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...hour & a half later in Columbus, Ohio. Good-natured officials of the airline (Transcontinental & Western Air) gave the bewildered doctor a free trip back to Pittsburgh (roundtrip fare: $21.60). The incident made some officials wonder if the line could not try "mystery excursions" similar to that of Great Northern Railway last week...
Nobody knows the trouble that Chairman Edward Norphlet Brown of St. Louis-San Francisco ("Frisco") Railway Co. has seen. But a lot of people know him for an able troubleshooter. He railroaded for 27 years in Mexico, serving eleven years as president of National Railways of Mexico. In 1914 when Mexico's revolutionary atmosphere became impossibly hot, he resigned, going two years later to the chair of Pere Marquette, then called "Poor Marquette." His rehabilitation job there was so good that the Frisco, run down physically and financially, called him in 1919. Again he did a good...
...reform methods of freight solicitation. The man selected would have to be a national figure, not an officer of any road. Walker Downer Hines, who managed the railroads for one year under Government ownership, was mentioned as a possibility. At present Mr. Hines is eastern counsel for Great Northern Railway, paying particular attention to merger moves. Last week he was on one of his infrequent visits to his country home at Darien, Conn. Questioned, he said he approved of the western roads' plan but had had no intimation of impending tsardom...
...railroad news of last week was Cincinnati Southern Railway, only municipally-owned steam line in the U. S. The C. S. runs 336 miles between Cincinnati and Chattanooga. It was begun in 1869; the first train ran eight years later. It crosses the Kentucky River on the first cantilever bridge in the U. S., long the proud boast of Cincinnati. In 1881 the road was leased to Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway which later subleased it to Southern Railway. Cincinnati receives $1,259,000 a year in rentals for its railway and its voters have refused to allow...
Chicago's "L." In 1931 Chicago Rapid Transit Co. (elevated railway) carried 152 million passengers at 10¢ a ride. In 1929 there were 196 million passengers. The result of 1931's operations was a loss of $1,298,000 after bond interest. Last week no dissenting voices were heard when the company, which has not yet paid its 1930 taxes of $1,812,000, was petitioned into receivership...