The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 10, 1929, Page 10

By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) 1 meet the time of the fast California {trains with a fine new train to be Washington, June 10.—Officials of | called the Empire Builder, and that, the interstate commerce commission | who are charged with the duty of keeping a watchful eye on the welf: unlike the fast California trains, there would be no extra fare. That started things. The Northern Pacific, Milwaukee and Union Pactfic ‘nd progress of the country’s rail-| all announced that they would equal toads are noting with a good deal of | the Great Northern's time. ‘Thus it interest the great revival of railroad| was finally agreed that all roads competition for passenger traftic. would give the northwest through Railroads throughout the country.| service of 61 and one-fourth hours out particularly in the west, are speed- | eastbound and 63 hours westhound— ing up their schedules, clipping hours | the same schedule as the crack trains off the running time of their long-dis- | from Chicago to California, but minus tance specials and installing new and | the California trains’ extra fare fea- more luxurious cai This not only makes things nicer air to settle Thu ‘gument be- | w for the traveler; it bit @ perpetual source of 2 ture. se * all was lovely in the north- But in California? California tween California and the great Pa-j| cities promptly picked up the infer- cific northw iority complex that Spokane, Seattle From the days of the first trans-j and Portland had dropped, and cried continental railroads, residents of the} out that they were being discrim- northwest have ied that the rail-! inated against because they had to roads discriminated against them, in| pay extra fare while the northwest that they gave California cities faster | did not. service to Chicago. than they gave This bothered the northern lines such northwestern cities as Portland, | not at all, but the southern ones, in- Spokane, Seattle and Tacoma. luding the Union Pacific, had to go Now this argument is approaching | into a huddle about it at once. @ settlement. All of the California roads except First of all, the Great Northern | the Santa Fe were agreeable to drop- railroad bored a huge eight-mile tun-| ping the extra fare. The Santa Fe, nel under the Cascade mountains and | however, finding that its crack extra clipped two hours from its running | fare train, the Chief, was a big money time between Spokane and Seattle. | maker, was adamant. It did agree, at At first this did not reduce the time | length, to clip some more time from from the coast to Chicago, as the | its schedule, and reduced the Chief's saved time was absorbed east of Spo: - |running time to 58 hours, retaining kane by slowing up the schedule to) the extra fare. accommodate it. Then the northwestern cities dis: covered this and set up a howl. The Great Northern, they said, wa giving relatively slow service even be- fore the tunnel was completed. It: Falling in line, the Rock Island- - | Southern Pacific knocked off its extra fare charges, retaining its old sched- s| ule. The Union Pacific did the same -| with its Overland limited, and met 5 | the challenge of the Chief with a new splendid roadbed and fast silk and|extra fare, extra fast train to San mail trains had proved that it could | Francisco. make high speeds if it wanted to; and Running time between intermediate since its passenger schedules were not | points got somewhat muddled by all being jacked up, the northwest was | of this, naturally. So the Burlington being discriminated agains reduced its time between Denver and Meanwhile, the Union Pacific came | Chicago. and the Union Pacific, Rock in for some hot shots from Portland, | Island and Santa Fe hastened to do Ore. Portland complained that it} likewise. was served with a slow Union Pacific * * * train, while the same line ran fast| In the east, similar reductions have trains from Chicago to Los Angeles| been made. and San Francisco, at no greater dis- tance. * oe * The Wolverine of the New York Central knocked an hour off its New York-Chicago run. Buffalo and Chi- There followed a series of confer-| cago were given a 10 1-2 hour train, ences between railroad men, state and | and Chicago and Detroit were given city officials, chambers of commerce | six-hour service. and so on. Some of these meetings ‘The Pennsylvania put on a new fast were rather hectic, with the north-| train, the Rainbow, between New westerners talking pointedly about a| York and Chicago, on a 20-hour 50- purported “gentleman's agreement” to! minute schedule. The Erie put on a keep the northwest behind California. | 25-hour train between the same cities. Abruptly the atmosphere was] and the Nickel Plate put on a new cleared by an announcement from train between the two cities on a the Great Northern that it would ' schedule slightly faster than the Erie's. It was shortly Crystal day woman. her a list of “worthy and needy” newspaper | cases, with instructions as to how to y room of The Press| get her stories, and what she could its small army of re- {and could not print. No names, of writer: id copy desk | course, and addresses only in a gen- men. Only Harry Blaine, Crystal's | eral way. And now here in The Press friend but almost unrecognizable in | was her first story, a simply told but his capacity as hard-boiled city editor, | very moving account of a little blind remained to check the home edition | boy’s hope that Santa Claus would with that of their afternoon com-| fill his stockings with “toys that feel Petitor, The Sun, and to jot down a| nice and make funny noises, and last few of tomorrow’ dog-eared, black-bound book. assignments in a| a long time, ‘cause I can't go outside and play with the other kids much.” Although she was very tired and| He was only four, too young yet to free to call it a di as Harry had] go away to the State School for the assured her, Crystal lingered on, her | Blind, and there was only his mother, fascinated eyes returning again and | a tired drab of forty, with five other again to a front-page stor, with a| children, to make his lonely, blind two-column boxed head, beneath | life happy unless the readers of The which were the magic words, “By Press chose to play Santa Claus. A Crystal Hathaway.” Her first “by- | lot of Crystal's heartache for him and line”! Her first newspaper feature | his scrubby, skinny brothers and sis- story. And on the front page, in| ters had been eased by writing the chummy juxtaposition with a “lead” | story, but fresh tears welled in her story of The Press’ annual Christmas |.closed eyes as she remembered. campaign for the poor, signed by the managing editor himself—Edward Y. | you're not using i Horton. “Sorry, but that’s my typewriter, if voice very close It was a masterpiece—she | to her brought her head up with a thought—of dignified, warm-hearted | jerk. appeal. Her wide, translucent hazel eyes Harry was paying no attention to| stared at the man beside her through, her, but was working with that fur-j|a lens of tears. Then, rapidly, she ious haste and concentration which | blinked them away, but even before seemed to be typtcal of newspaper! she could see him clearly Crystal ie was very tired, but very | Hathaway had fallen in love. happy. Laying her head’ upon the typewriter which she had used when NEXT: “My man.” writing her own story, she closed her | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) eyes and reviewed her day. Harry had sent her over to the of-| fices of the United Charities. There || the secretary, an oldish man who] ) looked extremely well-fed and who! ® + obviously loved the feeling of author- IN NEW YORK ‘ New York, June 10.—Life just be- + | low the elevated tracks of lower Greenwich street is as strangely pat- finally, when she had despaired of | terned as the designs made by the getting concrete instructions from him. of the help she was expected to give | him. | sun as it trickles through the tracks. | Lower Greenwich street, in case | you don't know your New York, is a “Of course,” he explained, “the do- | suburb of Wall Street. Any street nations received from the readers of | more than a block away is a suburb Press are used only for Christmas | in that busy belt, where brokers have A mistake, I’ sometimes think. | their lunches brought in great bas- since I could the money to much | kets and deposited alongside their better advantage, but—" shrugging— | precious tickers. |, naturally, for aid of | Clerks, stenographers and such like | look upon: lunchtime as school chil- left at last, talked al-/ dren look upon holidays. They rush most to death, she carried away with | away from their offices ahead of the | LITTLE JOE time clock and they return at the last @| moment tolerated by their bosses. || And so the tawdriness of life in the damp shadow of the elevated has | been colored by the invasion of count- SO MANY PEOPLE GO FISHING BECAUSE THE GUMPS.-ONE AMBITIOUS LITTLE SOUL WO NUM~ | DUNNO — Some HOW ' NEVER HAVE ANY LUCK ' Site ee AL ae wi =- \ HAVE savtny — \WE WANTED TO SING IN GRAND OPERA = COMPOSE A BEAUTIFUL SONG=— PAINT A WONDERFUL PICTURE = VWE ALWAYS WANTED To DO SOMETHING BIG W THIS WORLD s THAN HANING WERE — GO OvT AND WIA, GROVER@= HED NICE 006 MAKES | |JES‘AS SOON TaUE { meng abe © r8an ey hea stevie, me, UM-THAT LOOKS BIG STRAWBERRY Goon! GEE, 1 SHORTCAKE-YAH? / WISH IT WAS , DINNER Time I! UTTLE BIDDIE SIECE OF SAUSAGE, MOM, LM NOT VERY HUNGRY FOR SAUSAGE WRY THE LAST WME WE HAD SAUSAGE YOU ATE THREE PIECES AND THEN ASKED FOR MORE BUSY BAKING A SHORTCAKE FOR THE CHURCH SOCIAL OF.A SUDDEN REN, MISTER, HOWS CHANCES FER A Liet? @l4, HERE Comes OUR cHANcE — FINE! WE'LL BUM MIs Bozo FER. @ Ripe — BEHING - ggsree j - i to an aboriginal, | samba believe that most everyone ty and comfort. Nor does he enter | accustomed to his grass hut and his|they see is crazy—that the life is the African wild spots without a com- | Vast spaces. Four walls are the con- | crasy and the food is still crasier—for pany of guides and an equipment of aptinen 0 Kae shai they have eaten little other than dried to them from | fish and rice since their arrival. ing and Massamba, And I can’t say that I entirely dis- one Dr. Dan agree with them. x : GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc. ul i il ff i" » who came motion H <y et Aw, SHUCKs, aL! HOP IN | aT As BAO AS | THOUGHT (T was! TAKE THIS BRUSH — SCoOvuR THE Woods — Aow! LISTEN HERE =WHY CANT YOU BE Nicé&, 1 GUESS AFTER ALL Mom, VLL TAKE A COUPLE OF SAUSAGES AND SOME BEANS AND SOME. POTATOES. 1 GOT HUNGRY ALL Wackin’ IN WHOSE ARMS? + Flora: Jack tried to kiss me last: “wom What in the world did you Flora: I was up in arms in: s minutes-Answers. a ¢ d t h I y t d ii t v c x ‘ t ‘d r T F t c c } t « t ! Ti i i Ne re CRE erp spre