The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

gentraT
OF operating the great systems OF roads az the
present time.
The earnings of the Vanderbilt properties con-
tlnue enormous. For the first two weeks in
March the New York Central increased $780,
| QUO, Lake Shore S205, coo aud Michigan Central
| $l5O,OO0 the first ten days.
Tue Boston g. Maine railroad is having hard
coal burning double-end locomotives built for use
| on suburban trains. They VIII be III readiness in
May, aud are expected to prove a great con-
venienee, obviating the necessity of turning the
| engine at each end of the trip.
No official denial that negotiations are in
progress for q lease Of the New Jersey Central to
the Reading has been made and none will be,
says the Philadelphia Press. The destiny of the
| two corporations is too apparent aud the wise
| policy Of those most interested too plain. The
Central rail road is, with its large coal trade val
liable passenger trahc, and almost uneauaed
terminal facilities of the most promising
railroad properties in the East.
THE MOST EXPENSIVE ITEM
Fuelis now the big item of expense in railway
operations, and practical mechanics are now
making it study how to reduce this expense.
1t seems like reproach upon the mechanical
skill and ingenuity of the nineteenth century
that nine-tenths of the calOric force applied to
even the most economical steam engine is vast
ed. That is to say, every ton of coal is one-third
wasted in the process of generating steam, and
when the steam is once formed only one-seventh
| of it is actually converted into work by the en-
CINE. The remaining six-sevenths is lost, either
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| cylinders, in similar ways, that only one
seventh of two-thrds, or about one-Uenth of the
whole heating power of the fuel becomes actu-
! ally embodied in the working power of The en-
| CINE. The saving of coal and transportation has
| apparently been cut down to the lowest figure;
| now the saving must be made in It's consump-
| ton.
BRINGING TIE NARROW GAUGE OUT.
Railroad men who have met E. B. Phillips,
the new president of the Toledo Cincinnati &
St. Louis road, speak Of him as being a very
genial, bright eyed man, and state that under his
| active mode of doing business the road is really
increasing in business His greatest trouble
now is in tho insufIieiency of rolling stock.
President Phillips writes Boston capitalists
under date of March 16: "From Cincinnati to
| Toledo the business promises we'll. and never
| saw so much lumber in sight as they have to-
| day. From the coal fields we can have l6O cars
per day next fall. when we shall have motive
power to haul, say, five trains a day, beside
| that needed for our own use do not think the
estimate large. l convinced that all over
our line there is business ready for US. and on
| the west end. from Ramsey to st. Louis, two
trains will pay from the start, and it is really
| the best part of our road. The manager of the
| Wabash says that the seventy miles of st.
Louis will paw our interest for the whole road
| in the State of Illinois. Next week we will have
| the tracks laid into the depot at East st.
| Louis. AT Dayton another month will us
| liked with necessary sidings etc, for all bust
ness" The appointment Of e. e. Dwight, form
erly superintendent OF the Dayton 4 Michigan
| road general mana ger of the system is favor
ably spoken of by all who know his ability as a
railroad man.
THEIR EYES ARE "soT."
The railway magnates of the roads which own
the Union Railway and the Union Depot have
met here this week and returned to their respec-
tive homes, and no definite action was taken as
regards the erection of a new Union Depot so
greatly needed, and the only hindrances in the
enterprise is said TO be the litigation pending be-
tween the Union Railway Company ana the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis company,
The railroad reporter Of the Journal remarked
on Tuesday to President Roberts, OF the Pennsyl-
vania system that the citizens of Indianapolis
were quite anxious that a more commodiOus and
attractive depot should be built here. He
swered "We propose to build one If the court
decides that we have right to dictate what
terms leasing lines shall run over tracks
and enjoy terminal facilities Six
months ago plans were agreed upon for
depot and expected before This time it would
have been in process of construction"
Vice-president Mccullough, of the same sys-
| TEN, said: eve do not propose to spend ST.
| 100000 here in improvements until we know
who controls our property, the Union Railway
Company the leasing lines. You say
through the Journal, II You please, this no
lines shall dictate on what terms they shall en-
joy the terminal facilities the Union railway
| possesses, the Union Railway Company will not
eXpend one dollar in permanent improvements,
will allow no new roads TO come into the Union
Depot with their trains and the
Leasing contracts of companies expire they will
| have to seek other depots for accommodations.
The present depot is amply large enough for the
five roads owning the property and comprising
| the Union Railway Company"
WIN. r. McKeen, president of the Vandala,
said: "Notnlng will be done in the new Union
Depot until the litigation pending with the c., H.
& l. is settled"
j. II. Devereux, president of the Bee Line
system. said: you would not expect us To spend
a million more dollars on improvements here
unless we can control our own property. The
present Union DepOJ is sufficiently commodous
Ne which H..
ask an exorbitant rental for facilities furnished,
but think we have right to dcfate on what
terms leasing roads shall have like privileges
with ourselves"
E. B. Thomas: "wen you can set this down,
thar the Union Railway Company will
make no move in the building of the new Union
Depot SO long as leasing lines take the ground
| tnrOugh litigation that the Union Railway Com
pany cannot dictate on what terms their trains
can come onto the Union tracks and into the
Union Depot. We propose that leasing lines
shall have every privilege that proprietary roads
| do, and will put ourselves out of the way some
what to accommodate their business, hut we do
not propose TO let them run our business"
John F Miller 81 fear the new Union Depot
scheme is off for this year. Your man RdenOur
made the c., II. & 7. people believe that the whole
OF indianapolis wanted them to fight the Union
Railing Company, so they waded in, and as a
consequences for the present, at least, the build
ing of new Union Depot at Indianapolis is de-
v r. Malott, vice-president of the Indian
apOlis Peru & Chicago. now Wabash: 81 judge,
M Mex M" and General MANAGER 16omas
have said to me, that the enterprise is
dead for the present. urged upon Mr.. RdenOur
| not TO encourage tine c., II. q d. people in any
litigation with the Union Railway Company, GER
tanly not until the new Union Depot was Nel
under way, as | feared the results of such ltiga-
tion, and wish now that some steps might be
taken to take the matter out of the hands Of the
court. 1t seems that IL might be adjusted salts
factorlly for all parties and the needed improve
ment would then, am confident, be taken hold of
without further delay"
NJ. L. Ingalls, president of the C., l., ST. L. & c.,
| said he expected nothing wonld be done this
year, the Union Railway Company were wait
ing the decision of the Superior Court the
question at issue between the Union Railway
Company and the c., H. 81 D. people, and 1t
might be months before IL was reached. He
thought the Union Railway Company was taking
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