The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-02
Railroad NetOs of Week
VERNON E. BUNDY
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The biggest shipments which were
ever made out of the Grand Lake coal
area of New Brunswick in one day
occurred recently, train of thirty
eight cars of coal arriving at Fred
ericton and Grand Lake Coal & Rail-
way company from Mimic. S..
This is the .'betwixt and between
season. for passenger traffic to the
Pacific coast. The summer vacation
lists are already there and are not
ready to come back yet. The winter
trippers haven't started to flee the
Eieors of the Northern climate.
The cover page of the September
issue of 1.-The Earth" Santa Fe in
dustrial and agricultural magazine,
carries a photograph of the huge cot
state house in Topeka, with the cap
ton, 1.-THE Best Loved Tree in Kan
sas."
An even hundred names of employees
who were relieved from active duty
under the pension regulations was
added to the Pennsylvania. railroad
Roll Of Honor effective July 1. 1922.
OF these, eight had each served the
Pennsylvania system over fifty years.
There are now 6,S93 names on the
pension list. Since this department
have been paid in pensions out of the
funds of the railroad.
Identification of the Harbor Rail-
way Terminals at Montreal, Canada,
with total trackage of fifty-eight
miles, is proceeding, and it is expected
that by the end of September forty
two miles will have been electrified.
The remaining sixteen miles will prob
ably be completed next season. ac-
cording to a statement issued by M.
P. Fennell, manager of the Montreal
harbor commission. Electric 1ocomo-
tives of a type especially suited for
harbor work will be purchased by the
commission
Tourist travel over the Union Pa
cific TO Yellowstone park has broken
all records in this, the fiftieth year Of
the parks establishment. On Sunday,
July %, the Union Pacific carried 757
tourists to the West Yellowstone gate
way, the largest number ever arriving
there on one day in the history Of the
park. According to the latest bulletin
of the Union Pacific. a new geyser has
made its appearance in the park, and
performs" every twenty minutes. The
new geyser is located 800 feet south
of the Giantess.
American railroads claim that they
have reduced their summer tourist
rates to more nearly the pre- war basis
than the European roads have done.
A tabulation contained in the latest is
sue of the Union Pacific monthly bull
letin says that American summer rail-
rates compare with the 1914 summer
rates as follows: To California and
the. northern Pacific coast, % per cent
higher; to the Yellowstone national
park, 28 per cent higher; to Colorado,
40 per cent higher, and to Utah, AZ
per cent higher.
In the past nine years the safety
has reduced the number of the en-
ployes killed in line of duty from fifty
one, killed in 1913, to twelve killed in
1921. The per cent of employees killed
in line of duty was reduced on that
road from .0026 per cent in 1913, to
.0005 per cent in 1922. The same re-
duction has taken place in the num-
Der Of employees injured. There were
1, 4S9 employees injured on the road,
in 1913, and but 521 in 1891. This
in spite of the fact that the average,
number of employees in 1919 was 49,
s56 and in 1921. was 24,1o4, an in
crease Of Alas.
Switzerland has been more sue.
cessfuI than any other country in
capitalizing' its mountain scenery for
profit" says the September issue of
1.-The Earth" Santa Fe magazine.
Before the war estimates placed the
revenue derived by the Swiss people
from tourist travel as high as $35-
100000 a year. Colorado is nearly
seven times as large as Switzerland,
and its mountain area 10 fully six
times as great 1t has at least forty
two peaks that tower more than A.
600 feet above sea level, while Swift
erland has but eight. It has fully 500
peaks 10000 feet high and over, while
Switzerland has less than one-tenth
as many
A party of 125 people, delegates to
the American Association of Travelling
Passenger Agents convention, will ar
rive at Montreal, Canada, on the
morning of September 9 from New
York, Boston and other Atlantic coast