The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-22

pounds resting on the four pairs of driving
wheels. The boiler will contain S24 fues.
AS result of the recent visit of r. B. F.
Peirce. receiver OF the Toledo, ST. Louis &
Kansas City. TO Washington. through night
mail service viii be established between To-
ledo and st. Louis over that line in both
directions.
The Big Four line proper earned in the
second week of September $277, S9S.OI which
was an increase over the corresponding
week Of 1898 of $lS6S5.19. Both the passen-
increased earnings.
There are now three good railroad posi-
tons in New England awaiting forthcom-
ing Of talent. One of the vacancies is on
the Fitchburg road, another on the New
York, New Haven &, Hartford, and a third
on the Boston az Maine
Klondike company has been organized
at Anderson which includes a number of
Big Four men and they have selected AL
Johnson formerly passenger conductor on
the Big Four as the first man to be sent
In their interests to Alaska.
John +. Miller, general superintendent of
the Pennsylvania lines Southwestern sys-
TEN, was in the city yesterday and left
for Pittsburg 10 attend meeting there to-
day of the officials of the several divisions
with First Vice President McCrea.
The Santa Fe has advanced the employees
rate or fare from one-half cent to one cent
per mile, but the arrangement does not
affect the practice of issuing free transpor-
tation to employees and their families on
account of long and meritorious service.
General Manager. Schaf, General Super
intendent Van Wrinkle and VIM Garstang,
superintendent Of motive power of the Big
Four, are in Cleveland to-day arranging
for making some important improvements
front at that city.
George w. Short of Cleveland. represent
ing the Cleveland Car-wheeI Foundry Com
pany, is in the city. He states that the
works are crowded with business running
full time and working $50 men, against 40
in September last year. This Foundry turns
out 260 wheels per day.
w. p Walker, jr., freight manager of
the Chesapeake & Ohio has returned from
Europe and was at his post yesterday. His
trip was purely business one and he was
ments which will greatly increase export
business via Newport News.
A steam shovel and construction train
has been put at work making the fills at
of the Findlay, Fort Wayne & Western with
those of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne q
Chicago, over which, when completed, the
former will get into Fort Wayne.
Passenger Conductors Boughton, Arnult
and Kramer, Of the Michigan division of
the Big Four. who were called before the
the exception of Kramer, took their trains
again. The three have been very popular
conductors on that division and all consid-
cred worthy and reliable.
BY agreement between the Monon and the
Big -Four the Monon on Sunday run an
eXcurS on from GIeencaStle and other points
on it's main line to Chicago for 81 the
round trip, but no passengers were to be
taken on at Lafayette, and residents of that
city are considerably exercised over the dis
elimination against them.
C. A. Cartwright, assistant general freight
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio at Pittsburg,
has resigned and the Office was yesterday
abolished. P. M. Matthews, commercial
NOTED to division freight agent, and T. J.
Walter, agent of the Continental line at
P1ttSburg, has been appointed commercial
NJ Hhn Dol
burg.
Within the next few months General Man
ager Ramsey of the Wabash, will place an
order for twenty-five new locomotives. In
years past 1t has been customary for this
company to build its engines at it's own
shops, but General Manager Ramsey is
quoted as saying that he thought he could
have them built at less cost at locomotive
works and also have the advantage of the
newest improvements.
The work of constructing the Detroit &
Lima orthern road extension from Dun
dee, Mich, to Detroit was begun yesterday.
The ID. q L. n. trains have heretofore been
running into Detroit over the Wabash
tracks from Britton, which is ten miles
from Dundee, but now the right of way
has been secured over the entire route, and
within four months they promise to have
tween Toledo and Detroit
The Financial Chronicle reports the gross
earnings of 134 roads in July as $50, 567, 1888,
an increase OF $4,257,279. Net earnings were
gam
III gross was 71S per cent. and in net l50S
per cent. The largest net gains were:
Southern Pacific. 1896. 915; Pennsylvania,
$2zaa, 0o0; Canadian Pacific. $215,124 Reading,
$199,669; Illinois Central, $l49, S04 Grand
Trunk, 1929, 227; st. Paul, $128 975; Louisville,
$l27717; Oregon Short-line, $115.9S2.
The board of managers of the Union
Railway Company held their regular
monthly meeting yesterday and authorized
a number of Improvements, among them
improvements to the electric plant at the
the floors of the room under the Union Sta
ton, the arranging for supplying the train
sheds with water the Improvement not to
cost over $780, Superintendent Zion was
authorized to increase his force at the Belt
road shops sufficiently to put all the en-
glpes of the Belt road in good condition for
winter service.
Receivers Cowen and Murray, of the Bal
timore 81 Ohio, filed in the United States
Court at Baltimore yesterday a report of
the receipts and disbursements of the road
for the month of June One June / the bal
ance in the general treasury Of the COM
pany and credit in the banks amounted
the month were 50, 627 S51.5S. and the miscel-
laneouS items amounted to $225. 596 &C. max
ing a total fund available during the month
of 81, $50, 606.74. Disbursements on account
of traffic items amounted to 1896 1893, and
on account of miscellaneous items 81 $780,,
1870, leaving a balance of $423, 233. IL in the
treasury at the end of the month.
1t is given out on reliable authority that
the Fort Wayne main line is to be double
tracked to Chicago as soon as possible
and that the Panhandle Pittsburg division
between Pittsburg and Columbus is to be
made a double-track road before another
year. The improvements made by other
lines have made it imperatively necessary
for the Pennsylvania people to take this ex-
pensive step in order to maintain the proud
prestige which they have already estab-
lished. The work will be very expensive
on the Panhandle on account of several
rock cuts and heavy fills, but on the Fort
Wayne it will require only the expense of
throwing up several miles of entertainments
here and there. to connect the long lap
sidiDgs now in use and which were planned
years ago with a view to facilitating and
at the same time Fastening the completion
of mucb-needed improvement on the great
main line