The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-07

The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton han
died at Indianapolis last week 1853 loaded
cars. an increase over the week ending
point twenty-nine fewer empty cars last
week than In the week preceding.
The Lake Erie & Western last week ham
died at indianapolis 66s cars, 800 being
loaded. The road brought in 272 loaded
cars. the same number as in the week end
ing Sept. Is. and forwarded 2S4, a decrease
OF fifty loaded cars as compared with the
week ending Sept IS
The west-bound blockade with the Van
dalia Is fast being cleared up. Last week
this road received and forwarded at In
dianapolis 2,102 loaded cars, a falling off
of 179 as compared with the week ending
Sept. IS. The road brought in last week
Loss and forwarded west 1.017 loaded cars.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
III. w. woolf has been appointed freight
auditor of the Southern Railway Com
pany.
The Madison Car Company. of st. Louis,
has commenced the building OF five hun
dred cars for the Missouri. Kansas &
Texas.
g. p. Faucon to-day succeeds NJ. Nc
Kinnon as car accountant of the b. K
NJ division of the Chicago, Burlington q
Quincy.
The Big Four will inaugurate a general;
system of repairing and repainting way
stations and putting in new furniture where
needed.
r. g. joyce, general agent or the CleVe-
land. Akron & Canton, on Nov. / takes
a similar position with the Pennsylvania
Company.
There is such a demand for scrap iron
that the railroad companies are gathering
up and selling the accumulation, in some
cases, OF years.
The official train sheet shows that the
Pierpont Morgan special was hauled from
Buffalo to Chicago, 51 miles. in nine hours
and forty-iye minutes.
The heal aCencfaS IF the Queen e. Cras-
cent and the Denver K Rio Grande, on
Broadway, New York. were, on the first
of this month. abolished.
NJ. Z. ingalls,. president of the Big Four,
spent Sunday at Hot Springs. Va, and to-
day goes 10 New York To aid in putting
the finishing touches 10 the presidents
agreement.
F. s. Curtis has been appointed chief en-
Hartford, including the Old Colony sys-
tenn, which leaves George S. Morrill,. chief
ton.
on Friday there were handled on the Big
Four system proper 5.T7 loaded cars, be-
ing the largest movement of any one day In
the history of the road, with one exception.
when thirty-two more loaded cars were
handled.
The mechanical department of the Big
Four finds that it will cost p per cent.
company's new shops at Wabash at the
present time than one year ago. so great
has been the advance in articles made from
iron and steel.
Moore, of the Pennsylvania, has been pro-
noted to chief of the engineering corps on
the new Johnstown branch. This is con-
sidered very complimentary to the young
man, who has but recently graduated from
the Ada. o., University.
The Illinois Central has arranged, in
New Orleans, to run a through sleeping
car between Chicago and San Francisco.
besinning Oct. 2. and on the s0th a through
tourist car will be placed ON the same
lines to run once a week,
The new passenger station of the Pan
handle at Wheeling. w. Va. rs nearing
completion, and is said to be the most at
pose intended on The Pennsylvania lines.
Work on the train sheds is not as far adj
vanced as on the station proper.
The Grand Trunk has just placed an
order for one thousand new cars; the
Omaha q st. Louis an order for five hun
dred cars; the Atlantic Coast Line an
order for 1,5oo cars. and a number OF other
roads reported TO be in the market for
two hundred TO three hundred cars
The official report of Col. Oran Perry,
general agent of the Pennsylvania lines.
Ia1w sf t tbe c IN sf frpe;ght de 9nfse OF re the n com-
pany 59,3l1 81 pounds OF freight. represent
ing 4,542 cars. against 81, 2l0.6o5 pounds, rep
resenting 4,461 cars, in September. 1894.
At the shops OF the Pennsylvania at AL
toona a compound ten-wheei freight loco
motive has just been turned out, the first
built of this type. II IL proves as power
same type. The pennsylvania has ordered
twenty-five of the 1895 type Of Class p
engines built at once.
1t is stated that the roadbeds of New
England roads and the equipments of New
England lines during the depressed times
were not kept IN as GOOD condltion as
they should nave been and they now find
that a considerable sum Of money must be
expended in restoring the physical condi-
ton of most of the roadbeds and in re-
placing wornout equipment.
Gazette shows that in August there was
the largest number Of accidents IA many
months and more people killed than in
were lss railroad accidents in this coun-
try, in which forty-nine persons were
killed and lao injured. The accidents in
clude fifty-three collisions and seventy-one
derailments.
Grand Master Morrisey. of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, has just re-
turned from an extended Western trip and
is much encouraged over the future of
the organization, feeling confident that the
crisis is passed. Since the convention last
June the brotherhood has paid a debt of
s125. coo, met current expenses and claims
amounting to $40, 900. Mr.. Morrisey has now
gone to New York to organize new lodges.
The recent record made by engineer
Rumbaugh, OF the P~anhandle, in taking a
Pullmans, from Pittsburg to Dennison, a
distance of ninety-three miles. IN two hours
and twenty-four minutes, and reducing
speed TO ten miles an hour at six different
places, is considered one of the best runs
ever made or that road. Allowing for
the time lost In complying with slow
orders. the actual running time was near
ly forty-eight miles an hour. A Glass p
engine, No. 100, was used. Engineer Rum
baugh is one of the oldest engineers on
the road.
The new owners Of the Indiana. Decatur
& Western are much pleased with the
present condition of the property and the
manner ii Is handled. Secretary Smith.
who. with an expert. recently went over
the road. returned to New York much
pleased with the physical condition OF the
property and the recent improvements
made to IL, both as to it's roadbed and
equipment. He spoke very highly of the
present management and has reason TO
speak that way, as the annual report
shows that General Manager Peirce turned
over 10 its owners $4,000 net for the year,
after paying everything. even to taxes.
/ which is the best showing the road has
ever made in the way of net earnings
and this. too. i'm a year when the corn
crop was a poor one and one on which this
road largely depends for earnings.
The placing OF orders for 80. 200 tons
of steel rails for delivery in November
and December and during the first half
of 1896 is regarded as evidence that the
4 rof lura a.n oannanfa l0ok for still high