The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-14
men say that at so important station
there should be separate information

men say that at so important a station
there should be a separate information
bureau.
The general passenger agent of the South
ern Pacific announces that the Sunset Linn
tied will run between New Orleans. Los
Angeles and San Francisco during the sea-
son Of 1889.
The Wabash earned. in the first week of
July, $218,S75, an increase over the corre-
spending week of 1897 of $18,34G. The Chicago
& Eastern Illinois earned S7S.6O0, an increase
this year Of $500.
Passenger train men on the Pennsylvania
line were yesterday notified that they must
discard tan shoes and wear well-polished
black shoes and dark or black neckties. in
stead of light ones
Short-haul picnics pay the best still, In
dianapolis lines are not making any effort
to encourage such pleasure gatherings by
selecting and fitting up good grounds fifteen
or twenty miles from the city.
Otto Austen Miller. one of the veteran en-
gineers the Vandalia line. who some
months ago was kicked by vicious horse,
on Monday resumed his run. For time it
was thought he would lose one eye.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois has Just
placed contract with the Pttsburg loco
motive works for seven consolidated en-
glnes of the same type as the five built for
tnat road recently, and which are perform
ing satisfactorily.
With the establishing of double service be-
tween st: Louis and Mobile, the running
road has been shortened ten hours so much
Improvement has been made to it's track the
last twelve months.
The Erie has given notice of its with
drawal from the Buffalo Railway Passenger
Committee. and in passenger circles it is
thought 10 mean a rate war between Buffalo
and New York city. and possibly, to Chi
cago, Cincinnati and other Western points.
G. "A. Ogline, formerly captain of police
on the P. Y. & A division of the Pennsyl-
vania lines has been appointed captain of
police of the Eastern division of the Pan
Gh1Irc Wow p
cago. Captain j. c. Wallng, whom Mr., Og
line succeeds, has been transferred tG the
Richmond division of the Panhandle.
The latest report is that it is the Wabash
that is seeking to secure control of the Mo-
non. 1t certainly would be more valuable to
the Wabash than to any road which has
been suggested, as it would let the Wabash
into Louisville, Indianapolis and the stone
quarries of Bedford and would really be
sensible deal Still, there is the best of au-
thority for saying that the Monon is not for
sale.
The Chicago & Erie has made Rochester,
Ind, division point for its local freight
and accommodation trains, and is putting in
three miles of sdetrack and erecting a six
stall roundhouse, so constructed as to be
readily enlarged. The time will probably
come when Rochester will be made the
rion, o.
On the Monon there is considerable riv-
airy between the engineers of the new
Brooks locomotives III and 112 and the en-
VI 1VV anu 40, DOI0 BALDWIN DullQ.
Inc latter claim that the Baldwin will haul
hve cars faster than the Brooks engine
can, but when two more coaches are added
the Brooks. being the heavier engine, has
the advantage.
Freight traffic has been a little light on
the Vandalia the last week. and the COM
pany has been testing its mogul engines on
the heavy fast express trains. Yesterday
one of them hauled Train g. of eleven cars,
from indianapolis to Terre Haute and made
up sixteen minutes on this trains fast
time These engines were built to haul fast
freight trains and have sixty-two-inch driv-
ing wheels and twenty by twenty-six-inch
cylinders.
The deliveries of live stock by the West
ern lines to the Indianapolis stock yards
any one week in July, but the business of
TINS week will exceed that of the wees. end
ing July 8. The deliveries every day this
week have exceeded considera bly, one hun
dred cars per day. On Tuesday over ten
thousand hogs were received and there has
been an increase in the last few days in re-
ceipts of horses and cattle.
Engine 700, of the Garstang type built for
hauling freights on the Chicago division of
the Big -Four lines, has been in service four
months and has demonstrated that. for its
weight. II is the most powerful engine now
I'm service on American roads. This engine
Is hauling 40 per cent. heavier trains than
ordinary engines of the same weight using
no more fuel and without increased cost in
It's maintenance or in train-crew expenses
The Richmond works are now building two
engines of much the same type for the Big
-Four, except that they will have sixtv-
two-inch driving wheels, instead of fifty-six
inches as has Engine ZOO