The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-04

80 eA1h GA
Clifton Forge, on the Chesapeake & Ohio,
is to have a much-needed improvements
combined new railroad depot and hotel-to
cost $4,000.
which was built as a coal road, already
has six passenger trains running over the
portion of the road now built.
Official notice is given of the appointment
of J. A. Flanders to represent the passenger
and freight departments of the Plant sys-
tenn in New England, with headquarters at
Boston.
The passenger station at Baltimore which
the Baltimore & Ohio is erecting, to take
the place Of the old Camden Station, will
be completed by June ], and will cost the
company $lNt00O.
e. O. Mccormick. passenger traffic man
ager of the Big Four lines. was in Cleve-
land yesterday for a conference with Cen
eral Passenger Agent Smith,, Of the Lake
Shore, concerning train service.
Work is being pushed on the grading for
the second track on the Big Four from
Fern Bank to Elizabethtown, $50 carloads
Of dirt being loaded daily at the Valley
Junction pit with steam shovels.
Henry Fink, president of the Norfolk &
Western, announces that this road will be-
come a member of the New Southeastern
Freight Association, but that it will not
join the Southeastern Passenger Associa-
ton.
Train Is, over the Big Four from st.
Louis. last night brought in two sleeping
ears for Washington over the Chesapeake
& Ohio line. In the second sleeper were
t~wenty-nine politicians en- route to Wash
ington.
Coal Traffic Association VIII maintain
freight rates until July /. If they do the
coal operators in Indiana will have a better
chance Of disposing of theic product at liv-
ing prices.
The estimated gross earnings of the en-
tire system of the Chicago, Rock Island &
of April. 1897. are 81, 1907 a decrease as
compared with stimate earnings Of April,
1896, of $40,3S1.
Last week 5000 shares of the Louisville
speculation as to who is purchasing so
largely of this stock. In the two weeks
preceding the sales OF the stock were large,
but not so extensive as last week.
w. Hungleford, private secretary to C. A.
! Garcelon. general superintendent and J. II.
Htnchy, private secretary TO Assistant Gen
eral superintendent Jewett. of the Pullman
Company, spent Sunday in the city, the
guests of Local Superintendent Legion.
The Haskell IL Barker car works, at Mich
igan City, have just received from Phila-
delphia a heavy lathe for turning steel
aXles. The weight of the machine Is So, 700
pounds. and an immense hydraulic wheel
pless has just been added to the equipments.
There seems to be some hitch in the nut
ting on of the fast freight service over the
Cincinnati, Hamilton Il Dayton and the
Monon between Chicago and Cincinnati
which the freight officials who champion
such arrangements are unable to under
stand.
The Indiana, Decatur & Western will this
week receive ten miles of new steel rails,
Weighing SeVenty-tWo pounds to the yard.
which will at once be placed in track, and IN
June or July will receive ten miles more.
A large number OF ties are now being placed
under the track.
The Big Four has issued an order to
agents to look carefully after the matter
of saving waste paper, empty ink bottles,
etc. The scrap. Is to be gathered up and
then shipped TO Cincinnati. to be sold. In
a year, 1t is said, quite Il little sum of
money will be realized ON such Il saving.
The rumor is revived that Crawford Til
linghast, assistant general freight agent of
the Big -Four at Chicago. is to take service
with the Baltimore q Ohio. Quite recently
Mr.. Tillinghast asked that suCn 4 statement
should be denied, as his relations with the
Big -Four could not well be more satisfac-
tory.
The editor of the Railroad Gazette has
asked William Garstang, superintendent of
motive power of the Big -Four, TO send him
a cut and description of his IRE hose lad
der 10 be used in carrying fire hose over
railroad trains so that trains need not be
delayed by hose being laid directly upon
the track.
The first annual meeting of stockholders
and election of officers of the newly-reor-
ganized Philadelphia s. Reading Railway
Company was held yesterday. The meeting
was conducted by the Central Trust Com
pany, of New York. and the Reading Com
pany, as trustees for the stockholders.
] President Harris held proxies for both COM