Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1902 — RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RAILROADS

C. M. Hunt has been appointed general superintendent of the St. Louis, Memphis and Southeastern Railroad. The St. Paul Terminal and Transfei Company has been incorporated at St. Paul, with a capital stock of $150,000. The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad has put on a new sleeping ear service between Chicago and Eagle Grove, lowa. The Santa Fe has acquired possession of the California Eastern Railroad, which runs from Goffs to Manvel, a distance of twenty miles. Tlie directors of the Wabash Railroad met in New York and authorized the payment of the usual 3 per cent semi-annual interest on the debenture A bonds. The gradual evolution of an electric line between Milwaukee and Chicago has spurred the steam roads to renewed efforts in the direction of faster time. The Illinois Central will expend $lO,000,000 or more in double tracking and providing depots and shops on its lines between Fulton, Ky., and Memphis, Tenn. With the completion of work on the western division, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway Company will have practically a new double track main line through the State of lowa. . Some confnsion arises in counting the time to lie made by the Burlington fast train from Chicago to Denver, when the fact is not taken into account that nt McCook, in southwestern Nebraska, all tile watches are set back one hour on trains going west, There the mountain time begins and the central time ends. Geo. J. Charlton, general passenger agent of the Alton road, is in receipt of postal cards from Joliet, 111., bearing a recent date, reading as follows: "Five years ago I njied your road to Joliet nnd have never used any other since." The writer does not sign his name, but gives his, number, which indicates that he is still in the penitentiary. He seems have a keen appreciation' of the forms of “tramp” advertising. The South and West Railroad has brought the Ohio river and Charleston road and the purchasing company has authorized the issue of $900,000 in bonds to complete the construction. The plan Is to connect the Virginia coal fields with North Carolina points. Although there was a negative to the proposition to continue the homeseckers’ excursion rates during the slimmer months by the roads in the Western Ballenger Association several of these roads have given notice that they would put in those rates during the months of June to October, inclusive.