The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-01-28

road for master mechanic.
janice Smith. for many years the New
England agent of tbs Lake Shore. has been
ST. Paul & Kansas City road. with head.
quarters at Boston. G. A. Baldwin, who
retires on Feb. ], 10 to take a position on
the editorial staff of the Electrical World.
The committeemen of the ~footboard on
the Lake Erie & Western, have returned
advance in wages at present. Although
General Manager Bradbury has not direct
~ answered the last requests of the fire.
men, they feel that their requests are to
meet with the same fate as did those OF the
e~ngineera
A. G. Wells. superintendent of the Peoria
division of the Big Four. returned from
Peoria yesterday. The uneasiness about
wages among the employees on the Peoria ~
Pekin road has subsidized, and NJ. NJ. Mounts.
tho new superintendent, is handling the
business OF the road very satisfactorily TO
the eight roads interested.
Within the next ninety days the through
express trains of the Big Four between
Cleveland and st. Louis and between Gin
c1nnati q Chicago Will be lighted by
electricity. This process Of lighting will
not be applied TO the accommodation
trains at present. as they are run mostly
during the day time and are not lighted at
all during the summer months.
In the early spring the Vandalia manage
ment will begin a system of general I'M
provements to the track. Three steam
shoyels are to be put at work on different
divisions, and a proper number of construc-
ton trains, and the track on the entire sys-
tenn. most of which IS now laid with heavy
rail, is to be reballasted and leveled up in
q shape second to no road in the country.
President Norton. whose headquarters is
in New York. states that there is not the
least ground for the report that the Louis
willie N NaahVIlia IA nRQ0tlQfinO for the
Louisville. New Albany q Chicago road.
Among railroad men well informed in such
matters the report was disbelieved from the
first, as it has been the policy of the Louis
of the Ohio river.
Frank Darlington. superintendent of the
first and fifth divisions of the Pennsyl-
vania lines, reached home yesterday from
New York, where he had been in attendance
at the annual meeting of the American So
bers in attendance, and the meeting was
one OF unusual interest. The Pennsylvania
lines west of Pittsburg had seven repre-
sentatives at the meeting.
The newspapers have made Q NIX or
things In attempting to give the cause of
the discharge of Train-dispatcher Scott, of
the Chicago 81 Erie road. Some call 1t q
"lop ORDER" others q tap order,D and
others q top order" The correct term is
Flap ORDER" which means an order to move
two trains In opposite directions OH the
same track without naming a point at
which one shall stop to let the other pass.
There Is TO be an important meeting of
freight men in Chicago to-day to take up q
question which has long been agitated-
the changing of the basis of rates East
from several points which are now too low
or too high, as compared with other points
which take the Chicago basis. A number
of these points are in Indiana. and rates
from those points are based on 90 or o. per
cent. of the Chicago rate. When Indianap-
oils takes 90 per cent. the same rate should
than Indianapolis basing rate.
Chairman T. &. Donald, of the passenger
department of the Central Traffic Associa-
tiOn. has issued his call for the next regu-
lar meeting to be held at Chicago, Tuesday.
Feb. 3. At this meeting it is proposed to
when q vote by roads is asked for upon
any resolution every member present shall
record his vote either for or against it, un-
less excused by the Chair. and the proxies
held by the Chair shall be recorded as d.
rected by him. Two-thirds of the votes so
cast shall be in the Affirmative before a
resolution may be declared adopted"
The Secretary of State of illinois has
issued q license to the Joliet. Lisbon IL
Western Railroad Company to construct a
railroad from Joliet, via Flattville and Lis
bon. through Will and Kendall counties
INV A1RoAlO OOuAty n tdpkt6A otOtA 10
5000 The incorporators are: w. 8.
Weese, j. G. Shaw. Lewis Christian.
Edward Litsey. of Plattville. ILL.,; Levi
Plat, L. s.. Holland, Lels S. Nelson, /. L.
Kelsey. Edwin S. Fletcher. Joseph Mar
wick. Peter Morrison, John Moore, Daniel
Hill. Austin OsmOn. of Lisbon, ILL.,; w. III.
Shufeldt, of White Willows, ILL, and f. l..
Stephen. of Newark. Ill.
Toledo's belt railway system is proving
SO much OF a success that the company will
double-track it this spring. 1t is now but
five miles in length. but is q busy piece of
track and is to be further extended to man.
that Toledo will then have one of the most
complete belt railways in the country 10 a
mistake. The Indianapolis Belt road would
be difficult to excel. 1t is thirteen miles in
length, nine miles of which is double track,
connects fifteen roads and handled in 1890
o total of. f3l, 400 cars and placed on the
private switches on the line 33. 152 loaded
cars. IL will be q long time before the
Toledo belt road will do such a business.
Tho Postofice Department is sending cir
culars to railway superintendents contain.
ing the section of the law which prohibits
the carrying of letters upon trains unless
properly STAMPED. The circular calls atten-
ton to the fact that the Law il being vio-
lated daily. and gives notice that the Sec
ton must be complied with. Railway en-.
ployes are in the habit of using the envei-
opes of their road for private letters and
thereby securing for their mail free trans
portation. 1t is this practice that must be
stopped. The law does not apply to letters
bearing upon the business of the railway
company, and which can be carried in the
baggage car, but the letters of foreign COM
panies must be stamped.