The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-02

CARDS his future, except that he Is salts
fled with the outlook.
bus & Hooking Valley road have recently
changed hands, which is causing q good
disposed OF large holding is G.. L. Hunt
ington.
NJ. A. Took. formerly superintendent Of
the Monon Indianapolis divisiOn), is with
his wife visiting friends in this city for a
few days. Mr.. Zook is still with the Queen
& Crescent as one Of its engineers of main
ter ance OF way.
The Cleveland. Akron & Columbus COM
pany and George Saul. president of the
company. have been enjoined from placing
a new bonded indebtedness of 100000 on
the road. The Dutch administrator Com
pany appeared before the courts and fought
the issue OF such securities.
Engine 225 on the Pittsburg division of
the Pennsylvania on Tuesday OF this week
reached a speed OF ninety miles an hour,
and averaged over eighty-seven miles an
hour for several miles. On one portion of
the division it ran liza miles in nine min
uteS and thirty-nine seconds.
j. f. holland has been appointed train
master of the east end of the indianapolis
division OF the Pennsylvania lines, with
headquarters at Columbus, o., vice G. b.
Sugar. transferred Mr.. holland has been
yardmaSter Of the Panhandle lines at In
dianapolis for twenty-three years.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works have re-
ceived an order for seventy-one engines
tenn. This is one of the largest orders the
baldwin works have ever received from a
/ single railroad COMPANY. FOrty-twO of the
engines are to be built imediately.
Nj. E. Ingalls,. president of the Big Four,
/ has notified heads of departments that
hereafter they must be prompt In. sending
in as Oe ea TSseT as 81 eI p9gssigbIs' ge affngg th EN-
close of each month. He wants it under
stood that every man on the system is to
month.
Oscar Murray. vice president and freight
I traffic manager OF the Big Four, Yesterday
le1C fOr an extended Western N0rfhuyoSt-
srn and Southwestern trip. While absent
ne Will be at Chicago, st Paul, Omaha,
hannibal, Kansas City and St Louis, and
territory.
Superintendent Broughton and Chief En-
glneer Baldwin, of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois, have spent several DAYS on the
chicago K Indiana coal road, which is de-
veloping a large earning capacity. AS a
result OF their recent Inspection consider
able money will be expended In betterments
to the property.
w; II: McDoel, general manager Of the
Louisville, New Albany g. Chicago, saws
ne VIII not appoint a general superintend-
ent at present. which is thought to mean
that he will see how superintendent Low
ell handles the road. He prefers to select
a general superintendent through promo
ton If practicable.
The Baltimore & Ohio inspection party,
headed by President Mayer, First Vice Pres
ldent i. NJ. King and Second Vice Presi-
dent c.. x. Lord and General Manager
Campbell. are to-day inspecting their lines
in northern Indiana They will go over the
newly acquired lines, the Ohio & Missis-
slppi, before returning East.
The advisory committee of the emigrant
cIeaI1nS mousse has not yet selected a man
10 nave charge of the New York Office.
Inc entire committee will leave Chicago on
sunday Tor New York., and may select the
man while there, though it is probable
that he will not be chosen until after the
committees return to Chicago.
The contractors who are building the new
bridge from JeffersonviIle TO Louisville,
over the Ohio river, propose TO push the
work this winter so far as the weather
money now to proceed with. There is lit
tie question that the Vanderbilts know
who is furnishing the money for it's con-
The new coal combination will not affect
the business of the Terre Haute & Indian
switching from the mines, it having thirty
eight miles of switching track leading to
the various mines. The road, some time
ago, Withdrew as a coal line TO Chicago.
When the rate dropped from S1.50 per ton,
Brazil to Chicago, to $1,10. the Vandalia
abandoned the Chicago line.
A meeting Of the Western Passenger As
ISOLATION will be held at Chicago to-day to
consider the stand taken by the Rock
Island in declaring that unless it's fine of
$50 is RENTED 1t will not join the pro-
posed emigrant clearing house scheme.
There is so much at stake In the emigrant
scheme. and it has been evolved after so
much trouble, that it is not likely the other
lines will allow the question of $50 TO upset
IL.
Surveyors are at work at st. Louis on
a route for a new belt railway, to COM
mence north of the city limits and circle
around the city TO the west, coming I'm at
Carondolet, on the south, and connecting
with the new bridge to be built there. BY
those in position TO know, 1t is said that this
new belt road is a part of the plan OF the
Burlington to girdle st. Louis on all sides,
and thus connects with every road that
enters il.
The Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City
earned. in. the third week of November,
$36,Si9, a decrease, as compared with the
corresponding week of 1892. of $s049. The
Evansville & Terre Haute earned $22. 4i2,
a decrease. this year. of $4,000. The Louis
Vile, Evansville 4 st. Louis earned $2S, 602,
a decreaselof So. 45S. The Peoria, Decatur &
Evansville earned $15.651, a decrease, this
year, of $319. The Evansville & Richmond
earned $l5.135. a decrease of s1157.
The railroad commissioners Of Kentucky
have submitted an abstract of their report
to the Governor, from which Commissioners
WOodSon furnishes the statement that the
total assessment Of all the railroads in the
State has been fixed at So 1919 50, which
is an increase of a little more than 5000,
go over that OF last year, and more than
500, 000,0O over the valuation placed upon
these railroads by the companies them
selves. The increased mileage was only
50 67-1O0 miles.
The future of the Baltimore & Ohio sys-
tenn is a subject of much speculation.
Doubtless the road will be extended from
Bardstown TO Quincy, H., where connec-
& Kansas City, which greatly needs an
Eastern outlet, the latter running to Tren-
IOn, MO. j.. r.. BdfIldTu, IOTileT pIeSlleHl
Of the Ohio & Mississippi, is organizing a
company TO build $50 miles of road to strike
the Omaha & st. Louis and open up valu-
able territory now without railway facili-
ties.
Judge Townsend, of the United States Cir
cult Court, rendered a further decision in
the suit In which the same court rendered
a judgment last week. sustaining the West
inghouse air brake patents. This last de-
the New York Air Brake Company, for
leave TO sell, subject 10 n royalty. 5000 sets
of infringing air-brakes which IL claims 10
have ON hand, and makes the injunction in
favor of the Westinghouse Company alb
solute. The New York Air Brake Company
says il will take an appeal.
James DonOhue, general freight and pas
senger agent of the Kansas City, Pittsburg
a Calf railroad, has sent out notices an
from Joplin, Neosho and Sulphur Springs
to Kansas City. The new rate is less than
. cents a mile. In a letter to Chairman
Caldwell, Of the Western Passenger AsSo-
citation. and another 10 ". G. Townsend,
general passenger agent OF the Missouri
Pacific. a competing line. Mr.. DOnohue says
he made the cut because the Memphis
route begun the cut.
Local unions OF the American Railway
Union have just been organized at P2les-
tine. Tyler. LOngview. Marshall, Texar-
and Ennis. Tex. ST. Louis has three unions,
Kansas City two. Springfield. Mo-. two
Palestine, Tex, two. The union has an or
ganiZatiOn at each terminal and division
point on the Union Pacific system, also or
the Atchisop. Topeka & Santa Fe, the
Denver * Rio Grande, the Colorado Mid
land. the Atlantic & Pacific. the Rio Granda
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