The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-03

remain under the supervision of Mr.. Hicks
which also includes this territory.
Happy" Cal Wagner, of old-time min.
strel fame. who is now inspector of rail.
roads at Chicago, was for several years ar
engineer on the New York Central.
The Pittsburg & Western will make De.
forest, o., a more important place by max
ing 1t the division point for oil trains run.
l over the Lake division to Fairport.
A number of the officials of the Big Foul
are their affairs to meet Presi-
dent ingalls, in New York when he lands
from his trip abroad, which will be in E
few days.
E. A. Ford. general passenger agent Of
the Pennsylvania lines West, who has beer
on the Pacific coast for some weeks. re.
turned yesterday to his headquarters a
P~ittsburg.
Superintendent Stafford. of the p. C. &
I. division of the Pennsylvania lines, has
been at the bedside of his wife in Rich
mond, Ind, for several days. She has beer
seriously i'll.
A Chicago, Burlington & Quincy engine
IS daily doubling the distance from Rock
Island to st. Louis, running every twenty
four hours 495 miles, two train crews max
ing the runs.
Two vestibule stub n mail cars have
gust been turned out at the shops of the
Wabash Company, which are highly spoken
Of by postal officials for the substantial
bulld and conVenienceS.
Conductors. engineers, ffremen, brake
men and switchmen on the Philadelphia,
Reading & New England rave been notified
or a reduction of 10 per cent. in their wages
commencing with May l.
immigration travel oyer the Panhandle
lines is again setting in quite heavily. A
large number of the Irish girls who recently
landed in New York came West over the
pennsylvania lines on Friday.
+. M. Wilkinson, general freight and pas
Senger agent of the Cincinnati 81 MuSking-
hum Valley, spent Sunday in the city. He
reports a gradual Improvement in business
with most of the Ohio roads.
Charles Q. Scully, late general passenger
qfered a position in one of the banks at
Baltimore, which he will probably accept
after taking a few weeks rest.
The Pennsylvania has issued an order to
duce expenses, and painters, carpenters and
stone masons, until, further notice, are to
work only five days of the week.
An interstate convention is to be held at
compelling the railways to reduce freight
rates to the gulf from points in Texas,
Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
M. r. Coutant, superintendent of the air
brake instruction car on the Wabash lines,
will be at Peru, Ind, all this week. instruct
ing men in the operations of the several
modern devices now in use on trains.
For the month of April. according to the
number of trains run, the Lake Erie 81
Western, the Monon and the Chicago divi-
sion of the Big Four made the best record
" dIIlNlIS at 11QldIldDOiS on ScleQuI
time.
The Au Sable & Northwestern, a Michi-
gan line, has for its president II. M. Loud;
for its vice president, G. A. Loud; secre-
general passenger and freight agent, L. f.
Loud.
G S. Brice, president of the Lake Erie &,
western, will come. West this week to
look after his several railroad interests, and
some developments as regarding the future
or the Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw are
looked for.
The Toledo & Ohio Central has contracted
for the erection of a building at Corning,
to cost 5000, with a view of providing
pleasant quarters for its employees who are
interested in the work of the railroad
branch of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation.
Samuel FELTON,, president and receiver of
the Queen q Crescent, has returned from
OF the State University of Kentucky, will
begin a series Of tests to ascertain the pull
ing, capacity of the engines On that road,
with a view of running heavier trains than
has been customary.
Arrangements are being made with the
railroads of Mexico by the managers of the
United States trade exposition for the
handling of a special train containing exhib-
its Of United States manufacturers on a
tour through that country. The train will
be in Mexico six months and will max eX-
hibits at all the principal cities.
Chief Engineer House, OF the Pittsburg,
Bessemer & Lake Erie, expects to have the
road completed to the river by June l.. He
last week completed a steel trestie 70 feet
long and e%ighty-three feet above the creek
it crosses, and another steel trestle at Bull
run, 1,40O feet long and 135 feet above the
stream it crosses, will be completed this
week.
Me Railroad Gazette publishes quite
fully addresses and remarks made before
the Western Railroad Association regard
ing long runs for locomotives. The tenor
OF the remarks is favorable to such a plan,
and many reasons are advanced which, if
correct, show it to be an economical meth
cd of handling trains and really not so
hard on the machinery.
The Grand Trunk has transferred all its
insurance policies from the Home Insur-
ance company Of New York, to the ALI
Wilson is one of the directors. The average
rate charged by the Home Insurance OF
New York was 81 cents, and the Alliance
made an offer OF AZ cents, which was ac-
cepted. The change, it is stated, was made
wholly as an economical measure.
The Norfolk & Western is further pur-
suing its retrenchment policy by taking
off most of its Sunday passenger trains and
some of its other day trains and making
longer runs for its train crews. On one
division three engines are now doing the
work that six did under the old order of
things, and freight engines on the through
runs now run from Columbus, o., to Grays,
24 miles, changing engineers but once.
On May l an important change went into
effect on the eastern division of the Wabash
lines. All of the smaller freight engines
were placed on the reserve list and the
large mogul engines substituted. The
lighter engines will be white-leaded and
housed until needed. The mogul engines
have nineteen by twenty-four-inch cylin-
ders, and haul nearly double the tonnage
Of the lighter engine with the same sized
crew.
The uptown ticket office of the Pennsyl-
vania and Vandalia lines is being newly
fitted up. Traffic Manager Rockwell and
General Passenger Agent Reed, of the
Monon, and Passenger Traffic Manager Ed
wards, of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton, will be here this week to confer con-
corning improvements to their ticket Office
up town, and within a short time Indian
apolis can boast of having some Of the fin
est ticket offices in the country.
1t is claimed hat the business of the
new Cape Horn" route between Cincinnati
and Chicago has reached a paying basis.
West bound the business is heavier than
east bound, and it is alleged that the Monon
people do not work for business east bound
with the same zeal that the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton and the Indiana, De-
catur & Western do. Although the Roach
dale line has been christened the Cape
Horn" route it is but two miles greater
distance from Indianapolis to Chicago than
the Big Four
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