The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

tickets Sept. Is to 20, good returning until
Sept "a.
For six successive weeks the Big Four
has been handling on it's Chicago division
alone 1,000 to Zoo loaded cars per day,
record which has never before been equal
ed for so long a period.
L. f. Loree, general manager of the Penn
sylvana lines west of Pittsburg is on an
inspection tour of the northwestern lines
in company with Acting General Superin-
tendent A. b. Starr
In the thirty-six hours ending at a. m.
Monday there were handled between Co
lumbus and Pittsburg on the Panhandle
seventy east-bOund and thirty-tive west
bound freight trains.
Mrs. L. F. Loree wife of General Mana
ger Loree, of the Pennsylvania lines west,
is very fond of country drives and is now
en- route from Columbus, o., to St Mary 5,
Ind, in q comfortable vehicle
The citizens of New Albany are again agi-
tating the building of road from New AL
bany to Nincennes, the right of way for
which had been secured most of the dis
lance when the depressed times struck the
country.
The meeting of the Chicago-St. Paul lines
yesterday to further consider the passenger
pool and rates adjourned after referring the
ehtre question TO the executive oflcerS OF
the interested roads, who will meet in Chi
cago next Tuesday.
Seven cars loaded with huge blocks of
oolidc stone from the Bedford quarries are
now en- route East over the Pennsylvania
lines, and are attracting a good deal of at
tention on account of their great weight
and quality of the stone.
The line of through cars between Chicago
and Baltimore over the MOnon, the On
cinnat, Hamilton & Dayton and Baltimore
d Ohio has now been established six months
and results are so satisfactory that 1t IS
likely TO be permanent arrangement
William Lynn. who represents the MCKEE
plate fast freight line at this point, states
has sprung up for cars of the Nicke-plate.
and yesterday he could readily have placed
a thousand cars could he have secured
them.
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern a number
have been found who were unable to read
or write, and as a consequence several have
been discharged under new ruling of the
management Some were good men, who
the officials regretted to lose
The new fast train over the Santa Fe
City in eleven hours and thirty minutes
overtaking the regular passenger train from
Kansas City to California at Kansas City
The fastest schedule heretofore was four
teen hours and thirty minutes.
A new patent provides for a pair of
cylinders and two pairs of drivers with
connecting rods on a tender, to use the
steam after partial expansion in the loco
greater power and speed and the adhesion
to the rails of the heavy water tank.
William T. German on Sept 1, becomes
the general traffic manager of the American
Glucose Sugar-refining Company, his posi-
tons in the last few years in railroad serv-
ice well fitting him for the new work. For
years he was with the Grand Trunk, but
for the last four years with the Chicago
Car-SerViCe Association.
The business of the line between Chicago
and Cincinnati, over the Monon, the Indiana
Decatur 81 Western and the Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton Is a surprise. Yester-
day the train came in with forty-two pas
sengers from the north, and is averaging
tWentysX day this month. North-bound
it is not yet doing we'll as south-bound
Caesar Rodney, agent of the Vandalia at
Irdianapolis stated yesterday that last
year in August an average of twenty-five
cars were loaded at the city freight depot
during the month while this year it will
range between thirty-tive and thirty-seven
cars per day. The freight is for points
their line and close connections of the Van
dala. but includes no through business.
William Garstang, superintendent of mo-
tive power of the Big Four, is preparing
plans for q passenger engine to burn oil
for heating purposes, introducing a novel
method in the designing for the spraying
of the oil upon the fire under the boiler
While it is an experiment he feels confident
that 1t will be the most successful method
of using oil to advantage on locomotive
yet devised.
Just before the miners strike the New
York Central contracted with the Rochester
and Pittsburg Coal Company for four hum
dred thousand tons of coal, to be delivered
at Buffalo or Rochester, at SIPS per ton,
and as yet the coal company has been able
to deliver but small per cent of the coal
fortunately, the New YORK central has q.
good supply. and is now receiving enough
to help matters considerably from another
company which is shipping to Rochester on
similar contract.
After publishing in condensed form the
annual statement of Joseph Ramsey, gem
eral manager of the Wabash lines. the New
York Commercial Advertiser says: No
general manager can possibly know what
his railroad is doing unless he has statistics
covering train mileage, car mileage, pas
senger mileage and ton mileage always be-
fore him. These figures are like the dia-
gram showing the performance of loco
motive. To the man who understands their
use they are ail-expressive They are the
pulse Of the system, for they show the
slightest variation at any time. Like most
other well appointed roads, the Wabash
keeps this kind of statistics always up to
| date, and, unlike other roads it furnishes
the directors once a month with the re-
suits. Not merely does the general man
ager himself keep this information always
under his eye. but the directors always are
able to note closely and in detail what the
road is doing. The ability OF the Wabash
this year to show it's charges earned is due
simply and solely to the improved methods
as indicated above"
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