The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24
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The railroads have made a wonder
full recordsduring the past few weeks
in the handling of the grain move
ment which has exceeded in volume
that for the corresponding period of
any previous year For the eight
weeks ending August 81, the loading
of grain and grain products was 1885,
S3s cars, as compared with 32,623 in
the corresponding period of 1920 and
3S1,736 IN 1919. From January 1 to
August 81 this year 1,486,954 cars
were loaded with grain and grain
products, as compared with 1,195,4S5
in the corresponding period of 1920
and 1.424,41 in 1919.
The former practice of shipping
monthly, semi-montly and weekly
periodicals by mail, instead of by
/ freight will be Te-established October
| l. The change, it is expected, will
save the government approximately
S26S,0OO annually in labor, rent and
! carriage. Nearly 1000 publications will
| be affected. At the time the freight
shipment plan was adopted in 1911,
mails were transported by rail entirely
on the weight basis, and the difference
| in the cost of transportation by freight
and passenger trains was material.
Since the adoption of payment by
space, and the general increase in
/ freight rates, conditions are the re-
verse of what they were; there is lit
tie difference in the cost of trans
portation between freight trains and
mail trains.
/ Rock Island officials at Topeka re-
port record breakig wheat and flour
movement since July 1, and while
| wheat shipments are now showing
some decreases, the flour movement
/ continues as heavy as ever ana Is caus-
I ing a big demand for cars. The
amount of wheat handled at Topeka
| for the year up to September 1 was
1883 cars as against 1,345 cars dur
! ing the corresponding period in 1920.
| Wheat handled in August, this year,
was 3s7 cars against 1877 in August
last year. In the same month, this
wear, the Rock Island handled 34S
cars Of flour at this place, compared
with 1873 cars a year ago.
Kansas and Missouri bankers will
! ride to the annual convention of the
American Bankers association at Los
! Angeles in true-de luxe fashion. The
Rock Island is providing two special
! trains for them which will be made
up of the finest equipment ever gath
cred together by a railroad. Each
train will consist of eight coaches, in
Guiding six Pullmans, a diner and one
buffet library observation car. Light
! lunches, barber service and shower
| baths will be provided as we'll as the
latest market quotations and other
important news by telegraph. The
| two trains will leave Kansas City. at
| 1890 o'clock the morning of Septem-
| Der 20, and will leave Topeka at 1890
! o'clock. The first plans called for
! only one SPECIAL train but on account
of the large number of reservations
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rangeme nts for two trains have been
made.
The Cincinnati Inquirer in 1882 car
ried this item: THE Union Pacific
trains are making a little faster time
for fear the goats will como along
and eat the paper wheels"
F. E. Nipps, general agent for the
Missouri Pacific at Topeka, leaves to-
day on a vacation of two weeks. He
| announces he will visit Chicago, De
troit, st. Louis and a number of other
points.
Two Union Pacific conductors, who
were well known on the Kansas di-
vision, died recently. They were w.
| H. Armstrong and L. A. Decklmayer.
Each of these men had been in the
service of the company for many
years and were well known in Topeka.
Conductor Tom CahiIl. another Union
Pacific conductor, also died recently
after thirty-eight years continuous
service on the Nebraska division.
The Missouri Pacific has recently
added to it's equipment fifty locomo-
| tives built by the American Locomo-
tive company. They include fifteen
six-wheel switches, twenty-five Mikad do
type, five Pacific type and five Noun
tain type engines, none of which types
are new on that road.
The transcontinental railroad lines
have agreed on the advisability OF
making important reductions In
freight rates on iron and steel prod
ucts from eastern points OF manufac-
ture to the Pacific coast, and efforts
are being made to get the concurrence
of the lines east of Chicago to the
reductions so that they may be put
into operation on october 3, when the
new westbound transcontinental rate:
become effective.