The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-16

Edwards Station and Delaware. The cut
at the latter place was n mile and q quarter
in length, and the track will be lowered
eight feet. On Sunday next il will be re-
moved from the old to the new grade.
Next year the grade at Elmwood will be
reduced. necessitating cuts and fills for q
distance of ten miles.
One of the new ten-wheel passenger en-
gIIes on the NaDdalia yesterday hauled
Train 20, consisting of MIN cars, from 81.
Louis 20 Terre Haute, making mp twenty
minutes which was lost In getting over the
brid re, on the fast time which this train is
scheduled. Conductor Wise says where
these engines make time is in picking a
train up quickly after stopping at q rail-
road crossing OF station, n minute or more
often being made over the ordinary engine
III getting the train moving rapidly after
each stop.
The Terre Haute g. indianapolis is now
working more switching Engines and crcws
at the Clay county coaI-nines than at any
former period. Despite the introduction
of natural gas in much of the territory
which drew it's supply of coal from the
block-coal mines, the demand for the coal
III new nelds has so increased IS to necessi-
tate n larger production. In the opening or
the st. Joseph division OF the Nandaiia q
new field for this coal was developed. The
Cincinnati. Hamilton ~ Dayton, the Lake
Erie IL Western and the Belt road are the
only railways centering here which draw
their supply from the Clay county coal
fields.
It is said that thirteen conductors. men,
bere OF the Order of Railway Conductors,
%rnnning on the Panhandle mostly between
Columbus and Pittsburg. have wn
from the order. Their withdrawal Is at
trlbuted to one of two things-troubIe In
the order or q desire on the part OF the
Panhandle officials TO employ mon who are
not members of the order. The latter Is De-
leved to be the true cause. The names OF
those who have withdrawn are oscar Bull,
William Merrick. James w. Brown. j..
Fisher. j. Hammond. Benjamin Wheeler,
William Lafferty, John Blakey, Daniel
Brown. Thomas Doyle. John Baker, John
AicDevitt and Edwin Morrell. MIR. Nor
rell. who has been on the road thirty years,
WAS the last to withdraw.
The committee appointed to draft an
agreement for n local ticket agents associa-
JIon of the Western roads submitted its re-
port to q general meeting of the interested
lines at Chicago. All that stood IL the
way of its adoption was the refusal OF the
Wisconsin Central TO take part In
the movement and the consequent re-
fusal or the Rock Island 10 accept an agree
ment subscribed to by all Interested lines.
bat after a discussion of the subject it was
decided to postpone action until after
the meeting OF the committee of general
passenger agents next week to revise the
agreement of the Western Passenger Asso-
clation. 1t is hoped that after the revision
OF that agreement the Wisconsin Central
will have no fnrthur objection TO becoming
a emb Der of the local association.
Rather q novel state of affairs exists with
some of the great railway systems. The
last two years they have purchased new
locomotives so rapidly that there has been
a scarcity OF engineers. and roads which
I'LL that position by the promotion of fire.
men have exhausted the supply from that
source. having promoted all who have been
In the position of firemen Tong enough to
pass the proper examination. On the Big
ployed In the last few months off of other
roads: still. the company promotes every
fireman who can pass the necessary exam
nation. On the Pennsylvania lines there
has been a good deal of drawing of men
from the less important lines to the more
important divisions, where trains are mum
erous and oool-heeded en- gineers are needed.