The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26


disturbance in that direction is anticipated.
A new car axle which revolves on rollers
IS being tested by one of the Chicago reads
: II is on the same principle as the Dali
bearing bicycle attachment.
The Chicago Milwaukee & st. Paul VIII WI
to-day restore passenger service to Chilli
Gothic as division point. Large increased
local patronage has been promised
A number of Vandalia engines We're on
Saturday transferred to the Louisville d.
vision of the Pennsylvania lines 10 heip
handle the excursion trains to LOUISVILLE.
Thomas Millen, general master mechanic
of all surface roads of New York CITY, &C
cornpanied by his wife, is visiting william
Garstang, superintendent of motive power
of the Big Four lines.
L. G. Cannon, auditor and general agent
of George w. Ristine, receiver CT the COT
orado Midland. is in the city visiting MS
Union Railway Company.
A number of engines off the Erie & Pitts
burg division of the Pennsylvania lines,
are being rebuilt at the shops of the Penn
sylvania Company at Fort Wayne, where
work Of superior class is done.
1t is understood that Horace Tucker, who
has been chosen chairman of the Chicago
az St. Louis Traffic Association, will also
be made chairman of the Illinois rate COM
mittee. with increased territory.
Commencing to-day, trains of the Toledo,
Ann Arbor & North Michigan will arrive
and depart from the company's new cen
trail station at Toledo. The new station is
said to be the handsomest in that city.
cent. of their cross ties in Kentucky,
Georgia and Florida. For Kentucky oak
ties they pay 60 cents apiece: for the
Georgia and Florida pine ties, so cents.
The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern has
just received the twelfth passenger locomo-
tive of the Garstang type. and all are max
passenger or fast freight express trains.
John K. Cowen, coreceiver of the Balti-
more & Ohio. is delivering addresses ct the
more important points on the B. & O. lines
addressed
W va an 1'7 " eeS
William Garstang, superintendent of mo-
tive power, is having the water tested at
the several Big Four shops, and the more
important water tanks, to ascertain its
quality for steaming purposes and it's eff
fects boilers.
The Big Four and the Louisville & Nash
vile last week made good record on
kets A carload of grapes was turned over
to the Big Four at Cleveland at noon, and
on the second day was delivered at Mobile.
The Pennsylvania Company has fitted up
a number of box cars in which to carry
fine horses. These cars are so constructed
as to be heated the same as a. car which
carries perishable goods and horses can
be transported with comfort in the sever
est weather.
D. B. Martin. general passenger agent of
the Big Four will to-day, with the APP
prevail of Passenger Traffic Manager Nc
Cormick, make public a circular announc-
ing Fl: W. Sparks as travelling passenger
quarters in Chicago.
The Pennsylvania Company is short Of
power, and is transferring engines from the
s 6py trac f eq he ph an
cided increase in shipments of coal and
coke of late on the Pennsylvania lines, and
the company's cars of this class are all
in use.
The wreck on the Bee-line division of the
Big Four which occurred a few, days ago
has been cleared away and the loss ascer-
tanned. and it is less than SIS 000, not $780,
000 telegraphed over the country. An
official of the Big Four says it is always
safe to state that the damage in a wreck
is just 25 per cent. of the sums reported
by lookers-on.
The Journal has information to the eff
feet that the banquet given William Glib
son, late superintendent of the Cincinnati
division of the Big Four, now assistant
general manager of the Baltimore & Ohio,
show to the banquet which will be given
him next Saturday night at Cincinnati by
his friends and associates.
AS result of the general managers in
spection of the Pennsylvania lines west of
Pittsburg the general managers prize of
500 for the best piece of track was awarded
to Samuel darlington. supervisor of subdiv
sion No. /, Louisville division, extending
from Louisville to Marshfield, Ind. This
division also received two prizes of $50 each,
awarded to section foremen, for the best
sections on the division. The general man
ayers second prize was awarded to the
Richmond division.
A new Glass L locomotive off of the Penn
sylvania road proper for several days past
has been undergoing tests of its speed and
power on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne q
Chicago against one of the ten-wheel Class
X engines, which have been considered the
best type of engine in service On that road.
1t was expected that the Class X ten-wheel
engine would show greater pulling power
than the eight-wheel new Glass l. engine,
but in this respect the Class x engine was
a disappointment, the Class L engine start
ing a heavier train and getting it under
hoa0WdV in less time.