Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-07-25
THE RAILROADS COOPERATING
In Great Effort to Conserve Coal and
Move Freight Promptly.

Washington, July 21.-Special:
Fairfax Harrison, chairman of the
Railroads War Board, has announce
ed that the railroads of the United
States, as a part Of their efforts un-
der the direction of the Railroads
War Board to make available a max
imum OF transportation energy for
the movement OF freight necessary
for the successful conduct of the
war, report the elimination of pas
senger trains aggregating 1G.267,-
02S miles of train service per year.
This is done to save man power, fuel
and motive power, which can thus be
applied to the transportation of ne
cessities. The elimination Of passen-
ger service as now reported will
make available for other purposes
over ] 100000 tons Of coal.
Many railroads, especially west Of
the Allegheny mountains, are still to
be heard from. The railroad sys-
TENS In the Eastern departments
have cut out S,598,696 miles Of pas
senger train service, thus saving
716,113 tons Of coal per year. The
Pennsylvania system eliminated 81
100000 miles Of train service. thus
saving 1S6,876 tons Of coal. The New
York Central plans to save 10000
tons Of coal. The Erie has cut out
100000 passenger train miles, the
Baltimore & Ohio 1,16S,596, and the
Chesapeake & Ohio $4,000. The
Southern Railway has cut out 1,9OO,-
600 passenger train miles and will
save 97,082 tons Of coal. Roads in
New England have arranged to elimi-
nate 4,S47,332 passenger train miles,
with saving Of 256,724 tons Of coal
The Boston &c Maine cut out 2,118,-
948 miles Of service, the New Haven
1.707,O04, and the Maine Central
442,670. The Marquette and the
Wabash, the only roads reporting as
yet from the Central Department,
have eliminated together $4,000
miles Of service and planned to save
49,555 tons OF coal.
THE reports thus compiled by the
Railroads War Board show that the
railroads of the country, In their CO.
operative effort to realize In the in
terest OF national defense the maxi
num-of transportation efficiency.
have already effected an extraordi-
nary Improvement in the amount {
coal handled" declares Mr.. Harri-
son.
"As its first important official
act,' the statement says, "the board
directed that railroads should give
preference to the movement Of coal.
The board announced April 26th, as
a reason for this ruling, that the well
fare Of the nation and the nations
defense are absolutely dependent
upon an adequate supply Of coal for
all purposes. Reports to the United
States government. just available,
show that in June the railroads of
the country hauled 750,323 cars OF
bltuminous coal, an increase OF 26. 9
per cent over June last year.
'ht 'tS iHiliVitS ire also DEONlu-
ing much more nearly ADEQUATE
transportation service for all classes
or freight Is indicated by the fact
that the unified car orders, or what
Is called the car shortage, shows a
reduction on June 30th Of nearly SO
per cent from the situation on May
LIST. The untitled car orders on May
1st were 148.627; on June 1st they
were 106, $40, and on June 3Oth they
had been reduced to 77,144.
I'm this emergency, when the rail-
roads are making the utmost effort
to give the maximum freight service,
1t is gratifying to the Railroads War
Board to be able to report the fine
cooperation they are receiving from
regulating bodies and shippers in all
parts of the country. The effect of
this cooperation and effort Is to be
seen In the foregoing statement of re-
suits"