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Unlike the existing airlines, which delegate their ground handling to Postal Telegraph or Railway Express Agency, Air Express Corp. will perform its own pick-up and delivery, thus insure full, permanent control of its business sources...
...Express Corp.'s transcontinental rate is $1.75 for the first pound, $1 per lb. additional. That closely approximates the air rates of Railway Express Agency since they were slashed 15% to 30% last fortnight...
Near Walla Walla, Wash., one A. Snyder, Northern Pacific Railway Co. engineer, last fortnight saw a mule dead ahead between the tracks, ears laid back, eyes wide, legs braced. The brakes squealed, the mule stiffened, was catapulted off the track against a switch. The witch broke, the train ran off the rails, wrecking two cars. The mule trotted off ate grass...
Gateway. A receiver was appointed last week for the 1,030-mi. Wisconsin Central Railway. The line is controlled and leased by the Soo System (Minneapolis St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie) which in turn is controlled by Canadian Pacific Railway Co. Its tracks run from Chicago to Minneapolis, Duluth, Oshkosh, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, forming an important U. S. gateway for the C. P. R. The Wisconsin Central has $44,000,000 worth of bonds outstanding, has earned interest on them but twice in the past decade...
...railroad management can legally or morally divest itself of ultimate freedom of action," explained the committee of western railroad presidents last week in announcing, after months of deliberation, the choice of a supervising "commissioner." He will be Harry Guy Taylor, 52, publicist with American Railway Association, No tsar, he will arbitrate on rate and schedule questions, will never initiate action, will have no power to enforce his decisions...