The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-21

the analrS or the illinois central says the
report that the company will build a line
| into Nashville has some foundation.
George H. Daniels, general passenger
| agent of the New York Central Is sending
| out circulars containing attacks on ticket
| scalpers made by commercial travellers.
William D. Glover, the Monon conductor
who was so badly injured on Wednesday
| at the Dark Hollow quarry yards died OF
his Injuries and was buried on Sunday at
| Bedford.
Next month the Rhode Island locomotive
works are to deliver to the Peoria Il Pekin
| Union two switching engines weighing 105, 900
pounds each, equipped with both steam and
airbrakeS.
The Blue and Canada Southern line has be-
come the strongest fast freight line combi-
nation in the country, owning more cars
than the Red. White and Midland fast
freight combination.
The Fast Mail, limited, on the Lake shore
on Thursday from Cleveland to Chi
cago, 357 miles, in seven hours and fifty
minutes, stops to be deducted. The average
speed was fifty-two miles an hour.
1t is exciting comment that President
permit the officials of the Baltimore & Ohio
TO name the successor of Charles Scull as
general passenger agent of the road.
The Michigan CentraTs North Shore Linn
tied makes the run from Buffalo to Detroit
in less than six hours. Frequently, between
Buffalo and Windsor, a speed of seventy
miles an hour is kept up for quite dis
lance.
A meeting of the Western Passenger AS
ISOLATION will be held in ST. Louis to-day to
consider Kansas City. rates, homeseekers'
excursions and number of other matters.
1t is likely that the meeting will last two
days or longer.
H. G. Carter, formerly with the 500 Line
at Minneapolis has been appointed general
agent of the Canadian Pacific at Alaska
and Yukon, with headquarters at Vancou-
yer; 3. G., for the present Next spring he
will be stationed at Skaguay.
The Pennsylvania lines. with their big
Letter contract, are now Carrying all the
grain. An official says the Lehigh Valley
road is sWamped with business and unable
demand or to furnish power to move the
business offered.
The board of managers of the Union Rail-
way Company will meet to-day. The most
important matter to come up is the hearing
of the report of the city engineer and his
recommendations regarolng the enlarging
o. the stone arches over PogueS run under
the Union Station.
When Chauncey Watson, now general
agent of the Blue and Canada Southern line
for Indianapolis and Louisville, left his
the last words his father said to him were:
Go If you want to, but you will be in the
poorhouse in three months.
Commencing with JAN l engineers and
firemen on the Lake Shore road are to be
uniformed with suits that can readily be
drawn over other wearing apparel but uni
form in style. The proposition was submit
ted to the men through letters and so per
cent. of the responses favored such d uni
FORM
The Iowa Central has placed an order
with the Terre Haute car works for $50 cars
900 pounds capacity, equipped with auto
matte couplers and airbrakes. All orders
devices, and in rebuilding cars every car is
provided with automatic couplers and air
brakes.
Commissioner Blanchard. of the Joint
Traffic Association, denies the report that
the joint traffic presidents, at their meet
ing in New York last Friday, ordered a re-
duction on export and domestic corn and
other rates. The matter was discussed at
the meeting and action deferred until next
Wednesday,
General Manager Ramsey. of the Wabash,
in contracting for fifteen new heavy freight
engines, divided the order among three loco
motive builderS-the Baldwin the Richmond
and the Pitts6uTg Work ks as the com
it is expected they will be up to the highest
standard of freight locomotives.
The Wall-street Journal says important
action on the rate situation is expected at
the Joint Traffic Association meeting this
week. West-bOund rates have been seri-
ously cut. J. F. Morgan is credited with
the statement that the only road living up
to the Joint Traffic agreement and main
tanning rates is the Baltimore & Ohio.
The citizens of Andrews have appointed
a committee to visit General Manager Ram
sey, of the Wabash, to see if he cannot be
induced to stop the transferring of more
men from that point to Peru, as 1t bids far,
if continued, to depopulate the town. Many
had built homes there expecting that An
drews would always be an important di-
vision point.
A. Phillips &, Co. and Judson & Co,
who for years have been running tourist
excursions to the Pacific coast, have con-
solidated their interests and Will this week
commence to send out excursions from BoS-
ton on Tuesdays and Wednesdays of each
week, leaving Boston over the Fitchburg
road, taking the West Shore, the Nickel
plate and the Chicago Il Alton as Tar as
Kansas City.
The Monon's new heavy passenger en-
gineS have now been in service three
months and have exceeded the highest ex-
pectations of George Lowell, general SUI
perintendent, in their performance. The
hauling of six or eight cars at sixty miles
an hour is accomplished readily, and
speed of seventy miles an hour between sta
lions is frequently attained. They are very
economical as coal consumers.
A considerable number of engineers on
the Big Four received from $3.50 to $17O for
their November service A trainmaster yes
terday remarked that engineers were now
making better pay than the men in any
ents. Such positions as trafnmasterS SUI
perntendents of telegraph, and in fact,
some of the master mechanics did not get
as good pay as the engineers
The Southern Indiana road WILL in the
spring, enlarge its shops at Bedford, and
also its roundhouse. The new owners of
the property have ample funds to place
the road on its feet and already have great
ly improved it. Alexander Shields, late
master mechanic of the Chicago, Hammond
on the Southern Indiana. Next month the
road will receive it's three new engines.
The company is arranging to do heavy
stone traffic.
The Louisville & Nashville, the Missouri.
Kansas d Texas and a number of other
Southwestern and Western lines are allow
ing cars loaded with cotton and other South
ern products to come as far north as In
dianapolis, providing the Indianapolis lines
will return them promptly, loaded, and this
arrangement is proving very beneficial, as
the cars which come loaded with cotton are
Immediately loaded back with furniture AID
merchandise for Southern points, shipments
to the South and Southwest now being very
heavy.
The shipments of yellow pine from the
South to Northern car works are now the
heaviest ever known, and some of the car
shops find 1t difficult to push work because
this lumber does not come north faster.
In the last six months the price has been
advanced for siding 81 to S.. The railroads
which have not hitherto used 1t extensively
have adopted it. The New York Central has
just contracted for 5000 heart yellow-pine
ties, and the Pennsylvania has recently or
dered 100000 feet of lumber for cars. Texas
yellow pine in the building and repairing of
their cars.
At largely attended meeting of New
York canal-boat owners held in New York
city yesterday resolutions were passed urg-
ing the erection by the State of grain ele-
vators at Buffalo and New York. In the
words of the resolution this action would
guard the States essential grain traffic from