The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-28

ond class. unless there is a restoration of
rates within the next few days. The differ
cntial lines are still SlaShing passenger rates
between those points
1t is stated that s. r. Galloway, recently
elected president of the New York Central,
Baltimore & Ohio if he would accept
1t is authoritatively announced that the
American Express Company will in few
days have an independent line to Ogden.
the Denver Il Rio Grande Express having
sold out to the American.
J. c. Whitridge. associate editor of the
Railroad Gazette, has received the degree
of mechanical engineer from Purdue, Uni
versity. This is a postgraduate degree
conferred for actual work.
w. F. Fox, superintendent of telegraph of
the Minneapolis & st. Louis, has resigned,
and T.. Z. Clark has been appointed his sue
cessor. Mr.. Fox was for some years train
master on the indianapolis & Vincennes.
Work is to be pushed on the new passen-
ger station the Big Four will build at Terre
Haute. The old buildings have been re-
moved and yesterday excavation for the
foundation of the new station was COM
menced.
police of Jersey City from 1862 to 1866, and
who resigned to become ferry master of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at the
Jersey City ferries, died on Saturday, aged
seventy-seven.
The contract to build the new round
house for the Peoria & Eastern on the west
u. L
of Chicago, work to be commenced at once
Although the plan calls for forty-two en-
CINE stalls, but eighteen are TO be built this
season.
Airline Company has closed deal for a
block of ground at West First and Water
streets, where t will erect passenger
was bought of the w. G. De Paw estate
for $1,000
So phenomenal has been the business of
~ Ut - ~,
last twelve months that the officials are
beginning to cast about already to see II
they can maintain such volume of bust
which begins with July l.
Harry Drew, general manager of the
| Chicago Indiana & Eastern, states that the
track is now laid from Paramount, Ind, to
Swayzee, on the line projected from Con,
verse to Richmond, seventy-nine miles, ana
| the sections from Matthews to Muncie, hf-
| teen miles, are under contract.
r. B. F. PIERCE receiver of the Toledo
| ST. Louis & Kansas City, yesterday re-
| ceived telegram from Toledo stating that
| j. w. Sherwood, general superintendent of
the road. who has been quite ill for several
| days, was much better and would be able
to be at his office in two or three days.
The roads running into Omaha are deter
mined that the ticket Scalpers must be
driven out of the exposition city and the
| general passenger agents say that If they
are not made TO quit business IL Is proPa o. PIE
| transmississippi exposition will be with
| drawn.
The Barney Smith & Co. car works will
| this week commence delivering new freight
cars to the Southern Indiana at the rate of
five day until the contract for 100 cars
is filed. With its, new engines and new
equipment the Southern Indiana will show
| some surprises in the volume of business 1t
| will handle.
| Train 20, on the Vandalia, with its short
ened time table Yesterday reached indian;
| time, and the engineer and conductor said
| they were killing time from Fillmore to In
| dianapolis. This train hauls eight or nine
| cars, and is the fastest scheduled train ever
| run over the road.
The largest shops on the Baltimore &
| Ohio system are Mount Clare. The en-
| ployes who number several hundred, are
| very patriotic, and from the various build
| ings there now float eleven flags. twenty
| five feet in length by fifteen in width. On
| Saturday two of the number were raised,
over 1900 people being present.
| large force was set at work yesterday
| in the building of the extension of the Lake
| Erie & Western from Akron, O., east to
| New Castle, Pa, where it will connect with
| the extension westward of the Buffalo,
Rochester & Pittsburg. The Lake Erie &
| but eighty-five miles to build, and expect
| to complete it by Dec. l.
| The Chicago Indianapolis & Louisville
Railroad Company has made an additional
! issue of per cent. refunding gold mortgage
| bonds of $109 900, making the total amount
! listed $3018.OO0. These bonds are issued I'M
! for the acquisition of new property The
| money will be used in improving the COM
! pany's facilities at Bedford, where it Sc
cures a large stone traffic which is profit
able to the road.
1t has been definitely settled by the presi-
| dents of the roads in the Joint Traffic AS
| ISOLATION that, should it be decided by the
| United States Supreme Court that, as now
organized. it was an Illegal body, the asso-
citation will be continued some other plan
which would be legal under the provisions of
the interstate-commerce act, the associa-
ton to be organized that its members
Will respect the recommendations respect
ing rates and their maintenance.
The annual report of H. B. Ware, presi-
| dent of the Train Dispatchers' Association
| of America, shows that the organization has
| 437 members. During the year eight mem
| hers died and seventy-six new members
were received. The convention was held in
| Montreal, and the Canadian Pacific gave
| its delegates and their wives fast ride
| from Montreal to Quebec. One run of
| twenty-five miles was made in twenty-five
minutes. The fastest mile was run in forty
| eight seconds.
The alexandria, arrangements of the
Baltimore & Ohio for this year prac-
| tically the same as were in effect in 1897.
| Freight for Lake Superior ports is sent by
way of the Northern Steamship Company,
! and the Owen line is used for the Lake
Michigan ports. The translate Erie ar
rangements are with the Detroit Steam
! Navga ton Company between Cleveland and
| Detroit and the Ashley & Dustin line and
| the Michigan and Ohio Car Ferry Company
| between Sandusky and Detroit