Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1903 — THE RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE RAILROADS

The Texas and Pacific is to hare a telephone line throughout the length of its system. The general offices of the freight department of the Erie have been removed from Cleveland to Chicago. Executive officers of the Western Passenger Association are making au effort to devise a satisfactory form of interchangeable mileage books. At a meeting of the directors of the Georgia* -Florida and Alabama at Bainbrhlge, Ga., it was determined to extend the road south from Tallahassee to Jacksonville. The Chicago, St. Pan!, Minneapolis and Ohio Kailway has announced a reduction of fifty-five minutes in the running time of the limited from the Twin Cities to Chicago. East-bound lines report a very satisfactory condition of affairs both as to the volume of traffic handled and the rate situation. Business taken in aggregate on all roads is ahead of last year. One of the exhibits in the Transportation building at the world's fair at St. Louis will be a model railway ticket office in full operation. Tickets to any part of Che world may be bought at the office and baggage checked and sleeper tickets secured. The Minnesota Supreme Court has upheld the action of the State Railroad Commission in ordering the Northern Pacific Railroad Company to operate its main line between St. Paul and Duluth through the Twentieth avenue station ia Dnluth, instead of through West Su.i . . . ... , .