The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-22
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The Frisco has awarded a contract
for the construction of a new hospital
building to be erected at Springfield,
Mo. The building will cost approx
rnately 100000.
The area to be planted to melons
| this season along the Santa Fe from
Eagle Lake to Beileyille, Tex, will be
2,345. approximately so per cent in
crease over last season.
The Rock Island has just received
zoe composite wood and steel cars
! from the General American Car com
pany. These cars are forty-one feet
height of side which enables each car
to hold $4,000 pounds of coal.
The Katy will reopen its freight car
repair shops at Sedalia. Mo, next
Monday on a piece work basis, it has
been officially announced The shops
at Parsons. Kan, and Denison, Tex,
will not go on piece work basis at
present, the announcement added
Along with the s225, 600 division Of
flee building at Newton. the Santa F'e
has finally authorized the eonstruc-
ton of a new brick combined freight
and passenger station at Lyons, Kan.
Both were provided for in the annual
budget announced February 1.
Newcomb Carlton and Paul NJ.
Warburg have been elected directors
of the Union Pacific to succeed Otto
II. Kahn and Mortimer L. Schiff. who
resigned recently in accordance with
the interstate commerce commission s
ruling against interloeking director
ates.
The number of cars loaded with
v-nv airrI9f Il
ed April l showed a drop of over
10, 600 as compared with the previous
week, but an increase of 1913, 600 over
the corresponding week of last year
The total was S27.011 as compared
with 665,171 in 1921, and S5s,S27 in
1920.
F'ifty-seven employees were added 20
the Rock Island pension roll in 1921.
the annual report shows, the total
number on December 81 being SAT.
The pensions paid during the year
amounted to $155, 41s.24, making a
total, since the department was ere
ated, of $1,104,S06.01.
The Missouri & North Arkansas
railway has been granted a fifty-year
charter by the state of Arkansas. The
new company was organized to take
over the lines of the defunct Missouri
& North Arkansas railroad, operating
from Joplin to Helena, Ark, a dis
lance of 368 miles. 1t is stated that it
will again be in operation by May 1.
A picture of c. L. Sleeper, Topeka
station agent. appears in the April
edition of the Union Pacific Magazine
not as he looks today but he he did
when perhaps 2 years OLD. Nine other
photographs all showing Union Pa
eific agents "as they once looked"
appear in what the magazine calls its
puzzle picture. Readers are asked to
guess who they are and then look on
another page for the names.
The Illinois Central is preparing to
house 5000 of the $4,000 visitors ex-
pected to attend the triennia1 con-
ciave of knights Templar to be held
in New Orleans, April 24-27. There
will be hotel on wheels, consisting
of $50 Pullmans, and to provide the
necessary space eleven new tracks are
now being built. The sleeping cars
will be operated after the pattern of
a miniature city, with dining cars at
convenient Intervals. A section of
warehouse is being converted into a
temporary club house, containing
twenty-four shower baths. a three
chair barber shop, and a laundry
agency. Two locomotives will furnish
steam to heat the cars and the club
house.