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New York Central Lines Magazine for May, 1928
One of the thousands of new Dodge motor cars which have been shipped this year from the factory in Detroit over the New
York Central Lines, standing beside No. 5239. one of the powerful new Hudson type locomotives.
H o u r C l i p p e d f r o m
S part of the policy of improving
still further its New York-Chicago
train service, the New York Central
Railroad made, effective April 29,
a cut in the running time of two of its
best known limited express trains, the
Wolverine and the Fifth Avenue Special.
The Wolverine, which heretofore
has made the trip in twenty-one hours
and fifty minutes, will make the trip
in twenty hours and fifty minutes, or
one hour less, leaving New York at
5:10 P.M. and arriving in Chicago at
1:10 P.M. the following day. This
enables connections with the sixtyeight-hour
trains to the West to be
made.
The Fifth Avenue Special will leave
Chicago at 10:30 A.M., as heretofore,
but will arrive in New York at 8:30
A.M. instead of 9:21. These cuts in
time make these trains equal the time
of the North Shore Limited, a new
train instituted last June, which also
makes the run between New York and
Chicago in twenty hours and fifty
minutes.
President's Care, Like That of
Employes, Brings Praise
TPHE courtesy of which the New
York Central boasts "from the
President down" and its effects are
well exemplified through a letter to
President Crowley from Miss Lillian
Bostock who, after lodging a complaint
against the Railroad a year
ago, now turns to compliment the line
on its good service. She writes:
"A little over a year ago I wrote to
you complaining about the lateness of
arrival of the particular train I come
to New York on each day over the
Harlem Division, and received a very
courteous reply from you, and later, a
telephone message from your secretary.
"It occurred to me that it might
intrigue you to receive a commendatory
letter, and this one is to tell you
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that during the holiday season just
past I was able to arrive at our offices
usually on time. Further, that there
seems to be a general impression that
the Harlem Division is the best suburban
line out of New York, and
within a year our manager has purchased
a home at Scarsdale and a
member of our firm, Mr. Deans, is
taking a summer residence at Bedford
Hills.
"Now the immediate inspiration
for this note is a little family episode.
My side-partner, Miss Mary E.
Knowlton, a senior teacher in Morris
High School, lost her purse on a train
arriving at Tuckahoe in the late afternoon
one day last week and did not
discover the loss until she reached our
bank to deposit her salary check for
some $347. Then the president of the
bank took the matter in hand and
stopped payment on the check for her
and sent her to your agent at Tuckahoe
to have him try to trace the purse.
"Your station agent kept the wires
hot to White Plains, but up to nine
o'clock that night nothing had been
heard of the prodigal, but later that
evening your agent took the trouble
to telephone us that it had been found
and turned in and would be sent to
his station where Miss Knowlton recovered
it the following day.
"I am sure it will be gratifying to
you to know something of the honesty
of your employes, and I only regret
that the very small check we sent to
Mr. Smith could not have been for a
larger amount."
T o e o f Freight M o v e d O n e M i l e f o r a C e n t
J\ MERICAN railroads do a bigger drop in revenue than in traffic lies in
transportation job at cheaper
t h e
declining price of transportation
rates than any other country in the Iv "27' that ' S
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The railroads last year received an
average of 1.080 cents for moving a
ton of freight one mile. This represents
a decrease of 15.3 per cent as
compared with receipts in 1921.
For transporting a passenger one
the railways per transportation unit.
In both the freight and the passenger
service, average receipts per unit were
lower in 1927 than in any previous
y e a
m c e
,L,? 1920.
T h e
, average receipts per ton-mile
and passenger-mile, year by year from
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mile, the railroads received last year
presented m the fol-
'owing table. These averages measan
average of 2.896 cents, a decrease
of 6.2 per cent as compared with 1921.
These decreases are the result of
r e W a
" degree of accuracy
t h e
respective price levels of the two
principal kinds of transportation servinnumerable
individual rate readjustl
c e
rendered by the railways."
ments which have been going on
throughout the country in the last few
Receipts per Ton-Mile and Passenger-
Mile, 1921-1927
years. .... . Receipts per Receipts pe-
In an analysis of this Situation, JUSt
issued, the Bureau of Railway Economics
says:
"In the freight and passenger services,
the decrease in revenue in 1927
was relatively greater than the actual
decline in traffic. Respecting the
other services, known factors do not
exist by which to measure the physical
amount of the service rendered.
"The explanation for the greater
ton-mile
(cents)
1921 1.275
*323 \'\H
1924 i!ii6
1925 1.097
9 2 6 1 0 8 1
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p e r e e n t deccease:
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under 1926 01
1927 under 1921". 15.3
passenger-mil:
(centsi
3.086
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2^978
2.938
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York Central Lines Magazine for May, 1928 35
New Freight House Opens at
North Tonawanda
'II'MIK new freight house of the New
York Central at North Tonawanda,
X. V., is now in use with telephones,
Furniture and all other equipment
complete.
Since fire destroyed the former
building, the Railroad freight office
has been quartered in the passenger
station on Main Street.
The new freight house is of brick
and steel construction. Every provision
has been made for the comfort
if the public using the building, as
well as for the freight house employes.
The building, trackage property
i>nd equipment cost the New York
Central $150,000. The commodious
freight office on the second floor is
thirty by seventy-five feet, wherein
are located a private office for Harvey
Varley, Agent, the general office,
a record room, lockers and toilets for
the men and women employes.
The offices are equipped with steel
('esks, chairs and tables. Lighting
equipment is of the ceiling type.
The freight house has a twentyfour
car spot on the house platform
and two team tracks with a nine-car
spot each. There is room for additional
team tracks as the business demands
them. The house platform is
equipped with an electrically operated
crane for Hading and unloading heavy
machinery.
N.Y. Central Man Comes to Aid
of Shipper, Procures
New Traffic
HE Buffalo Floor Covering Com­
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pany was having considerable trou­
ble with its shipments over another
railroad. They "simply could not get
anywhere. It came to a climax when
a large shipment was lost somewhere,
goodness knows where."
Continuing, G. S. Reimann, of the
Company, writes Assistant General
Freight Agent Taylor of the New
York Central:
"A man by the name of F. Schosek
in your office employ came to our
rescue and did as much as anyone
could do working for another railroad.
He finally located our lost shipment
about two days later and convinced me
that it would be to our advantage to
do all our shipping over the New York
Central Lines.
"Since then we have had peace with
our customers and you can rest assured
we will continue to patronize
your railroad as long as we have any
shipments coming in."
Mr. Schosek is employed on the Revision
Bureau Desk at the Carroll
Street Station, Buffalo.
Cleveland Being Advertised by
Union Trust Company
TTHE growth of Cleveland and the
importance of its industries and its
railroads are being emphasized in a
series of advertisements published by
the Union Trust Company of Cleveland.
"Cleveland's on the Assembly Line"
is the title of the first advertisement,
Crater Lake, in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, Is one of the notable scenic
beauties of the West visited annually by travelers from every continent, as well as
from all parts of the United States. The phantom ship shows In the water above,
near the rim of the lake at the right.
which is illustrated with a bird's-eye
view of the waterfront" from which the
new terminal of the New York Central
rises head and shoulders above all
other buildings. The terminal, costing
$60,000, will soon be ready for use.
The gist of the advertisement is,
from an excerpt: "Cleveland's location,
her railroads, her harbor, manufacturing,
finance, steel—all these
things are ready and waiting.
"The present generation of Clevelanders
has a glorious and inspiring
opportunity, upon the realization of
which depends much of the prosperity
and happiness of every Clevelander.
"Cleveland is in the making—help
make it. You can't grow against your
town, you've got to grow with it."
War Veteran Receives Kindly
Care on Train
DISABLED war veteran re­
A ceived the customary New York
Central courteous and thoughtful
service when he was transferred from
Beacon, N. Y., to New York City,
March 6. In gratitude, Terence
Newsome, Business Manager of the
Veterans' Hospital.of Beacon, writes:
"In connection with a report submitted
to this office by one of our
Ward Surgeons who accompanied a
patient on the 10:29 A.M. train yes­
terday from Beacon to New York, we
cannot neglect to write this letter of
commendation for the wonderful service
rendered by the personnel of the
Railroad Company.
"Not only did the Agent at Beacon,
N. Y. (J. W. Moate) hold the train
several minutes for the transfer of
this patient, but the train conductor,
Pullman conductor and porter went to
a lot of trouble to get this patient
properly looked after and comfortably
arranged.
"Upon arrival at Grand Central
Terminal, again special attention was
shown for the interest of this disabled
veteran, all of which is sincerely appreciated,
and it is gratifying to know
that all emnloyes who came in contact
with this patient rendered kind,
efficient and loyal service."
New Road Foremen
William H. Gott has been promoted
to Road Foreman of Engines on the
Syracuse Division. Owen McEvoy
and Charles Smith have been raised
to the same position on the Mohawk
and Hudson Divisions respectively,
effective since March 29.
Mr. Gott is the father-in-law of Al
Smith. Jr., son of the Governor of
New York. He entered the service in
1890.