The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-03
FAIR IS spur
TO INDUSTRY
AND BUSINESS
Hundreds of Men Helped to
Jobs: Trade Increases;
Rail Travel Booms.
BIZ Times Special

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CHICAGO, July 3.-With pas
senger traffic by rail, air and water
doubled, and in some instances
tripled, since the opening of the
Chicago worlds fair, thousands of
additional workers have been placed
on the payrolls of transportation
agencies throughout the United
States, it was revealed today in a
comprehensive survey.
Virtually every railroad line serv-
ing Chicago from all parts of the
United States is operating special
trains and extra sections on regular
schedules. For the first time in
months, traffic managers are facing
difficult problems in getting adj
equate equipment to handle in
creased business.
This passenger travel increase, to-
gether with increased freight traffic,
has resulted in the recalling of
thousands of workers to railroad
shops, yards and depotS, as well as
additions to train crews.
Helps Air and Lake Travel
The same situation prevails with
motor coach lines, air lines, and
Great Lake steamship lines, sharing
in the ever-increasing Worlds Fair
travel.
So great are the passenger lists
for Great Lakes vessels that several
ships, out of service for months.
some for years, are being placed in
service.
One Great Lakes Steamship off,
cial predicts, with a great deal of
certainty, that the port of Chicago
passenger lists this summer will
exceed those of Atlantic seaports,
including New York City.
While Chicago is the focal point
of this great activity in the trans
portation world, the huge benefits
being derived affect business vol
ume throughout the United States.
perhaps even more than in Chi
cago.
Many Get Work
In addition to added employment
provided railroad workers, motor
coach lines daily are increasing pay
rolls, with additional drivers and
porters to handle extra sections on
the regular schedules, while lake
steamship lines are employing whole
ship crews to man the additional
vessels being put back into service.
Air lines are finding it necessary
to use a greater number of pilots
and mechanics to handle increased
air travel.
The influx of automobiles from
every state in the Union to Chicago
has resulted in profitable business
throughout the nation for gasoline
filling stations, hotels, restaurants,
tourist camps and merchants.
Wholesale houses all over the
country have been pressed for sup
plies for all forms of transporta-
ton, together with increased local
business brought about by travel
through the various cities.
Merchants Are Benefited
Merchants at the point of origin
of worlds fair visitors are exper-
fencing substantial increases in bust
ness, as the prospective fair visitors
outfit themselves with new cloth
ing and other personal effects to at
tend the fair.
The number Of new automobiles
which arrive in Chicago daily from
every state in the Union indicate
a new buying squirt in the motor
vehicle field. Exposition visitors in
large numbers are purchasing new
cars to drive to the fair. This new
buying squirt already has been re-
fected in the automotive business,
since auto manufacturing plants
have been increasing payrolls sub
Stantially during the last thirty
days.
In the Chicago terminal district
of the New York Central, approx
mately 300 men have been put back
to work since June /. In addition,
increased working days of approx
mately 1000 employees amount to
three and a half days a month.