The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-26

Benton Harbor, TO be used in filing around
the new large grain elevator at the mouth
OF the St Joseph river.
Henry Fraser, who. on the first OF the
month. takes charge of the city freight
depots of the Big Four has selected as his
chief rate clerk Frank Atkinson, who Is
now In the uptown general Office.
The Panhandle is regaining it's hold on
the livestock traffic east from this section.
In July 80 carloads Of live stock We're
shipped east over the Panhandle from the
indianapolis yards and the business of this
month promises better results.
AS soon as the Board of Public Works
takes favorable action in allowing the
Panhandle to lay additional tracks across
Delaware street the company will begin TO
tear down the old buildings located where
1t is proposed TO build a new freight depot
The next monthly meeting of the heads
of departments of the Big Four will be
held in Cleveland. and a trip from Cleve-
land to Putin Bay has been arranged.
The Railway and the Surgeon" will be the
subject of a paper to be read by DR.. J. H..
Ford, chief surgeon of the Big Four.
Work is now being pushed on the entire
length of the Butler q Pittsburg road be-
those points ii is 10 be completed before
Jan. l. Ten contractors have the work and
are giving employment to $500 men. BY
a resurvey the construction OF a five-hun-
dred-foot tunnel has been made unneces-
sary.
The Philadelphia & Reading has begun
work tunneiing through the Broad mount
ain. When the tunnel is completed it will
lessen the distance between points above
the mountain and Philadelphia twenty-five
and wide enough for a double track. Its
estimated cost is s., 900, 600, and 1t is to be
completed within three years.
d. I. Roberts. general passenger agent of
the Erie, Is inclined to be boastful, while
other general passenger agents are blue
over the falling off in passenger earnings.
PRESSED IS IA times nesh tb gee earn rhas a of the PASSENGER oasse ger
department of the Erie the first two weeks
in August were s6.2G7 in excess Of those
or the corresponding period of 1895.
Willard W.. Crittenden has been appointed
general Superintendent and d. n. .Rumsey
auditor and general passenger and freight
agent of the New York & Pennsylvania,
which will be completed to Canistoe by Oct.
l. This company has made a traffic agree
ment by which its trains will run into
Erie. The Wells-Fargo Express Company
will operate the express business on the
new line.
M. ]. Becker, late chief engineer of the
Pennsylvania Company, whose death was
announced yesterday. began work in this
country on the Steubenville q Indiana road
in 1852; in 1854 he reached the position Of
principal assistant engineer on the Marietta
x Cincinnati, and in 1861 was appointed
chief engineer Of the Pennsylvania South
western system. The funeral services will
be held at Shady Side, Pittsburg. to-mor-
row at 2 p. m.
General Superintendent Turner, of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton d Dayton, and Low
ell, OF the Monon, are now figuring on a
time schedule to meet that the Big Four
will put into effect on Sunday between
Cincinnati and Chicago. covering the dis
lance in eight hours. and ii Is said the
Pennsylvania Company will do likewise.
There has. been an increase in travel TO
Chicago of late over the Indianapolis lines
and It is thought the move of the Big
Four in putting on the new trains will be
remunerative
Some of the Western lines that are en-
deavoring to get around the registry de-
murrage charges claimed by the Car
service Association appealed TO Chairman
Midgeley, of the Western Freight Asso-
citation, for a ruling regarding the right
OF roads TO grant free storage on freight,
and he has informed the men interested
that an organization of traffic officials, to
whom the matter was referred, decided
that railroad companies that are members
of the Western Freight Association are at
liberty to hold goods for a reasonable time
in their warehouses, but they are debarred
from renting outside premises for granting
free storage on freight in order to secure
Probably before the close of the year
there will be a change in division points
on the Chicago & Erie portion of the Rail-
road system. When the line was built from
Marion. o., to Chicago, 262 miles. the divi-
sion was established at Huntington, 142
miles east Of Chicago and only 10 miles
equal. and since the Erie has come in full
possession of the New York, Pennsylvania
& Ohio line. from Marion east it is now
proposed TO move the eastern division term
inal of the c. & f.. from Marion twenty
five miles east TO Gallon, so that Hunting
ton will be equal distance between Chicago
and Gallon. The change has been recon-
mended to the management by general SUI
perintendent Magee and the division, super
meeting Friday at Huntington to discuss
the matter.
A statement is going the rounds tina the
crossing of the Pennsylvania and the Phil
| a6atnhiQ a Reading road whdre the raNnnt
serious accident occurred was protected by
an interlocking plant, and therefore IL Is
reasoned that the interlocking plant is not
a sure preventive or crossing collisions.
The fact Is that while the crossing was
guarded by an in~terlocking plant it lacked
the essential thing TO prevent q collision
of that kind. 1t had no deraiiing track.
If 1t had been supplied with this device
the engine of the train that the signal was
set against would have left the track and
run off into the dirt three hundred feet
from the crossing of the two. roads and
or fireman. been hurt. On the Big Four
and Pennsylvania system west all inter
locking plants with one exception-that at
Dayton. O.-are provided with this appli-
ance.
Those who know the condition Of affairs
Of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago
financial troubles in good shape and will,
when relieved OF the liabilities incurred
by former arrangements. be in better
shape financially than a majority of West
ern roads. Its track on the main line,
Chicago to New Albany. and on the In
dianapolis division is laid with heavy steel
rails, all put down in the last three years;
its bridges In that time have been rebuilt
with steel structures. and little money
needs to be expended in that direction for
at least five years. According to its mile
age ii is one of the best equipped roads
crossing Indiana The company has nine
ty-six first-class locomotives and a num-
Der Of second-class for switching service,
etc: it has forty-six passenger coaches.
seventeen baggage cars. 6.319 freight cars.
and 50 per cent. of this equipment is new
or has been recently rebuilt. Consequently
with only its fixed charges and operating
expenses to pay, the road will have clear
sailing.