The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-07

spend a month. They. with others, have a
clubhouse at that place which is provided
with everything to make their stay pleas
ant.
The Panhandle is distributing twenty
five miles of new steel rails, Weighing nine
and Kokomo.
f. r.. Hawley. passenger conductor on
the Michigan division of the Big Folr, yes
terday lett on a vacation Whlch ne VIII
There has not been a day this week that
tho. Big Four has not handed over 9:VVO
loaded cars, and. on one day 5,tOl, ecHpslhg
all former records.
Ticket Receiver Crane, Of the Pennsyl-
vania lines, says that in the last few days
there has been a very large increase IN 10
cal travel, and through travel continues
heavy.
Ira 5. Read, just appointed super1ntend-
ent of police and telegraph at Columbus,
O., is q brother of A. f. Read, city pas
senger agent of the Pennsylvania lines at
P~ittsburg.
emit of the Big Four, has returned from
Philadelphia. He states that large quantt-
ties of coke are being shipped West over
the Pennsylvania lines.
The st. Louis Traffic Bureau has ap-
pointed a committee for the purpose of or
ganizing a merchants association to Sc
cure reduced rates similar to those granted
to Chicago and New York.
II O4Aty-illii1nle IIdAl VI NSAC l. AoN
phia & Reading. from Philadelphia to At
lantic City, sixty miles, was not one second
late in arriving at ATLANTIC City on It's
schedule during the month OF July.
The Lake Erie & Western turned over to
the Nickel-plate 3,722 Niagara FAILS excur-
sionists. The first section of the train ar
rived at Niagara Falls at $50 a. m, ana the
last, the tenth section, at 8:3U a. m.
II. Moore, general utility man of the Chi
cago & Southeastern, was in the city yes
terday.. He, says. fully fifty. cars of grain
are being. loaded on the line daily, ana
more would be could cars be secured.
The Canadian Pacific passenger depart
ment is flooded with letters asking infor-
nation as to passenger and even freight
rates to the Klondike gold fields. One Of
flee received in one day 250 letters of this
character.
Frank Wade, an old-time indianapolis
railroad man, will return to this city next
agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day.
ton. the Monon and the Indiana, Decatur
& Western.
The business of Train 90, over the Penn
sylvania lines, has so increased that it
will probably be made a two-section train,
one from ST. Louis, the other Cincinnati,
running as two sections only between Co.
lumbus and Jersey City.
Several car works in the West are being
asked to furnish estimates for cars by Il
large number of roads. and it is thought
the car works will all shortly be running
full time and full handed. The cost of ears
is now 20 per cent. less than five years ago.
The Schenectady locomotive works have
shipped two monster engines to the North
ern PACIFIC. The engine and tender weigh
100 tons. In hauling them over the Michi-
gan Central the speed was limited to fifteen
miles an hour On account OF their great
weight.
Jacob Wilson, an engineer on the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne & Chicago, lies in a
hospital at Fort Wayne, fatally i'll. He
was dismissed by the company for the. in
terest he took in the Debs strike, and since
that time has hppn engaged in other OC-
~cupations.
The Michigan division of the Vandalia
is now doing the heaviest business at any
time in the last four years, and the better
business the Vandalia. main line is doing
will enable Receiver Malott TO make a very
gratifying exhibit for the last half of July
and for this month.
The H 4rkell & Barker car works, at
Michigan City, are about completing an
addition to their plant and viii soon in
crease their output to thirty cars per day.
Their pay roll is up to $4,000 per month.
There was no shutdown of these works
during the business depression.
f. O. Mccormick, passenger traffic man
ager of the Big Four lines, has returned
system, and says that everywhere there are
indications of returning good times. PAS
senger and freight business, he says, has
greatly improved in the last three weeks.
The troubles between the Chicago &
Southeastern and the Peoria 81 Eastern
have been satisfactorily adjusted. The
former will put in a new crossing at New
Ross and hereafter maintain 1t, and the
Peoria & Eastern will release the Chicago
q Southeastern from employing a man TO
watch the crossing. A..
1t is stated that no fast train in the coun-
try is so often, for long stretches, hauled
at a continuous speed of a mile every fifty
four to ffty-six seconds as the knicker-
booker, on the Big -Four. On the New
York Central, ard, possibly, on some other
roads, a mile or Two may be run faster, but
no other train so fast, mile after mile.
1t is intimated that roads in the Central
Passenger Association will have some liti-
cation to contend with when the new mile
age book is put on sale. on the ground that
the pooling of the mileage conflicts with
the interState-cOmmerce act. The ScalperS
and the travelling statesmen who are OPP
posed to the book wi. join in testing it's
legality.
1t is stated that Boston capital has taken
hold of the Chicago & Great Western and
proposes to bring it to the front. In the
last sixty days it's stock has advanced from
4 to % cents. J. A, Kelly, superintendent
of the Chicago division, has been appointed
assistant superintendent, with headquar-
ters at st. Paul; j. ID. Tuchy, local agent
at Chicago. has been appointed superin-
tendent of terminals at that city, and B. f.
Egan goes to St. Louis as agent of the
company.
The Georgia State Railroad Commission
yesterday refused the petition of w. II.
Savannah, representing the freight and
transportation bureau of that city, and
others Tor a horizontal reduction of % per
cent. in freight rates on cotton. Commits
sioner Allen Fort filed a dissenting opin-
ion. The case is a notable one, several DAYS
having been occupied in the hearing. and
most of the prominent railroad mer in the
South having participated in it.
The executive committee of the Western
Passenger Association has for the time
being given, up the idea of getting the Union
Pacific to become a member of the asso-
citation. Its efforts have not met with
great success, and for a while at least ir
will do nothing more, although it will not
give up the effort by any means. 1t is
generally believed that if the Union Pacific
would become a member of the association
the trouble over Northern Pacific coast
rates could be settled in short order.
The Union Pacific officials are pluming
themselves on a new long-distance record.
Engineer Thomas Grogan, with Engine $50.
pulled a special train from Evanston, Wyo,
to Omaha, 955 miles, in twenty-four hours,
including all stops. This is claimed as the
record long run for a single engine. The
final squirt of the run was a remarkable
burst Of speed, the distance from North
Platte TO Omaha, 291 miles, being covered
in 2T9 minutes, at the rate of So. 40 miles per
hour. The engine was built at the Omaha
shops.
-<-@->-
AN INTERIM TREASURER.