The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-06
SHORES ENGINES
THIS ROAD rs NOW IN POSSESSION
OF MODERN EQUIPMENT.
The Brice People Purchase the e., }
AZ M.-Boston Business Men Ask
ing for Protection i'm Rates.


The Lake Shore has in the last few
months made such radical improvements in
the character of its equipments as TO ex-
cite comment. For years this road has
been contented with light passenger en-
gines. good runners with light trains. and
the fact that their trains were so often
turned over to Western connections at
Cleveland and Toledo late really had given
the road a bad time record. but now the
company has ten OF the finest passenger
engines run on American roads, the last
being received last week. All are now in
service, and the transportation departments
of the Big Four aud the Wabash are GER
tain that hereafter the Lake Shore trains
will make schedule time. These engines
have a number of interesting features, in
asmuch as their boiler capacity is i'm ex-
cess of anything that has yet been built
Tor "a locomotive of this type, with the same
amount OF weight. IL was required that
they should not exceed the total weight of
lls,O0O pounds. with a limiting weight of
ninety thousand pounds on driving wheels.
In order to supply requisite steam for the
cylinders eighteen by tWenty-fOur incheS)
at a working pressure of 100 pounds. II
was necessary to have a large boiler with
a CRATE of sufficient area to AFFORD economi-
- "a VI lutts
In order To come within the limit of
weight. cast steel and pressed steel We're
engines. The driving wheel %centers. foot
plates. bumper knees, guide yoke knees,
spring pockets, brake castings. and other
minor details were made OF cast steel. while
pressed steel was used for boiler front and
door, cylinder. and steam chest covers. and
dome ring The Lake Shore recently
equipped twelve first-class passenger
coaches with wide v~estibules.
The vestibule extends the full width of
ths car. and has windows in the ends and
also in the doors. the doors extending to
the bottom of the sheathing on the side.
The stationary steps are covered by a trap
door In the floor. which can be opened from
the outside as well as the inside. Gould
vestibules with wide spring-buffers are
used, and the opening in the vestibule at
the rear of the train is closed by a gate.
outside with the Wagner STANDARD color.
have four-wheel trucks. forty-two-inch
and ST. Louis. The remaining ten are
painted yellow to conform TO the Lake
Shore standard. and are for use between
Southern Roads Carrying Much Corn.
The report from New York that the
trunk lines have determined to abolish the
terminal charges in that city is of great
interest TO the freight officials in the West.
There has for some time been an applica-
ton before the Interstate-commerce Com
mission asking that the trunk lines be COM
PEELED to do away with the terminal charge.
but now that the roads AVE granted the
demand made ON them without waiting for
the action of the commission the Western
roads are of the opinion that this action
would never have been taken If the East
ern lines had not found that the competi-
ton of the Southern roads was beginning
to be so heavy that they were compelled
to take the action In defense of their own
interest. The fact that In the month of Oc-
tober more corn was shipped from NewYork
was something of an eye opener TO the
Eastern roads. and the additional fact tnat
the shipments of corn from Baltimore for
the month were more than double what
they had been for the same month last
year, decided the roads to do away with
their terminal charge. The Western roads
who have felt the competition of the South
ern roads most keenly during the last year
now think that the Eastern connections
will wake up to the fact that they must
fight hard TO hold their traffic against the
Southern roads and ports. and that they
when they ask for aid I'm meeting the
rates made by the Southern lines on both
freight ard passenger traffic via New Or
leans and other gulf ports.
A dispatch from New York says: ]. f.
Goddard, commissioner of the Trunk Line
Association. yesterday denied that the
hand in restoring TO New York the expo :
grain trade. which in recent years has been
shipped via Baltimore and other Southern
ports. The diverting OF the export grain
trade from New York to Southern ports las
long been a matter of serious moment to
| the grain men of this city. and only recent
Iy a committee of the Produce Exchange
filed with the Interstate-commerce Com
mission "A complaint against the lines of the
Trunk Line Association and the joint Trat-
fic Association. alleging that the terminal
charges of the roads at this point was re-
sponsible for the divertiEg of the export
grain business from New York. The report
that the railroads had decided to take ac-
tion is understood to be due TO the fact that
the steamship Edwin is now taking on Il
y O n In mn htChaIG nf corn from an
| Erie grain elevator in Jersey City. This is
the first large shipment that has loaded at
number nI1ero of Years einnat and This sn Naturally rsITs's excited h q
comment and interest 1T Is not true, IA d
Mr.. Goddard to-day. that the roads of this
association have taken any action on the
grain terminal charges at this port. Re-
garding the diferential which makes the
rate from Chicago to Baltimore on grain 3
Southern ports p1 o~portionately less, 1 wou d
say the present rates were decided on sew
several years ago by a board of arbitration
formerly a member of the Interstate-com
merce Commission, w. d.. Washburn, OF
Minneapolis; and the late Allen O. Thur
man, of Ohio. Prior to the action of that
board there were continual disagreements
between the business men of the different
coast cities. and the railroads would be
drawn into the q~uarrels as their interests
would make necessary. In fixing upon the
present rates the members of the board
took into consideration everything bearing
OI NH0 80 fNh'1H ~
rates from the various ports. So far as
know. the conditions which existed ther
have not changed enough to make "a change
i'm the rates advisable. The interstate-com
merce law is not violated. as the haul from
Chicago to Baltimore is shorter than tC
New York
The safety Appliance iaw.
A committee representing a number Of
the large railroads of the country, headed
by Receiver John X. Cowen. of the Balti
more & Ohio. had a conference YESTERDAY
with the Interstate-commerce Commission
at Washington to discuss the safety appli
ance law. The meeting was an informs
one and no petition 10 the commission o.
any kline was submitted. as was expected
The roads are anxious to have the limi
within which all railroads are required by
law to equip all their cars. both passengel
and freight. with automatic couplers anC
train brakes extended AM the object O
the meeting was TO talk over the hes
means of securing an extension of time
The time now fixed is Jan. /. 1898. Tn,
committee called attention TO a bill nov
pending in Congress providing for n fiv,
years extension and a strong effort will b