The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-15


at Winchester. and the. Pittsburg. Fort
Wayne & Chicago and the Big -Four Will
put in a plant at Warsaw, Ind.
The Toledo, Peoria e. Western has con-
tracted with the Rogers locomotive works
for four new engines. This road is owned
jointly by the Pennsylvania and the Chi
cago, Burglington & Quincy companies.
Alexander Shaw. chairman of the Balti-
more & Ohio reorganization committee,
says that the committee will not oppose the
bill that has been introduced in the Mary
land Legislature providing for a new char
ter.
Work at the Peoria & Eastern shops at
Urbana is being pushed $50 men being en-
ployed. This week new engine will be
turned out Most of the locomotives on this
road are new or recently thoroughly re-
built.
James H. Alger has been appointed su-
perintendent Of the western division of the
Wilder. Mr.. Alger began his railroad Ca
reer on the Chicago & Rock Island in 1871
as brakeman.
The. PENNSYLVANIA Company is having
over securing the facilities for extending
its dock privileges. At Toledo the fight is
over the use of a six-hundred-foot. strip Of
ground along the river.
There is excellent authority for stating
that in the near future J. w. Sherwood,
formerly with the Big Four, now division
Kansas City, will be given the title of
general superintendent of the road, shops,
etc.
The new freight Engine ZOO, on the Big
-Four. yesterday hauled from Cincinnati to
Indianapolis 1925 tons Of freight, 334 tons
more than was ever hauled by one engine
in one train between these points, and it
is claimed that the engine is not yet at its
best.
General Manager Canniff, of the Lake
Shore, states that so favorable has been
the winter that his road has been able most
of the time to handle it's immense traffic
about as easily as in the summer months,
the size Of but few trains having been cut
down.
The joint weighing and inspection bureau
is doing some better in paying its employees.
Saturday they received their pay for jan
uary. AS this bureau is operated on about
per cent. of the revenue it yields, there
seems no excuse for delay in paying it's en-
ployes
A general passenger agent said yesterday
that for the first time since the worlds fair
at Chicago the travel between Indianapolis
and Chicago, Cincinnati and Chicago, and
Louisville and Chicago has been of late up
to the volume of that in years preceding the
holding of the fair.
The Big Four is constructing a new water
station. at North Indianapolis. The tank
will hold $4,000 gallons of water and the
water will be pumped by one of the crude
oil engines at an expense of cents an
hour, the pump having a capacity to throw
1850 gallons an hour.
Daniel Donough, general ticket agent at
the Union Station, is still quite ILL., his i'll
ness being of a dropsical tendency. Charles
Stiltz, assistant ticket agent at the sta
ton, who has been ill with typhoid fever
for several weeks, is better, but still so
Ill that no person is allowed to see him.
except his nurse.
The committee appointed at the annual
meeting Of the stockholders of the Penn
confer with President Thomson in relation
to the selection of a board of directors for
next year has recommended to the stock
holders the, reelection of the present
board. The election will take place March %.
T. C. Wallace, travelling passenger agent
of the Union Pacific in this city, has re-
ceived advice that all busiess to or from
points on the o. r. & N or beyond may
be sent either via Granger or Ogden. This
arrangement will be beneficial to the Union
Pacific, as it will enable that line to handle
certain business which otherwise would go
by competing lines.
Yesterday the Big Four had orders from
the Southern States for over four hundred
fiat cars to load with car stills and lumber
for car works in this State and the Pull
man Company. These shipments are chief
ly from Alabama and Mississippi several
of the mills being employed entirely in cut
ting car sillS The price of car stills on
cars at the mill is now $1,000 per thousand
feet, So per thousand higher than one year
ago.
The general passenger officials of the
Pennsylvania lines, the Big Four, the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and the Mo-
non credit Indianapolis with having made
the most favorable earning exhibit from
the passenger service of any points on their
respective lines the last rev months, the
increase being in each case proportionatey
larger than such points as Cincinnati
Louisville, st. LOUIS Columbus, Cleveland
and Chicago. e }sr
The first step toward the consolidation
OF American and Pacific Express Compa-
MES has been taken. J. A. Brewster of
New York, late head clerk in the account
ing department of the American Company
has taken the chief auditing department Of
the Pacific President Morseman of the Pa
cific, and President Burt, of the Union Pa
citic, have gone to New York to confer
with the high officials of the American in
regard to establishing still closer relations
between the companies
"A new AIRLINE from Detroit to Toledo
is to be built, says the Chicago Post Work
on it's construction has already been be-
gun and it is expected to be finished not
later than Sept. next, though trains may
be running over it some time in August
While the road is to be built after the most
approved patterns of steam roads it will
be operated by electricity. IN this respect it
will be remarkable as being the first rail-
road or any consequence in this country to
be operated by this motive power. John c.
Schaffer, of Chicago, is the organizer of
the new company He has associated with
him syndicate of capitalists of Chicago,
Pittsburg and Detroit A right of way for
the entire distance between the two cities
named has been surveyed and secured and
part OF the route has already been graded.
ST. LOUIS BALL RUMOR AGAIN.