The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-18

Dioomef oNeIal4S, cOWnlde DoOtS ana a Sloucn
hat.
In the week ending Oct 16 there were
transferred over the Belt road 1854 cars.
Belt road engines handled at the stock
yards S05 carloads of live stock and han
died for private industries on their line ia
loaded cars.
The Norfolk & Western on Saturday
turned over to the Big Four twenty-eight
carloads OF live stock, shipped from Cleve-
land Va, TO Danville, Ill The cattle are
being taken there to be wintered and fatted
for the spring markets.
AS a result of the discbarging of several
conductors on the Chicago & Eastern llll-
nois number of freight conductors have
been promoted, and in turn some OF the best
brakemen on the lines have been promoted
to be freight conductors.
The Indiana, Decatur & Western is now
doing the heaviest west-bound business In
its history, arrangements having been made
by which the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton turns a good deal of west-bound freight
over to the l., d. q w.
Frederic Statesman, the engineer on the
Wabash who was so injured in an accident
his feet, is improving He has been cared
for at the hospital of the Wabash at Peru,
one of the best equipped hospitals in the
country.
Superintendent Gould, of the Eastern divi-
sion of the Wabash, states that it VIII be
impossible for him TO change the DIVISION
terminal for freight trains as desired by
the trainmen, and while there is strong de-
be made.
John Elliott, the freight conductor killed
on the Vandalia on Friday, had been on the
road for nearly thirty years, and was the
eral superintendent of the Vandalia. The
Order of Railway Conductors attended his
funeral in a body yesterday
The yellow fever scare has been a for
tunate thing for the. Northern transcontl-
mental lines, and their. representa- tives are
in the Southeastern and Southern states
not affected gathering up large tonnage
of business which naturally would go to the
Pacific coast over the Southern Pacific.
The Chicago & Northwestern twenty
seven years ago opened an office at No. 5
State street, Boston, where its representa-
tive has been located until last Thursday
when he removed his headquarters to 1868
Washington street where it is stated the
fiLest office in the United States has been
fitted up.
Big Four engineers making their head
quarters at Anderson state that the pay OF
some of the men this month will be the
largest in the history of the road. A num-
Der have mileage for $195 and others run
from $3.50 up to that amount. All of them
have been at work These wages are made
on basis 10 per cent. lower than that or
three years ago.
Anderson, was in the city Saturday. He
says there were in September over 1000 cars
of freight loaded ard unloaded at that point
by the Big Four, nearly double the number
of September 1896. All the manufactures
except the glass works are running. full
time and full handed, and on Nov. l the
glass works will probably resume opera
lions.
Two private cars last week passed over
the Fitchburg road carrying a number OF
directors of the New York New Haven x
Hartford and Eastern capitalists, and this
is leading to considerable speculation, as
there is no law which will prevent all the
roads in the New England States being alb
sorbed by the N. Y, N. II. q H. X. X,
which is one of the wealthiest corporations
in the country.
The rumor that the Lake Shore had I'M
der contemplation, if matters moved as eX-
pected, the making of Butler a division
point has led the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers to take the matter up ana
the subject is in the hands of the grievance
COMMITTEES The sentiment of the train
crews is unanimous against making the
change, as the hauls would be SO long as to
make it impracticable.
The Lake Erie & Western Railroad reports
gross earnings for August of $326.93S, an in
crease of $54 $40 as compared with the same
month of last year, and net Sl5O3iS, an IN
crease of $34, 945 For the eight months end
ing Aug 81 the gross earnings were sos, 20,
a decrease of $15 331 as compared with the
corresponding period of last year and net
1896 051, a decrease of $55,350 Fixed charges
We're $479 S55, leaving surplus OF $4lo,l5o, d
decrease of $70,342
A gentleman who was in the northern part
of the city on Saturday says he was sur
prised at the extent of the ground owned
MOnOn
made and is making, and he thought 1t the
shrewdest move the management had made
as the time has come when terminals as
well as main line cut an important ngure
in the value of railroad properties. Secur-
ing ground for terminals which VIII be am
pie for all time to come, he said, was one
of the great features with the pennsylvania
lines and the Big -Four.
The report is revived that the Pennsyl-
vana, the MonOn, the Big Four and the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton are to make
oft 70 eQra1 nn
of some of the trains between the ONO
river and Chicago. Heretofore the trouble
has been that neither of the lines could
agree on what trains they would take off.
AS the matter now stands, there are twelve
trains daily between Indianapolis and GIN
cinnati six between Indianapolis and Louis
Vile and nine in both directions daily be-
tween Indianapolis and Chicago
The innovation of the Big Four in relet-
tering its equipment is a practical one. The
on the sides of the engine tenders.
tieiS place Of the initials &C, c.. g. &
st. L." will look queer TO people along
| the line The sobriquet big Four has al
most entirely supplanted the regular legal
title of the company. Not one man in
thousand refers to the line as the Cleve-
land, Cincinnati, Chicago & st. Louis, nor
even as the &C, G., c. & St. L. the slang
appellaton big Four is at once so brief
TENS in the country as well known by a
name which forms no part of it's title as the
section are the "Nickel-plate," which is
never called by it's right name, the N. Y,
C.H& ST L. and the "Monon," which, re-
ferred to as the Chicago, Indianapolis 81
Louisville, would hardly be recognized by
the name.
The large purchases Of new equipment
that the b. & 0. has made have very great
" increased the percentage of cars and loco
motives that are equipped with airbrakes
and automatic couplers. The total num-
Der of engines having car-driver brakes is
20 per cent. in excess of those SO equipped
in the previous year. The greatest increase,
however, was made on freight cars, there
being seven times as many in service now
with airbrakes as compared with fifteen
months ago. The use of the automatic
coupler has been trebled there being
little over three times as many cars with
this safety device as were used in 1896. For
safety's sake the receivers have placed out
of service nearly all of the old iron hopper
cars which have been used on the g. &
o. for a great many years. These cars were
very weakly constructed, and if put in a
train between he heavy modern freight and
coal cars Of to-day are very likely to be
crushed in case of a sudden stop or a too
strong application of airbrakes. Up to Sept.
80 1500 of these hoppers had been retired
and thrown on the scrap pile.
WheeIman and Renan.
Philadelphia Press.