The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-07

and Arkansas In Ozark county, Missouri.
continuing TO Fort Smith, Ark, a distance of
about three hundred miles The capital
Mackey, president; William Fishback, first
vice president: 7. X. Ports, second vice
president; +. c. Ports, secretary, ana W..
j. Kregbil. treasurer.
The British whaleback steamship Turret
Bay has been chartered by the Baldwin
locomotive works 10 carry a cargo OF loco
motives from Philadelphia TO Novorossisk.
q Russian town on the Black sea. This
cargo OF locomotives VIII form the nrst
shipment on the contract for forty engines
which was placed with the Baldwin loco
motive works a few months ago. THESE
locomotives are for the use OF the Russian
state railroads in the southern part OF the
empire, n they are adapted for burning
petroleum residuum. which forms the cnlef
fuel OF the railroads in southern Russia
Twenty of the engines are for freight serv-
ice and twenty for passenger traffic.
There is a growing belief that the Big
-Four Is behind the project or building a
new road from Dayton to Richmond. and
Will use 1T as a club TO prevent the Fan,
handle invading its tsrr,toryi Il bas is so %es.
in building the Chicago, Indiana ~
Eastern. In its construction Panhandle en-
gines have been used, the. pennsylvania
many other things which would indicate
that 1t Is understood that the road, when
built, will be a Panhandle interest, and the
Big Four will invade the Panhandle terri
tory the minute this statement regarding
the Chicago. Indiana &c Eastern Is definitely
confirmed.
III. NJ. Bronson. assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Big Four, calls attention
to the fact that the Big Four IS making as
good IL not better time than the Atlanta
flyers. as they are called, from chicago.
The Big Four has a train leaving chicago
at II noon and Indianapolis at GU y. m,
reaching Chattanooga at 1A5 the next
morning and Atlanta at 12:10 noon, twenty
four hours from Chicago and eighteen
hours from Indianapolis. This train has
been running for several months, and Is
not particularly fast. except between In
put on a train last Sunday, called the At
lanta exposition flyer, shortening the time
from Cincinnati to fifteen hours, connecting
with the Big Four train.
s. w. Hays, engineer OF maintenance OF
way OH the Decline division OF the Big
Four, takes exception to the statement that
the track of the Chicago and ST. Louis Oh
visions Of the Big Four. was SUPERIOR 70
that of the Bee-line division. He says that
when the Big Four took the Bee-line into
it's system it was one of the best TRACKS
in the country, having just been relald
with new steel and new ties, and 1t is now
in as good condition as any part OF the
Big Four system, as its superior physical
condition has been fully maintained since
it became a part Of the Big Four. The
statement that the Chicago and st. Louis
divisions were in better shape than the
Bee-line was based on the fact that the
Big Four people have been expanding large
sums of money on both divisions.
Indiana roads, so far as reported for Dc
tober, are showing handsome increases in
gross earnings over October, 1894, and Octo-
Der, 1898. The Baltimore & Ohio Southwest
ern earned $6i1 ,O49, against S94.1 04 in Octo-
Der, 1894, and against $3.50 in October,
1893: the Lake Erie & Western, S2S,S S,
| against 500, SIS in 1894. and against S2S6. $50 in
October, 1895; the Louisville, Evansville 4
| st. Louis, s166, 425, against $129,0 46 in 1894 and
Decatur & Evansville. $50. 912, against 81. 665
in 1894 and against 1854 in 1898; the To-
ledo, st. Louis & Kansas City. $1,000,
against STA, 719 in 1894 and against $146, 500
in 1899. The Wabash has earned since Jan.
1 1883, 175, an increase over the correspond
ing ten months of 1894 of 1898. 404. In the
$f34.6H. an increase over the corresponding
week of 1894 of S47, 1876.