The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-20
THE UNION RAILWAY
ANNUAL REPORT OF sUPERINTEND-
EMIT ZION MADE PUBLIC.
COST of Operating the Belt Road and
the Union Trac<s-The Big Four's
Louisville Connection.

The general managers of the roads COM
posing the Union Railway Company held
their regular monthly meeting yesterday
and transacted considerable business Of
routine character, in relation to minor i'm
provements on the Union tracks and Belt
road, suggested by NJ. w. Mansfield, engi-
neer of maintenance of way which led to
the instruction to Superintendent Zion to
carry out the improvements suggested
Among other things additional telephones
are to be put in, changes are to be made
In the gates at the Union Station, one new
bridge on the Belt road and two or three
miles of new steel rail will be put in and con-
siderable done in the way of ballasting.
superintendent Zion presented his annual
report and was complimented on the COM
plete manner he had prepared it, this being
the first annual report ever presented. 1t
showed that the Union tracks and the sta
ton had been operated for $l19, 535.67 against
Sl46, 1888 in 1898, decrease in favor of 1894
of $26,94l0 The Belt road was operated
at cost Of $19l, 223.67 against $197 910.1S in
1888; all departments were operated at a
cost of 1910, 1854 against $344, $50 IS in 1895;
net increase IN expenses in 1894 as COM
pared with 1893. $33, 57124. During the year
,39O36 was expended in repairs to the
Union station and $2,215.59 in asphalt pave
ments. One hundred tons of new seventy
POUNDS to the yard steel rail was laid:
during the year 41,92S trains were handled
at the Union Station, and 416 1852 pieces of
baggage. On the Belt road 726,031 cars were
handled, 54o31 by foreign locomotives and
Dl, 800 by Belt road engines. The reduction
IN pay rolls as compared with 1893 was So
S!:N: During the year two employees were
Killed, thirteen injured and three trespassers
were killed and four injured. Regarding
the A. H. U. strike. Superintendent Zion
says:
employees in the transportation department
OF the Belt railroad joined the A. r. u.
strike which had been inaugurated in this
CITY at 10 o'clock p. M of the previous day
leaving us without sufficient force to handle
any business with Belt engines until IL
o'clock noon, July 4. when twenty of them
returned to work, upon a notice being post
ed that all who failed to do SO by that hour
would be considered as having left the
service OF the company. From IL o'clock
noon July 4. unil July 8, under the protec-
lion Of deputy United States marshals We
day and all stock and perishable freight
during the night. After July we handled
ali business offered us both day and night,
ana upon July Is the deputy
drawn and business resumed its nor
mai condition. None of the men who failed
70 return to work at IL o'clock noon July
.. mas been re-employed." In submitting his
annual report, Superintendent Y says: "In
compiling this report have had many diff
culties to overcome on account of no re-
ports having been made in previous years
1 am Indebted to the officers and heads of
departments for tneir cooperation and
valuable assistance rendered without which
the. report would have been Incomplete.
The Information now at hand as a basis
ana the manner In which the records are
being Kept, will prove of great benefit IN
the preparation of future reports The kind
ness and encouragement shown me during
the past year, assure you, has been appre-
ciated