The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-20

! Will result in the erection of a new station
at that point.
The passenger earnings of the Big Four
! IN OCTOBER We're 56 per cent larger this
! year than IN October, 1886 and this month
| the first fifteen days passenger earnings
were per cent. ahead of those Of the cor
responding period last year.
General Superintendent Miller is quoted
! as saying that on Jan. two and possibly
three OF the large Class l. engines now
building at Altoona will be sent to the In
dlanapoHs division of the Panhandle, to be
run between Columbus and Indianapolis.
! The Big Four lines proper in the second
j week OF November earned s27S,692 40, an in
crease over the corresponding week of 1896
OF S4334436. The first fourteen days of the
present month an increase Of 81, 1882 is
SHOWN over the corresponding period last
! year
The library superintendent of the railroad
! branch OF the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION at New York has issued a neat
! catalogue of the books of the library that
are most useful to locomotive engineers and
firemen All are standard works of their
| kind.
The Illinois Central has at Chicago the
! finest suburban service of any road in the
country, and after a careful investigation
OF the practica bility of substituting other
| power than locomotives now employed, has
found nothing would handle its heavy
tra1lc so satisfactorily as steam.
1t is stated that the Pennsylvania, the
central OF New Jersey and the Pittsburg &
Lake Erie will place contracts for pressed
steel cars. and have asked for bids for cars
to be manufactured from such material on
their own designs. The Pennsylvania will
nave car OF 10000 pounds capacity.
Alexander Robinson, for years trainmas-
ter on the Fitchburg road, but Of late gen
eral yardmaSter of the road at South Bos-
ton. has accepted the position of superin-
Lendent or the terminals of the Wabash at
ST. Louis; For the present. however, he is
to have charge of the yards at Decatur. Ill.
The twenty-third annual convention of the
Passenger and Freight Conductors Mutual
Benefit nf
Chicago yesterday with large attendance.
me day was, taken up with the reports of
the officers and routine business 1t is
thougnt the meeting will last several days.
Charles NJ. Hays, formerly general man.
ager of the Wabash, is now president of the
Chicago Grand Trunk and Of every road
in the Grand Trunk system in Michigan. 1t
is stated that all opposition to his manage
mont or the Grand Trunk on the part of
the Canadians has died out, so well Is he
handling the property.
Quite a number of miles of NV SO-pound
steel rail has been laid on the Columbus
end Newark division OF the B. a. o., re-
of trestle has been converted into an en-
bankment on the same division. Other i'm
provements on the B. & o. lines west of the
ohio river include a four-span steel bridge
600 feet long across the Muskingum river at
GAINESVILLE and two iron bridges on the Mid
land division.
Some Of the new Glass FL freight en-
gines built at the shops of the Pennsylvania
road at Altoona are in use between Pitts
burg and Columbus on the Panhandle. and
they cover the distance from Pittsburg to
thirty minutes, and from Dennison to CO.
lumbus, 100 miles, in three hours and forty
from the fact that some heavy grades have
70 be- overcome, ranging from thirty to
ffty-two feet to the mile.
1t is expected by the passenger officials
or the Atchison road that soon after the be-
ginning of next year they will run an extra
fast train each week to California from
Chicago. The trains are being run twice
each week at present and the volume of
traffic is so large that it will be found nee
essary to add another train within a short
Tune after the holidays, as the California
trafnc always increases at that time. The
through passenger business to California is
now heavier than at any time since 1892
The Queen & Creseent's New Orleans lin
TIED, which covers the distance from Cincin-
natl TO New Orleans, S26 miles, in twenty
two hours. is credited. all things considered.
with showing the best speed record of any
road IN the country. Much of the distance
maintained to accomplish it. The run from
Cincinnati to Chattanooga, 1856 miles, has
so many tunnels and hills and sharp curves
to overcome that it requires a. high speed
line.
., With the change of time Sunday, Nov.
q, the New York CentraIs fast mail train
VIII leave New York at S:45 a. M, arriving
IN engage next morning at 1920 by the
Lake Shore, making the run in twenty
IS the fastest time ever made between New
York and Chicago by the regular mail
position flyer which made the time between
New York and Chicago for a period of 175
days during the worlds fair in twenty
hours
Those who claim to be we'll informed con-
corning the legal phase of affairs express
the opinion that the efforts of the Louis
Vile Trust Company to have the sale of the
Monon at foreclosure set aside will be I'M
eVailing The plaintiffs claim that the
foreclosure sale of the Louisville, New AL
bany d Chicago was. perhaps, the boldest
successful attempt to obtain possession of
railroad property at the expense of its
creditors ever shown in the courts of
equity In speaking of this yesterday an
attorney said Ibis claim was the only one
not taken care of. and saddling the liability
on the Monon was a much holder and more
unjust scheme than the Monon case If given
its worst phase.
On Dec the Erie road. in connection
with the Santa Re Company, will establish
new through tourist car line to run be-
tween New York and Los Angeles. In the
making up of this new tourist line it has
been arranged that a tourist sleeper shall
leave New York on and after Dec. I every
tuesday on the Erie train No. 10. This car
will arrive in Chicago the following even
ing at midnight and be hooked on to the
Santa Fe fast mail which leaves for the
West at 2:45 a. m. 1t will arrive in Kansas
City in time to be attached to the Santa
Fes fast California train and continue on
It to Southern California Returning from
California the car will arrive back In Chi
cago at o'clock at night and leave for the
East over the Erie twenty minutes later
reaching New York the second morning at
8 a. IN.
Isaac Wright, formerly an extensive lum-
Der dealer in Indianapolis now located In
Memphis, Tenn, serds a report of a large
shipment of ash IN. 'er from that point
Memphis now beine he most important
lumber market in the South. The largest
train of lumber ever shipped out of Mem
phis or, the south was sent out over the
Louisville & Nashville Monday afternoon
The train consisted of forty cars, heavily
loaded with over AGO. 900 feet of selected ash
lumber: 1t was photographed before leav-
ing. This shipment OF lumber was made by
Scatcherd < Son, of Buffalo, N. Y, from
their Memphis yard, of which Isaac Wright
is manager, and was consigned to D. M.
Osborne q Co., of Auburn, N. Y, manufac-
turers of faril Implements This is the
third shipment of full lumber trains made
by Scatcherd & Son within the past twelve
months. In order to move this mammoth
shipment the Louisville q Nashville Rail-
road was compelled to bring from Louis
will two of the roads big mogul engines to
pull it out. The train left Memphis in two
sections