Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1905 — THE RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE RAILROADS

China is almost nine times as large In area as Japan, yet Japan has more than twice as many miles of railroad as has the Celestial empire. The first elevated railroad in Greece is about to be built from the coast to a magnesite mine four miles inland. Tha new road will, however, carry freight and not passengers. Announcement ,is made by the Rock Island-Frisco systems of the Inauguration of a daily through tourist car St. Louis to Los Angeles, via Frisco line to Medora, Ivan., theneo Rock Island-Bl Paso line to California. Representatives of the big soft coal mines have asked the roads entering Chicago to generally wuive the charge made for switching cars in and around that city. This charge varies, running from anything a road can get to $3 per car. The rail and ocean rate from Chicago to Manila, P. 1., has been reduced $25 in each direction. This is the result of action taken by the steamship line of tha Canadian Pacific railroad, which recently gave notice that it would waive the $25 arbitrary chnrgo made between the Japanese and Chinese ports nnd Manila. Tha American lines were forced to meet tha Canadian Pacific competition. Hereafter engineers and train dispatchers on the Pennsylvania lines must curb their dispositions to make up time with delayed trains, for un order lias gone forth from the management of thia system that not to exceed twenty minutes of lost time may be made up on ona 4b'is lon. The Wabash Is the first railroad to bow to the new Indiana law, which provides for a rate not to exceed 12 per cant of the first-class fare for 100 pounda of excess baggage, with a minimum charge of 25 cents for baggage not exceed tog 200 peuiul'i in weight