Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1901 — THE RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE RAILROADS

Articles of incorporation for the Cairo, Paducah and Northwestern Railway have been filed. It is said that not a locomotive for immediate delivery can be purchased In the United States. Gross earnings of the Chicago and Alton for October were $847,800, an Increase of $47,307. Five heavy locomotives suitable for freight or passenger service have been ordered by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois. New winter uniforms have been presented to all trainmen of the Louisville and Nashville without cost to the employes. A train load of children from a New York orphan asylum arrived in Chicago the other day over the Wabaifli and were taken west by the Rock Island to Vinton, lowa. The executive officers of the Western roads have appointed George W. Ristine and C. A. Parker a pass committee to present a plan for limiting the issuing of passes. The Oklahoma, Texas nnd Gdlf Railway, to run from Kingfisher, via Oklahoma City and Coal Gate, I. T., to Paris, Texas, has been incorporated at Oklahoma City. A tourist sleeping car is now operated between Chicago and Los Angeles, Cal., once a week over the Burlington. The car departs from Chicago every Tuesday and runs via Kansas City. A check for $50,000 has been given to Mrs. P. T. Downs of the St. Paul by the Great Northern Railroad. Mr. Downs, her husband, assistant general superintendent of the road, and her son were recently killed in a wreck on the Great Northern. The Mobile nnd Ohio lias inaugurated Its daily line of through Pullman sleeping car service between St. Louis and Mobile, New Orleans and Jacksonville. The traffic over the Grand Trunk Railway system to the summer resorts located on their line daring the past season has been somewhat phenomenal, especially the heavy tourist travel that made the Highlands of Ontario- their objective point. From statistics compiled to date over 25,000 passengers were carried Into the northern districts during the past summer from points all over the continent