The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-19

was hauled from Decatur to Ohio City.
eighteen miles, in nineteen minutes.
The Grand Trunk will move it's train dis
patcherS Office back to Chicago. 1t was
moved from there to Battle Creek, Mich,
on May 1.
The Santa Fa is building at its shops
twelve heavy passenger locomotives. Two
have been completed and are making great
speed records.
No. III, one of the new Monon engines,
on Friday hauled nine cars from Rensselaer,
TO Monon, fifteen miles, in sixteen minutes,
making one stop.
Nearly all the railroads operating in Kan
sas are reporting scarcity of cars to han
die the enormous wheat crop which has
just begun to move.
The Norfolk & Western has every loco
motive and train crew in service and is
moving daily large quantities OF coal from
the Virginia mines north.
The Pittsburg division of the Order of
Railway Photographers still leads all other
divisions in point of numbers and is steadily
increasing in its membership.
Mileage books Of the Toledo &, Ohio Cen
tral have been counterfeited and II is
thought that large amount of this frau
dulent mileage is on the market
Charles Hines, general yardmaster of the
Big Four, who suffered a sunstroke during
the recent heated term, has so far recovered
that he will report for duty to-day.
Fifty carloads of wheat are being loaded
daily on the Michigan division of the Big
some is exported via Newport News
The newly elected president of the Lehigh
Valley road began his railroad career on the
Pennsylvania His first work was on the
Northern Central, owned by the Pennsyl-
vania
On Thursday twenty-six carloads of fine
cattle were shipped from Pchin, ILL.,, for
Liverpool, England, for export via New
York. They were shipped over the Toledo,
st. Louis & Kansas City road
The Erie has introduced a new scheme
at Cleveland, where representative OF the
company will call at residences for bag
gage, which will be checked through to
any address in New York, or vice versa.
The Chesapeake & Ohio has three hum
dred men employed between KenoVa and
Huntington, w. Va, grading and laying a
second track, and large gangs are con-
structing the addition to the bridges and
trestles required.
The Atlantic City excursion from points
on the Panhandle line on Thursday eclipsed
all former records. From Columbus it was
run in five sections, the trains being twenty
minutes apart. There were twenty-six
filled.
George Rockwell, assistant passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania lines, with head
quarters at Cincinnati, spent Sunday with
his family, who still reside here. He says
he thought the competition at Indianapolis
was sharp, but at Cincinnati 1T far exceeds
that at this city
St. Louis has q prosperous branch of the
Young Mems Christian Association, and 1t
has arranged TO furnish good meals for rail-
road employees at 10 cents and lodging at
10 cents. Trainmen will be called at any
hour they wish, and everything will be done
to make the branch comfortable and at
tractiVe.
Two Holman friction-geared locomotives
have arrived at Cape May and will this
week be tested on the South Jersey Rail
road They were built at the Baldwin loco
motive works and stand sixteen feet high
on the track. They are expected to reach
a speed Of one hundred miles an hour with
five or six cars.
The banking firms interested in the Balti-
more & Ohio are said to have compromised,
reaching an understanding satisfactory to
all parties, and all objections to issuing the
new certificate has been removed, which
means the distribution or over $l,OUU,VOO win
the different car and locomotive builders
and the purchase of 10000 tons of heavy
steel rail.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled
that 1T is the duty of a railroad which sells
a passenger ticket to a place on It's line,
and also a sleeping-car ticket to an inter-
mediate point where the passenger is re-
uuired to change cars to awaken passen-
ger a sufficient time before reaching such
point to allow him to dress ard prepare TO
make the change.
1t is not generally known that the recent
offer of the new Lake Shore 312 per cent
bonds abroad was not a success, the syndi-
cate being unable to float many OF the
bonds. There has since been careful In
quiry as to the reason, not only FOR the
failure of the foreign public to take these
bonds, but also to their sentiment low
ards other American securities.
Vice President and General Manager Nc
Doel and General Superintendent Lowell on
Saturday completed an inspection of the
entire Monon lines to note what pr4 2geJrts7s
in Indianapolis they decided to locate the
yard office on TWenty-second street and put
up a suitable building and properly equip 1t
with telegraph and telephone commNnlca-
ton.
G. w. Bender, superintendent of the Chi
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ley, superintendent of the st. Louis DIVISION
and +. 7. Zerbee, master mechanic or the
Big Four shops at wabash, were IN con
ference on Saturday in this city preparing
their report on the performance OF the pas
senger engines on the long runs, to be read
at the next monthly meeting of heads OF de-
partmentS
Thomas Morrison and Judge ]. r. Say
Ter. recently appointed trustees of the Gin
cinnau Southern, last week made a trip
over the line. They speak OF It's physlGal
condition as being al high standard. me
trustees considered the plan of Receiver
FELTON, to provide insurance Tor the EN-,
pIoyes through the Railway Officials and
Employees Insurance Association ana eA-
pressed their approval OF It,
The most trying work on passenger men
the present season is now about over. Many
of the excursions have been run nearly all
that are to be run this season have been ar
ranged for, and the passenger officials are
arranging for their summer vacations
General Passenger Agent Sebastian, or the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific will go TO
the Atlantic seaboard to spend a month,
and General Passenger Agent Eustis, OF the
Chicago, Burlington & quincy, VIII go 10
Colorado for a month s rest Other pas
senger officials are planning to take their
vacations.
The passenger department Of the Balti-
more Il Ohio has taken another agrees
sive stem which must bring new business
to that line. Commencing yesterday the
ROYAL Blue trains will deliver passengers
at the foot of Whitehall street, New York,
making connection under roof with the
Second Third, Sixth and Ninth-ayenue eie-
waited roads the cable lines of Broadway,
Lexington and Columbus avenues, and with
the South the Hamilton, the Staten island
and Thirty-ninth-street Brooklyn ferries,
which gives the Baltimore q Ohio terminals
in every respect equal to its competitors.
Good Night.
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