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��taking a Pullman at New York when you go to Chicago by the Pennsylvania, for instance, you ride in a day coach to Pitts- burgh and enter your sleeper there. Pullman chair cars on daylight trains are 1 i ni i te d to one car per train. An ex- ception is the famous Con- gressional Limited, be- tween New York and Washing- ton, which for- merly carried only Pullmans and made the run in fivehours, but which now carries four Pullmans and six day coaches and takes six hours for the trip. Observa- tion and club cars diners are hauled

���Showing the railroad lines that converge at New York. Situation is complicated by the Hudson River and, at present, by ice

��have been cut off; only on important

��trains, and then only for the shortest possible distance.

��"Put the punch in car movements," is the slogan adopted by the railroads — and freight cars are what is meant. Demurrage rates, or charges made against consignees for failure to unload cars promptly, have been doubled by Mr. Mc- Adoo's order. The roads no longer have to return freight cars to the lines that own them, but treat "for- eign" cars as their own and load them . for any points to which they have freight to ship. The unlimited pooling of freight cars is already relieving the car short- age situation greatly. The next big step, for which plans had been drawn early in January by the ad- visers of the Director- General, was the fur- ther elimination of competition between the roads by arranging to have certain kinds of freight carried by one road, other kinds by other roads, and all the facilities of each line centered on the most

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���Cincinnati coal barges caught in mid-river by an ice jam. Citizens crossed treacherous ice on boards to get at the coal. All the country has gone to such lengths to escape freezing

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