The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-25

prise BY building one hundred miles of
new road the l. & n. would have a mucn
more direct line from these coal fields TO
the gulf.
The officials of the Baltimore & Ohio con-
template tunnelng through the heavy grade
at Mt. Airy, the heaviest grade between
Baltin ore and Harper's Ferry. The i'm
provement will cost 100000.
Two suits have been filed in the Federal
Court al st. Louis to test the Legality OF the
existence of the Southwestern Traffic Asso.
the St Louis Freight Bureau.
In handling the crowds this week the adj
ditional exit gates at the Union Station
puIch tickets was placed at each of the
sixteen gates for exit to trains.
Railroad men will hold big meeting at
Cumberland Md, on September and 8.
All the railroad organizations are invited,
and several of the grand officers of the
brotherhoods will be in attendance.
The private car Patapsco, of the Balti-
style. and General Superintendent Gibson
will take it. He is now going over the di-
visions under his immediate control.
After Sept. the Pennsylvania Company
Will run entirely new Pullman car equip
ment on its line between Louisville and
Chicago via Indianapolis. and between Gin
cinnati and Chicago via Logansport
The official report to General Superintend-
ent Van Wrinkle, of the Big Four lines
proper, shows that on Tuesday evening their
trains took out of Indianapolis 4,66i people
VINO came IN mere on the l-CeHl-d-iililc lolC'
The Vandalia on Monday handled the
heaviest business on the main line of any
day in many years. Passenger business was
large and freight traffic heavy. The road
on that day brought 1,472 passengers INTO
indianapolis.
james S. Collins, one of the originators OF
the Detroit & Eel River road is dead. For
several years he was president OF the COM
through bis efforts. He was the Oldest
lawyer in Columbia City, Ind.
A New York paper revives the rumor that
the Big Four has about closed the deal by
which it will secure control of the Chicago
& Eastern Illinois. This report probably
has as little foundation as other rumors in
which the Big -Four was prominent.
j. Snowden Bell, of Pittsburg, is said to
be one of the best-posted men on locomtives
and general railroad equipment IN the
United States, and he is often called upon
TO settle disputed questions about the old
locomotives once used on the Pennsylvania
and Baltimore e. Ohio.
L. H. Turner, superintendent of motive
power of the Pittsburg & Lake Erie, is
passenger express engines to haul fast
trains between Pittsburg and Cleveland. The
engines will have seventy-two-inch driving
wheels and large heating surface fer max
ing steam. 1t is expected these engines will
haul eight cars over any part OF the road
at fifty miles an hour.
A railroad official from the West said yes
terday that there was no road in the coun-
try which was making such rapid strides
to the front as the ST. Louis & San Fran
cisco, 1t reaching out in every direction for
new business. when under control of the
Santa Fe,' said the official ut was so
bottled up that it could not be shown what
business could be developed, but the new
people are aggressive and making great
progress
Edward Bixby, who represents the Van
dalia and the Pennsylvania lines in Texas,
with headquarters at Fort WORTH is in the
city for a few days. Mr.. Bixby states that
for once passenger rates in that section are
well maintained, the Southwestern Passen-
ger Association now being a very strong
organization, and If a road offends or vio-
lates a rule it is held strictly to the rules
of the organization as to fines. The Santa
Fe was recently fined heavily.
An Indiana politician called on c. z. Hen
derson, former general manager of the In
diana, Bloomington & Western, now traffic
manager of the Philadelphia & Reading. He
says Mr. Henderson is a very busy man, but
always pleased to see old friends from the
West. Once or twice Mr.. Henderson has
asked the directors to allow him to retire,
but they would not listen to the proposal
as he has proven a valuable man for the
company. On the day that the gentleman
alluded to called on him one of the officials
was celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of
his connection with the road and Mr.. Hen
derson remarked that on the Philadelphia
& Reading the only change made is through
DEATH there being scores of men on the road
who have been there forty years or more