The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-07-12
transportation officials. has been appealed TO
the United States Supreme Court.

Peoria & Eastern, earned IN June $,l0U,-
Ss.s.
Since the fruit season set in the Adams
Express Company has taken out OF New
Albany seventy carloads OF fruits, mostly
berries.
1t is stated that the Brlce syndicate will
be bidders for the Jacksonville & South
eastern when the road is sold at foreclos-
ure sale.
Col. A. n. L~ightnaker. superintendent OF
the Austin & Northwestern, is spending a
month with friends in the western part OF
the State.
expend considerable money in increasing its
water supply at Alliance, o., sinking sew
eral driven wells.
The passenger men were not disappointed
in the volume OF the Christian Epdeavor
business for Boston. In most cases it ex-
ceeded expectations.
The Wabash company has put a steam
shovel at work al its gravel pit at Peru,
carloads of gravel ballast between Peru and
Toledo.
The first six months OF this year the
Pennsylvania lines handled los S1S tons of
coal and coke, against 6,5S2, $50 tons the first
six months of 1894, an increase this year OF
4,262,243 tons.
j. A. Barnard, general manager OF the
Peoria & Eastern. has been granted a leave
Europe for a few weeks. He viii sail on
the 18th OF August.
When the central shops OF the Louisville,
New Albany & Chicago at Lafayette are
completed, Joseph coburn, foreman OF en-
gines. will be made superintendent OF the
old shops at New Albany.
The new style coal cars built at the Day
pronounced a success. They have hopper
bottoms. and an improved apparatus Tor
manipulating dumping doors.
Samuel Nj. Free, one of the Oldest passen-
ger engineers on the middle division Of the
Pennsylvania. died at Harrisburg, on Tues.
day. He was s~ixty-three years old. and had
been an engineer forty years.
The Toledo az Ohio Central on Wednes-
day laid the last rail on its belt road,
which is 1917 miles long, and extends around
a considerable portion of reach
ing a number of important industries.
On July Is S. ID. McLeish. of Evansville,
Will take charge OF the agency of the
White line at that city, vice Duke Nichel-
son, transferred. The latter has been agent
of the White line at Evansville sixteen
years
George Sebastian, a Panhandle engineer,
who died a few days ago, had been an en-
gineer on the road seventeen years Three
road service, Robert being the yardmaster
of the big Four at Delaware. o.
1t is stated that the Brlce syndicate have
decided to build a link from Akron, on the
Pittsburg, Akron & Western, to New Cas-
tie Junction, which. through the Western
New York and Pennsylvania, would give
the Lake Erie & Western a good Buffalo
line and a very feasible Pittsburg line.
Eighty miles Of the Choctaw, Oklahoma
& Gulf road are completed. leaving but
f bsys m, mil lies to 1an STlle' o Sna # i Is Sy e 'Ss miaa to
Of August. Very favorable traffic arrange
ments have been entered into with the
Chicago & Rock Island, with which il con-
meets.
p. A. Hewitt, auditor of the Big Four,
states that the Peoria & Eastern will this
year pa its operating expenses, fixed
charges and taxes. the Big Four not hav-
ing to advance one dollar. which is the first
year since the Big -Four took control of the
property which it has not had TO make up
a deficit
Superintendent Mansfield. Of the Indian
apolis & V~incennes, states that the road
In June showed an increase of D per cent.
in its gross earnings over June. 1854 but
crease. as there is but little wheat on the
line to ship, while last year there was a
good crop.
1t is stated that every railway employe
in the United states will be asked to con-
tribute something to the building of the
cooperative railway from San Diego to
Salt Lake City. The scheme has been sane
toned by several Of the railway organiza-
tons and was original with the order of
Railway Conductors.
A new car, constructed OF steel, is being
tested. The inventor claims as points in its
favor that its weight Is but 1900 pounds,
against 26,0W pounds in the ordinary freight
car. II is composed OF but $50 pieces. while
an ordinary freight car has 900 pieces, and
while its capacity is limited to $1,000 pounds,
the inventor claims that it Will carry safely
10000 pounds.
G. N. Baxter. travelling passenger agent
of the c., b. & O. road, is dying at the
Midland Hotel in Kansas City of pneu-
monia. Baxter was found in his room late
Wednesday night unconscious by some of
his railroad friends, and it develops that
he had been d~elirious for several Gays. He
is one of the oldest and best known rail-
road men in the West.
The announcement that the Toronto.
Hamilton & Buffalo, now building, had
formed a traffic alliance with the Wander
bilt lines and the Canadian Pacific. is sig
between between, b f1s o ans !. Toronto noe to compete Compete
with the Grand Trunk, but ii will in all
probability be utilized as an entrance into
Buffalo for the Canadian Pacific.
Vice President Baldwin and General SUI
perintendent Thompson. OF the Southern
Railway Company, have just made an in
spectlon trip over the Atlanta & Florida,
the company's recent acquisition. and re-
port the road badly in need of improve
ments, which the company will make at
once. as it bids fair to be an important
feeder of the Southern railway.
The Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul is
using corn cobs for kindling fire in it's loco
motives with good results. A peck OF corn
cobs is put in a bucket and coal oil is
poured over them; about six inches of coal
is spread in the CRATE. and the corn cobs
are thrown as evenly as possible over IL.
oily waste, and the fire spreads rapidly
over the entire firebox surface. Fifty
pounds OF steam is furnished on a cold en-
CINE by thism method in an hour.
George Rockwell. district passenger agent
of the Pennsylvania lines. yesterday con-
tracted to carry Indiana soldiers and their
friends who go to Chickamauga for the
dedication Of the National Military Park,
and a special train will leave Indianapolis
Sept. II, running through to Chattanooga
via the Pennsylvania lines TO Louisville,
over the Ia. & ~. and N. c.. q st. l.. Stop
overs will be granted In either direction
for the old soldiers who desire TO visit the
battlehelds. as these are the only lines
passing through them.
In higher railway circles the opinion pre-
walls that recent moves point to the Balti-
more & Ohio ultimately securing absolute
control of the Valley road of Ohio. The
Cleveland Leader says: That the road will
ultimately fab into the hands OF the B. &
o. there Is little room to doubt. 1t IS in a
position TO BID more for the property than
any competitor, for il is said to own a con-
siderable block OF the second mortgages
and TO control a very large proportion of
the remainder. But the opportunity to bid
for the property in face OF opposition is
not likely to occur soon. Should the de-
c.sion OF Judge Kicks be favorable to the
first mortgage holders. the b. q O. people,
II Is said. will appeal, and thus postpone
FORECLOSURES. The same result. that Is, an
appeal, might follow the opposite decision.
though from reports the bondholders are
not quite a unit in their adherence to thai
policy of protracted litigation
SLOT MACHINES MUST GO.