The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-22

10 p. m. and hauls the Mackinaw sleep
ing car. Is TO be known as the Michigan
every summer should il this year prove re-
munerative.
The rates on grain and grain products by
the Grand Trunk and the Erie roads were
lines at Chicago. No further reductions are
expected Immediately, but IL is reasonably
safe 70 say they. viii come unless the mon
ey pool IS reestablished.
Spoilers have been working on the Chi
cago q Erie and a result some of the
conductors have resigned, while others
VINO remained made 1t so warm for the
spoilers that the officials refused TO con-
slider the allegations on account of their
uncertainty Of information.
The statement that the Cairo Short Line
Louis railroad is pronounced untrue by ;.
II. Bosworth, receiver OF the Chicago, Peo-
ria q 81. Louis He says that while negotia-
lions are pending for such deal II may
be three or more months before the ques-
ton will be settled.
The Pennsylvania Company is laying on
the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne & Chicago
length, its weight being eghty-five pounds
TO the yard. The rails are joined dag
o OF instead Of at right angles. which it
passes from one rail 10 another
F. @. Darlington, superintendent of the
Indianapolis division OF the Pennsylvania
lines, has been elected an honorary mem
Der of the indianapolis Light Artillery. Mr..
Darlington. as transportation official OF the
state during the Debs strike. drew $40 for
MS services. which he turned over to the
Light Artillery to help them along.
A second mile OF steel rail- weighing
seventy pounds to the yard. was yesterday
distributed on the Union tracks and Belt
ROAD and ten carloads of old rails and
scrap Iron were gathered up. Several miles
more Of heavy rail will soon be needed,
as the freight tracks of the Union Com
pany are getting badly worn by the heavy
traffic constantly passing over them.
The statement of several papers 10 the
rectorS OF the Pennsylvania lines are now
recors OF the Pennsylvania lines are now
true. President Roberts had some business
at Chicago and Cincinnati 10 look after
S ifb IA him aKng the trip took ms two sons
Grand Rapids a Indiana poad and will to-
day return TO Philadelphia.
Under the new schedule train Q leaving
indianapolis over the Pennsylvania line
will be so heavy that IL is though one OF
the larger patterns of Class engines will
be required TO haul it, as the time is very
steaming capacity, such as are being used
on the Pittsburg and Altoona divisions. Two
to the indianapois division Rneins e No se 19e
Is or the type required.
In hauling Bedford stone for Eastern
buildings the Louisville. New Albany &
earnings Three stones are usually placed
on one car and billed as $4,000 pounds
carload or that weight is billed from
Bedford to New York at sl529O of that
the Monon gets 5000 for hauling il
from Bedford TO Greencastle junction, six
ty-s1x miles. and the roads which carry
IL the 1854 miles get $1O260
The increase in through business over
Indianapolis lines Is shown the most cor
rectly in the movement of loaded cars
over the Belt road. The official figures
trains hauled over the Belt road. ' IS S col
loaded cars; in 1893. 43, 751 loaded cars: in
lS94; 43454 loaded cars. and i'm May, 1895.
tically shows what the through business
OF the Indianapolis lines Is per month.
J. c. Newton. of Holyoze. Mass. president
OF the Des Moines * Kansas City railway.
and Theodore Sherwood, general manager OF
enter Kansas City by the Kansas City &
Northern Connecting Railway Company. At
the Kansas City. Pittsburg & Gulf road.
which is being extended to the Gulf of Mex
GG direct al Se from I f@ THIS n e will M6@s make
Although hundreds of tra ms pass through
the Panhandle tunnels the Pittsburg
division daily no two are permitted TO
TEN of electric signals east-bound trains
are held at the entrance of a tunnel if
west-bound train has already entered
1t and the same rule holds good with a
west-bound train If an east-bound train
has entered the underground passage.
This is done 10 guard against the posi-
DlUIy OF an dccluent occurring where the
loss of life and property and the damage
TO the company might be large.
Judge Jenkins has authorized the North
ern Pacific receivers TO enter into a con-
tract with the PARROT Silver and Copper
Company whereby the mining company is
TO build four miles OF track at a cost of
So, 600. The track is to be built from
Whitehall, in Montana. The mining COM
pany is about to erect a smelter and agrees
to furnish all the money to build the track
but the receivers are expected to pay 1t
back. This Is done by allowing the mining
company 80 per cent. of the freight charges
30 per cent. on ore hauled until the amount
is paid up.
Shipments of glass from the natural gas
territory have become so heavy that some
of the roads are building cars adapted
to carrying the largest glass. Within the
present week four carloads of glass have
been shipped TO New York over the Big
Four and the Big Four had to furnish
low cars to ship il. On the
Indianapolis division of the Big
Four Bee-line) cars seventeen feet high can
limit Is fourteen feet eight inches and
on the New York Central fourteen feet
and seven inches. consequently a low car
is required. these large plates of glass
are carried on edge, boxed. Aside from
the risk in handling glass il is the best
paying freight carried. The billing of these
cars showed that the Vanderbilt lines, in
Guiding the Big Four, get for one of the
cars 1928. for another S237. ~ and the other
Alexandria, Ind. to New York would he
billed at about that sum- while the revenue
from hauling carload of grain from In
dianapOls TO New York is ONLY S5530