mother wanted her babies with her— I
»truck right in the heart of several ° ^ r * period of yetr*’ but
frigerator cars during the peak of the
grape shipping season. It did not
,
,
»onei s u n s , formance In heavy car I n a r lin v in approach in extent the shortage of
my wool socks, caps, blankets, night- obtaining a high dally mileage of 1922 and did not appear until a great­
es.and all the other articles that go freight cars, and in keeping locomo- er tonnage of grapes had been ship­
to make up infant wardrobes were fives and cars in repair, was uniform- ped up to that time than in any Pre­
vious year.
soon accum ulated.
| ly better
‘
- than in previous years.
“One would think that we who have !
The same effort for Increased effi­
Campaign Planned
been in the Salvation Army service
When it became apparent that 1923 ciency is being made In 192-1 accord
Ing to Southern Pacific officials and
SO many years would become harden­
would be a year of unusually heavy Improvements and additions are be­
ed,” Captain Heisinger commented af­ traffic, the railroads Joined in a cam
ing steadily made over the system
ter the woman had hurried away with paign to speed up transportation
her precious bundle. “We see misery They set definite high standards of
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i nd suffering—the worthy and un­ operating efficiency as a goal for the « ♦ I
individual
roads
to
reach.
These
stand
worthy, the grateful and ungrateful_
but there are times—well, anyway, I’ll ards were: 30 tons of freight per
car loaded; 30 miles per car per day;
remember the look in that mother's 85 per cent of locomotives in service­
face a long time.
able condition and not requiring heavy
repairs by October 1, the start of the
season of heaviest traffic, and 95 per
cent of freight cars in serviceable
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condition, by October 1.
ood
housewives.
Flannel
sk irts
S. P . Freight Sets
a N ew Record
,
<,e8P|t*
S,Outi?ern P»clflc’8 »»23 per-
In die Days of j
I PeorRichard I
—
buing Bachelltr
Southern Pacific bettered these
standards In every Instance except in
^ Y H E N Benjamin
the average carload, and Its perform­
Over a Million Carloads ance
in this respect was a remark­
Franklin said to I
ably good one and not to be measured
Moved in 1923
King Ge ge th e
by the goal set for all the railroads
because of Southern Pacific’s large
Third: “If anyone
Western shippers loaded 1.050.908 tonnage of light loading, perishable
cars of freight on Southern Pacific’s products, a full car of which averages
supposes that I could
Pacific System lines In 1923, an In­ about fourteen tons
p re v a il upon my
crease of almost 200,000 cars over the
The average tonnage per car loaded
loading lor 1922, which was 851,942 In 1923 was 27.6 tons which was an in
countrymen to take
cars.
crease of seven tenths of a ton over
black for white or
The 1923 loading, according to J, the excellent record made in 1922
The
company
made
Its
freight
cars
wrong
for right, he
H. Dyer, general manager of the com­
pany, was the heaviest In the history travel twelve miles farther each day
does not know them
than the goal set for the railroads as
of the company.
a whole, getting an averag-, dally
nor me,” is the period
If all the freight cars loaded on the mileage per car of forty-two miles
company’s Pacific System In 1923 were In one month, an average of 47.3 miles
Mr.
Bachcller has
coupled up with the locomotives nec
per car per day was obtained The
essary to move them and with a pro
chosen for his new
average for 1922 was 36.8 miles.
portionate number of cabooses, they
Equipment
In
Repair
romance
— the fight
would make a train 8.800 miles in
Southern Pacific, during 1923 aver­
length long enough io extend around
of our fathers for lib­
aged 88.5 per cent for the number of
the United States from Portland, Ore
gon. through Chicago. Buffalo. New locomotives In serviceable condition
erty. Dramatically in­
York. Washington, New Orleans. Los and not needing heavy repairs as com
volved with the his­
Angeles, San Francisco and back to pared with a percentage of 86.5 in 192”
Portland, with about 400 miles of cars In only one month did the company
torical
incidents and
left over.
have less than 85 per cent of Its loco
figures is the beautiful
The figures cited give some idea of motives in serviceable condition, the
the prosperity and productiveness of goal set by the railroads as a whole
love
story of a boy
the western states, for these cars were for October 1. Jn only threp month9
did
the
company
have
less
than
95
loaded In the states of Oregon. Cali­
and a girl.
fornia. Nevada. Utah. Arixona and c ’ n m r 1 ° f C‘elght Car’ ln “ " ‘< *«ble
condition,
the
national
goal
by
Oc­
New Mexico The site of the Imagin­
Here is the human
ary train also gives an idea of the tober 1. The average for the year
story of our struggle
»51 P*r cent a , compared with
enormous task performed by the
Southern Pacific Company In handling •3.65 per cent in 1622.
for independence and
ihla traffic, which was moved quickly
Another Improvement In perform-
Toad
«’hl8.
'"
,h*
Kr°
3>
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e
and efficiently, without congestion or
the part Benjamin
general car shortage.
r . , L h^ a; ' rn^
pec
r
’r
Franklin
played in it.
Southern Pacific, as one of the
haul
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°1
moUT‘
leading railroad systems of the coun
iry, has had a consistently good rec­ haul a heavier load.
This is onr new story, beginning
ord in operating efficiency, extending 1 While there was a shortage of re­
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next week