The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-15

streams and the stone-work they rest on
IL some of the heaviest masonry IN the
State.
The shops of the Pennsylvania Company
at Altoona have orders TO bnid sixty loco
motives of the class 'R' type, and mo
Pennsylvania has placed an order with the
Baldwin locomotive works for forty-five
locomotives of heavy type.
In the month of October l25. S22 cars
passed through the yards of the Pannsvl-
vania kailroad Company at Columbia,
eighty miles west of PhIladelphia. the
total movement for the month being 10 per
cent. beaver than ever before.
On the side-tracks of Chandler & Taylor
yesterday stood ten Carloads of engines
and bTirk-making machinery which Will
be shipped west to-day over the Big Four.
On each car large sign-board giving
the names Of the manufacturers.
Work on the Indiana MIdland's Brazil
line has been suspended awaiting the nego-
tiations of tho company TO purchase the
Fort Wayne. Jerre Haute d Southeastern
road. a section of which is now built be-
tween Mansfield and Carbon. Ind.
The passenger conductors on the Della
ware, Lackawanna IL Western have an
other grievance. and have gone to General
Manager Halsfead with IT. One of the
superintendents objects to the conductors
carrying their sons free on its trains.
Among the many novelties which j. b.
Barnes, superintendent of motive power of
tho Wabash lines. has introduced is a blow
OFT valve. There is a valve on each side of
conveniently placed above the running
board.
w. f. Wilson has been appointed general
manager of the newly-organized South
western Dispatch. with headquarters at
Toledo. This line will work over the To-
ledo. st. Louis II Kansas City, the Lake
Shore. the Nickel-plate and the Fitchburg
roads.
The Illinois Central IS blockaded at Chi
cagO. which is interfering with the Big
Four's business at that terminal. and the
Baltimore * Ohio is blockaded at Column
bus. and through this the Peoria d. Eastern
lie suffering, the Il. * 0. being its eastern
outlet
The labor organizations are urging the
clerks in the railroad offices to organize for
seif-protecJion, and move in that direc-
tion Is quite possible. There is no class of
railroad men who work as many hours for
so small pay. it is stated by those in posi-
ti0n to know.
The Financial Chronicle places the gross
earnings of l32 roads for the month of Octo-
Der at 5l,6S5.330, an increase over October.
1851, of 1881, 655: increase of the same lines
since Jan. l, S23. 49,, Ais. The largest in
crease IS shown on the central, Western
and the granger lines.
A. H. Joyce. formerly with the l., b. &
W.. and now auditor Of the Ohio Southern.
is in the city. He states that the Ohio
Southern yesterday began grading south
ward for it's extension TO new coal fields,
and will this week let the contract to ex-
tend the road TO Lima. o.
The presidents and general MANAGERS of
the roads in the Central Traffic and Trunk
line associations will meet in Chicago
Thursday for the purpose of considering
the general rate situation and putting trait
fic affairs in the best possible shape before
the beginning of the new year.
George Frey. ticket broker. formerly of
this city, now in Minneapolis. 10 here for a
day or two. He says the last six months
have been prosperous ones with the scalp
ers. There are the same number of scalp
ing offices in Minneapolis that there are in
dianapolis-fve-and all do good BUSH
ness.
The Toledo. st. Louis & Kansas City has
earned since Jan. l. Sl.S5l. Ga9. an increase
over the same period of 1891 of Sl95 106
This 10 on mileage of Al miles. The Wa
bash. which in some measure parallels it
has in its system 1888 miles. and has earned
since Jan. Si2. .2S9. an increase this year
of Si1o.0s2.
The iron work for the new train sheds of
the Vandalia at Terre Hante is on the
ground. and will be erected at once. The
sheds will run north and south, to accom-
modate the lines running in that direction.
Vandalia trains. There will be three
| straight main tracks under each Il" of the
train sheds.
Superintendent Voorhis. of the New
York Central, says the American locomo-
tive is superior to the English but on
American roads too much time is lost at
stations and railroad crossings. train
running q mile o minute loses mile every
time it slows down in passing through q
small town. and five minutes when it com as
to dead stop at station or railroad cross
ing.
| At recent meeting OF the society of en-
| gineers at Vienna Herr Coster described
| his invention of an electric railway, call
| ing into use locomotive which will travel
| 1913 miles an hour A railway of this de-
scriptIon is projected to be buIls along the
| banks Of the Danube, from Vienna to Buda
| Pesth. Each carriage Will be provided
| with n motor and will be desi gned to carry
| forty persons.
| General Passenger Agent Horner, of the
| Nickel plate, was hanled over the Goals al a
| special meeting of the east bound passen-
| ger committee of the Central Traffic Assoc
| citation. at Chicago. yesterday. Mr. Horner
| is accused of manipulating through rates
| by issuing prepaid orders on Western road ,.
! and of using the return portions of hunt
| ers' tickets 10 eut the rate between Chicago
! and Buffalo. He attended the meeting and
| denied that he had been guilty OF any IT.
| regularities The result of the meeting
| was q reference of the whole matter tC
| Chairman Blanchard, with the request tina
| he confer with President Caldwell. of the
Nickcl-plate road, tho Is at present in Col
| oredo.
| In an opinion delivered yesterday. by
| Justice Brown. the United States Supreme
| Court affirmed the Judgment of the CiTcnIt
| Court of the United States for the Northern
| district of Ohio in favor of the Mansfield
| COldwater * Lake Michigan Railroad Com
pany. i'll suit brought against the com
pany by Charles Foster, now Secretary o.
the Treasury. In 1897 the road was sold I'M
| der foreel0 proceedings Tor half mill
ION dollars, to satisfy "a million dollar mort
gage and debtors calm aggregatinl
5000, goo. Ten years later Mr.. Foster, who
was n stockholdsr in the Mansfield road
| brought suit TO have the proceedings SCI
aside. alleging fraudulent conspiracy be-
tween the company and the Pennsylvania
| Railroad Company. The lower court AND
| this court both dismissed the bill on tn,
| ground of laohes holding that the things
complained of might. By reasonable dill
gence. have been discovered long before.