of sickng dog on the family
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