Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1903 — THE RAILROADS. [ARTICLE]

THE RAILROADS.

Freight tariff on grain from Chicago «as been advanced 11‘j cents per 100 pounds. , The Dolawnre. Lackawanna and Western Railroad has decided to increase the wages of practically all its employes. Circulars announce a proposed increase of $20,000,000 stock by the Chicago Great Western system to extend and improve its lines. The Illinois Central and Southern Pacific railroads have formed a traffic alliance on business from Chicago via New Orleans and the Pacific coast. Santa Clans paid a welcome visit .to the 4,7<X( engineers and firemen on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul system, increasing their pay about 10 ikt cent. The Chicago and Northwestern has inaugurated a through sleeping car service from Chicago to Spokane, Wash., by a special arrangement with one of their w estern connections. The New York. New llaven and Hartford Railroad k-'is purchased twenty acres of ground on the Commonwealth Fiats, Poston, oil which it will erect the world’s greatest freight terminal. James J. Hill's proposal to the govern* incut to transport soldiers from Chicago to the Philippines for $25 and freight at $S a ton is expected to cause the government to abandon the transport service. The authorities of Washington, 1). C., arc investigating charges that tin* coalcarrying roads are diverting coni from the national capital to other cities. Washington has a veritable coal famine. It is announced by Vice-President and General Manager Hays of the Grand Trunk thnt lie will make application to the dominion parliament for authority to extend the lines of thnt company Jo the Pacific const from Worth Bay. Rock Island engineers have completed the survey from Waurika, Ok., to Ardmore, a distance of fifty-two miles. The company will soon commence construction of this branch. It is reported that the company will build from Little Rock to St. Louis. Passengers on the Northwestern limited of tile Chicago and Northwestern Railway to Minneapolis and St. Paul the other night enjoyed the first strawberries of the season, which were served by the dining car department of that line. That oil can be successfully used by locomotives as a substitute for coal has been thoroughly demonstrated by two big systems of the West, the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe, and these lines Will be equipped with complete systems for furnishing fuel to the oil-huming locomotives thnt will succeed all those consuming coal.