The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-24


Z. Utt has been elected as commissioner of
the bureau. Mr. UT was formerly general
freight agent of the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids q Northern.
Engines 312 and 319. rebuilt at the Bright
wood shops of the Big Four. have been put
In service on the Michigan division. and
one OF the large switch engines which have
been rebuilt Is TO be sent to Wabash, to be
used Is switching engine and as o pusher
OF freight trains mp the hill out of Wabash
OF the total mileage m ade by freight oars
on the NandalIa line last year as per cent.
was made by loaded cars. The average
load per car was 1l.69 tons, the average
haul 5i.4S miles aud the average number Of
tons per train 1880. which was q much
more favorable exhibit than the preceding
year.
The passenger conductors of the lines
running to Chicago say that the worlds
fair tickets are so free from complications
that they can take MP four quickly as
book. There Is no examination as TO limit;
neither must the name of any person be af-
fixed.
New Albany is steadily increasing in i'm
portanse rs a railroad center. Last week
the four roads running in there handled
ct New Albany 1918 loaded cars the Monon
leading with 1855 loaded cars: the Louis
VILE. Evansville N st. Louis had ]. 466 cars,
tho Pennsylvania 994 and the Ohio 81 Mis-
sissippi 69S.
The Chicago & Rock Island is in good
financial as well as ply steal condition. Its
western extensions. it is stated. have been
more profitable than the directors had ex-
Dected. and the company has not one dol.
lar of floating debt In its settlement with
the Minneapolis * st. Louis 1t will soon re-
ceive s4,000,000 on equipment bonds.
The Big Four has decided. in connection
with the Peoria IL Eastern, to put on Mon
day next. q solid train between Colum bus
o., and Chicago. This train will haul from
Columbus TO Indianapolis st. Louis
sleeper. 1t will run via Springfield, Day
ton and Arcanum. This makes another
Chicago train leaving indianapolis ct IL P.
NJ.
Drexel. Morgan & Co. have issueda cir
cular to the security holders of the Rich
mond n West Point Terminal Railway
and Warehouse Company, the Richmond n
Danville. and the East Tennessee. Virginia
IL Georgia Railway Company and system.
In which they state that they have decided
TO undertake the REORGANIZATION of the svs-
tenn. and have formed a syndicate TO I'M
dertake the plan.
The Pennsylvania voluntary relief de-
partment has now been in operation forty
six months. and since it begun business on
the indianapolis division but eleven per.
sons have Withdrawn. The membership is
now increasing about thirty per month.
Some who have left the service of the COM
pany have ceased to be members but none
have withdrawn other thar the eleven be-
cause not satisfied with its operations.
The Terre Hsute Gazette says o move
ment Is on foot looking to the consOlida-
tion OF the Evansville Terre Haute 81 Chi
cagO with the Chicago ~ Eastern Illinois,
which now operates it. Josephus COilett,
when living was ono of the largest stock
holders IN the company which leased the
E., L. Ii. * T.. to the &. Il f. l., and is said
hAyo been m w. ling N Let on his hold
OF the property. as the lease was very ia
vorable TO the owners of the road.
In passenger circles it is thought that the
Cincinnati, Hamilton IL Dayton has made
mistake in it's new schedule In taking Oft
the Go 7. NJ. train for Cincinnati, as it
breaks the CLOSE connection with the night
train for Toledo and Detroit via Hamilton,
and cuts oil at ConnersvIlie a growing pas
senger business from Fort Wayne. Munole
and other points on the Lake Erie IL West
ern. unless the l.. K. & w. brings it's trains
into Connersvllle earlier than now.
s. G. Gilbert of the South Carolina road,
was in the city yesterday visiting friends
He was returning from the meeting of the
Order of Railway Conductors at Toledo.
Mr. Gilbert has been passenger conductor
on the South Carolina road thirty six years,
aud states that there is n conductor on that
road who has held the position thirty nine
years. The South Carolina road was oneof
the first built In this country. and has in
Its employ . number of men who have been
with it since built.
The type of passenger engine that the
Pennsy lvania Company Is building for the
lines west of Pittsburg Is known as class
up" engine. and they are giving great sat-
Isfacticn. Those engines are built at AL
toons and the engine proper weighs fifty
seven tons. They are of the eight wheel
standard type have large boilers and fire
boxes and wsgon-top extensions. When
working they carry $50 pounds pressure.
and have q seventy-lnch driving wheel.
Last week one of these engines hauled
eleven cars for % considerable distance at
speed of seventy-six miles an hour.
The new fast trains the Pennsylvania has
put on between Louisville and Chicago
promise To become very popular. On Sun
day the north bound train carried seven
teen through passengers out of Louisville:
on Monday, thirty and yesterday it
had fifty-four. One week from next Sun
day the time of the train from Louisville
to Chicago will be cut down to eight hours,
making 1t the fastest train run in this c0un-
Try, the Empire State express excepted.
The run from Louisville TO Indianapolis
Will be made in TWO hours and thirty min
utes. which makes it n very fast train.
1t Is claimed that the heaviest movement
of trains over a single track in the history
of railroading was accomplished on the
Pittsburg. Fort Wayne * Chicago when
the Newcomerstown bridge was washed out
and the traffic of the Pittsburg. Fort
Wayne * Chicago and the Pittsburg. Gin
cinDati. Chicago * st. Louis was thrown
on to the eastern division of the former
road. On one of the days there were
handled on subdivision No. /. in twenty
four hours. eighty eight passenger trans,
los freight trains, and three work trains
making q total of 1919 trains On the three
subdlvisions. by three sets of train dis
pstchers. Asst trains were handled in
twentv-four hOurs