The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-28

on any Indiana road. 1t covers the 10 miles
IN three hours, stops and slow-downs to be
deducted.
The interchangeable mileage bureau of the
Central Passenger Association has been in
operation eleven months. and its average
sales have been 400 interchangeable mileage
tickets per day
z. F. Richardson. general Eastern pas
senger agent of the Chicago. Milwaukee &
st. Paul. who has been seriously i'll for
some weeks, is improving and now expects
to fully recover his health.
c. E. Schaff, general manager of the Big
Four lines, and E. f. Cost, freight traffic
manager, were in the city yesterday, the
former in the afternoon going to ST. Louis
and Mr.. Cost last evening going to Chicago.
The Terre Haute car works gets five hum
dred of the new box cars of eighty thou
sand pounds capacity which the Pennsyl-
vania Company has decided to build. The
Milton car works will build five hundred
cars.
C. D. Low. superintendent of the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne & Chicago, has selected
for his private secretary Henry G. Ripe,
of Fort Wayne he succeeding T. ]. Kulper.
who was obliged to resign on account of i'll
health.
Master Mechanic Coburn, of the Monon
shops at Lafayette, was in the city yester-
day. He states that his device for loco
motive, spark arrester is great success ard
from all parts of the country he is receiving
Inquiries as to its workings.
The Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City
earned in the third week of July $H,72l, an
increase over the corresponding week OF
1897 of 81 ITO. The first three weeks the road
earned SIG, 939, decrease as compared With
the corresponding period of 1897 of 1882
George W. Hood, an engineer on the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago, has run
an engine on the eastern division for thir-
ty-seven years, for tWenty-seven years
hauling its fastest trains. and has never
met with an accident where he was in fault.
OF the main line of the Vandalia, between
Indianapolis and East ST Louis: lila miles
are laid with eighty-fve-pound rail. 1873
miles with seventy-pound rail and 473 miles
with sixty-pound rail. The receiver laid
sixty-one miles of the eighty-fve-pound rail.
The shop fire brigade at Terre Haute, on
the Vandalia, has beaten the record OF the
fire brigade at the Panhandle shops. Indian
apolis. On Tuesday, one minute after the
whistle blown, the brigade at the Terre
Haute shops had stream Of water playing
on the shops.
w. E. George, who has been agent of the
Panhandle at Gettysburg, Ind, Tor thirty
five years past, has kept intact nr a hook
in his ticket office the time tables OF the
road for thirty-three years and comparl-
sons of schedules at the different periods is
a very interesting study.
Colonel William Shaw, district passenger
agent of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy;
c. e. BENJAMIN, of the Canadian Pacific,
and H. F. Bowsher, travelling passenger
agent of the Missouri. Kansas q Texas, are
in the city. In each case they speak of the
outlook for q heavy fall travel as being very
promising.
Judges Woods and ShowaIter. of the
United States Court of Appeals, yesterday
handed down decision at Chicago, sustain
ing the decree of the United States Circuit
Court authorizing Gen. Benjamin Harrison,
as trustee of the Terre Haute & Logans-
port Railway, to foreclose a trust deed of
81 900 900 on the bond issue of that road.
Superintendent Murphy, of the Queen &
Crescent, Tuesday issued an order con-
graduating the train employees on the fact
that during the sixty hours, ending Monday
night the line handled 1927 troops and
equipment, aggregating 342 cars. and 1850
excursonists, in addition to regular bust
ness, and not an accident marred the work.
Much is said about the fast time OF fast
mail train No. IL over the Vandala, which
haulS four to five mail and three express
cars; still, ii does not make the ram from
Indianapolis to ST. Louis as quickly as does
Train 81 which hauls from nine to ten cars.
including four sleeping cars The time OF
Train II is six hours and fOrty-four min
utes, and of Train q six hours and thirty
seven minutes
P. A Bonebrake, recently appointed SUI
perintendent of the Indianapolis division OF
the Panhandle lines, on Tuesday made his
first inspection trip over this division, and
after being hauled on special train several
spurtS at speed of a mile in hfty-nVe
seconds, admits that the track of this dl-
vision is superior to that of the Louisville
division, of which he boosted so frequently
when its superintendent.
Under the reorganization of the Cincin-
natl & Muskingum Valley Aug. L TN" fol-
lowing officers of the Pennsylvania lines
will be in charge: President, James Nc
Crea; vice president. Joseph Wood; solicitor,
John S. Brasse, Lancaster; secretary, >. X
Liggett auditor, John w. Renner; treas
urer. t. H. NJ. Mcknight; superintendent,
continued as general freight and ticket
agent of the line.