| Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS hran aCer raymond D wells of the wells bargo express company at kansas city and u wife ife are at tho the kenyon in yesterday lie he said 1 I rim am out here heie on a periodical inspection trip IL a duty duly m aich takes me ine over quite nn extended territory four times a acar car my district includes missouri nebraska kansas tennessee louisiana texas a 9 Ar kannan oklahoma in indian dill territory mew mexico colorado UZa Uta hand wyoming in all ili this territory our business for lost last may was 35 per cent greater than tho the business for the corresponding month of 2698 our june bu bulisa was ZO 0 per cent bettor better than in june july was 20 per cent bet let and in utah our july business was 23 15 per cent hotter better than in the same earne time last year the occasion of tile the laigo balge liy biguri was nas the tremendous fruit in increase cheuse creuse the increase in I 1 r has been very considerable onside rable all over she middle west our business in tho the we west st has been highly gratia ing so an I 1 am nye well satisfied with mith the outlooks outlook out looks i we are now a dally daily train of nine to twelve cars out of new york to kansas city and from thence hence west thore there is run a train of four to a six cars I 1 to colorado springs and albuquerque wo we are making a specialty of handling perishable freights in refrigerator friger ator cars and und find that blanch of our business extending there will bo be 1 a L v ory busy season in melons in arkansas L oklahoma and the rocky ford district jn in colorado our ollices are in el eats ing in number as our business la Is steidley stet dlly growing evelym everywhere here I 1 have been prosperity seems sc ems to be in full bloom kansas will have the largest corn crop ever harvested why by ih crop la Is estimated rt at 00 bushels and at 35 cents this will amount to something iowa ioma and nebraska will bo be correspondingly fa bored missouri url has largo large crops while northern oklahoma and indian territory are blessed with a wonderfully big wheat crop yes tho the country Is in a wonderfully fine condition john G Q drinnin whose official title Is district attorney Atto incy ineY of the illinois central railroad Is a guest at tho the kenyon in conversation last evening he sald said the illinois central is ie one of the best managed railway proper ti bics tics in tho the world it Is systematized floor top to bottom and thorough thoroughness noss and good order are maintained in all its departments this alls fact was waa made potent ot during the worlds fair in chicago by actual turnstile count SOu OOOO people boarded our trains at the van doron buron street station while ublia the fair we wim let in operation and of 0 all this multitude only three passengers were injured the central has a system etem of miles this Is 2000 less than the santa fe but our mileage Is all through a highly cultivated and populated country while tile the santa ITO fe traverses tracers many mites m lies of 0 absolutely unproductive and uninhabited country at our twe twelfth I 1 fth street building in chicago are arc employed GA C i m men ell in cook coun county ty our employees number tho the entire illinois stall numbers souls and the en ell tire system the central pays one fifth of the railway taxes of 1111 illinois lz still and in we have paid the state over or 44 more than the valuation alu atlon tion of all the state institutions through the efforts of stephen A douglas there was incorporated a pro cislon in the organic law of the state to the effect that the illinois central should pay 7 per cent ot of lift its gross a earnings to tho the state in lieu of alejo alte taxes this we me have acne without a kick and have not missed a a dividend for thirty five fio seara eurs our dividends are 2 per cent semi manually our capitalization Is and we me ar are C doing a business of per year our right of way may and real esbit estate te in cook county if sold today would bring enough to redeem rc every dollars worth 0 of f stock at present prices so you will N ill see boe the central has no watered stock the road la Is doing 20 per cent more business this year than last the illinois central Is sending grain I 1 to england vla new orleans cheaper than it can be shipped to new york by hauling it straight through to yew new orleans and loading it through the big elevators cleva iora onto tramp steamers for fop ocean carriage new york does not like this and complaints have been made against the road which are still pending but the complaints wont hold I 1 think we fill these tame same trains that are emptied at new orleans full of northbound fruit largely bananas there are no DO bills of lading carried by the conductors who he aro are held responsible for so many cars of fruit bills of lading and all other such papers go by wire and as the central tas fas a gt great force of operators this Is dono done without trouble and here Is a curious thing one of our operating orn olne calls alls has in his office a large board full of holes in which are placed pegs each peg cepres represents L ants a car and these pegs are moved from one hole to another to correspond with milli the movements of the cars thus it when hen a shipper calls and says 1 I had a car of fruit leave new orleans on such ind and such a date can you tell me where it Is the ca car r number being asce ascertained r bained it Is immediately located on the board by its appropriate peg dee great scheme it conditions of the country 7 well they ore are simply immense Imi rense A ATI f along tho the una line ot of our road the crom and particularly ticul arly the corn are booming and it Is gard to be a mond wonderful erful year the Illin rAn central runs into lama wisconsin indiana and to louisville iii hero connection Is made with mith th the c ohio I 1 am out here 0 on n a pleasure trip and to see se that my m y friend judge burton of salt lake continues continue right side bide up with alth care 01 k kannas Ka nyia so BO I 1 am told by one whom I 1 regard AS good authority will mill harvest a crop of corn this hla year amounting to nearly bushi boshis bus hIs ls said eald a a prominent rock luland island 0 from donver denver at the Knuti foid list flight it Is tile the biggest crop since the war I 1 A went ent dom down n into lite norton county kansas kanas as recently to RO go hunting with a party but gra gracious cloua when we me got on off the train wo me found ourselves ours elvea stalled in boundless bound ta fields of corn towering a away 1 above our heads well we ave seve severally ra ws ly and individually looked each other over ever and 4 agreed wo we were not in jt it there was no lie it ue trying bryin were to chase quail through that country and we and the same a tate of 0 things obtains obtain along tho the lines lince of the rock R 0 ck island road clear through not only aith uh regard 0 0 corn but other crops our rolling it stock and motive power are pushed to tile tho utmost and no cars care ore are allowed t ore if the roid road proper that can possibly sHibly po pol sibly cje 1 e kept at home the company Is doing some building in ill indian ter territory tills year and one bri branch laich mill run to fort sill but just whan the march south of ct fort worth to one of the gulf polls will begin ly ia one of those things that no one outside 0 of tho the general offices at chicago knows anything about I 1 have been up in montana and find an int condition of obtains up un there as aa el elsewhere aro are an right in utah also so 60 Is that thai lake I 1 had a bath in it today oliver testimonial concert A testimonial concert to miss lilian oliver will be riven given next tuesday night in the first congregational church the following local artists aill appear mrs mra C G plummer cr mrs louise boyden aliss lennie rutt ruff prof thom radcliffe A G 0 T S ashworth john robinson john held and mine fmc Swen sons ladles ladies chorus of 0 filly ty erfle A desire has been expressed that list th the cl chorus 1 orus sing the spinning song bone f from rom the ill e I 1 flying dutchman |
