The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-25
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Another cut in the force at the Rock
Island roundhouse at Liberal, Kan,
is reported. The car department
there, however, is taking on more men,
it is said.
Willis Curry. who has been clerk
of personal records in the Santa F'e
division offices at Dodge City, Kan,
has resigned to go into other business
at Roswell, New Mexico.
The Union Pacific has declared a
dividend of 21s per cent, quarterly, on
common stock, and 2 per cent on pre-
ferred, both payable on April l to
holders of record on March 1.
The statement of earnings of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad for the
twelve months ended December 81,
1921, shows a net railway operating
income of $21,853, SAL, against a de-
ficit of s4,466,041 in 1920.
Only two Katy employees in the Par
sons, Kan, district were killed during
the performances of duty in 1921,
compared with eleven in 1920, ac-
cOrding to figures announced a. few
days ago at the staff meeting held at
Fort Worth.
The locomotive shops of the NJ, K.
& t. roundhouse at Parsons, Kan,
have just been improved with $780,
600 worth of new machinery, and
100, 600 square fee of asphalt floor
ing costing $4,000.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works re-
port for the year 1921 net profits of
$5,044,096, equivalent to $1s.22 a
share on the s20,000,000 common
stock against net profits of s4,42S,51s,
or S15.14 a share on the same amount
of stock, in 1920.
The conference OF shop craft repre-
sentatives and officials of the M, x.
& 7. lines. which was to have been
held at ST. Louis, February 81, for
the purpose of drafting a working
agreement conference, has been post
poned Indefinitely.
Thirty per cent OF the 1902 in
juries on the Rock Island in 1921
were eye injuries, according to rec
ords just completed by the chief sur
geOn. THE majority of these acct
dents could have been prevented by
wearing goggles" he said.
The American Association of Rail-
road superintendent has decided to
hold its next annual convention at
Kansas City, August %, "a and 25,
1922. The convention was secured by
Kansas City largely thru the efforts
of G.. o. Brophy, division superinten-
dent of the Union Pacific.
The distance between railroad rails
is four feet, eight and one-ha1f inches
let with all the rest of the world to
walk or stand upon 5000 trespassers
in the United States each year find it
necessary to end their existence in this
small portion Of the earth's surface.
The fuel department of the Union
Pacific calls attention to the fact that
approximately % of the bituminous
coal in the United States is used by
the railroads. The Union Pacific con-
sumed about 100000 tons or five
and one-half tons every minute dur
ing the year 1921.
The Pennsylvania railroad in Jan
uary placed orders with steel COM
panies calling for the delivery of So
600 tons of steel rails during the pres
ent year. While this amount il con-
siderably smaller than that ordered
for delivery in 1921, the company an
nounces there will actually be avail
liable for use this year a greater ton
mage of rails than was placed in the
track last year.
The New York New Haven & Hart
ford railroad has asked the interstate
commerce commission for a govern
ment loan for 31,324000. The road
purposes, according to the application,
to use S26,25S,00e to pay maturing
loans made in Europe which fall due
April 1. OF the rest, 100000 is asked
to provide additions and betterments
to the road. and $2,066,O0O to buy
new equipment.
H. H. Brown, assistant general
manager of the Frisco. whose office
will be abolished March l, will prob
ably refuse to accept the position of
n EiO IL far 1T
the company, according to reports
Brown was formerly superintendent of
the northern division the Frisco
with headquarters at Fort Scott He
was granted a vacation February l
and is now visiting in California.
The NJ, K. & T. is establishing stor-
age tanks all over the system to take
care of the oil fuel which is rapidly
replacing Goa! fuel. The second 55, 900
barrel fuel oil storage tank to be
erected by the Katy in DeniSon, Texas
has been completed and is now being
used for storing oil. Four similar
tanks will be erected on the new Katy
terminal site west of Denison together
with the new shops under way at that
place.
The Pennsylvania campaign against
the practice of ticket scalping on its
lines has received the stamp of ap-
pIoNaI OF New Jersey grand jury
which has returned twenty-one indict-
ments charging scalping and conspir-
acy in the use of Communication tickets
which were tented to persons a rates
much lower than the regular railroad
routes. The cases just brought are
the first of a number which the rail-
road intends to prosecute, it is said.
The stockholders of the Illinois
Central. at an annual meeting on April
-, will be asked to authorize an is
sue of $5O.O0O,O00 preferred stock. to
be sold at various times for the pur-
pose Of electrifying the roads lines
in Chicago. reeonstructing its Chicago
freight and passenger terminals and
improving other property in that city.
The work which the issue is expected
to finance will spread over a period
of eighteen years, according to let