The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-05

the Big Four. which got as it's proportion
Tor carrying passenger from lpdianapo-
lis to Anderson Is cents, the regular fare
being sl.l0.
The annual picnic of the locomotive en-
glneers and hremen on the Vandalia lines
ct Island Park. on Sunday last. was a very
pleasant affair. and the treasury of the
club was replenished to the amount OF
nearly ESQ.
Joseph Wood. general manager of the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittshurg. ar
rived In the city last evening from Pitts
burg. accompanied by General Superintend-
ent Miller. The party is on an inspection
tour OF the Southwestern system.
John McKeever. who for thirty years has
run locomotive on the Terre Haute 81 In
diaDapolIs road. has obtained q leave of
absence for a couple of weeks, and. with
his family. will 60 to New Hampshire.
where he did his first railroading.
Angus St. Clair. secretary of the Amer
lean Railway Master Mechanics Associa-
ton. and also editor of the Master Car
builder. was in the city yesterday. the
guest of F. p Boatmap superintendent of
motive power of the Big Four lines.
John III. McEwen has been appointed
traffic manager of the Kingan Packing
Compan7's White Star transportation line
at Kansas City. For three years past Mr..
McEwen has been general agent of the
American Refrigerator line at that point,
One general passenger agent draws COM
fort from the fact that about 40 per cent of
the people who 90 East on these Niagara
Falls excursions do not return within the
limit. and the direct roads thus are enabled
TO get o full fare when they return West.
The Eureka indianapolis Division of the
brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen now
has 1S5 members. an increase of forty-twO
in the last year. In the associations fiscal
year. which ended July 81, there was dis
bursed in death and sickness benefits s.. S73.
Some of the prominent roads of the coun-
try which have abandoned the practice of
trains are moved much more promptly than
when loating was done along the road TO
get in two or three hours overtime on each
trip.
Traffic Manager Busen bark. of the Chi
cag0. St Paul a. Kansas City road. has ad-
wees that fifty million bushels OF grain
from Kansas will begin to move during the
third week IN August. Considerable delay
has been caused by the continuous rein In
that State.
The Southwestern limited over the Big
Four lines in the month of July arrived at
was the other side of Cleveland. This Is
O remarkable record for train which
makes the run from New York to Indian
apolis in twenty-four hours.
The Vanderbilts are said to be interested
In a project to build a new road from New
with the Canadian lines. The title of the
road is to be the New York Canadian Pa
cific railway. 1t will he $50 miles long, and
It's estimated cost is S15.OO0,OO0.
The owners of the Indiana & Illinois
southern have declined an otter made for
the road by the Mackey syndicate, and the
latter has asked that negotiations be left
open until they can again 90 oyer the road
and investigate matters more Thoroughly.
An impression prevails that the deal will
be made In the near future.
Freight men say that farmers are holding
back their wheat TO such an extent that
the shipments reach just about the capacity
of the cars which can be obtained for NOV
ing nc, and II the movement continues thus
healthy IN character it will throw the ship
ments further into the fall and winter
months than in any preceding year.
The understanding now is that if the
Pullman company is able to furnish COM
piete equipment for Trains 20 and 81, run
over the vandalia and Pennsylvania lines
between st. Louis and New York, they
and Columbus. o., probably q chair car of
Pullman's best class will be run two sleep
ing coaches and q dining car.
Z. +. Kearney, a we'll telegrapher,
employed b.. the Panhandle company at
Logansport. has been elected yice-Qrapd
He succeeds Mr.. NJ. ID. Shaw. of st. Louis,
who has been made grand master of the or
der. The brotherhood is said to be growing
rapidly. New lodges are being instituted
every week in the West and South.
new class "R" engine, built at the
Pennsylvania COmpany's shops at Fort
Wayne. was placed in service this week. 1t
Is said to be equal in every respect to the
best turned out at the AltOOn shops A
few years ago il was thought firsf-class
engine could not be built west of the
mountains. but some which have been
turned ont at shops of the PennsYlvani
Company. and of the Big Fonr company,
are making records not excelled.
In local passenger circles there seems to
be a calm after month of connection. in
which rates in all directions were democrat
lied. passengers being carried hundreds of
miles at less than One-half cent per mile.
There are now only the harvest excursions
TO demoralize rates. unless the rate war be-
tween the Big Four and the Lake Erie d
Western Is renewed. winch is hardly prob
able. as neither the Monon nor the Penn
sylvania Company will again give the Big
Four so excellent an opportunity to adver-
tise itself as they did In the late Chicago
excursion.
Said an official of the Big Four yesterday:
while the Cleveland papers and alleged
Cleveland stockholders are complaining
that the Big Four management is discrim-
mating against the old Bee-line in favor of
the Big -Four proper. or Chicago division,
they are hammering the life out of the
track of this division to make earnings to
pay the improvements on other divisions.
operating expenses. fixed charges and div
idends, allowing the track of the Chicago
division to deteriorate for the benefit of
the scrub roads which have been gathered
in by the Big Four in the last two years."
Among railway managers ten-wheel six
coupled driving wheels are becoming the
favorite. says railroad official, for hauling
fast heavy trains, The Erie was the first
TO introduce this type of locomotive. the
Michigan Central following. But those In
use of the first build fall considerably short
of being equal in power or speed to those of
more recent construction. The Big Four is
credited with having the best ty pc of ten
wheel passenger engines, of which they
have ten and two more building. They were
constructed on plans and Specifications OF
VIM. Turretf, former superintendent of
motive power of the Big Four. and so many
excellent points have these engines that
the Brooks Iocomotive-works have adopted
this type as one of their standards.
The Fort Wayne Sentinel says that q suit
II 10 be brought against the Lake Eric a.
Western road for $4,000. which is out of
man named Davis had his arm pinched
January. Although badly mangled, the
company's surgeon thought amputation
not necessary. and. dressing the injuries,
The accident happened on Friday. and on
the following Tuesday DAVIS died from
blood poisoning His mother through her
attorney. Judge Shit. of FRANKFORT, will
bring action against the company for S10.-
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