The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-23
Personal and General Notes.

out for Petoskey yesterday morning. They
go by boat from Detroit.
w. NJ. Greene. assistant to President In
gals, of the Big Four lines, has gone to the
Pacific slope for a stay of month or more
combining business with pleasure.
The Decline excursion to Niagara Falls.
advertised for Aug. @. has been withdrawn.
The prospects still favor large patronage
of the other excursions to that point.
The Northern Pacific management has
tagonize in any way any of the Chicago or
st. Paul lines, but to work in perfect har
tnOny with them.
G. NJ. Dickson, train-dispatcher of the
BELT road, and T.. A. Zion, son of the assist
ant n-dispatcher who have been spend
dng some time at the Hot Springs, returned
yesterday. much improved ID health.
The c.. ii. & ID. is still at work improv-
ing its side tracks between indianapolis and
I,Hamilton. 1t has put in, recently, four
tonew side-tracks of large capacity at pass
sdng points, and several of shorter length.
l.. NJ. Smith. for years assistant division
superintendent of the Wabash railway,
having served his connection with that
road, goes to Boston to accept similar
place with Che Boston d Maine Eastern
L. A. Garner, who has been division
superintendent of the American Express
Company for Iowa and Nebraska. has been
appointed general superintendent for Mis-
headquarters at Omaha, Neb.
The principal business with the passen-
ger trains yesterday was the hauling of
militiamen to the encampment. The troops
went from the city to the camp at Arm
strong's grove via the Big Four. Up to 6
o'clock last evening the road had carried
ont about /, 100 men.
The Belt road transferred, during the
week ending July 20, IL ,955 cars, against
l10,34S in the corresponding week in 1888. an
the road handled $50 carloads of live
sstock. against COS for the like period in
aSSS-increase, 165 cars.
Messrs. Unger, Smithers g. Co., of New
York, announced their readiness to receive
applications at 50 and accrued inter
mortgage four-per-cent. observation-disclosures
gold bonds of the Kentucky Central. This
line extends from CovingtOn. KY. to Lex
1ngton, KY. and, with its branches, has
total mileage OF 253.Sl.
The Pittsburg Cincinnati & st. Louis
Railway Company has filed complaint
with the lnterstate-cOmmerce Commission
at Washington against the Baltimore q
Ohio Railway Company, alleging that the
latter company has violated the law In
naming rate of two cents per mile for
theatrical companies and other parties of
ten or more travelling together.
In the Fitchburg repair shops novel
plan Of moving locomotive is employed.
ID,
instead of firing it up the boiler is charged
with air at about eighty pounds pressure
from an old locomotive air-pump mounted
In convenient place against the wall,
having q hose connection to the boiler.
With the above pressure the engine can be
run out of the shop and around to its stall
In the rOund-hOuse.
The passenger agents held meeting here
yesterday to consider rates to excursionists
on the occasion of the LAYING of the corner
stone q soldiers
ment. No definite conclusion was reached.
The Pennsylvania and Decline favored a
rate of one-half fare for all distances up to
66 % miles, continuing the 81 rate up to
one hundred miles. with a cent-a-mile
rate beyond the latter distance. The other
lines wanted to fix the rate at half-fare for
81 1-3 miles. carrying the 81 rate up to
fifty miles: and concedfng the one-cent
rate for all distances beyond that. The
rate question will be definitely decided
within a few days.
1t Is understood that the management of
the Mexican Central Railway Company
has negotiated the sale of all the securities
required to complete the TampicO division,
and all the money except 81, 2OO, 600 has been
received from abroad. All of the proceeds
OF the first mortgage fives have likewise
been received and applied in part to the re-
demption of the coupon notes, as per notice
or The company. and IL part to the acquire
ment for cancellation by purchase of rising
$4,000 debenture tens Less than 81, 70O.-
standing. and the money to retire these
has been deposited as special fund for
the purpose.
BY the completion of the Georgia Pacific
road the Richmond & Danville company
now control a continuous line from Wash
ington, ID. c., to Greenville, Miss, on the
Mississippi river. distance of over LOO
tends from Atlanta. Ca. to Greenville. 400
miles, has been for several years under
ar Ia1a
but it now has continuous line from the
capital of Georgia nearly due west across
the States of Alabama and Mississippi to
1ne by which te til + is brought into
The wisdom of the Richmond x Danville
management In securing and pushing to
completion this long stretch of road will
doubtless be proved by the result. This
north-and-south trunk line, known as the
PledmOunt Airline, comprises z, 925 miles of
railroad.
A dispatch from Eu Claire, Wis, says:
N y. Foster, president of the Sault Ste.
Marie q Southwestern. and James McIn-
tire, left here for the East. 1t is learned
that their mission is to see Henry Willard.
1be Sault Ste. Marie * Southwestern rail-
roan at present consists of about twenty
nye miles of road running through Fair
child to Osseo, Trempealeau county. About
twenty-five miles more has been graded.
fhe ehIiTe line as contemplated will extend
from hhineiander, on the Minneapolis,
Sault ote. Marie Il Atlantic, to Sioux City
ana council Bluffs. distance of about 525
miles. IL will be the shortest route from
the Missouri to the Eastern seabOard. and
1t is expected to catch most of the lumber
freight from northern Wisconsin to the
Southwest. 1t is backed by the Canadian
Pacific. and money enough has been secured
10 make It's construction certainty The
purpose OF the conference with Willard is
not known"
Another revolutionary locomotive has
been devised. 1t is to have two boilers
one above the other. and engine and
tender are to be incased in q she'll of thin
iron, taperng Oft to n point in front. the
whole machine being seventy-fve feet
long and weighing in working order nine
ty-one and half tons. Thus it would be
twenty-five feet longer and twelve tons
heavier than the biggest European locomo-
tive yet turned out. 1t is to have two
pairs of cylinders fifteen and three-fourths
by nineteen and half inches and four
coupled driving wheels nine feet nine and
half inches in diameter, or more than
twice the size of our large passenger en-
gine drivers. Great power and great
speed are both claimed fer this novel COM
bination of parts and proportions, the or
dlnary gait being modestly placed at
seNenty-fve miles an hour but this being
capable OF Increase to ninety-two miles
per hour. This engine has been patented
IN France by Hungarian engineer named
M Ala Besthy.-Railway Age.
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