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...there were 48 "Pullmans" operated in the U. S.-over the Chicago & Alton, Michigan Central, Burlington, Great Western of Canada and the New York Central. The Pullman Co., then as now, owned all its cars, shared haulage fees with the railroads. Railroads gave up their own sleeping cars for the sake of the better "Pullmans...
Sorting mail at the Burlington Ave. Station, Boston, last week, Postoffice Clerk Frank W. Steele came upon a suspicious-looking package, five inches long, four inches wide. Wired to the parcel was an envelope, with the address "Mr. Governor of Massachusetts" written in an illiterate hand. Mr. Steele pitched the bundle to one side, continued sorting mail...
...tunnel, named after David H. Moffat, famed railroad builder, is scheduled for completion in August. It will be used by the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad and probably leased to the Burlington and other lines. It shortens the route between Denver and Salt Lake City by 176 miles, cuts a 4% grade to 2%. Tunnels are usually thought of as underground things. The Moffat Tunnel is up in the air to the extent of 9,000 feet above sea level; but it is still 4,000 feet below the summit of James Peak. Drillers and dynamiters have been at work...
...will behind this consolidation is that of Arthur Curtiss James, largest owner of railroad securities in this country. He dominates, but does not control, affairs of Northern Pacific, of Great Northern and of Burlington...
These, together with the Colorado & Southern, which brings them northern Texas cotton traffic, are the "Hill" roads that James Jerome ("Empire builder") Hill (1838-1916) developed. Now, with the Western Pacific which connects the Burlington directly to San Francisco and in which Mr. James bought controlling interest last summer (TIME, June 21), they are more aptly called "James" roads. The Hill descendants have never become active financially...