The Indianapolis journal., 1893-10-09

new depots are to be built The system Of
tracks in connection with the depots also
met with his marked approval.
The Shaw four-cylinder locomotive, which
was exhibited on several Western roads, is
not the success expected, and has been
taken to the Baldwin shops TO have some
changes made, which IL is believed may i'm
prove its working.
The vote OF the Cairo division accepting
the recent reduction was quite surprise
to the officers or the Big Four. 1t was ex-
Dected they would vote very largely against
IL, but. on the contrary, the vote was more
than two-thirds the other way.
Mention was made. some weeks ago. that
the Pennsylvania Company was expert
menting with oil as fuel for some of its
fast locomotives The test has not been
satisfactory. and the engines are being
again converted into coal burners.
The Chesapeake & Ohio earned in Sep
tember 1851 473, decrease compared
with the corresponding month of 1892, OF
$S9.3Sl. Since Jan. it has earned S,545ssl,
ing nine months OF 1892 of $159.411.
At the Fort Wayne shops Of the Penn
sylvania Company last week another of the
fast Glass "X' engines was turned out and
sent to the Pennsylvania road, eastern di-
vision, for service. These engines are max
ing great record for the Fort wayne
shops, as we'll as for the type of engine.
At the worlds fair, Railroad Train
mems day, Oct. 13, Mr.. FinlaySon, the old
est conductor. and Mr.. Davidson, the old
est locomotive engineer in the country.
on that day, run the original locomotive
John Bull" which the Pennsylvania has
on exhibition there.
Superintendent Sutton returned from Chi
cago to his headquarters at Mount Carmel
on Friday night, and was met at the depot
by about one hundred of his employees,
were made, and he was received with
warm welcome. Everybody is we'll pleased
with the new superintendent, and he is
making good record
Of thn ati
ing Company against he Wabash company
for $4,000 has been taken to Howard coun-
minutes before the plant was burned a Wa
bash eastbound passenger train passed, and
it is alleged that sparks from the locomo-
tive of that train set the building of the
manufacturing company fire.
On Friday the Columbian express over
the Pftsburg, Fort Wayne q Chicago
passed Fort Wayne in nine sections, run
ming fifteen minutes apart, and Trains l. z
and were that day run in two sections.
The road delivered more passengers in
Chicago during the twelve hours ending
at p. m. Friday than on any other day
since the worlds exposition opened.
George Prescott, superintendent of mo-
tive power of the Vandalia, is getting the
rolling stock in excellent condition for the
winter, and looks for increase in freight
and passenger traffics as, no doubt, after
the worlds fair is over, passenger traff1c
Mr.. Prescott expects TO have every Passen,
ger train on the Vandalia system heated
by steam from the locomotive. During the
past summer, while there has been less
filling of trestles, hollows and cutting
down of grades, a full complement of sec
ton men has been employed, and the road
bed was never before in as good condition,
and never in the history of the Vandalia
has its trains been moved with so much reg
ularity and with so few accidents.
The light freight traffic on the Big Four,
the Monon, the Cincinnati Hamilton &
Dayton and the Panhandle lines in one re-
spect Is fortunate, as the immense pas
senger business the roads named have
handled would have made tedious work
OF moving freight, had business been as
heavy as usual. An apt illustration oc-
Cured last week. A stock train was start
ed from Kankakee. on the Big Four, for
Cincinnati. In running between these
points IL was passed by sixteen passenger
trains for all of which 1t was side
tracked, and by actual report of train
sheets that train, between Kankakee and
Cincinnati, laid side tracks waiting for
passenger trains to pass eight hours. OF
course all freight trains were side-tracked
for the stock train consequently there
was no delay on that score