The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-01

TEN decreased 9 per cent, and the same
month he reduced operating expenses 70 per
cent, as compared with November, 1872. De
cember, he thinks, Will show even better
results
The Lake Shore, which, in connection
with the Pittsburg and Lake Erie, estab-
Pittsburg and Chicago, has abandoned its
line for lack of business, and the PennsVl-
yania practically has full sweep again on
that business.
E. II. Sabin, formerly a civil engineer re-
siding in this city, but for ten years past
with the Texas Pacific, is spending New
Years with friends here. Mr.. Sabin has just
been appointed district land agent of the
ST. Louis, Iron Mountain q Southern, with
headquarters at Baltimore, Nd
Thirty of the supervisors of signals and
engineers of maintenance OF way on the
pennsylvania lines were in conference at
Pfttsburg last week. W.. McGrafton, gem
man, and the sessions were of much inter
est TO those connected with the two Depart
ments.
The stockholders of the Terre Haute &
Indianapolis will hold their annual meeting
to-day, when the regular 3 per cent. semi
annual dividend will be declared But few
as handsomely in the matter of dividends
as are those of the L. II. & l., and with
this all the time betterments to the proper
ty are annually large and made without Dor
rowing money.
The question is asked, "Does the Chicago
& Eastern Illinois borrow money to pay
It's dlFlucnuS, or raise the money Dy Selling
some securities One who should know
says the earnings tell the story. Every
month but one this year, in the depressed
times, has shown an increase over CORE
spending months OF 1892. and the road closes
the year with a handsome surplus. Since
July l the earnings have been S72,7 O9 ahead
OF the same period Of 1852.
Commencing with to-day passengers To-
Gated in sleeping cars running on lines west
OF Ptttsburg Will be required TO sign the
mileage strip but once, the signature to be
presented. which Will be taken up by the
last conductor. For example, for a passage
from Pittsburg to indianapolis, the sigma
the ticket which will be taken up between
Columbus and indianapolis.
Two years ago Jerome Larger left the
employ of the Pennsylvania Company to en-
gage in farming, Last spring, when the
worlds fair business was about to set in,
and the business on the Chicago division
of the lines was heavy, the yards at Lo-
ganspOrt became blockaded. and John +.
Miller, general superintendent and an old
port and s~traighten out the blockade, which
he soon accomplished, but since that time
the company has declined to release him,
and it now looks as if he had resumed rail-
reading for life.
An official Of the Pennsylvania lines states
that there is no truth in the report that to-
day there is to be another general reduction
OF expenses in all departments. There VIII
be no further cut IN wages, and most or the
dismissals have already been made. In
DeakinR Oh the III or cutting GOWN eX-
penses which periodically comes over the
Pennsylvania people, an old time employe
says it was always thus. The boys were
all torn uD," he said, years ago when an
economical streak came over Tom Scott,
then president of the road; by one strike he
saved thousands of dollars a year by order
ing that all bright work on the locomotives,
which was the pride of engineers, be painted
black to save the polishing expenses"
P. j.. Weise. chief train dispatcher on
the Indianapolis division of the Big Four,
has resigned and C. w. Buchanan has been
appointed TO the position. Mr.. Weise has
been a faithful employe of the company for
over twenty-eight years, and has been a
dispatcher for over twenty-one years, dur
ing which time no accident has occurred
that could be accredited to any negligence
on his part. He has accepted a position as
day operator at Union City for the. pres
ent. superintendent, Higgins giving him SIX
months time in which he can resume his
old position if he so desires. Mr.. Weise,s
reason for resigning was that the work
imposed upon him was too heavy, and he
desires to enter another line of business
and Quit raiiroading.
Harry Lancaster, who for many years
was connected with the Indianapolis office
of the American Express Company. now
agent of the company at Lafayette, has just
been granted q patent from the United
States Patent Office, dated Dec. Ii, 1893, on
a patent safety self-closing switch. for use
on railroad tracks, which promises 10 rev.
olutioniZe railroading, so far as saving
life and property is concerned, keeping the
main line of the track at switches constant
ly closed when a train passes over, or in
case the switch should be open, closing it
by it's ingenious mechanical action before
the train reaches the switch. TIL train
may be running at the rate of fifty miles
an hour or faster, and the engineer be
asleep, and if the switch has been left
open it will be closed and the train pass
over in safety, the engine itself closing
it by a continuance attached seventy-five
feet before the switch is reached. 1t can
be used to keep open the main track at
all times, is very simple and inexpensive
in construction, not affected by any guam
tity of heat or cold, or any amount of snow
or ice. Thomas Norris, of the Big Four,
Joseph Coburn. Of the Monon, and w. w.
WentZ, all experts in railroad matters of
this character, pronounce it a success.