The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-28

PSihitcAuciL VI the wabash terminals at
| Chicago.
| The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
| VIII this week pay to the legal heirs of A.
| l. George. the Panhandle fireman who was
Killed at Walnut bridge last week, $500 in
/ surance.
| The contract for grading the Brice line
| from Akron to New Castle, Pa, seventy
| parallel the Pittsburg & Western most of
| the distance.
George Gould, president of the Missouri
| Pacific and the Southwestern Gould lines,
is now in the West. and will this week in
| spect the several properties, travelling on
/ special train.
The shops of the Memphis & Charleston
| field, Ala. The Southern Railway Company
now controls the property and considers 1T
/ a better location.
One of the Pittsburg e. Lake Erie's new
| engines on Friday hauled eighty-five loaded
| cars from McKee's Rocks to Youngstown
| in four hours and thirty minutes. The esti-
| mated weight of the train was 1900 tons.
The Lake Shore people will build a new
| brick station at Mshawaka, Ind, this sea-
son. of the same style as the new depot
| at Sturgis, which cost over $1,000 The com
| pany Will also build new depot at South
Chicago.
The plan by which the Brice lines will get
into Chicago over the Illinois Central is
trail is said to be in the scheme of building
branch to connect with the Lake Erie IL
Western.
While the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chi
cago got through the foods of last week
without washout, on Friday its danger
bulletin showed fourteen points where. ex-
IRENE caution in moving trains would be
necessary.
There is said to be some uneasiness among
officials of the Lake Shore road as to the
possible outcome Of the New York Central
Lake Shore deal. Rumors of changes are
numerous, but when traced have seemingly
no foundation. t1t@'"
George Coppell, chairman of the Wiscon-
sin Central reorganization committee,
states that a plan has been perfected and
approved for reorganizing the road. Inc
first thing to be done is the paying off of
81, 000 900 of receivers certificates.
A novel sight on the Lake Shore road last
week was a train of twenty-six postal cars
gaily decorated with United States flags.
The postal cars had been delayed by high
waters for several hours and had reached
that number at one point when the track
was cleared.
President Ledyard, Of the Michigan Cen
trail, says no further steps will be taken in
the plan of consolidating the Michigan Cen
trail with the New York Central, as in the
case Of the Lake Shore, until the return OF
Cornelius Vanderbilt from abroad, which
will be in July.
The Cincin 1ati. Hamilton & Dayton pas
senger department has issued a map of Gin
cinnati for the benefit of the g. A. r. peo-
pie who will attend the annual encampment
in that city. All the attractions of the city
and points of interest are designated in
such manner that stranger can ma
them.
One of the fine trains in the Blue-line
equipment of the Baltimore & Ohio which
went down with the bridge at Frazeysburg
last week is said to be destroyed. The train
consisted of an engine, three vestibuled
coaches and fine new Pullman car, all
of which are badly broken up and lying UNI
der water
The Lake Shore has sent out notices to
ten applicants for firemen that positions
ready for them. The significant fea-
ture is that heretofore IN the spring the
of the officials never before in the history
of the road have the engine crews been in
creased in the spring.
d. G. Edwards, passenger traffic man.
ager of the Cincinnati, Hamilton q Dayton
lines, was in the city yesterday to attend
the funeral of the late d. r. Donough. He
returned to Cincinnati last evening and will
return to Indianapolis at noon to-day to
meet Charles Rockwell, traffic manager of
the Monon, and decide on the location of
their uptown ticket office.
A passenger official in speaking of the
late Daniel r. Donough,. said: lie might
have died wealthy man had he chosen to
accept commissions on tickets sold over
foreign lines, but he was conscientiously OPP
posed to Sc doing. although 40 rule Of the
Union Railway Company prohibited 1T. In
his official work he was very careful to
give no cause for competing lines to say he
was partial to any one line, and he i'm
pressed on his clerical force the same meth
DDS"
The Brooks locomotive works has been
given the contract to build five heavy
I1elSnL engines IOT tue MOHOI HSoS
engines will weigh $4,000 pounds with $4,000
pounds resting on the driving wheels. They
will have 20x26-inch cylinders and boiler
that will carry 200 pounds of steam pressure
to the inch. They will be the heaviest loco
motives ever used on the Monon lines, and
but for the great Improvement made in its
track in the last two years it would not be
safe to run as heavy locomotives over the
line. They will be used on the main line,
hauling the heavy stone trains between
Bedford and Northern and Eastern points.
A San Francisco dispatch says: Railway
communication is to be established between
the City of Mexico and the City of ManZa~
Milo, on the Pacific coast. AT present a
branch of the Mexican Central extends west
a short distance from Guadalajara to the
town of Abura and abruptly ends On the
Pacific a narrow gauge branch runs from
Manzanillo to Colenia. The country inter-
mediate from Colenia to Guadalajara pos
sesses no means of railroad communication
This gap is to be filed in, and the central
section of the republic united by rail with
the Pacific ocean. A concession for the
new line has been granted to Ignace Borda,
of Mexico, who expects TO interest Amer
lean capitalists in the work.