The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-03


necessary surveys The Panhandle will
probably within the next ten months double
| its track from Chicago to Logansport
The fourth number of the Railway Jour-
nal, a new St. Louis enterprise, has been
| received, and il must be said that with each
| number decided improvement is shown.
The official receipt shows the receipts from
| sales of tickets of the Big Four lines IN
| October at Indianapolis ticket offices to have
| 1891.
Thomas Shea, who formerly represented
/ the Mobile & Ohio in this territory, has
been appointed soliciting freight agent of
/ St Louis.
The official report Of Charles stilz, gem
i eral ticket agent at the Union Station,
| shows that the receipts from sales of tick
cts last month were 81, 1853 in excess Of those
/ of October, 1897
| dent of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
will have full charge of the operating and
traffic departments, the heads of both re-
! porting direct to him.
John G. Robinson, secretary and treasurer
| Of the Pittsburg & Lake Erie, who with
MS family, has been in Nova Scotia several
| weeks, returned to his headquarters on
Monday much improved in health
The five local railway brotherhoods will
noid meeting IN this city on Sunday tor
| with each other. Some of the leaders of the
| brotherhoods are expected to be present.
Employees on the Baltimore 4 Ohio South
western are boycotting William Gallvan,
| supervisor of trains and engines. Over one
| hundred letters have been sent to the gen
eral manager of the road by employees pro-
| testing against his retention.
J. F. Phillips, late treasurer of the Chi
| cago. Rock island q Pacific, will to-day
| be buried at Walden, III. A number of
prominent railway officials will attend the
| funeral. The deceased had been in official
position on that road for over thirty years.
The ten-year-old son of Thomas Doran,
employed by the Monon at Monon, met
with a serious accident on Tuesday. He
was hanging to the ladder of a box car on
a moving train and was struck by a switch
and knocked to the ground. In falling both
hands fell under the wheels and were cut
OFF at the wrist.
Capt. Robert H. Harrison, who has been
in the service of the Pennsylvania Company
forty years, most Of the time as foreman
of the machine shops of the Pittsburg, Fort
| Wayne & Chicago at Fort Wayne, retired
on Tuesday on account of i'll health. The
company will give him full pay curing his
| lifetime for his faithful service.
Instructions have been given to rebuild
all of the better coaches on the Panhandle
| lines full vestibued and fitted up in the
same manner for comfort, sanitary condi-
tions, etc., as are the twelve new coaches
just built at the shops in Columbus, which
are credited with being the best car in all
respects yet put in daily service.
M. ID. Woodford, president of the Cleve-
| land, Lorain & Wheeling, has published his
annual report fer the year ending June 80,
and ii shows gross earnings TO have been
$l501 431, increase of 1926 2S1; net, $43S S24,
an increase of STA 059; total income, SAP 66S,
an increase of $l12,S7S; balance after
charges $144,794, an increase of Sis 879; sur
| plus $l44,794, an Increase of $165,S79.
Up to two years ago the shops of the
PittsbuTg, Fort Wayne & Chicago at Fort
| Wayne were credited with having built the
recently improvements have been made
which have caused these engines to be out
ranked, and the motive power officials of
the road have asked permission to build
some large ten-wheel passenger engines for
| ext ress service, nth vent, # ur-inch oriv
| ing wheels and 20X24-inch cylinders to car
ry 200 pounds of steam.
Complaints are being received by the Kan
sas Board of Railroad Commissioners re-
garding scarcity of grain cars at many
Kansas points. 1t is impossible, the com
plants say, to get sufficient cars to handle
grain A complaint filed from five grain
nrms at Claf1in, Kan, says 10000 bushels
of wheat are waiting to be moved at that
point, 1900 bushels of which is lying on the
ground Farmers generally have been hold
ing their grain for higher prices, and this
unexpected movement has caused a short
age of cars.
Col. William Shaw. district passenger agent
of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy, was in
| the city yesterday, and in commenting on
| the annual report of the road, just issued,
said he was proud Of the fact that the Mis-
cially interested, in the year ending June
| 81, derived from passenger service S176.O00
more than in the previous year. General
Passenger Agent Wakely has under consid-
GRAFTON the putting on of morning train
out of St. Louis at 9 O'Clock, to run 70 con-
meet with a fast train from Chicago.
Frank E. Ward has been selected by
President James j. HNl for the very i'm
portant position of general superintendent OF
the Great Northern system to succeed Rus
sell Harding, resigned to become vice presi-
dent of the Cotton Belt system. Mr.. Hard
ing leaves st. Paul Monday for this new
, field of operations, with headquarters in st.
Louis. Mr.. Ward entered the office of Pres
ident Hill a few years ago as a clerk. He
was rapidly promoted to the position of con-
fidential man and assistant to the president.
Last spring he was made superintendent OF
the Montana division
The suit filed in the United States Court
at Cincinnati yesterday by the Mercantile
for the foreclosure of a mortgage of $29, O00,-
900 on the Baltimore & Ohio Railway is only
sar to t % s be st e N0rS
ern Ohio West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois
and other districts where this railway has
property. The finding of the court at Balti-
more will be sent to Columbus Cleveland,
| Wheeling, Indianapolis and Chicago and de-
| crees entered there in accordance with the
one entered at Baltimore. These proceed
ings are simply preliminary to the plan of
| reorganization heretofore provided for.
Rapid increase in business CT the Siberian
Railroad is shown by a report to the State
Department at Washington by Consul
| Smith, at Moscow, who says that it has
| been already found necessary to send
commission along the road to determine
some means of increasing it's traffic capabil-
tiles. 1t is said that one means of accom-
| plishing this will be to increase the gauge,
while the number of trains daily is to be
| increased from three to seven. There will
| be considerable increase of rolling stock,
and more powerful engines than the six
axled engines now in use will be obtained.
| All these improvements will cost So GOO Goo,
notwithstanding which a general reduction
in the railroad fares will be made shortly
| in Russia
Commissioner L. P. Farmer, of the Trunk
| line Passenger Committee, has selected the
| committee which he recently author
| lied to appoint for the settlement of all
| disputes growing out of the immigrant pas
| senger business between the Eastern and
| Western lines in the association. The COM
mittee consists of J. r.. Wood, of the Penn
| sylvania Company's lines; ID. I. Roberts. of
the Erie; G. T. Nicholson, of the Atchison;
George H. Heafford of the st. Paul; 3. d.
| Caldwell. chairman of the Western PasSen-
ger Association; D. McNicoll, of the Ca
madam Pacific: A. S. Hanson, of the Boston
& Albany; w. s.. Davis, of the Grand
! Trunk; G. e. Hawley, of the Southern Pa
| cific, and ]. r. Watson. of the New Eng
| land Passenger Committee Commissioner
| Farmer becomes an tXoff1co member of
the committee. which will meet in Buffalo
on the 10th inst to organize. Any decision
reached by the committee. if it be Unani-
| nous, will be without appeal.
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