The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

looking at the things on exhibition. NOW
that cooler weather is near he looks for the
exposition to draw more people from the
North.
Railroad Commissioner Kayler, Of Ohio.
the Columbus. sanduskV & Hocking Waney
and reports many of the bridges on the
southern division in bad condition. On be-
ing appraised Of the fact Receiver FELTON,
at once placed large orders for material to
rebuild or repair them, he promising to
put them in good condition at once.
r. b. F. PIERCE, receiver of the Toledo,
St. Louis Kansas City, returned from
Toledo yesterday. He says there is no
foundation for the reports that the road
was likely to run short of coal to move
it's trains On the contrary, the mines on
the road are getting out six hundred tons
per day, and the Glover Leaf is getting
three hundred tons of it, using about 230
tons per day.
A further exhibition to railroad men Of
the invention of G. D. and w. A. RoySe for
telegraphing to and from moving trains was
made yesterday to large number of rain
road men, most of them train dispatcherS.
They examined the system thoroughly and
with critical eyes looked for weak points,
but there was not one of them who was
not ready to fully indorse the system after
the inspection. There was not a man among
them who did not go away firmly convinced
that the important question of. Geographic
communication between moving trains has
been solved.
The new live stock rates of the Kansas
City lines go into effect Aug. II. The secre-
tary of the transmissouri freight bureau
says that the only shippers that will suffer
are those who ship short distances and
have been in the habit of crowding more
stock into cars than should be. The terri
tory affected by the new rate includes
Utah, South and North Dakota, parts of
Idaho and New Mexico, eighteen roads be-
ing interested in the change.
Robert w Smith treasurer of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company. when seen at
Pittsburg yesterday in relation to a rumor
that a plan is under consideration by the
Pennsylvania Company for refunding
large mortgage debt due in 1905, said as far
as his company was concerned no such
step has been contemplated He said FUR
Their that if the pennsylvania Company,
which operated the lines west OF Pittsburg,
intends to refund any portion OF its DEBT
knowledge of that fact.
Leases by the Nashville, Chattanooga 81
St. Louis Railway and the Louisville q
Nashville Railway of their terminal facili-
ties and a large number OF vacant lots TO
the Louisville q Nashville Terminal Com
pany have been filed in the e. county regis
for ninety-nine years. The Terminal Com
pany has also registered a mortgage on
all the property leased to the Manhattan
issue of 81 100000 in bonds dated May /,
1875, and running until May l, 1916.
Advance copies of the annual report of
the Northwestern road We're issued yester-
the road during the fiscal year just closed
have already been published. The decrease
about per cent, and President Hughitt,
in making his report to the stockholders,
said that this was to be attributed to the
decrease in hrst-class travel during the
presidential campaign of last fall. The
dulness of trade during this portion of the
fiscal year caused the falling off in the
freight earnings of about per cent. The
decrease in business during the remainder
of the year was very slight
The improvements the Baltimore & Ohio
has been making on its lines East have
stirred up the Pennsylvania to greatly I'M
proving the physical condition of the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington & Baltimore division.
On Sunday the new south-bound track on
the Iron Hill cutoff was put in service, the
north-bound track having been placed in
service a month ago. This cutoff does
away with numerous curves and shortens
the distance. The new tracks are st2&e
ballasted and laid with rails sixty feet long
weighing one hundred pounds to the yard,
it being the intention 10 make the track
between Philadelphia and Baltimore the
best in the country. The company has over
three hundred men at work strengthening
the tracks between Bacon Hill and Charles
town, Cecil county.
Henry F. Marcy, president of the Fitch
burg road, was yesterday found dead in his
bathroom at his residence in Belmont,
Mass. Death was due to apopleXy lie had
been in falling health for some time. Presi-
dent Marcy had been greatly worried OF
late over matters in connection with the
road. An exhaustive examination of the
accounts has been in progress for several
weeks and during the last few days rumorS
of changes to be made in the management
have been heard widely. On Monday it de-
veloped that shortage OF $1,000 to $1,000
had been found by the experts at work on
the books, and these facts, 1t is stated by
friends of President Marcy, brought on
the fatal stroke. He had been in the rail-
road service since 1858, commencing as mas
ter of transportation on the Rutland 81
Burlington; in May, 1885, he was appointed
traffic manager of the FitchbUrg road, and
Nov. l, 1889, was elected president of the
cOmDany