The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-01

Maxville gravel pit The company Is now
getting out as much as possible, so FAVOR
able are the conditions.
W. II. Springer. of agent Sullivan's office,
goes to-day to Cairo to be the chief clerk
of General Agent Stevens. of the Big Four.
President Ledyard.. of the Michigan Cen
eral days, returned TO his headquarters yes
terday.
1t is stated that NJ B.. Cutter, formerly
with the Chesapeake & Ohio Southwestern.
Is TO be the successor of CT. j. Grammar,
who goes to the Lake Shore to-day.
Commencing with yesterday, the Peoria
q Eastern has three sleeping coaches daily fay
Columbus and a third for Cincinnati.
E. b. Lane. an old Bee-line man, has
been appointed travelling freight and live
stock agent of the St Louis * Iron Noun
tain, with headquarters at Sedalia, Mo.
The Chicago & Great Western is taking
steps to double its track on the heaviest
business portions of it's lines. The company
Is fast bringing the standard of this road
UP to that of the best of its Western COM
petitors.
At the meeting of the directors of the
Pennsylvania lines In Philadelphia last week
the subject of making Saturday a half hol-
iday the year round, as during the summer
months. was discussed, but Will not be set
tied until the next meeting.
Most OF the general passenger agents are
home from the annual meeting of the as
ISOLATION, which was held in quebec, and
report that IL was the most important meet
ing held in the history of the organization
and one OF the best attended.
General Passenger Agent Fuller, of the
chesapeake q Ohio. is rapidly recovering
from the injuries he received in a collision
a few months ago. and writes a friend
that ne expects by spring to move about
without the use of crutches.
Train 20, over the Vandalia yesterday,
consisting OF seven cars, including two
Pullmans, was hauled from Greencastle to
indianapolis. thirty-nine miles, in forty-two
minutes. stopping at the Belt road and the
indianapolis & VincenneS crossing.
Engine 1s1. one of the Pfstsburg ten-wheel
engines which was il the Pocahontas
wreck on the Vandalia a few weeks ago,
has been rebuilt + and win be put in service
tween Terre Haute and Indianapolis.
An attempt is being made to secure con-
certed action by the leading Western roads
looking to the wiping out OF the ticket
scalping offices. Heretofore it has been i'm
possible to secure united action, and Ii is
feared the present attempt will meet the
fate of preceding ones.
On both the st. Louis and the Indianap-
oils divisions of the Big Four the new fast
trains are hauled. by the Garstang engines,
which have shown themselves capable of
hauling four to five cars per train at a
speed OF sixty to seventy miles an hour
without much seeming extra effort.
BY a vote of the general passenger agents
at their meeting In Quebec all questions of
dispute which come up between roads are
- ~ 80 oJ "a ollOAly Xix a ~ ~ .
TO be appointed by the president of the
association. II Is hoped this method of
settling dispute will aid in preventing rate
wars.
in the ffty-three miles of heavy steel rail
they are now laying on the indianapolis
division 1T is the intention to shorten the
time between Chicago and Indianapolis
thirty minutes, abandoning the common
time idea that the three lines now run on
between the two terminals mentioned.
The next home seekers excursion will be
run on Oct. 3, and the passenger men are
endeavoring to make it more of a success
than have been the two already run. Be
side this, there will be three excursions
all the rate will be one fare for the round
trip, plus about -; limit, twenty days.
w. H.. Line, one of the Oldest in service
of the conductors on the Pittsburg, Fort
wayne d Chicago, on Friday met with an
accident which it is feared will prove fatal.
AS he was passing a loaded truck one of
the trunks fell off and struck him on the
head, fracturing his skull and rendering
ming on the Fort Wayne thirty-five years,
and is sixty-seven years old
There has been quite bitter competition
between several of the Western roads in
the matter of transporting United States
troops from Fort Worth to Atlanta, Ga,
and to Governors island, New York. The
Chicago. Burlington & Quincy secured the
business. The surprising part of it was that
OF the four roads which bid for the business
not a single bid was over 10 per cent. of
the agreed association tariff.
The Vandalia has commenced the firing
up of locomotives when cold with crude
oil and waste at a great saving over doing
IL with wood. The coal is placed in the
firebox, then covered with waste, and crude
oil that costs but a trifie per gallon poured
upon 1t, the heat beng intensified by put
ting on a blower run by a stationery en-
CINE. BY this process an engine can be
fired up in forty-five minutes or less, while
IL REQUIRES one nOur or more 10 IRE IN I'm
with wood and costs a much larger sum OF
money than the crude oil.