Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1902 — RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RAILROADS

Section worker* on the Wabash system hare asked for an increase in pay. All switch yards along ths Alton road will soon be lighted by electricity. It is reported that the Wabash will build a line from Huntington to Indianapolis, Ind. One of the first booklets issued by the Rock Island advertising Its new Mexican line via Bl Paso is printed in Spanish. The committee on car service of the American Railway Association is to report at the May meeting a recommendation to substitute a per diem charge for the use by one road of the cars of another. The charge now is so much per mile covered by the car. The Santa Fe was selected as the official route for delegates to the Women's Club Federation meeting in San Francisco. Railroad people say the Lake Shore and the New York Central, with their lake lines, are seeking to establish themselves as a rapid transit freight route between Chicago and European ports. Recently 40,000 bushels of grain was transferred from a lake steamer in Buffalo to NewYork Central cars, taken to New .York and loaded on a steamer for Burope In forty-eight hours. Shippers consider this a record-breakins performance.