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

resigned has been appointed superintendent
of motive power of the shops of the Mis-
souri, Pacific at Kansas City.
o. p. Spindler formerly with the passen-
ger department of the Pennsylvania lines
has accepted the appointment of agent of
the Mexican Gulf Steamboat Company. with
headquarters at New Orleans.
Frank s. Clark manager and in fact
the planner, of the Big Four electric-lght
plant at indianapolis, left yesterday to join
the engineering CORPS in which he has
been appointed second lieutenant
The United States mail train No. II, be-
tween Pittsburg and st. Louis, has, for a
couple of days, been profusely decorated
with flags and as it ran through the coun-
try attracted good deal of attention.
It is CTS miles from St Louis to Pittsburg
and as soon as the Panhandle and the Van
dalia complete improvements now in prog
ress, the running time between these points
will be made thirteen hours with the fastest
trains.
A special train on the Panhandle, carry
ing delegates to the National Educational
convention at Washington, made the run on
Tuesday from Indianapolis to Columbus in
four hours and forty-two minutes, the train
consisting of nine cars.
The Lake Erie Western is this season
doing good deal in replacing wooden
bridges with iron structures. On its Fort
Wayne division a new bridge over Little
length, is. being placed in position.
William Virgins, of Richmond, who has
been a member of the engineering corps or
has been promoted to first assistant engi-
neer on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chi
cago with headquarters at Fort Wayne.
Trains 2, Sand on the Southern Indiana
road make close connections with the trains
of the Pennsylvania at Seymour, and both
roads are profiting by these connections,
which make it convenient to get to the parts
of the State 1T was formerly quite difficult
to reach.
The Southern Railway Company has sur
prised its competitors by announcing that,
fast train for Southern points. leaving
Louisville at 7:40 a. M, reaching Jackson
vile at 9:25 a. m. next day and Tampa at
$40 p. m.
containing twenty-four cars. were hauled
from Kansas City to Philadelphia in seven
ty-two hours this week. The trains were
made up of the new pattern refrigerator
cars and required but one icing instead of
four stops for icing, as is usually required.
The passenger department of the Penn
SylVania lines west has made a new deI
parture, getting out it's official time tables
in pamphlet form, indexing the time tables
of the several divisions alphabetically, so
that person can, at glance, turn to the
page giving the distance, time, etc, between
the points which information is sought.
The Lake Erie & Western makes no at
tempt at fast time, its trains being sched-
uled twenty-five miles hour and the
wear and tear of its track and equipment is
so slight that to-day it is operated on the
smallest per cent. of its gross earnings OF
any road crossing Indiana. argument
which demonstrates that fast trains are
expensive to the roads
TIE Eastera trunk lines yesterday de-
cided to meet the competition of the Cana
dian Racific on immigration business. They
have agreed upon q uniform plan of action
and will act as unit against the foreign
road Up to this time the trunk lines gen.
orally have kept out of the fight. The
change in affairs may help the Western
lines in their fight against the Canadian
Pacific.
p. A. Bonebrake, who for years has been
superintendent of the Louisville division of
the Pennsylvania lines and who has boast
ed that the J., M. & 1. had the best track
in this country and made the fastest time,
that he has been transferred to the
Indianapolis division, claims to be proud
of being the superintendent of what is
really the best division of any line west of
Pittsburg. and his friends are chatting him
at every turn.
c. G. Waldo. general manager of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton lines when it
was mentioned that it was reported that he
got the cOmpany'S tracks across New Jer-
sey street by buying up councilmen, said
that persons who knew NJ d. Woodford,
president of the c., III. & D., or c. c. Wal
do, its general manager, well understood
no improvement would be made If it was
necessary to buy up the members of any
legislative body. The privilege of laying
tracks across that street to reach the COM
panys grounds which justice re-
quired and its opponents admitted it,