The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-03

the first step to his ultimate retirement
from the Southern railway companys sery-
ice.
The Lehigh Valley company has changed
the length of its standard rail from thirty
to forty-five feet, and the new length has
been tested with satisfactory results.
The line which the Louisville & Nash
vile, jointly with the Atlantic Coast COM
pany, proposes to build to the sesaboard: 1t
$50 miles Of road TO build, and il is esti-
mated ii will cost S2,5OOOOO to construct and
equip it.
The picnics of the Big Four employees and
OF the Peoria & Eastern on Saturday last
were great successes. The weather was
fine and the picnickers greatly enjoyed
park, on the whitewater division, and
1852 TO the z. & L. picnic at Menota.
The Southwestern limited over the ST.
Louis division of the Big Four has in the
last ninety days run into the Union Station
late but once. and the Vandalia but twice
with train No 20 Even since the strike
was inaugurated both have arrived on time
making up any time lost in getting trains
out of ST. Louis.
The new president OF the National Car
service Association is +. l.. Morse, manager
of the New York and New Jersey Car
Of the national organization are Eastern
men, which seems somewhat singular, when
the organization is of Western Inaugural
ton and has grown the most rapidly in
the West.
Most of the officials of the Pennsylvania
Northwestern system are now at Chicago,
and many of them take hold and turn
switches or do any other work necessary
to keep their trains moving. Trainmasters
and road foremen are doing service In the
men are looking after the property of the
company at that point.
A railway manager said last evening. that
the idea that there would be trouble in
filling the places of men who strike on
the various roads is not correct, as Stats
tics will show that fully 30 per cent. Of
the men who were in railroad service two
years ago are now out of jobs and major
lty OF them as good railroad men as any
who may strike so that if every trainman
now employed were to go out there would
be ex-Iailroad men enough to fill their
places. He said he could show letters
which would fully Substantiate his state
ment-
Stockholders of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
& Chicago are receiving the annual report.
A statement of interest to them is that of
Chief Engineer Becker regarding elevated
tracks in Chicago. He says: "A large eX-
penditure must soon be met by the lessee
tracks in Chicago" He adds that there
seems to be no question but that the city
can enforce il and intends doing So but
how soon or to what extent is still unde-
termined. 1t is a difficult, problem TO solve,
and may take some time to mature a plan
which will embrace all the roads entering
that city, but ii will not be long delayed.
The executive committee of the trunk
lines, after fully considering the question OF
apportionment of passenger business east
and west bound between New York and
Buffalo, has decided that all differences
hereafter shall be settled between the lines
in the association by arbitration, and has
der the adjustment of the differences which
threatened the dissolution of the aSSocia-
ing to the representatives of any road or
all roads that may become involved in dis
putes over the apportionment of passenger
traffic and render his decision after fully
considering the questions at issue.
But few deaths of railway officials have
caused more regret than that OF cyrus r.
Leland. late auditor of the Lake Shore
road. The annual reports of the Lake
Shore, which were prepared and edited by
Mr.. Leland for thirty years, will be per-
manent monument to his diligence, They
also reveal the characteristics which en-
deared Mr.. Leland TO his aSsociates-his af-
fectionate interest in the persons and even
of things (as the old locomotives and cars
with which he was associated. These re-
ports contain unusual "reminiscences OF the
history of the road tables showing the
term of service. of each of the directors
and of the principal officers, with a column
showing the dates Of decease, in which his
own name must now be entered. In cir
cular announcing his death President New
ell pays him a handsome and just euloSy.
In assuming the presidency of the newly
created Southern railway Samuel Spencer
has issued the following executive orders,
which explain the present status of the
company 1.-The Southern Railway Com
pany, having become the purchaser of the
railways of the Richmond x DanVlile com
pany, recently sold under foreclosure sale,
and heretofore operated by Samuel Spencer,
+. w. Huidekoper and Reuben Foster, as
receivers, said railways will, on and after
July l, be operated by officers of the
Southern Railway Company, appointed I'M
der the authority of the board of directors.
so in possession of the Richmond & Dan,
vile receivers becomes on that date proper,
" of the Southern Railway Company" AT
ter giving list of the lines operated Mr..
Spencer issues executive orders No. 2, con-
tanning the names of all the officers OF
the company.
The statement that the Monon is paying
the Pullman company $4,000 year beside
the usual charges which the Pullman re-
ceiveS for service of its cars, in one sense
is not correct. The Pullman company, when
the Monon was under a cloud and wanted
to build up its passenger business, built
four elegant VeStibule trains, the finest
which had been turned out of the works,
to run between Louisville and Chicago, and
two to run between Cincinnati and Chicago
over the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
and the MOnon. One of the latter trains
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton paid
for, while the other three trains were paid
for in inStallments, and these trains haYe
done much to make the Monon the populaf
line il is. 1t is true, probably, that Pull
man owns some of the Monon stock: he
also owns stock, it is we'll known, in a
number of other roads which his cars and
Wagner run over
DELAYED IMPROVEMENT.