The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-20

w. Boyd. assistant general passenger agent
of the Pennsylvania.
The roads centering at Buffalo have en-
teerd into an agreement TO close their
freight depots to the receiving OF freights
on Saturday afternoon.
The Erie Railway Company is building at
its shops one hundred produce cars OF new
design, constructed to handle this class OF
business with greater dispatch and at less
expense.
A. W. Van Frank, formerly an engineer i,pa
of maintenanee of way on the Erie nnes'
with headquarters at DunkIrk, mas &C
cepted a position with the Columbus, SAN
dusl1y q Hooking Valley.
On Sunday the Chesapeake & Ohio turned
over to the Big Four at Cincinnati AL
loaded cars. the largest number of any day
since the interchange Of traffic between the
two roads was established
The officials of the Indianapolis & Vim
cennes say that this week they will be
loading on the line sixty to eighty cafloads
or wheat and corn per day should the
weather be favorable for handling grain.
The Pennsylvania Company is pushing
the work Of elevating it's tracks at Chicago
as far as Fifty-ninth street. When this i'm
proVement is completed the Panhandle can
shorten the running time of its trains sew
eral minutes.
Division Superintendent Houghton and
Higgins, of the Big Four; Albert lnSalls,
assistant to Mr.: Higgins, and 5. Hazard.
of the engineering department of the Big
-Four, left last night for the East on TWO
weeks vacation.
The Order of Railway Conductors expect
next Sunday at Lafayette. Large delega-
lions from Upton, Frankfort, Kankakee
and several other points have given notice
that they will be in attendance.
The Central Association of Railway Of
ficials, which includes all the Indianapol-
itans, will hold its annual meeting at De-
troit to-day. A number of local railroad
men left last night to attend the meeting,
which will last two days or more.
The Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City
earned in the first half of the month of
responding week of 1896 decrease this
year of 81 1876. Comparisons are now made
with weeks after the business of the road
began to improve last year.
The Wagner Palace Car Company, which
gives employment to $50 men, announces
that it is so pressed with work that it VIII
not, as usual, close the works for month
during the hot weather The management
say this is the best season the company has
had for years Its monthly pay roll is now
$4,000.
A veteran in the service on the Vandalia
said last night that he had never known
the business on that road to be handled
with its present dispatch and with as little
friction as at present, He SAID the present
management is energetic shows a DISPOSE
ton to be fair, and there were no faVorit9s
in any branch of the service.
Monon Engine 112, just received from the
Brooks locomotive works was placed in
service yesterday, hauling the fast express
trains between Indianapolis and Chicago,
and attracted Il good deal of attention. Elk
pert mechanics who examined it spoke of it
as being one of the best locomotives which
has been run into Indianapolis.
d. B. Martin passenger traffic manager
of the Baltimore & Ohio; John Chesbor-
ough, general passenger agent of the Balu-
more & Ohio Southwestern; and u. q. I'd
wards, passenger traffic manager OF the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, are OBJ
servers of the SABBATH as far as possible.
Neither of them. nor their clerks, are al
lowed to be in the offices on Sunday.
The Carnegie Steel Company has closed
a contract with the Pittsburg, Bessemer &
Lake Erie to carry a minimum yearly ton
of 81 cents per ton for the haul from the
lakes to the Carnegie works. The contract
is for twenty-five years, and is to be in
er than the minimum. General Manager
Odell says one locomotive will haul forty
cars to each train without trouble.
Without any buster the management of
the Peoria * Eastern has been relaylng
its system of tracks at the Mooreheld
yards and putting in additional tracks until
the yard trackage is IA $40 miles, and so
systematically arranged that the yard men
say 1t is one of the best yards in the coun-
try. The Improvements have been made
largely at the suggestion of j. "A. Barnard,
general manager of the road. If business
improves as expected Manager Barnard
says he will build new roundhOuse on the
west side this fall or in the early spring.
AS usual at this time of the year, the
board of managers of the Joint Traffic AS
ISOLATION has made a complete readjust-
ment of class schedules on freights from
Southern points to Eastern shippers, which,
although important to shippers, does not
affect rates. 1t has been decided that no
stopping in transit, under storage, of but
ter, eggs and dressed poultry IS permissible
under through rates Such cOnsignments
must be charged local rates, and rule has
been established that the expenses or stop
ping to reice perishable freights from the
West must be specified.
The achievements of the new flyer of the
Atlantic City Railroad, which now enjoys
the distinction of being the fastest train in
the world, goes to show the possibilities of
modern engineering. The locomotive Is
known No. 1927 and is one of the two
engines turned out March, 1896. 1t is
Vauclan compound with four driving
wheels, two pilot and two trailing wheels.
The driving wheels are eighty-four inches
in diameter. The weight of the locomotive
without the tender is 141000 pounds. The
crate area is seventy-six square feet and
the heating surface 1885 square feet.
Holders of certificates of Atlantic & Pa
cific Railroad per cent. guaranteed gold
trust bonds met at New York yesterday
and authorized the reorganization commit
tee to enter into an agreement for the sale
of the 2,794 900 central division first mort
gage per cent. bonds of the Atlantic
& Pacific Company now in possession of
the committee. The terms of the sale are
$500 900 cash and $l500.000 Of the st. Louis
81 San Francisco Railroad per cent. bonds
secured by a mortgage on the division. The
stock represented at the meeting of certih-
cate holders announced to $l6,34l,OU0 and the
vote was unanimous.
The big railroad scandal in connection
with the Fitchburg road. published IN the
Journal of yesterday excited more than
ordinary interest from the fact that num-
Der of the officials of that road are Western
men. w. D. Ewing, the general superin-
tendent was with the Mackey lines num-
Der of years, and Clarence Anthony whose
death occurred last Thursday-he being
auditor of that road-was formerly auditor
of the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville; A.
s. Crane, general freight agent of the
Fitchburg road, was general freight agent
of the Chicago & Atlantic when V. T. Ma
lott was it's receiver. 1t is not probable
that Mr.. Ewing has any connection with
the scandal, and, in speaking of Mr.. Crane
last evening. Mr.. Malott said he could not
believe that he would take part in any