The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-01-27

James Barker general passenger agent of
the honon, was In CINCINNATI yesterday
for q conference with General Passen ger
Agent Mccormick, of the c.. III. Sc ID. Mr..
Barker Is expected in this city to-day.
John 4. Miller. general superintendent of
the South western PennsyIvanIa lines. has
received notice that eighteen Glass "P' new
engines built at Altoona. would be deliy-
cred TO the lines under him in March.
The officials of the Lake Erie & Western
have heard nothing of dissatisfaction of
men in certain branches OF the company's
service nor of threats of striking except
what has appeared In some OF the papers.
A. Galloway. superintendent of the In
dianapolis division of the Cincinnati, Ham,
ilton IL Dayton. has the promise of three
of the new engines building at Pittsburg
for the c., II. d ID. for the Indianapolis di-
vision.
A. J. Whitehead, travelling passenger
agent of the Big Four. who has for some
Feb. l, transfer his headquarters to ST.
Louis. Kansas City territory is also to be
looked after by him.
Grand Master Sargent. of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen, left Wednes-
day on an extended Western trip in the in
time he has no grievances to look after on
the part of the brotherhood of which he Is
the grand chief.
The Dayton. Fort Wayne & Chicago is
proving a valuable acquisition to the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton 81 Dayton as a feeder.
A monthly average of three thousand car
loads of GOAL is shipped from mines on the
line. and on q large per cent of il the c.,
II. 81 d. gets long haul.
r NJ. Fraser general freight agent of the
Baltimore 81 Ohio Southw western. states
that this is one of the roads which was
amply provided with power. and only on
the severest cold days did they experience
any trouble in moving the business which
came to them either east or west bound.
r. @. Sweeney, train-dispatcher on the
Vandalia. who invented the Sweeney tele-
graph switch. has made an Improvement to
the device which is thought to be valuable.
Where this switch Is IN use an indefinite
number OF wires can be used in connection
with one key. one S0under and one local
set of batteries.
1t 10 stated that for the present the duties
which the superintendent of transportation
of the Big Four has been performing will
be divided between the office Of General
Manager Ramsey. Charles Riley and George
and transportation department in the past
under j. f. Rose.
Master Mechanic Morse, of the Wabash
shop at Fort Wayne, has invented novel
snowDlow which on a test has proven very
effective. The design is entirely new.
The plow Is fastened to an ordinary flat
car loaded with rails to make it resist
heavy pressure, and can be pushed thirty
miller an hour, cleaning the track perfectly
and throwing the snow good distance OFT.
In the twenty-four hours ending at g p. NJ.
yesterday fourteen Vandalis freight trains
arrived from the west, averaging twenty
three loaded cars each. Sixty cars were
loaded with coal for this market, Since
Monday morning the Vandalia has brought
In 21O carloads of coal from the Clay
county mines, mostly for manufacturers,
whose supply OF natural gas has been tenn.
porarily cut of.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois is to
make O general change In its schedule for
running passenger trains. With the tekiD q
effect of the spring time table there will be
two trains each way daily between Chi
cagO and Nashville. and three trains each
way between Chicago and Evansville.
The accommodation trains run between
Chicago and Terre Haute and Evansville
will be discontinued.
For some time past the Central Traffic
ASSOCIATION has been carrying on a secret
investigation, and many facts have Deen
obtained regarding general passenger
agents dealings with brokers which are of
damaging character, and some surprises
are said to be III store for passenger men
who have been asserting with much earn
estness that so far as their road was con-
cerned the scalpers had no show whatever.
There is much complaint among Indian
| apolis shippers that cars, after bein
loaded, are so long in being taken Oft side
tracks and in reaching destinations. while
| freights delivered at the freight depots
| reach destination much more promptly. a
loaded car from one OF the switches OF an
| industry Will be ten TO twenty days reach
| ing point which is reached If the freight
| is billed from the depot in three or four
days.
| j. 4. Rose, who has for the past year peen
| located in Indianapolis as superintendent
| of transportation of the Big Four. will
take q much-needed rest. spending few
months In looking after personal interests.
He has been actively engaged in railroad
| service for twenty-eight years The office
| of superintendent of transportation is to
| be abolished after Feb. 1. and MIR. Rose has
been offered another position in connection
| with the Big Four, which he will accept
| after a few months recuperation.
1t was reported in Wall street yesterday
| that two directors of the Pennsylvania
directors also of the Chicago. Burlington q
| Quincy, and that places on the Pennsyl-
vania board would be given TO the Burling.
| ton directors. This is said to be part of an
ARRANGEMENT for q line across the continent
| for the Pennsy lvania railroad. The ex-
| treme Western connection proposed was
| not definitely given, but agreements are
| said to have been executed at q recent con-
| ference in New York.
| 1t takes q very slight excuse for switch
Columbus. o., on the Penney lvania lines.
| are threatening to strike because one of
their number was ordered by O court to
| pay weekly q sum to support o wife, who
had secured divorce from him. She COM
| planned to the company that he wns not
| carrying out the order of the court and
Superintendent Turner discharged him.
| The other switchmen have taken the mat.
| ter up and say they VIII strike If he Is not
I, reinstated, insisting 1t is the duty of the
! court. not of the railroad company to pun.
| ish him.
One of the new passenger engines of the
| Big Four has been placed to run between
| Cincinnati and Indianapolis hauling the
fast express trains IL and Is. Yesterday,
| coming west. the train left Lawrencebura
| junction twenty-seven minutes late and
| reached Greensburg but seven minutes late
bringing the train up the hills below
| Greensburg at a speed of forty miles an
hour. Engineer Bennington, one of the vet.
| Grams In the company's service. says that
they are the fastest and most powerful en-.
| gines be has ever run. They are Science.
tady build and were designed by L. i. Lord
Superintendent of motive power of the Big
| Four.
The engineers on the Erie system take a
| great interest in the worlds fair exhibit,
and will send full t1edged engine TO rep
resent the motive power department of the
| Erie lines. Outsiders are not admitted &c
the club organized to build It, each mem.
Der introducing his ideas as TO the proper
construction. A COMMITTEES was appointed
to decide upon the various plans sub
mirted, and as a result there will be exhib-
tied an engine of large type and graceful
proportions. with many new improve.
ments. The engineers on the whole sys-