The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-22

Barney & Smith Company of Dayton. A
great many calls are being made for bag
gage cars Of this description
Scalpers at all the Western points have
already begun their effort TO prevent the
passage of the Sherman and Cullom dis
by Congress. These measures prohibit the
dealing in tickets except by authorized
agents.
Charles Kloenne the engineer who was
so badly scalded by the blowing out of the
plug of the boiler-head of the engine ne
was running. is out again, but his fireman,
Jesse Evans, improves very slowly and is
confined to his bed
A friendly traffic alliance seems to have
been formed between the Pittsburg, Fort
wayne q Chicago and the Findlay, Fort
Wayne & Western, through which the latter
is becoming an excellent feeder to the Fort
Wayne east of Findlay.
The Vandalia in the week ending Novem-
Der 20, brought into Indianapolis 200 loaded
cars, against 1,O35 sent west. OF the in
bound movement, III cars were loaded with
live stock. About fifty cars of cotton are
coming in from the West daily.
The improvement of the Monon at Cedar
Lake and other points between Indianapolis
and Chicago were completed on Saturday.
The Monon, 1t is stated, can readily make
the run from indianapolis to Chicago, fif-
teen minutes quicker now that these
curves have been eliminated and the grades
reduced.
An engine of the same type as 100, which
made such remarkable runs on the Louis
Vile division Of the Pennsylvania lines in
1888 has just been turned out at the com
pany's shops at Dennison, O., and the past
week has made an excellent record in haul
ing fast Trains 5 and 20 between Indian
apolis and Columbus
The question of successor to Vice Presi-
dent Hobart as one of the three arbitrators
or the Joint Traffic Association by reason or
his resignation is left to a committee of
one of the officials of each of the ten sys-
TENS composing the association. The Ca
madam Pacific member is Vice President
ShaughneSSy.
Capt. G. F. Hettler, purchasing agent of
the pennsylvania Company, has contracted
with with the the, Atlanta Lumber Company for sey-
several car works. This is the first pur-
chase the company has made from that sec.
ton. This company owns $4,000 acres of
fine yellow pine timber land In Georgia
The citizens of Andrews have appointed
committee to visit General Manager Ram
sey. of the Wabash, and see if he cannot
be induced to stop the transferring of so
many of the trainmen from Andrews to
Peru, it bidding fair to almost depopulate
Andrews, where many had built homes, ex-
pecting that Andrews would always be an
important division point.
DR.. Matchette treasurer of the Michigan.
Indiana az ST. Louis Railway Company,
states every foot of the right of way for the
road from Monterey to Winamac, Ind, has
been secured without cost. The farming
community along the proposed line, he
states, is greatly interested over the build
ing of the road. and are hustling to see
what can de bone in a financial way.
The official records show that the Big
-Four handled on it's system the past year
cars of four hundred different roads and
private lines. or the latter, one hundred
and twenty were handled, Notwithstanding
the fact that one of the first steps proposed
after the establishment of the Joint Traffic
Association was to be to wipe out the pri-
vate lines, which are steadily increasing in
numbers rather than growing fewer.
M. E. ingalls,, president Of the Chesapeake
& Ohio, Saturday sent out official circu-
lars announcing the following appointments:
L. F. Sullivan, to be controller, in charge
of the accounting and treasury departments
of the company; C. E. Potts will assume
the title of treasurer, instead of cashier,
with the same duties as hitherto; o. D.
James, auditor of freight receipts, Rich
mond. Va; G. w. Poe, auditor of passenger
receipts, Richmond.
From a gentleman who spent a couple of
days with e. w. McKenna, former super
intendent of the Jeffersonvile, Madison &
Indianapolis, it is learned that his patent
method of rerolling battered steel rails is a
perfect success, and that the rolling mill
of which he is one of the largest owners
has all the rails to reroll it can
dispose of in several months. The
Santa Fe is now shipping thou
sands of tons to the works to be re-
rolled. After going through the process
there is no way to detect that 1T is not
q perfect new rail except by weighing, the
rail losing little in weight through re-
rolling.