The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-29

this season. Two construction trains will
be put on next month and large amount
or gravel distributed and new ties put III.
f. +. Leonard president and general
manager of the Toledo. Peoria AZ Western,
was in the city yesterday on official busi-
ness.
The Southern Railway has shortened the
running time Of its vestibue train between
New York and ST. Augustine one hour and
forty minutes.
The Panhandle shops at Columbus o..
so crowded with work that in some
departments the men are working four
teen hours day.
manager OF the Mobile q Ohio was much OF
q surprise. as Il had not been limited that ].
c. Clarke would be removed
The earnings for the Atchison system, all
lines, were for the third week of March
,691, an increase of $31. 247 for the month,
S2,23O,7 100 an increase of Si,2o4
The Vandalia has begun TO tear down and
remove the valuable material remaining In
the old Illinois Midland shops at Paris Ill.
The shops We're abandoned year ago.
The Louisville & Nashville and the
their disputes and have commenced the
interchange of business again at Calera.
Ala.
Walter s. Newhall has been appointed en-
gineer of maintenance of way Of the Cleve-
land 4 Pittsburg division of the Pennsyl-
vania lines, succeeding w. H. Scriven, pro-
NOTED.
r. b. f. PIERCE general manager of the
indianapolis, Decatur &c Western, has been
authorized to purchase five hundred tons
of steel rails and two new heavy freight
engines.
James McCrea, first vice president of the
Pennsylvania Company. has been elected
Valley. line operated by the Pennsylvania
Company.
All the shops on the vandalia system are
busy repairing the passenger. and freight
Tl
heavy traffic which will follow the steady
Improvement in business on its lines
On Monday next the Ohio Falls car works
will begin the building of $50 cars for the
Southern Railway. They are to be of su-
perior build and adapted to handling fruits
and vegetables in all seasons. of the year.
Forty miles of new steel, weighing eighty
pounds to the yard, is to be laid on the Van
dalia main line this, season, the beginning
OF laying the entire distance from Indianap-
oils to st. Louis with rail of that weight.
The Wabash will put on a new train each
way with the taking effect of the summer
time table between Fort Wayne and To-
ledo to enable the company to shorten still
further the time of its fast train between
st. Louis and Toledo by taking out stops.
Edward Newcon1b, well-known Panhan-
charged from the service of the company.
Mr.. Newcomb has been in the service of the
company for several years, and the action
of the officials created considerable surprise.
The Brooks ten-wheel Engine 1856, John
Smith, engineer hauled Train is from In
dianapolis to Cincinnati Wednesday in two
hours and twenty-eight' minutes, stopping
at Shelbyville, Greensburg and Lawrence
burg Junction. There were seven in
the train
cago, Burlington Quincy at Alton has
made Alton an important railway point.
cross the Mississippi river over this bridge,
and the traffic arrangements by which it
has used the Big Four tracks from East
Alton to East St. Louis cease to exist.
-{+l, ;eFc 5ovya he
fallen the Toledo, St Louis & Kansas City
the property at present promises more to
the fact that the roadbed is in excellent
condition, has a good rail, the best OF
bridges, and its power is not excelled by
any road of equal mileage in the country.
& Western are surprising the owners OF
the property, and they now see that u
Western deal fell through The road in
February earned S10,620 more than in Febu-
rary. 1884 and the first three b eo weeks weeks OF
March the earnings were LOO ahead or
the corresponding period of 1894.
The meeting of Western lines, at Chicago,
in relation to the harvest excursions orig
nothing. The Illinois Central was practical
ly told that 1T could run the excursions II
not think it just right The excursions will
run unless stronger opposition develops
than that shown at the meeting yesterday.
NJ w. Mansfield. superintendent of the
Indianapolis & Nincennes, and P. A. Bone-
brake. superintendent of the Louisville d.
vision of the Pennsylvania lines. returned
yesterday from Pittsburg, WHITTIER Liay
went to attend the annual meeting OF the
association of transportation officers OF the
Pennsylvania lines. +. G.. Darlington, SUI
rerintendent of the Indianapolis division ?.
the Panhandle went from the meeting to
Atlantic City for a few days rest.
The gross earnings of the burlington for
the month of February were $2G60,550, a de-
crease of 1857 342 from the same month or
last year. The operating expenses were
81, 454169 9 decrease Of sss'slS; Inc Inc net
penses were s606.3S1. a decrease of S20S f23.
With total expenses and charges balances
against the earnings for the month. there is
a deficit of S208,619. For the months OF jan
u ia ". and February the ROAD mas oehcle OF
1913, $50.
Speed without smoke or cinders is what
master mechanics are seeking TO accomplish
with locomotives. The experiment on the
engines hauling the fast express trains over
the transohio division has been success
thus far. The trains have made the time,
and the annoying smoke ana cinders were
tests continue satisfactory the passenger en-
gines on the Baltimore & Ohio will be
equipped to burn coke
Ferdinand Scheuman, machinist at the
a pop or safety valve for locomotives or sta
tionary engines which is pronounced mich
superior to any now in use as regards effi-
cheney, simplicity and cheapness. Mr..
perfecting the device, and some time ago,
when applied to stationary boiler, it
proved success, even under the most adj
verse circumstances. Panhandle yard en-
valve and the results are looked for with
much interest by Mr.. Scheuman.
RUINATION TO CARPETS.