The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-27

nothing is to be gained by delaying such
action, so badly wrecked is the road finan-
clally. Samuel FELTON,, as receiver, is doing
much 10 increase the tratflc or the road.
The general offices of the Mobile & Ohio
Railroad were taken from St. Louis back
TO Mobile yesterday. A special train left the
the general officers, the clerks and employees
and their families TO the number of about
three hundred. The fficials and clerks
have been away fro their homes since
Sept. Is.
1t will be one year tomorrow, since Train
II was put on the Vandalia run between st.
Louis and Indianapolis. From st. Louis to
Ierre Haute II runs as a local tram, De-
tween Terre Haute and Indianapolis as
fast train making but two stops, and 1t has
become one of the Vandalia's best-paying
trains. 1t arrives here at l:20 p. M, con-
meeting with the Lake Erie q Western and
the Panhandle for Richmond,
Anderson and Muncie are the two best
way stations for business on the Bee-line
division of the Big Four, and there is a con-
slant rivalry between the two cities as to
the business transacted. Some months the
vary 500, but in freight traffic some months
Munce will run several thousand dollars
ahead OF Anderson. and at another time OF
the year Anderson will lead Muncie fully
as much.
The Big Four people while getting good
rental out of the Cincinnati, Hamilton q
like to have the c., H. & D. erect new
freight depot which would give the Big
Four the opportunity to carry out its plans
on the ground where the two old Bee-line
freight depots stand, which is to lay out a
good system of tracks for loading and un-
loading bulk freights, and to erect a large
warehouse in which to care for freights
which are not taken out promptly.
L. F. Loree. general manager of the Penn
sylVania lines west of Pittsburg, was in the
eciIt,yy yesterday accompanied 2y Jonn +.
western system. They are looking after
the improvements IN progress on the south
western lines, and last night left for Chi
cago to look after matters at that point.
Mr.. Loree says the entire equipment of the
Pennsylvania lines is now the best en-
ployed in the company's business career.
and more locomotives could be used at good
advantage. ,}
The officials of the Louisville division of
the Pennsylvania lines claim that, stops de-
Quoted. one of their trains each way be-
tween Chicago and Louisville is scheduled
faster than trains run on any part OF the
Pennsylvania system. The Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne q Chicago's fastest train covers the
912 miles from Chicago to New York in
twenty-four hours, while two trains be-
tween Chicago and Louisville. cover the
300 miles in eight hours making several
stops, while the Fort Wayne limited runs
over entire divisions without stopping,
taking water as the engine runs
The Pennsylvania Company, the parent
line, will not need to. make up deficits of
the poorer members of its system to the eX-
tent of former years. The Allegheny Valley
road, one of it's lines. in 1885 showed
deficit of $l87 600, and in 1896 a deficit of
$21S 900, but on Oct. 81 it had a surplus of
$4,000 its November business exceeding all
former records. 1t is believed that the
Pennsylvania will have but a small, It any,
deficit this year to put up for the Indianap-
oils & Vincennes For the first ten months
this year the Northern Central, another
Pennsylvania line, shows an increase In net
earnings of 1851, 226, IA, and has two months
of good business tosswell that sum.
The improvement on the Pittsburg divi-
sion of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
twenty-five miles west of Cumberland, at
Falls Cut, will be completed by Dec. |, and
trains will begin running over 1t within ten
days Thereafter. Falls Cut is cutting
through a spur of the mountain is about
sixty feet in depth, and has continually
given trouble by rock sliding down on the
track 1t has had to be braced with heavy
timber every few feet for its entire length,
some 300 feet. and requiring constant care
and Watchfulness was very expensive to
keep up. In order to eliminate this cut it
was necessary to build one mile of new
roadway, which involved the construction
Of double track tunnel $50 feet in length
and three bridges. By this change the road
was Strengthened considerably, taking out
some sharp curvature and introducing
curves Of longer radii. The Improvement
is on what is known the eastern slope of
the Alleghenies. and the grade is about
eighty-four feet to the mile. The tunnel
and bridges were constructed with the view
of double-trackingj the entire Pittsburg d.
vision sometime in the future.