The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-11

recently at Pittsburg and went over the
plans with Mr.. McCrea. He says Richmond
will be given a modern depot, in proportion
to her size
A Tuscola farmer wants the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois to pay him for $50 worth OF
chickens lost in the late flood, He alleges
that the sewer of the road under It's tracks
was not large enough to carry off the water
and 1T filled his chicken house and drowned
the poultry.
The postponed meeting of the Officers As
ISOLATION of the Pennsylvania lines VIII be
held at the Office of General Manager I4oree.
in Pittsburg, on Tuesday and "Wednesday OF
this week. superintendent Mansfield and
Bonebrake will leave this evening to attend
the meeting.
Indiana roads are beginning to use sawed
instead of hewed ties. 1t has been claimed
the sawed tie, but when the tie is creosoted
il is expected that the sawed tie VIII last as
long as the other. Sawed ties are used en-
tirely on bridges and treStles.
In railroad shops and locomotive works
there is d great demand for skilled machln-
lists, and it is found to be quite dithcult TO
secure this class of men IN numbers re-
quired. In machine shops there is work
which requires expert machinists, and even
at the high wages offered they are scarce.
Passenger Traffic Manager McNichol, of
sioner Turner, of the trunk lines. for an
increase of two members in the subcommit-
tee representing the United States roads at
the meeting to be held in New YORK TO-
morrow. Mr.. McNichol says he wants all
the influential associations represented.
The improvements to the Union tracks
east of the Union Station are nearing com
pletion, and when this work is done steps
will be taken to do away with some of the
curves west of the station: 1t is possible
that a portion of the Vandalia freight depot
will be taken down to admit of straighten-
ing these tracks.
Charles Hine, chief clerk of division SUI
perintendent Higgins, of the Big Four, has
gone to Washington to offer his services to
the government in case of war with Spain.
Mr.. Hine graduated from West Point in
1891 and remained with the army until 1885,
when he resigned and became civilian.
His first work was as a brakeman on the
Big Four.
The Baltimore & Ohio passenger depart
ment has issued it's April number of the
Book of the Royal Blue" 1t is highly en-
bellished with photographers of scenes on
the Jersey coast buildings, etc. and other
frontispiece is a picture of President Nc
Kinley. taken just after he had signed the
$5OOOO,OOO appropriation bill for national de-
Tense. .tteq
The general superintendent of the Nor
folk q Western has created quite furry
among the employees by causing to be post
ed along the line a notice that FAll en-
liquors as a beverage shall be discharged
Immediately and none shall be employed
hereafter who use the same" This is more
sweeping than the Nickel-plate order,
which forbids employees visiting saloons or
lettering about them.
The Consolidated Coal Company, whose
mines are on the Baltimore & Ohio, near
Cumberland, Md. ship considerable coal to
San Francisco for Smithing purposes, and
the cost of the coal at the mines and the
price at which it is sold to consumers in
certain parts of California has developed am
interesting situation with reference to
transportation charges. The company gets
80 cents a ton for the coal at the mines, and
then it is sent over the Baltimore & Ohio to
Locust Point. where it is loaded on vessels
and and goes around the Horn to San Francisco.
From there it is shipped by rail to the in
terror points and then placed in sacks and
carried on mules to the small mining settle
ments scattered through the mountains.
This coat is retailed in these settlements,
some being hundreds of miles from the rail-
road, at 500 a. ton, or cents pound.
On the night of the big storm, when the
news was telegraphed from Canton that the
Stark siding bridge was gone and the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne & Chicago cut in two,
the officers communicated with the Pan
handle officials to arrange for through train
service via that Inns but at the same time
the Panhandle officials had sent message
TO the Fort Wayneepeople asking to have
preparations made tossend Panhandle trains
that Wayi as a mile OF their track and one
bridge was down. Here was a predicament
suffic1ent to try the. nerves of the most
phlegnatlc officials. They were in the worst
quandary they had ever been in in the his
tory OF the great system. The two big
main lines were crippled and even the Bal
tlmore d Ohio was unit to be used. In the
meantime a judicious supervisor of the Fort
Wayne rushed all the men he could find to
Stark and built temporary frestle through
the rushing flood and repaired the track
This railroad Napoleon opened a way for
the traffic of two big, trunk lines, and saved
the PennSylVan iaa system from a. complete
blockade of all itEa Western lines.