The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-13

the vandalia lines at St. Louis. will retire.
and Charles Curtice Of this city, who trav-
els for the VandaIia In Texas, will succeed
him.
track railroad bridge Is again being agitat-
ed. If built it would have cantilever four
hundred feet greater in length than the
Forth bridge, and fully as high above the
water.
The Chicago & Great Western has emu
lated the example of the Chicago & Alton
iting saloons. 1t is stated that the Chicago
Eastern Illinois is about to take a sim
liar step.
Third Vice President Baldwin, of the
cial announcement that all questions of
wages of employees will be adjusted with
out trouble or Inconvenience TO the travel
ing public.
The union station at Jacksonville Fla.
has been opened for business. 1t cost $500
OV0. has train sheds 1.1S0 feet in length and
1bS feet in width, and is constructed entirely
OF brick and iron Four railroads now use
the station.
The journal of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers denies emphatically the
recently published statement that the MEM
bership had fallen off during the year 1894.
me membership is now $4,000, and is within
1000 Of the highest figures ever reached.
II. Moore, general utility man of the Chi
cago & Southeastern, was in the city yes
terday. He states that the company ex-
poets next week to begin hauling coal from
nection with the Big Four and the Monon.
H. B. Alexander of New York city, gen.
eral agent OF the Railway Officials and EN-
p pt Association in New York. is in the
city: He recently acquired for the Asso-
citation the Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern and the Long Island and the Lehigh
The Cincinanti, Hamilton G. Dayton has
let the contract for a new iron bridge, 100
feet In length, over Hanna's creek. When
TINS Is In place every stream between In
ivaor rfi an he q TT e
d. will be spanned by either iron bridge
or substantial stone culverts.
Harry Crawford, jr., and the master
to Altoona to examine the six locomotives
which the Pennsylvania Company has built
in service &c f fh r TO fhem s Msh these engines
er earning capacity than in the past.
E. J. Knickerbocker of the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois, was in the city yesterday.
He claims that this companys double track
between Chicago and Danvil1e ILL.,, is the
pest TO be found in Ohio, Indiana or Ilh-
nois He makes this statement on the
opinions of expert railroad men, he says.
1t Is now eighteen months since the Ches-
apeake & Ohio, in connection with the Big
-Four, put on six large steamships to ply
between Newport News and foreign ports.
have left their docks on the date set, and
IN each case been well loaded in both direc-
lions.
w. H. McDoel, vice president and gen.
eral manager of the L., N. A. G. c. lines,
was in the city last evening. He expressed
nimsef as highly pleased with the manner
recent severe weather handled their trains
He thinks but few roads made an equally
good time record
The report of William Sullivan, local
freight agent of the Big Four at this point
shows that an NJ. D. T. car left here at
40 p; m; JAM, 10, loaded with freight for
m. Jan. II, loaded with bonded freight, hav-
Ing made the run to New York and back
utes.
At the annual meeting of the Wheeling &
Lake Erie stockholderuIweste the mat
ter OF the absorption Of the Valley road
T was postponed for thirty days. pending the
gage shall be foreclosed. The old board of
directors was reelected except that vii
liam e. Connors succeeds A. A. Soper. The
directors reelected the old officers.
The committee appointed recently by the
Union Railway Company and the Belt rail-
road people to fix upon some plan satisfac-
tory to the Union Railway Company in
the question Of Interchange of cars be-
tween the Belt road and the several roads
which work over it met Yesterday and pre-
pared report which will be presented to
the general managers at their next meeting
for approval.
There was large fire in New Haven last
week, and a fire company laid its hose
across the tracks of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford and refused to uncouple
them for train to pass. holding mail ex-
hours. Persons who suffered by the deten-
ton have raised the question of prosecut-
Ing the officers of the fire company for
obstructing United States mails
The Baldwin locomotive works is again
experimenting with petroleum for fuel for
a locomotive. In a test last week train
OF coal weighing COL tons was hauled on the
Philadelphia Reading with an average
steam pressure of 40 pounds. The ad-
vantages from using petroleum as fuel
are no smoke, if properly fired; no sparks.
no cleaning of fires hauling away of ashes
and loading coal, while the locomotive is
always ready for service
VIM. Garstang, superintendent of motive
power of the Big Four lines, has been fol-
lowing very closely for months the opera
lions of compound locomotive built for
the company by the Richmond locomotive
works, and the results have been very graft
Tying. For nine months he has been testing
this engine against twelve engines of sim
pie build of the same type, and he finds an
average saving of coal by use of the COM
pound engines against either of the simple
type OF Y per cent. when hauling like ton
mage. compound engine costs from S7OO
to 81 600 more than the other machine