The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-23

cars for the Queen & Crescent, will on Mon
day commence on another contract for the
same road
B. F. Sipp. superintendent of the White
water division of the Big Four, expects to
considerably increase the earnings of that
division through the opening of the stone
quarries at Laurel
d. Johnson who has represented the
Union Pacific at Detroit. has been trans
ferred to Cleveland and will be succeeded at
Detroit by A. j. Radcliffe. who was former
ly located at indianapolis.
On Aug. / j. II. Hawthorn, master me-
chanic of the Erie shops at Huntington.
will go to the Lehigh Valley road. and be
succeeded by Master Mechanic Donahue, of
the Erie shops at Meadville.
John Leahey who. for years. was with the
passenger department of the Cincinnati
Hamilton Dayton, and who, on account of
Ill health. retired two years ago, has re-
turned from the Pacific coast in perfect
health.
On the fast trains east and west-bound
the Big -Four now hauls the sleeping cars
ahead of the passenger coaches. The prac-
tice has been in vogue but few days, but
works so well that it will probably be con-
tinued.
service on the Chicago & Rock Island and
who has represented the passenger depart
ment at Kansas City for twelve years, died
on Thursday at Holden, Mo-, the result Of
paralysis.
o. F. Miller. who has been in continuous
service on the Terre Haute e. indianapolis
for forty-fve years. has resigned as fore
man of the equipment room and will go to
Perry, o. T., with his family for permanent
residence.
The Wabash lines show an increase of
earnings of $50. 633 the first two weeks of
July over the corresponding period of 1897.
IT should be borne in mind that the earn
ings of the Buffalo division are now in
cluded in the statements.
IN, he
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton will wait
for the Vandalia connection. The Vandalia
arrives at 1905 ard the c. H. & ID: leaves
same hour it does on its present schedule
A representative of the Pullman Company
was in Lafayette on Thursday looking for
Pullman Company. At that point he Sc
cured a dozen men. The company wants
both wood and iron workers who have had
some experience in car building.
1t is stated that nothing pleases the engi-
neers who haul Train 20 east from Indian
apolis more than to have the Vandalia turn
the train over a little late, as IT enables
them to do some fast running. Running
mile in fifty-six seconds is not uncon1-
mon thing when the Panhandle receives the
train late.
AS an economical measure the shops of
the Vandalia at bingham will be closed
and all work will be done at the Terre
Haute shops In the past only light repair
work has been done there. Some changes
will be made in the roundhouse force at
that point. The shutting dowl- of the shops
will hardly be permanent. as Eff1ngham is
an important division point.
On Aug. ] the following appointments will
become effective on the New York, New
Haven & Hartford lines: c. L. HempSted
is to be general passenger agent of the
western division. A. c. Kendall general pas
senger agent of the eastern division. o. II.
Taylor general passenger agent or the ma
rine district, ]. n. Safes general ticket
agent. George A. Morton general baggage
agent.
D. G. Edwards, passenger traffic manager
of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton. is
giving the electric lines a good fis "a to re,
it has enjoyed in the past. An electric line
has just been opened for business between
miles, and the c., H. 4 D. has put on sale
tickets for 81, good for ten rides, and for
any member of a family.
The strong Eastern lines are seeking to
effect a readjustment of conditions as be-
tween themselves and the so-called differ
entail lines. 1t is said that a common
standard of time between Chicago and New
York will be fixed, and that all trains MAX
ing that time or slower will charge the
same rate of fare. and all making better
time pay penalty for SO doing by charg-
will probably come up before the meeting
of Eastern men at Niagara Falls next Mon
day.
On Aug the freight claim department
of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pitts,
burg will be established and concentrated
at Pittsburg. AT the last meeting OF the
ward E. Wright was SIS selected as head of
the department., and he will be known as
freight claim agent, having under him
An official of the company says the plan is
to bring all the men together who have
been located at different points in division
and other freight offices and form more
complete working department By this
change claims will be adjusted much more
promptly.
sentatives of the Railway Officials and En-
ployes' Association, have returned from
trip over the Illinois Central lines. Their
method of transportation was out of the or
binary. A flat car was fitted with cycle
motor, built at Three Rivers. Mich, and
canopy placed over a car which would seat
eight people, and in this manner the party
travelled $500 miles at an average speed OF
twenty miles an hour, although on a. test 1t
was demonstrated that the cycle car would
run forty miles an hour. On each d1vlslon
the party was accompanied by a superln-
tendent or tranmaSter and a conductor
and the trip over the lines was made with
out accident or delaying any train. Master
mechanics who examined the cycle motor
and the manner it was attached TO the car
and operated, said 1t was perfect piece
of mechanism.
A railway official well up in the ranks re-
marked yesterday that the general man
ayers of some of the important lines had
been investigating what is called person
ally conducted excursions to see II they
were profitable, and had come to the con-
clusion that there was not mucn, II any,
were the value of passes furnished to Sc
cure the business counted Invariably,
said the official "the promoters of these
personally conduc ed excursions feel that
they must have free transportation; COM
peting lines take hand, and in an indirect
manner meet the cut that is made through
these passes, and when the whole is
summed up it is not by any means profit
able business. In fact, 1t is usually an en-
tering wedge to a decentralization in pas
senger rates in the territory where such ex-
OIrSi0nS Is
should be eliminated