Show TRACES Of PANIC GONE Railroads Are Unable to Handle the Great Volume of Business Offered I i It Is a question ot of handling the busl busi business ness offered and not of getting It that confronts the railroads at present was I the summing up or of the observations of Leon Engstrom agent for the Pennsylva Pennsylvania nia lines during his trIp east and from which he returned yesterday Mr lIr Engstrom spent several days In Chicago Chi Chicago cago in conference with his superiors following the annual custom Every railroad system in the ea east t he heald said ald is 18 finding itself almost at wits end to care for lor the business offer oUe The veather eather has teen bad and extremely cold and this added to the unusually heavy traffic has worked severe hardships Some idea of at the business can be gained in the tact fact that for the last three months iti in 1961 1009 the traffic exceeded the similar period of oC 1907 That was the high stand standard standard ard before the panic o or 1903 and It means that not only has the country recovered from the panic but has gone far In advance ad vance ance of the business previous to 1903 |