Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1904 — THE RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE RAILROADS

Vice President Brown of the New York Central and Lake Shore has denied that changes among high officials are pending or that there is any lack of harmony between W. K. Vanderbilt and executive officers.

It has been estimated that where $1 has been invested in railroads in the United States, the value of agricultural products has been increased $lO. The steel rail and the steam engine have been pioneers in development The annual report of the minister of railroads for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1903, shows that the gross earnings of the (steam) railroads iu Canada for tho year were $96,004,527, as compared with $88,066,503 for the previous year, an increase of $12,398,024. The California Supreme Court, by a majority opinion, has decided that a railroad ticket is not p contract. It also decided that transportation companies may make roles and regulations beyond what appears on the face of a ticket and that passengers must comply with them all. ''The court held that a ticket is more of a receipt than a contract. A line of steamers between New Orleans and Colon, Panama, is to be inaugurated by States Fruit Company and is expected to carry large ahipments of commoditiea from the middle West to Central America, which now goea by way of New York. The Southern Pacific has arranged what la termed a “free traveling library.* It ia planned to dfatributo the dray load of paper and other periodicals that reaches the literary department daily among employes and residents along the line in the sparsely settled West