The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-16


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III. A. Dorset has been appointed roadmas-
ter Of the Louisville, Evansville & ST Louis.
vice e. al. Fry, resigned.
The Wabash in the first week in February
earned SIS oo9. an Increase oyer the corre-
spending week of 1894 of 1904.
George Bradbury, general manager of the
Lake Erie 81 Western, leaves to-day for the
South, to be absent two weeks.
r.. G. Thompson, district passenger agent
to Los Angeles, Cal. for his health, has
returned.
The Rogers locomotive works has just
delivered to the Toledo Peoria & Western
four consolidated locomotives contracted
for last December.
The indianapolis & vincennes has just
b b,lt s new aepoa at rreaa ,s s
three months ago.
The Findlay, Fort Wayne & Western has
contrae cited Tor two o new Locomotives. II is
handle its business
The. earnings of the New York Central
for the y quarter naa ending March 81 We're:
81, 1854, I00 a decrease of S491, 761.
Col. Oran Perry, general agent of the
Pennsylvania Company at this point, ac-
New Orleans, to be absent ten days.
The track laying on the Indiana, Illinois
4 Iowa extension TO connect with the Mich
and an interchange of freight commenced at
once.
John Wise, the passenger conductor who
few weeks ago. Is at Tampa, Fla, resting
He expects to be back about the first of
next month to take his train.
The Throughout arrangement of the To-
ledo, Peoria & Western and the Panhandle
line between Burlington, Mo-, and Pitts
burg, established a few weeks ago, is prov
ing profitable move to the two roads.
Representatives of eighteen car building
establishments were in Fort Wayne on
Wednesday to examine the. plans and speci-
Pennsylvania Company has asked bids
The Pittsburg & Lake Erie has placed an
order for 900 freight cars with the Michigan
equipped with Simons door. air brakes
Gould couplers and National hollow brake
beams
Joseph W. Capron died on Wednesday at
Attleboro. Mass, aged ninety-five years. He
located the Boston & Providence road, one
of the frs built in Massachusetts,, and up
engineer
The Pennsylvania Company has recently
had under consideration the removal of
their offices, now located in the Union Sta
ton, into rooms in the Fair Block. No
definite action, however, has yet been taken
in the matter.
and St Louis roads held a meeting at st.
Louis yesterday and checked up west
bound commodity rates. Very few changes
of Importance were made All the roads
were represented
The latest report is that J. B. Stafford,
who was trainmaster on the Jeffersonville,
Madison 81 indianapolis under W. +. Black,
is to come back to the road as trainmaster.
He is now superintendent of the Pittsburg,
CHARTERS & Youghiogheny.
The holders of the bonds issued on the
Kentucky & Indiana railway bridge have
organized to protect their interests and APP
pointed committee to take the necessary
steps for reorganization of the company
and to bid on any of the property that
may be offered for sale on Judgment or
foreclosure of mortgage.
1t is now stated that in some manner it
became known to the managers of the
roads in the Central Traffic Association that
the Pennsylvania Company was to with
ment regarding the maintenance of rates
was not strictly adhered to, and this is
what caused so sudden a change in Senti-
ment in this section against rate cutting
d. S. Hill, general superintendent of the
Lake Erie & Western, and t. j.. Kinder,
superintendent of bridges, have this week
been inspecting the bridges and depots on
the line. with view of deciding what inn
provements are needed; General Manager
year in such line of improvements, the
earnings of the road fully justifying such
an outlay.
The friends of the Pennsylvania volun-
teer relief department breathe easier now
that the Legislature has adjourned with
employees are now rlembers of the organi-
cation, and before the Legislature again
themselves of its benefits, as in the six
years it has been in operation it was never
as popular with the employees as at pres
ent.
The Atchison will, on Sunday, advance its
California rates, which were reduced some
time since, if it does not find by that time
that brokers at Los Angeles are stocked
with the tickets of the Texas Pacific, which
originally brought about the cut. The Texas
Pacific has furnished to the Atchison sat
isfactory proofs that it's deal with the Los
Angeles brokers is off, but If it is not found
to be off the advance notice will be prompt
ly and definitely suspended.
The Plant system has purchased the San
ford & St Petersburg railroad, better known
as the Orange Belt. which operates be-
and ST. Petersburg, on Tampa bay. Florida.
Possession will be taken April next. Sim
ultaneously with the control of the Florida
Southern. which was purchased last sum-
MR. the gauge of the roads is TO be al
tered from narrow to broad standard gauge.
and new engines, coaches and freight cars
added to the equipment. The newly acquired
road measures 1S2 miles.
An impression exists that employees in the
car-building department of railroads are
not as well paid as men in the same branch
of service in private car works. Directly
the reverse is the case As a rule, rail-
than do private companies. For the car
penter work on the ordinary box car, such
the Ohio Falls car works built for the
Pennsylvania Company recently, the men
were paid, it is stated, from Sill to $12,
while at the Pennsylvania Companys shops
the men are allowed $40 for the same work.
On this item alone there is difference of
50 in the construction of the car, to say
nothing of the difference in blacksmith
work and other labor on the car. An Of
fetal of the road is quoted as saying that
the building of the 1000 ore and coal cars
properly belongs to the railroad company
shops, but If outside parties want to do
the work cheaper than the railway COM
pany do it they will doubtless secure
the contracts.