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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03
Z|zIfaH|'EIEs'AIEI!D!:L GHE4IS1 I

The Roadmasters and Maintenance
of Way association will hold its annual
convention at the Auditorium hotel
in Chicago. September 20 to %, in
elusive.
Canadian railway employees have
accepted wage reductions ranging
from Z n to 10 cents an hour. repre-
senting about a IL per cent cut, ap
plying to 10000 employees of the
Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk and
National lines.
The longest train ever reported was
that of POI ears on the New York,
New Haven & Hartford in 1914. The
train was about one and one-half
miles long and was made up of 1877
empties, four loads and a caboose. 1t
weighed 1852 tons and was drawn by
three locomotives. 1t made a run of
lthirty-two miles without a stop, when
the coupling parted behind the one
hundred and thirty-fifth car.
The Santa Fe has received authority
from the interstate commerce COM
mission to reduce freight rates from
California to eastern points on varied
farm and farm cannery products. The
decrease ranges from Is to So per
cent. Among the products affected
are canned milk. beans, rice, canned
salmon, canned fruit and dried fruit,
both in boxes and sacks.
The operation of freight trains on
Sunday in Georgia, which has been
allowed since 1917 by the railroad
! commission as a war measure, must
now be stopped, except in the case of
perishable or live freight, the commits
sion having revoked the permissive
order.
Ten peaches for every man, woma n
and child in the United States were
handled by the Central of Georgia
railway during the season just closed.
Approximately S,175 cars. filled with
! 3,S92,30O crates of peaches, were
| moved.
The Burlington has awarded a con-
| tract to the Burrill Engineering COM
pany for the construction of new
! grain elevator at st. Joseph, Mo.
The Union Pacific shops at North
! Platte, Neb., have been reopened aft
err being closed for seven months. and
| about AS per cent of the former en-
| ployes have been put back to work
| The Union Pacific is reported to be
working SO per cent of it's war time
force at its shops at Armstrong.
The Santa Fe has awarded a con-
tract to E. F. Ware of Ell Paso, Tex.
for additions to it's power house al
ments will cost about $150,00O.
The Interstate commerce commits
! sion has given the Santa Fe permits
sion to abandon a branch line to KAY
| county, Oklahoma
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03
ROADS EXPECT A BOOM
Carriers Buying Equipment and Con.
structing for Trade Revival.

Equipment and supply reports for
the last week showed numerous in
quiries, indicating that the carriers
are preparing to put their properties
in complete working order to handle
the expected traffic revival The Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
company is inquiring for ten Mikado
type locomotives and for 200 gondola
cars, and is also asking for bids for
the repair of 500 all-steel general sery-
ice cars; the Illinois Central is asking
for figures on the repair of 1850 gon-
dola cars. and the Picking Kalgan of
China is inquiring thru the car build
ers for 200 gondola cars of forty tons
capacity.
Other items in the equipment line
the last week include the Canadian
National railways, which will receive
bids at Toronto until Sept. IT for
100000 railway ties, and Mitsui &
Co., who are asking for bids for 1000
tons of sixty pound rail and 200 tons
of splice bars for the Japanese gov
eminent railway
In the field of railway construction
several companies are reported as ac-
tive. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cific will construct a new car repair
shop at Trenton, Mo-, with company
forces, while the Great Northern COM
templates the construction of new ore
loading docks at Superior, Wis, to cost
about $1,000, 900, replacing wooden
structures which are no longer ade-
quate. The Missouri Pacific has
awarded a contract for the construc-
ton of five car-repair sheds, to be
built at Crane, Mo-; Council Bluffs.
Sedalia, Jefferson City and Nevada.
The total cost of the work is estimated
at about $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03
CAN ESTIMATES Be REACHED?
Railway Earnings Still Fall Far Short
of Commissions Figures

The striking increase shown last
week in reports of railway net earn
ings for July has drawn attention
again to the question what prospect
there will ever be of earnings suffi-
cient to meet the estimates made by
when rates were increased exactly a
year ago. That calculation involved
an estimate of about $1,000, 900, 900
additional gross revenue from the
higher rates, whereas last weeks Of
ficia1 report showed gross earnings to
have been smaller by s65,0s0,000 in
the first half of 1921 than in the same
period of 1920. The decrease has been
continuous.
Even the gain in net income shown
for July by individual roads was
achieved altogether thru reduced ex-
penses, notably the lower wage scale
ordered by the labor board and APP
piled first in July. The larger com
panies, altho their net receipts show
great increase because of t h e
smaller expenses, also report such de-
crease in gross earnings ass 81 900
on the Pennsylvania, $6,407,000 on the
New York Central, and $2.313, 900 on
Tthe Union Pacific.
notwithstanding the large cut in ex-
penses and the consequent substantial
increase in net, the roads are still no.
where near the commerce commits
sion's estimate. That estimate reck-
oned a net annual income of about ST.
134,000,000 for all the railways, yet
in the first six months of 1921 the
actual net operating income of the
roads was only $141,74S,000. In June
the net income was s51,641,oo0.
whereas even the average for June in
the three pre-war years, on which the
war time government guarantee was
based, was $S3,000,0 600.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03
The WHY OF A SURCHARGE
Sleeping Passengers Occupy Double
Space and Pay for 1t.

The Santa Fe in its latest folders
makes the following explanation re-
garding sleeping car fares, including
the Surcharge:
"Surcharge included in the fellow
ing fares is railway charge of SO per
cent of the Pullman fare and is col
lected by the Pullman company, for
the railroad. account of passengers oc-
cupying cars of higher class and lin
tied capacity"
The explanation is made because
the company thought that the presen-
tation of a few facts about the sur
charge in sleeping cars may clear the
misunderstanding which exists and en-
able railway employees to explain the
situation to passengers in a satisfac-
tory way.
The charge for berths or seats in
sleeping or parlor cars is made only
for the accommodations occupied and
is separate and apart from the trans
portation charge. For the purpose of
illustration. the charge for occupancy
of berth in a sleeping car or seat in
a parlor car may, perhaps, be COM
pared to the charge one pays for ho-
tel accommodations.
The surcharge is an extra charge,
due to the fact that the cost of trans
porting passengers in sleeping and
parlor cars is relatively higher than in
| coaches, and because the passenger
occupies double the space the regular
| fare entities him to. The surcharge.
the way the railroad companies figure
| it, is about one-third of a cent per
| mile and for convenience sake is made
one-half the charge for sleeping or
parlor car accommodations. 1t is a
| transportation charge separate from
| the charge for sleeping or parlor car
accommodations and the revenue goes
entirely to the railroad company.
The railroads contend that the
! &c c1n
| car accommodations are reasona BILE
and just, and the surcharge is au-
| thorized by the interstate commerce
commission. 1t was levied after care
full study showed that sleeping car
| passengers were not paying their pro-
per share of transportation costs
The difference between the cost OF
| transportation in sleeping or parloT
cars and in coaches is shown by the
| following:
Coaches seat from fifty to eighty
| Sleeping or parlor cars berth or seat
from twenty to thirty-two passengers
The average weight of a coach is
about 100000 pounds.
Sleeping or parlor cars weigh from
10000 to 1850 pounds.
With the average load of twelve pas
sengers in sleeping or parler cars. and
| twenty-five passengers in coaches, and
these are the averages for all cars, the
railroad carries about 1900 pounds
weight per sleeping or parlor car pas
senger, and 1000 pounds weight per
coach passengers.
Based upon the relative capacity
and weight of equipment it costs the
railroads about three times as much
| to transport a passenger in sleeping
! or parlor car as in a coach. and the
railroads content that on this basis
the surcharge of one-third of a cent
per mile is, if anything. too low rather
| than too high.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03
ROADS MAKE CAIN
Decrease in Expenses Is Re-
sponsible, Report Shows.
With a Revival of Business
They Must Be Resumed.

An analysis of railroad operation for
the first six months of the year. just
completed by the bureau of railway
economics, shows that the increased
net earnings, as compared with the
same period in 1920, were due largely
to a decrease in expenses such as
would have to be resumed If business
were to revive toward normal. This
was especially noticeable in May and
June.
OF these economies 4 5 per cent, or
$44,74S,799, arose in June from reduc-
ton in operating expenses, and So per
cent, or $54,256 from deferring of
maintenance, both of right of way and
equipment.
1t is pointed out that a reduction in
transportation costs necessarily follows
a falling volume of business, but that
reduction in maintenance is merely
postponement of expenditures that
must be made later if the roads are to
be adequately maintained. The analy-
sis says in part:
1.-The number of railway employees in
March, 1921, was smaller than for any
period since the fiscal year 1915. Dur
ing the first quarter of 1921, the aver
age number was 1881 All, compared
with 1,993,524 in the corresponding
quarter of 1920. This was a reduction
of 3O2, 053, or 1872 per cent. Because
of this radical reduction in force, the
railways were able to reduce their
payroll for the quarter by $38, 1908 4,
or AS per cent, and this in spite of the
fact that they were paying the scale
of wages ordered by the railroad labor
board in July, 1920. which increased
wage rates about 81 per cent
slump Started in December.
Traffic in the fall of 1920, even I'M
der the new rates, made new high rec
ords The business depression became
marked in December. 1t came to its
height in January and February. The
total number of cars loaded with rev
enue freight during the first seven
months of 1921 ended July 81 was less
than during the same period of 1926
by 2,60O,S44, or 10.4 per cent. The
! totals were 24,SS9,05S in 1920 and 22,-
| 2SS.214 in 1921"
| The report of revenue passenger
miles shows a constantly increasing
rate of decrease during the first five
months of 1921. as indicated in the
| following table:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03
PUT ON A CATTLE SPECIAL.
Santa F7e VIII Aid the Industry IN the
Panhandle Country.

The Santa Fe has announced that
it will put on a special stock train
between Slaton, Texas, and Wichita,
which will open the whole Panhandle
cattle country to the Wichita market.
The train is called the .Slaton Spe-
ciaI," and is a resumption of pre-war
service 1t will leave Slaton. Texas
the southern extremity of the Santa
Fe, at noon every Saturday and Will
arrive at Wichita Sunday night at II
O'Clock. This cuts the distance be-
tween the two points to thirty-five
hours and is very important to the
Wichita cattle industry.
J. R. Koontz, assistant freight traf-
fic manager, says there is no occasion
for running the train farther than
Wichita, as there are enough regular
trains to handle the traffic north and
east of that point.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03

A patron stepped up to the coun-
ter at the office of the American Ex-
press company, 73O Kansas avenue,
one day this week and informed a
clerk that he wanted to ship a pack
age to Springfield, and asked what
the charges would be.
The clerk looked at the man and
smilingly called his attention to the
fact that there are Springfields in
Missouri, Maryland, Arkansas, Colo
RADIO, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana,
Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine,
Massachusetts,, Michigan. Minnesota,
Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York,
New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and
in about twenty-seven other states.
which Springfield do you want %
the clerk asked.
we'll" was the reply. you should
know dat I want to send it vichefer
way it ISIS de cheapest"
Altho It was a severe shock the
clerk has now fully recovered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03

four months I could do but little work,
had to lie down most of the time, was
nervous and could eat hardly anything,
but my husband was always reminding
me to take the Vegetable Compound,
which did. Of my eight children this
last one was the easiest birth of all and
am thankful for your Vegetable Com
pound. l recommend it to my friends
when I hear them complaining about
their ills. Mrs. M. NATALIE, 72 FIRE.
mont St., Springfield, Mass.
Sickly, ailing women make unhappy
homes, and after reading Mrs. Natale's
letter one can imagine how this home
was transformed by her restoration to
health. Every woman who suffers from
such ailments should give Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound fair trial.
1t is surely worth while.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03
PENNsY. MAKES NEW RECORD.

All previous records in both pas
senger train and American Railway
Express train performances on the
Philadelphia division of the PennsyI-
vania railroad were excelled during
the month of July. During that month
9S.5 per cent of all passenger trains
made schedule time or better.
In the same period, American Rail-
way Express trains ran S5.1 per cent
on time and e5.S per cent on schedule
time.
In a statement to the employees an
nouncing this record, E. J. Cleave
superintendent of the Philadelphia
division, "again extends congratula-
lions to all employees whose co-opera-
ton and efficiency produced these
splendid results"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03
RATES HAVE LITTLE EFFECT
Higher Tariffs Never Result in Re-
duced Traffic, Officials Say.

Agriculture is in no more serious
plight than other industries as a re-
suit of the present depression, four
vice presidents of western railroads
declared this week, before the inter-
state commerce commission at Wash
ington, during a hearing on the ques-
ton of reducing freight rates on grain
and hay.
The officials were Conrad E. Spens,
of the Burlington: S. H. johnson, of
the Rock Island; J. E. Woodwork, of
the Northern Pacific, and Edward
Chambers, of the Santa Fe.
Freight rates, the witnesses de-
clared, have but little effect on bust
ness generally. and advances in rates
have never resulted in a reduction of
traffic. Grain producers have made
no appeals to the roads for reduced
freight rates, they added, all such
appeals having come from govern
mental officials or agencies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03
CHARTER VICTORY HIGHWAY
State Wide Membership Campaign
VIII BE Put on Soon.

Will Be Put on Soon.
Authority to route, maintain and
otherwise develop a national highway
as a memorial to the men who served
in the recent world war, is given the
Victory Highway association by its
charter which was granted the asso-
citation by the state charter board,
Friday afternoon.
Plans for a statewide membership
campaign will be made by Ben Blow,
manager of the association. during the
next few days. Blow. who was for
merly connected with the California
Good Roads association, is expected to
arrive in Topeka tonight to take up
his new work. The highway is to be
developed the entire length of the
state. Nearly 5000 new members
have been secured by the association
thru a recent campaign in Colorado,
and the highways engineers have
completed their work as far east as
Denver.
Luther Burbank, famous horticul-
tural expert, has accepted an offer
to become member of the advisory
board of the association, an offer
which was also recently accepted by
President Harding.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03
COSTS UP
Santa Fe Paying S3,595,OOO for
an Order of Fifty.
Before the War Same Lot
Would Have Cost 81, $50, 900.

Persons who are inclined to protest
too strongly against the increased
railroad rates might change their tune
If they were to go into the business of
buying locomotives under the present
market prices. 1t would be a lot
cheaper to buy Fords. especially at
Henry's latest quotations.
When it comes to rate making, the
locomotive manufacturers have more
than doubled their charges since be-
fore the war, and the amount of mon
ey which the Santa Fe is having to
put up for any one of four small
groups of new engines, which it re-
Gently purchased, would put up To-
peka's new hotel and eliminate the
trouble of a bond issue.
What the company has to pay for
the entire lot would build two hotels,
an office building, the new Methodist
church. several apartment houses and
leave enough money for repairing the
city's streets. A fortune for the aver
age person is tied up in a single loco
motive.
Fifty Are Purchased.
The Santa FEES purchase calls for
fifty locomotives. which will cost the
company $3,595.0O0, an increase of
$1.915,OO0 over what the same order
would have cost before the war. or
more than 100 per cent. The engines
are now being delivered at the rate of
from two to five a day and several of
them have been consigned to the To-
pel1a shops.
Fifteen Mikado type freight engines
for the middle division cost $4,000
each, or total of $1.050, 1000. Before
the war the price of these engines was
5000 each or $495.0 900 for the group
of fifteen.
Ten Pacific type passenger engines
for the Missouri division cost SOS, 900
each or a total of $650,000. Before
the war these ten locomotives would
have cost only 100000 as the price
was 100000 each at that time.
81 ,125,OOO for One Lot.
The most expensive lot in the Santa
FEES order is fifteen Mountain type
passenger engines which will be
SLIPS, 900, or $3.50 each. The pre-
war price on this type was $35, 900
each, a difference of 100000 for the
lot. Eight of these engines are for
the New Mexico division and seven
will be sent to the coast lines.
A still higher price is being paid
for Santa Fe type freight engines for
the coast lines but only ten of them
are being received. They cost ST., 900
each or $4,000 for the ten. Before
the war these ten engines would have
cost only s36O,00O.
The total pre-war price of the en-
tire lot of fifty engines would have
been $1,6SO.0O0 against SO. 200
which the company is actually paying
now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03

During these six months railways
of Glass / should have earned s477,-
5000 in net operating income to at
tain to a 6 per cent basis. They
actually earned $12S,912, 900, a short
age of $34S,344.00O. or 10 per cent.
(These figures for the six months are
subject to slight change, but are vir-
tualiy completely"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03

alton, OCherWlSe l
would be a sickly
woman and could not
have any more chill
-dren on account of
my weakened con-
dition. l refused to
have the operation.
My husband asked
me to try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound to see
if it would not help
me For the first
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03
Old settlers, Picnic.

Old Settlers picnic at Riverside
Camp, seven and a half miles west
of North Topeka on Golden Belt road,
one and a half miles south of Kiro,
all day September Z. 1921. Music,
good speaking, boating, and entertain
ment for young and old. Good shade
with shelter in the event of storm.
Everybody invited.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03

Notwithstanding the. reductions of
expenditures, concludes the ANALYSIS,
the rate of return on the tentative
valuation of the railways. by months,
has been as follows, reduced in each
| case to an annual basis:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03
WANTED CHEAPEST WAY

Express Company Patron Not
Particular as to Which Spring
field Out of Many His Package
Went To.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03

E. v. King will have his studio open
Monday to take care of any laboring
people who are not working that day.
ADV.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03
WIFE TAKES
HUSBANDSADvICE
And Is Made Well Again
by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Springfield, Mass-''The doctor told
my husband that had to have an oper-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03
FOR CLEANING WHEAT
Ismert Hincke Milling Company
Makes Improvement at Plant.

The Ismert- Hincke Milling company
has installed a separator for cleaning
wheat at a cost of $500. This is the
first disc separator for this purpose
to be installed in Topeka.
The principle of the separator is
based on a series of discs, mounted on
a horizontal shaft, revolving thru the
grain to be cleaned. These miniature
pockets constructed on the same prin-
ciple as elevator buckets, and are
shaped so they will pick out wheat
alone. rejecting oats, barley and other
material and grain. There are from
1000 to $4,000 pockets on a disc.
1t is very difficult to separate the
wheat from the chaff and other grain
by the old roller method. The seDa-
rator is run by a 125-horsePower
motor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03

total of 1883, PA tons Of commercial
cargo was carried thru the Panama canal
during the last fiscal year, or 231a per
while the tolls amounted to 11,276,S90, or
32lA per cent more than any preceding
year.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-04-13
FLOWER ORDINANCE
PASSES ALDERMEN
Measure Only Requires Signature
of Mayor Ainslic to Make
IL 81 Inv

The iris is now almost the off,
cial flower of Richmond. The Board
OF Aldermen last night concurrcd in
the ordinance fixing 1t as the official
flower. Some little opposition de-
veloped early in the stage OF discus
sion of this ordinance. which was
gradually wiped out us various dele
cations OF citizens appeared before
tho committee having the flower
question in hand
When first introduced II was stated
that an effort on the par. OF the
James River Garden Club to work
up popular sentiment in rho question
pom in an afternoon paper had proved
a failure. Then. through Councilman
Morton and w. ID. Cridlin. of the
Travellers Protective Association, the
City Council was asked to take up
the project. The paper was referred
to the Committee on Ordinances. and
by that body to subcommittee con-
sisting of Alderman Winfree and
Councilmen Morton and Carpenter.
Several hearings were held. and the
consensus of opinion was that the
Iris would prove tho most suitable
flower because OF it's hardy proper
ties, its easy growth and it's cheap
ness.
Thomas S. Wheclwrght, president OF
tho James River Garden Club. APP
pcarcdJ bcfo-e the committee. accom-
panied by bcvy OF ladies', all OF
whom Advocated tho iris.
No wilt Is up to Mayor AinSlie.