The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-19

IdcIOrlly on the big fOur tndL on the Isl
of January it will be extended over the st.
Louis and the indianapolis & Cleveland di-
visions.
The Missouri Pacific is arranging for an
excursion to Mexico next month for busl-
ness men who wish to visit the promi-
nent manufacturing towns and cities OF
that country.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
donated its exhibits at the worlds fair to
the Columbian Museum. Chicago, excepting
only the John Bull train, which has been
returned TO its old quarters In philadelphia.
The PENNSYLVANIA Company has about
completed its new depot at Anderson, but
will hardly be able to use it until the early
spring. as it is difficult to remove tracks,
build platforms, etc, while the ground Is
frozen.
Receiver Trumbull has appointed Fred
Wild general freight agent of the Denver;
Texas & Gulf railway system. Mr.. Wild
is assistant general passenger agent of the
Union Pacific. which position he will re-
sign at once.
the Southwestern Pennsylvania lines, was
I'm the city yesterday comforting with Off
Gals as regards further reductions in ex-
penses. The shops at this point yesterday
began running but nine hours
Work. has been commenced on a hospital
at Springfield, o., for injured and disabled
hospital will be previded with skilled
nurses. physicians and surgeons, and con-
structed after the most modern plans for
such institutions.
Inc &nB1leeT10R department Ol Tie DlS
Four is preparing plans for n new depot at
Connersviile, which will be a marked inn
provement over the present structure, and
will tend to the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton making a like Improvement at this
important station.
The Colorado Midland Terminal Railway.
has at its Midland station over one-half
million tons Of iow1grade ore ore TO bTing 1 out
ore has been accommodating some months,
awaiting the opening of the road.
r. b. F: PIERCE, trustee and general man
ager of the indianapolis, Decatur q West
night. While absent he visited H. B. Ham
mond, president of the company, and found
him much improved in health; the use of his
side, which was paralyZed, Is gradually re-
turning to him.
The Pennsylvania Company has already
begun to avail itself of the business the ac-
road gives it as a feeder. Last week six
hundred cars were sent West over this line
to be loaded, as many as in the past would
have been sent out on that line in sixty
days Of good business times.
F. D. Robinson, president of one OF the
Cleveland street-car companies, has ordered
that 800 be given to each conductor who
has gone through the year without an ac-
cident with his car. 1t is suggested that
this method of encouraging care and ex-
emption from accident might be adopted
by the steam railroad companies to advan-
tage.
Heretofore it has been necessary for a
passenger on a Pullman car to hold two
tickets before he could purchase a draw
ing room in one of their cars.
ing with Sunday last. one can get a draw
ing room on the presentation of one first
class ticket This is. an ccommodation
which the Pennsylvania Company has been
laboring to secure for some time.
An official of the Pennsylvania lines says
If the Pennsylvania Company will go back
of 1892 and make comparison of earnings 1t
will find that there is not so much room
for complaint Of present earnings as is
m96a anna rant nv recent statements Last
year the business of the road was phenom-
email. The same remark will apply to the
Big Four. the Lake Erie & Western and
numerous other roads.
Judge Jenkins has authorized the Wis
consin Central receivers to pay from the
earnings of the road in their hands an
amount sufficient to insure the payment OF
all Wisconsin Central frst-mortgage inter
est coupons maturing Jan. l.. All coupons
Boston and New York. There are no cou-
pons on any bonds issued by any OF the
Wisconsin Central companies in default.
The citizens of Salem, o., have asked
their relief and require the Pennsylvania
Company to stop more of its trains at that
that city passed an ordinance requiring
the running of the trains through that city
at a speed not to exceed four miles an hour,
and in retaliation the company issued or
ders that all but two accommodation trains
run through Salem without stopping.
On such systems as the Panhandle and
the Big Four the nneS the united states
Postal Department places upon them when
trains are late in arriving at terminals
and connections are missed, amount 10 sew
eral thousand dollars ~nnually, ranging on
such systems from 5000 to $1,000. After the
report Of the postal clerks are sent in these
fines are deducted on the settlements with
the roads unless good reasons for such de-
Law can be shown From year to year an
average of 90 per cent. of the nneS is re-
turned after hearing the report from the
railroad company as TO the cause OF the de-
lay.
e. It. White. master mechanic on the
Baltimore & Ohio, has gotten out letters
patent on an arrangement OF pipe ana not
air to consume the smoke of the locom07
tive. 1t is claimed that this device VIII
outclass all other patents which have been
tested. The apparatus works IN the IolloW-
ing manner: The air IS drawn from the air
brake cylinder on the outside or the loco
motive. 1t then passes through a coil or
pipes i'm the boiler. in order that the air
may be heated, after which it is distrib-
nted among many parallel pipes in the nre
the escape of the air. which gives a greatly
increased draught in the fire box. II is
expected that the new device Will better
consume the coal and not allow so much
unconsumed material to escape through the
stack. and thus greatly reduce the smoke
nuisance.
dale. five miles from Cleveland, were yes
terday opened for business. About two hun
dred men will be employed there, and only
car repairing work done. The new shops
at Beilefontaine will be ready for occu-
pancy in a short time, and light locomotive
repair work will be done in them. These
opened. the old Decline shops at ,Cleve-
land will be abandoned. the ground having
become too valuable for railroad shops to
occupy. In speaking of shop matters yester-
day, William Garstang, superintendent or
motive power of the Big Four, said: Now
all we need is grand central shops at lndl-
annapolis. where locomotives can be rebuilt
or repaired where the cost OF the Work on
the engine will exceed $1,000; then a coach
shop. in which all the painting and repair
ing OF coaches can be done under one su-
perintendent. which would enable him to
keen the color of the cars similar and make
the finish both of the exterior and interior
conform"
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