The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-14

erably. In speaking to a friend Of his
change he said: 1T Is a nice thing to be
Vanderbilt family, and / appreciate the
nonor, coming, as 1t dio, unsolicited. There
Is a solidity to that road which is attractive
TO a man at my time of life.'
superintendent Morris, of the Toledo di-
Vision OF the Pennsylvania lines, who has
been. South for a month for the benefit of
time TO strike the northern blizzard over
Ohio.
Beginning with to-day the shops of the
Pennsylvania company west of Pittsburg
will be in operation but forty-eight hours
oil the week. Tine reduction IN hours will
be but temporary should business soon inn
prove.
Now it is said that the Valley road, of
Ohio, is not to have as fair sailing in its
reorganization plan as had been expected.
The Baltimore * Ohio is surprising the re-
organizers with the speed ii is coming to
the front.
Hon. John Wanamaker has reappeared
tS,s a ti Ganoi 'n eon 10e a rai, wIth 1 Presin en;s,
Valley road. The stockholders protective
committee are leaving no stone unturned
to elect him.
earnings of lii roads for the year 1894 fell
II per cent. below that of 1898. Every road
shows something of a decrease. The South
ern railways, however, make the most fav-
orable exhibit.
One of the features of this winters
weather is that the. Northern transconti-
trouble from snow. while the Southern
Pcaific has had the first trouble of that
Kind in many years.
l. The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago
has now an opportunity to test its snow
plows. Within the last two years two of
the mechanics in the c~ompany's shops have
planned snow plows, and have been waiting
the chance to test their merits.
The library of the employees of the Penn
s~ylvania road at Pittsburg, which is in
their pleasant reading room, has reached
over one thousand volumes. The reading
room has become a very popular resort
when the employees have leisure moments.
The Missouri Pacific, the Santa Fe and
the Rock Island have under consideration
building jointly a double track road be-
tween Atchison, Kas.. and st. Joseph, Mo.
which charges exorbitant rates for the
privilege.
In speaking of the recent Vandalia cleo
ton a Vandalia man said: THE Pennsyl-
vania people have a very exalted idea of
their own way of managing a railroad.
They. also know that the present official
a railroad property
The first car load of cattle shipped on a
railroad was from Elgin, Ills, to Chicago,
or chutes, planks were laid from the car
door to the ground and strips of board
nailed across. The rate was 300 per cent.
in excess of the present rate between those
points.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy is to
cut off another thirty minutes on its fast
train between chicago and Omaha, making
the time ten hours and twenty-five minutes.
The veteran. engineers who run that train
say they can comfortably cover the dis
lance in ten hours, the weather being ia
vorable.
The Pennsylvania has adopted two stand
ard designs of locomotives for heavy and
speedy express trains. One has IN eighty
inch driving wheel, the other seventy-eight
inches, and either will haul ten cars from
Philadelphia to Jersey City in one hour
and forty minutes, or ninety miles in one
hundred minutes.
mined to build, this year, fifty-one miles
of new road, in part to give access to their
own coal mines and in part to establish a
new line from Kansas City to st. Louis.
1t Is said that the Vanderbilts are inter-
ested In the road, and that it is eventually.
to be a feeder from the Southwest for the
Big Four.
George B%recount, who for years was gen.
eral agent of the Monon at this point, was
appointed commercial agent of that CONF
pany Jan. L. 1895, with headquarters at
Cincinnati The first year he held the posi-
ton he secured for the Monon, in connec-
ton with the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton, 1882 car loads of freight; in the year
1894 he secured SAP car loads.
The output of steel rails in 1894 was 7o0.-
600 tons, of which 100000 went into new
track and SOC, 900 tons into replacing light
with heavier rails. This was 10000 tons
less than the output of 1893, and $4,000 tons
below the output of 1892. The steel rail
combination which has been formed and
which has fixed the price of rails at So
per ton leaves no profit for the foreign mill.