The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-25

year. The Big Four is again paying atten-
/ ton to its livestock traffic, which Will re-
| suit beneficially to the indianapolis stock
yards.
The general opinion of railway officials
| Is that the receivers OF the Union PACING
| will not renew its membership in the west
| ern Passenger Association
A NJ Stewart ex-general livestock agent
OF the Big Four, and who was on the bee
line road for twenty-six years, Is spending
a day or two in the city, en- route 10 the
worlds fair
Frank Reed. general passenger agent of
| the Monon, was in the city yesterday. BUS
mess men will be pleased to learn tnat ne
apolis to Chicago will be continued on the
| winter time schedule
The receivers of the Cleveland. Canton &
| Southern will remove their headquarters TO
New York city. Running the road at a dis
| lance has been its greatest drawback In
! the past, but the receivership does not i'm
/ prove IL In this respect.
q. G.. Hadley, of Plainfield, this State.
| who in the past few years gained a. good
name as a railroad man, has dropped rail-
reading altogether and Is interested In sew Na
eral Ohio coal mines. He is now counted
among the wealthy men OF Toledo.
Col. s. w. Fordyce, president of the cot
| ton belt lines, passed through here TO attend
s Of 5ne etc tbos n es IS
very encouraging. There is a fair move
ment of cotton, but in other classes of
| freight the volume is unprecedentedly light.
The Big Four is so pressed for shop room
| that IL Is pushing the work on its new
| shops at Bellefontaine day and night
working at night by electric lights. The
large roundhouse at indianapolis into a
| light repair shop, and Is now putting In the
power and machinery.
But few east-and-west lines have suf-
| fered more in earnings than has the To-
| ledo, st. Louis & Kansas City. The second
week in October the road earned sS5.ss, a
decrease this year Of So s The r ), Ia s ssS
| a decrease, compared with the CORE
| spending period of 1892, of $333.s79.
| j. o. EVAN late superintendent Of the
Bee-line was visited last Sunday by Chap
lain Brunton, of the first division of the
| d. & r. G. railway at Pueblo, Col After
| prayer, a very interesting and profitable
| conversation was held, in which Mr.. Evan
gave expression cs his tender regard for the
| men who worked hand in hand with him
| many years ago.
The Chicago & Alton has made new
| departure and issued order declaring
| that as trains have often been pulled apart
| because air brakes were not released when
| they are started, and hereafter. before any
attempt is made to start a passenger train,
| the brakeman at the rear end OF the train
must see that the brakes are released. and
| so signal the engineer.
| The Lake Erie & Western has entirely
| abandoned its part rail and part water
route to Chicago, but is doing little BUSH
ness through its Nickel-plate Chicago con-
may I make tie L. f. & w. more trouble
| some to the direct lines as Chicago road
| than it has been in the past under tempo
| rary traffic arrangements.
The passenger earnings of the Big Four,
| including mail and express, are 81 2-3 per
cent. of the gross earnings, and, when the
| small proportion of expenses to be deducted
| Is considered. when compared with freight
earnings, the old claim that revenue comes
| from proper care of passenger business is
more than verified: On account Of the
yyil a
| increased.
1 The Erie lines, which have been doing an
| immense worlds fair business, have been
| remarkably exempt from accidents, which
is largely due to a superior block signal
| system, more especially between Kent, o.,
| and Chicago, which was completed but a
ness set in. One of the officials states that
| they have not experienced the least trouble
in operating it, and a rear or front COLI
| sion on the Erie has not occurred.
| For the last eight years the stone traffic
| of the Monon has furnished rs per cent of
| its gross earnings; now 1t is not furnishing
10 per cent. and as long as the business y.
| Improvement. In the future it will have
| more competition to contend with than in
the past, consequently in years to come
| the stone traffic of the road will not furnish
/ as large a revenue. The management is
| now looking for other classes of traffic to
| make up any deficiency in that direction.
| V. T. Malott chairman of the executive
committee of the Chicago & Western In
/ diana, returned from Chicago yesterday.
| On Monday the executive committee had
| conference with the Council committed
/ OF Chicago and members of the Board OF
/ Public Improvements as regards the ele-
waiting of the company's tracks within the
| far that the expert engineer of the city has
| fications for the proposed Improvement and
| an estimate of its cost.
| Unquestionably east-bound travel will
| increase with the closing Of the world S
| fair. and the Pennsylvania line. ii. it ex-
| bound travel, should put another sleeping
| car on Trains 20 and q between Indianapo-
| lis and New York: The Big Four is put
| ting on fine through equipment and prepar-
| ing TO shorten it's time and the Pennsyl-
| vsTlia people must give their ST. Louis and
Indianapolis lines as good accommodations
| and equipments as does it's Chicago lines
| to hold the business it has for years been
working for.
| VIM. r. McKeen, president of the T. H.
| & 1. (Vandalia), some years ago gave in
| structions to the heads of departments that
| all modern devices which tended to make
| the movement of passenger or freight trains
more safe be adopted on the Vandalia as
| they came to the front. and to-day this
| road has It's trains equipped equal to any
/ road in this country with the most modern
of inventions, from heating its trains with
steam, electric headlights on it's locomo-
| tives, quick-action air brakes, through
| trains vestibuled, and in its track such i'm
| provements as the last few years have
| brought into service.
President Maxwell, of the Jersey Central,
yesterday confirmed the report which has
| been rumored about during the past few
| days to the effect that the interests of the
| Lackawanna and Jersey Central roads will
| in the near future be merged into one. Act
| i've operations under the new deal will not
| however, be begun before the first of next
| year. BY this deal 1t is understood that the
| Jersey Central will be the controlling fac
| ton in the deal, and that there will be a
| very considerable change in the policy OF
| the road There was a rumor about also
| TO the effect that the Jersey Central would
absorb the Lehigh road, but this Mr.. Max
| we'll denied.
/ Said prominent railroad man yesterday:
| 1.-THE future Of large per cent. of the
| roads of this country depends on the bust
| ness they do the next four months. After
| the worlds fair business is over, unless
| there is a very marked revival In freight
| traffic, many a road now looked upon as
| being solvent will totter and then drop
| into the hands of a receiver He ex-
/ pressed the opinion that there has never
| been time since the railways formed so
| important a part of the country's prosper
| ity that they have been in precarious a
| condition as at present. He thought in
| vestigation would show that the manage
/ ments of 50 per cent. of the roads of the
| United States and Canada were studying
| the problem of how 10 avoid receiverShipS.
/