The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-25
RAILROADS.

Royal Hotel the 18th Of next month The
session will begin at IL O'clock.
J. \. Luiz recently took a brSkemau's
place He started ia when Il was twenty
below zero and returned with a frozen nose
One dose wss sufficient. Lulz took bis
tine snd left for bis former home Al
Atwood, Ind, where he will return 20 the
sbosmaker's bench.
H C. Villas General Manager OF the Erie
and North shore and Commercial Express
Fast Freight Lines, ordered the Cincinnati
offices closed March /. To is the Intention to
et The south Shore Pacific Dispatch aud
Great Western DisDzich do the business for
Erie IN that section
The American Electric Railway has iled
certificates CT incorporation in New York,
with Cyrus w. Field and Others as corpora
tors. The company is organized 20 build,
own, sell or let locomotive engines 20 be
operated by electricity. and also cars aud
other railroad machinery
Parties interested in tue Toledo, Cincin-
natl and st. Louis Railroad say that 10 is not
at all necessary for bondholders to sign the
Quigey agreement or any other agreement
10 order 70 en- 10y the benefits Of St. Louis
terminals. The notices sent out 10 the c1n-
ara ~ are said TO be untrue, aDd IL he claimed
hey are intended flr the purpose az driving
outstanding bondholders into their scheme.
Ravens patent steam fire extinguisher, rs
applied to a locomotive on the Erie Road,
has been used with much success in extin-
gushing FIRE caused by the explosion OF an
oil tank, and It's use is reported 20 have. On
other occasions assisted in saving property.
An apparatus OF this kind attached 10 q To-
comotive il certainly very desirable thing,
nd uun 1 hu ha m nj y no
and lives IN the many accidents which are
accoml anied By the destruc ton of cars by
fire.
Near Springfield, \ Y, the other day
passenger train on the Long Island Railroad
had narrow escape from being wrecked.
A boy crossing the track at Locust avenue
about 30 noticed that the road bed had
washed out and that the track was giving
way. He ran to a house near by and told
John HendricksOu, 3 farmer. what he bad
seen. Hendrickson went TO the spot and.
remem boring that train was due in few
minutes, be ran home and, getting q red
shawl from his wife, hurried down she track
west of the curve, which is a few hundred
feet beyond the wash-out just in time TO
see the train coming at full speed. He waved
the shawl, and the engineer reversed the
engine, the train stopping within a short
distance Of the plEce of danger.
In the case of Carter against the Louis
Vile New Albany and Chicago Company,
the IL diana Supreme Court holds as follows:
The servants of a railroad company 10 whom
the mans cement and control Of an engine
has been intrusted, whether used for switch
ing or other purposes, have, while using and
cOntrC ling it, implied authority to remove
from il any trespgsser who may get On l. or
attempt to occupy or control Il. The fact
that switching engines are ussd iOr local
purposes, al q not for the purpose OF receiv-
lng a. disobsrgIng passengers. does not
change the right OF the employees TO remove
from the switching engine persons wrong
fully on IL. whether their presencs may or
NAV not interfere with the use of the engine
and the busiross to be transacted.
FAST RAILROADING II "a.
cedar Rapids Iowa. Republican
I notice a paragraph copied into your
issue Of the 18th inst, from New York
paper, which says that the fastest time
known to have been made locomotive was
in 1910 on one OF the Norris x Son engines.
called the Buffalo, by q large freigatengine,
leaving schenectady for Albany, n "
with two freight cars, d. Greeman, engineer.
the distance run being twenty -nlne and one
bat miles, which was run in twenty-five
minutes
The above IS so fall Of inconsistencies aud
absurdities that can not resist the tempIe-
uon TO reply to it.
/ was in the employ of the company in
question at that time, aud had bsen for three
years previously (the Mohawk and Hudson.
now portion of the New York Central and
Hudson River Ia the first place. the COM
pany never bad a Norris a Son engine The
distance between the points named is bat
sixteen miles, and not tventy-nine and one
half as stated, and there was not at that
tine nor sfIsrgsrd 81 engineer Il their en-
p.Oy by the name OF Greeman.
There never had been up to that time.
neither has there up TO the present time
been, freight engine built that could attain
any such speed, which is at the rate Of
seventy and eight-tenths miles per hour.
Neither could they have been kept upon
the track could they have attained the speed,
as the track in question, as also all OtGers in
this country so far "a / remember g. that
tine, what were known as the strap rail-
that is strap iron generally ivs-eigkths inch
thick by two aud one half vide, spiked to
loneitudin al suck OF timber about SIX inches
square.
l have myself run locomotive over such
a track nsDy thousaed mites and ii nv
memory serves me, the present sty'e Of
/ Trail was not known u this country u that
/ time: neither is there passenger eI5tne IN
/ this country at the present time tat can
! seep up this speed with q train OF cars Tor
/ any considerable distance. / bslieys the
\ fastest Ions -dstarce time inside IL this coun-
ty vas on the Pennsylvania Railroad, be
/ tween Philadelphia and New YORK as
tsnce OF ninety miles which they claim 20
have made ia ninety minues, or a. the rate
Of sixtv miles ar hour with Bald win en-
CINE. ! have ridden AZ tie rate OF tisnty-
one miles per hour for dfteen or twenty
/ miles between London and lioyeri In Ing.
! land, on regular tram.