The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-23
SANTA FE'S SPEED
Railway Makes Big Gain in
Business This Year.
Handles II Per Cent More Than
in Record Year of 1918.
RESTORING NORMAL SERVICE
Team Work of Officials and
Employees Is Effective.
Santa Fe Has 41,259 Covered
Cars ON Other Lines.

Freight cars loaded on Santa Fe
system rails and received by the COM
pany from connecting lines to be
transported to destinations on or be-
yond Santa Fe rails from January 1,
to August 81, inclusive. for three years
show the following totals. by years:
IDS ..-...........-...-..-. 9J601
1Jl9 -......... SJ9,1tt5
1920 Observation-Disclosures. O74 ,264
This means that the Santa Fe han
died % per cent more business in the
eight months period this year, repre-
scented by carloads, than it did in the
corresponding period last year. and
11.2 per cent more than it did in the
corresponding period of the company's
record year of 1918.
The Santa FEES shortage of covered
equipment on June p, this year, was
1889 cars; on September Is, the
shortage was 5,zS3 cars, or a reduction
of 1886 cars in ten weeks
In view of these facts. the Santa Fe
feels that it is making progress toward
the restoration of normal service ac-
cording to an information bulletin is
sued from the office of The Earth,
the company's agricultural and indus
trial paper. The performance de-
scribed, the bulletin says, has been ac-
ficers and employees organized by di-
visions. and the cooperation of ship
pers with the division organizations.
When the Santa Fe was returned to
corporate control, railroad men who
have to do with the movement of
freight, and all regular shippers, were
provided with detailed information i'm
bulletin form and in statements pre-
scented personally by company repre-
sentatives showing that whatever i'm
provement was to be made in the serv-
ice this year would have to be brought
about with the equipment on hand,
for the reason that additional locomo-
tives and cars could not be manufac-
tured and terminal facilities could not
be extended in time to take care of the
country's 1920 transportation needs
Departments Speed Up.
Due to the efforts described, all de-
partments of the railroad were able to
speed up their work, including the
shopmen. who worked overtime to
repair locomotives and cars. Ship
pers generally promised to and did
load heavier and save time in load
ing and unloading.
The Santa Fe company, therefore.
is committed to the policy of localizins
its public relationship activities by
bringing the division officers and en-
ployes into an understanding with
gram, the railroad man finds himself
in a frame OF mind to take care of
his customer to the best of his ability.
and the shipper reciprocates by going
to the limit to make every car set out
for him perform its full part in the
general movement of freight traffic.
A survey of the equipment of the
Santa Fe lines east of Albuquerque
September Is showed that 41,259
covered cars belonging to the COM
pany were on the rails of foreign lines.
classified as follows: Box. 26.040;
furniture. 1852; stock. 5.6O1; refrig-
orator. 6,236.
ReSorts for the same date last year
showed that there were 4O.46O Santa
Fe covered cars on foreign lines,
classified as follows: Box, 25.513;
furniture 3,457; stock. 1859; refrig-
orator. 6,621. In other words, there
were 799 more Santa F'e cars off the
company's lines September Is this
year than there were on that date
in 1919.
On September l 3 there were 20.573
foreign line covered cars on Santa Fe
rails classified as follows: Box,
1878: furniture, Sci; stock, 1863; re-
fr!gerator, 1850.
Last year. same date. there were
25,572 foreign line covered cars on
Santa F'e rails, classified as follows:
Box. 1882: furniture, $50; stock,
1880; refrigerator, 2,004; or 1894
less foreign line covered cars on Santa
Fe rails September 1 8 this year than