The Indianapolis journal., 1898-03-14

monthly. the largest at any time IN the
company history. About $2SOgW OF TINS
sum goes to the transportation department.
Freight trasic continues heavy with the
Vandalia- Last week it handled IT lnulan-
apolis. 2,e9l cars, 2,l52 being loaded; there
were ], ,242 brought in and $40 sent west. OI
with live stock.
The Haskell Baker Company, of Michi-
gan City, has been awarded contract TO
build go fiat and 80 stock cars for the MO-
non. vice Ffesldent McDoeI last Wees
asked for bids on five MaStodon type or
freight engines.
Five thousand men are at work on the
Crows Nest Pass road, which, 1t is ex-
the lowest per cent. of grade of any noun
tain railway in the world
The Terre Haute car works will to-day
the Chicago & Northwestern. They are to
be the largest in dimensions of any furni-
ture car yet built, being nearly twice as
big as the regular box car.
Since the completion of the new Union
Station at Columbus, o., and the use. of
gates, compelling every one to show ticket
before going to the train, the sales of the
tickets at the Union Railway office have
increased fully 25 per cent.
The movement to stop the feeding of cat
tie on cars in transit is taking definite
centers now offer such excellent facilities
for resting and feeding cattle that a ma
Jority of the stock shippers favor such a
plan.
There were handled by the Big Four lines
proper at indianapolis last week a total of
1860 cars, 1882 being loaded, an increase
over the corresponding week of 1897 of /, 726
loaded cars, and twenty-SiX more than were
handled at indianapolis in the week ending
March 5.
For the first time in four years the pas
senger car building department of the Ohio
Falls car works at Jeffersonville is busy.
The company is now building eight coaches s
Tor the New York, Ontario & Western, and
has several orders for coaches from South
ern lines
The next important Improvement that
president ingalls, will undertake on the Big
-Four will be to double its track between
CINCINNATI and Indianapolis and Cincinnati
and Columbus On both of these divisions
there are now several miles of double track
already completed.
c. r. Davidson, of Minneapolis, has been
appointed secretary of the Kansas CITY
Passenger Association The roads could not
agree on man for the position, and Chair
man Caldwell, of the Western Passenger
ASSOCIATION, SELECTED him. He takes the
position March Is.
The Southern Indiana Railway Company,
yesterday received three fully equipped pas,
senger trains from the Barney Smith Car
company. one of the trains was used to
transport the members of the Lawrence
county bar and their friends to Seymour
to attend the funeral of Hon. Jason b.
Brown.
the Monon, says their fast train, now that
the improvements between Indianapolis and
Chicago have been completed, could make
the run in four hours and fifteen minutes
more safely than it formerly could in five
hours and fifteen inmates, and that would
be the time of two of their trains were it
not for the conservative policy of Vice Pres
ident McDoel.
The new ruling of the Central Freight AS
Soc1atfon by which the minimum weights
for carrying buggies, carriages and bulky
freightS are to be equalZed to the carrying
capacity of the cars is creating quite a stir
among the manufacturers of buggies, etc.
AT present the minimum weight on buggies
in car lots is 10000 pounds, and if the car
has but 1900 pounds the rate must be on
the minimum basis, consequently the ten
dency is to secure large cars in order to
crowd in as many as possible, which works
against the use of the smaller cars.
For the past week or ten days NJ Soule-
Group, assistant superintendent of motive
power of the Paris & Orleans Rail-
road, and corps of five assistants, have
been inspecting very closely the electrical
plant of the Baltimore & Ohio at Balti-
more. The splendid work being done by the
electric motors in the Belt-lne tunnel has
M Soulecroup's visit to this country was
for the express purpose of investigating
the ways and means of operation. The
Paris d Orleans Railroad is to be an
underground line, running from one of the
suburbs of Paris to the center of the city,
and 1t is quite probable that it will be
equipped with electric motors similar to
those used on the Baltimore line, except
that they will be much smaller.