The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-18

Seven Millions for New Equipments.
Millions OF dollars are being expended by
the railroads centering in Chica 60 in prep
a~rations for the expected increase OF busl-
ness during the worlds fair. Upward OF
LOO new passenge coaches and over four
hundred new engines have been ordered
constructed and delivered prior to May l,
1893, and all the car-works and locomotive
shops In the country are running overtime
TO fill the orders. The Illinois Central has
given orders for three hundred cars and
fifty engines. The Chicago q Northwest
ern is having built $50 cars and forty en-.
gines. and the Lake Shore 10 cars and
thirty engines. In about the same proper
ton all the roads are adding to their equip
nient. Ii is estimated that the outlay LOT
additional rolling stock and motive power
by the Chicago roads alone Will rot fall
short of s7.00O,000.
Personal. Local and General Notes.
VIM. r. McKeen. president of the Terre Haute
& indianapolis. left yesterday for Colorado. He
will be absent three weeks.
The earnings of the Big Four lines for the first
week OF October were $5.Gs5 in excess of those
OF the corresponding week OF 1891.
Hospitals are to he established on the Chcsa-
peake d Ohio road at division points. where in
jured and sick employees can be properly cared
John G. Williams. general manager of the Van
dalia, came over last evening, and will to-day ac-
company the Pennsylvania Inspection party to
81. Louis.
There were transferred over the Belt road in
the week ending Oct. Is a total OF 6,172 cars.
Belt road engines handled 1,C66 carloads Of
live stock.
superintendent Mansfield says the Sunday
trains on the Indianapolis Il Vincennes are pay
ing so we'll that the arrangement will be made
permanent.
". W. LINN, formerly cashier of the Indiana,
Bloomington & Western, now with @. Hen
derson. on the Philadelphia 4 Reading, is in the
city for a day or two.
Since Jan. L the receipts from sales OF tickets
at the outside offices OF the Big Four in this city
have been $29,242 in excess of those for the cor
responding period OF 1901.
E. F. Cost, of Chicago, assistant general freight
agent of the Big -Four, who is down with typhoid
fever. is slightly better. and his physician hopes
that the dangerous crisis Is passed.
The Vandalia and Big -Four yesterday made
arrangement for the erection Of interlocking
signals and switches at COlfax and Marshall
Junction crossing points of the two roads.
The southwestern limited: yesterday, after
leaving MuIcie. on the Indianapolis division,
coming west. ran twenty-one miles in twenty
minutes, as timed by an official OF another road.
Albert Marsh, superintendent of the Kansas
division OF the Missouri Pacific. has resigned,
and Meade s~tillwell, a Chicago & Eastern III
nois passenger conductor, has been given the
position.
Dr. Davis. chief surgeon of the Monon rail
road, started from Quincy. Greene county, yes
terday. with a surveying party to locate "a road
from Quincy TO the coalfelds of owen, Clay and
Sullivan counties.
The indianapolis & vincennes is building up
quiet a coal trafic. Some days as high "a one
hundred carloads of coal are shipped and this
month an average or seventy cars per day have
been shipped. Much OF it goes as far north as
Chicago.
The Big Four inspection party broke up yes
terday at Chicago, and j. ID. Laying went East
over the Lake shore; President ingalls,. General
Manager Ramsey and Traiiic Manager Murray
will pass through the city this morning en- route
for Cincinnati.
z. o. Mccormick. general passenger agent of
the Cincinnati. Hamilton &c Dayton. and James
Barker. of the L.. v. A. & c., yesterday returned
from New York, where they went 10 meet OH
Gals of Southern lines to arrange a better winter
schedule on Florida business than that of past
years.
In local railroad circles but little credence is
given to the report that there are TO be nuIner-
Gus changes in officials on the Big Four, and that
ID. ID. Martin. general passenger agent, is to give
place TO William b. Shattuc. general passenger
agent of the Ohio & Mississippi. The fact thas
was out of the city, and had been for several
days, makes their truth less probable. Presi-
dent Ingalls, is inclined to be boastfnl Of the re-
sul!s from the passenger traffic on the Big Four
system the last eighteen months.
L. A. Ford. general passenger agent of the
Pennsylvania lines and the Vandalia. is with the
inspection party. Last evening. in conversation.
he said. as regards worlds fair rates, that he
thought a reduction'o OF % per cent. from regular
rates should satisfy the public. This would Ell
DAO tAO ~ lnllO t4o phFluCoS l. rOIIo
profit and in a ereditable manner. He feared.
however. that some OF the roads are so fond OF
that his ideas as regards rates and the ideas of
other conservative railroad men would not be
carried out.
Chairman MIdgley, Of the Western Freight
Association. has arranged for q conference with
the representatives of the New England roads,
at Boston, Oct. 90, to fix a schedule in west
bound rates to govern after the close OF lake
navigation. Already the rates are beginning 10
go up. The Canadian Pacific has announced an
advance in fourth, nth and sixth-class rates TO
Che basis - - cents per one f HUNDRED III pounds.
first three classes remain at 81. 45 and 50 cents,
respectively. No trouble Is anticipated in bring
diately after tho close of navigation.
The proposition of General superintendent
Voorhees,. of the New York Central, to make the
| at the present xritins seems impraeticahle The
Empire State express Is eight hours and thirty
minutes making the run from New York to
Buffalo, 14O miles, and after reaching Buffalo by
the Vanderbilts' shortest line. the Michigan
Southern, the distance is 500 miles. An I'M
preston prevails that the Empire State has
reached about as high q speed as Ia practicable
and it is run only hity-two miles an hour. To
make the run from New York to Chicago in ff-
teen hours would require a speed of sixty-five
miles an hour.
Judge Harlan has decided the long-standiDg
I dispute regarding the liability of the baltimore
& Ohio Railroad Company to the old Baltimore
4 Ohio Railroad Relief Association. The associ-
alton was dissolved by an act OF the Legislature,
upon a petition of the railway employees, in 1889.
Tho railway company admitted having on hand
assets belonging to the relief and pension feat
ures TO the amount of $500. 900. The court now
decides that the entire fund for distribution il
about $3.50. 600. The court also Gtsallowed all
claims for sickness or accidental benefits accru-
Ing after March 81, 1859. This is 10 be divided
among twenty thousand members on the eastern
and western lines or the ID. q o.
The Official report showsthat Trail 10. over the
Louisville division. reached Louisville twenty
nine times late in thirty three days reported,
and this fact stirred up the business men In the
southern part OF the State to an investigation.
They found that the fauit did not lie with tho
Louisville division. but on the Chicago division,
thirty TO forty minutes being lost at Logansport.
and about that length of time Mt Kokomo. So
we'll Is IL understood that IL Is expected trains
OF the Pennsylvania limos Will he run on schedule
time that the record of Train 10 becomes the
more noticeable. A postOii1ce official says n re-
form has been promised which will likely result
In the trains reaching Louisville on time unless
there be some unusual occurrence 10 delay IL.