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

low-rate excursion from Louisville to
this city. the Monon one from Chicago to
Louisville and the c., II. & d. from In
dianapolis to Cincinnati.
District Passenger Agent Turner, of the
Northern Pacific. who accompanie{d q. the, the
to the Yellowstone Park the number be-
ing sixty-four, has returned with the par
ty The medical gentlemen adopted highly
complimentary resolutions concerning their
treatment by the Northern Pacific. people,
who provided special train in both d1rec-
tons
The contracts have been let to make the
ticket and freight office of the Big Four,
on the corner of Washington and Meridian
streets. the handsomest in the city. The
front Washington street is TO be remod
eled and French plategiass put in; the
floor is to be tiled metallic ceiling put
in electric lights and steam heat provided
and many other minor improvements VIII
be made.
The stockholders, of the. Lake Erie &
Western and of the Peoria. Decatur &
Evansville, at their annual meeting Thurs
day, reelected the old board of directors
Erie & Western will meet next week in
New York and will re-elect the present
6theers me a Sd H. o II sli cb ~ es
are likely to occur
H. II. Porter, chairman of the board of
directors; NJ. J. Carpenter, president; Q: >.
Lyford, vice president, and w. S. Dawley,
chief engineer of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois, have for two days been inspecting
the property. Yesterday the party went
over the new line from Shelbyville to Alta
mont, which is to be built at once to form
the new st. Louis and Chicago line in con-
nection with the Nandaiia.
The biennial convention OF the Brother
hood of Railway Trackmen has concluded
its labors at St, Louis and adjourned l., to
following officers and committeeman We're
elected Chief. John r. Wilson, St. Louis;
vice chief, John Rice, st. Louis. Executive
commttee-W. T. McAbee, Jasper, Ala; J.
e. Lambert Fort Worth. Tex; S. E.
Hawse, Augusta. Ga; James Began,
The last four months the water lines
between Chicago and New YORK have ham
died more than double the quantity of
last year Since the @opening of naviga-
ton up TO the present time 4,20S boats have
cleared from Buffalo on the Erie canal,
double the number of last year, and the
shipments of lumber by the lake and canal
lines have been much greater than in 1895,
consequently it is not surprising that grain
shipments by the all-ratl lines have not
been as heavy as had been anticipated
when the active grain movement set in
Said a Union Station official: Every day
makes it more and more apparent that as
soon as business improves with the roads
composing the Union Railway Company
they will have to take steps to enlarge the
train sheds, they now being inadequate
to meet the requirements as was the old
Union Depot when the new Union Station
was built Each year the number of trains
arriving and departing is increased. and
times in the twdnty-four hours when it
takes considerable ingenuity to get the
trains IN ana out without defay, ana some
times trains have TO be held for several
minutes
j. r. Cavanaugh. superintendent of car
service of the Big Four, writes: Il notice
a aragraph about the Pennsylvania haul
ing a train Of eighty loads. / also noticed
another article the other day about long
train on the Lehigh Valley. At the time l
saw the aforementioned article l tried to
remember a large train of wheat which
came into Fargo. N D., some years ago
when | was on the Northern Pacific. but
/ could not remember the exact number OF
loads in that train. This morning I found
an article cut out of a newspaper which
states that in November, 1884, a wheat
10 carloads of wheat. and on the same
day an east-bound train, composed entirely
of wheat. consisted of eighteen sections
The Railway Master Mechanics annual
report just issued by the secretary Mr.
John w. Cloud contains liberal references
to the work done at Purdue University. A
portion of the work embodied by the COM
mittee on exhaust nozzies was done at Pur-
due. and is u very elaborate document.
! The experimental work upon which was
based the report of the committee on loco
motive slide valves was ali done at Pur-
due. These two reports present the first
reliable data upon subjects which had
hitherto been largely matters of conjec-
ture, and their completeness is chiefly due
TO the exec lent faci tiles for accurate test
ing afforded by the Purdue locomotive
testing plant Mention is also made of the
stand taken by Purdue in reference to the
apprentice quesf ton. The benefits to be de-
rived by shopmen and mechanics who take
advantage of the opportunities offered by
this institution cannot fail TO be apprecia-
tod