The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-22

thirty-four years, twenty-six as passenger
conductor was dismissed on Wednesday on
a spoilers report. the spotter being col
ored man. The dismissal has created un-
easiness among the passenger conductors on
that line.
Train when it leaves Pittsburg for the
West consists now of eighteen cars and is
hauled in two sections from Pittsburg TO
Columbus and most of the time it is hauled
from Columbus TO indianapolis by two loco
motives, as there are usually thirteen cars
after the cars which go to Cincinnati have
been dropped.
General Freight Agent Finney, of the
F1ndlay. Fort Wayne & Western, has sue
ceeded in making il part of an Eastern line.
One hundred carloads of Bedford stone are
to be shipped to John J. Astor. New York.
In making the shipment the Monon, the
Wabash and the Big Four will carry the
freight a portion of the distance.
C. ]. Hupp of Detroit assistant general
freight agent of the Michigan Central was
In the city yesterday on official business.
Michigan Central passes through there is
not short crop of any kind. and the ship
ments of grain: produce. fruits. lumber. ore,
coal and miscellaneous freights are now the
heaviest he ever knew in a summer month
Greene county will get another forty
miles of pike road completed before bad
weather sets in. which will make 1o5 miles
of road constructed with broken stone or
gravel. and will enable the farmers at any
time of the year TO reach the railway sta
tons with live stock Ar grain and other
produce. The benefit the farmers will de-
rive from the Improvement will, it is be-
lieved, pay the cost of the improvements in
two or three years.
The managers of the Joint Traffic Assoc
citation have recommended new bases of
rates and divisions of traffic from Eastern
points to Southern points. Cities In the
Louisiana and Arkansas are interested
Rates and division on traffic from Eastern
Poins 20 on the Yazod Valley
Railroad have been scheduled on recommen-
dalton Of the managers.
The new big freight engines of the Penn
Sylvania, of which five have been already
turned out, haul up the mountain from AL
toona as many cars as two of the Class r
engines, the heaviest heretofore used on the
Pennsylvania. They must be handled care
fully, or they pull out the drawbars. The
engines carry 185 pounds of steam when
working at full pressure These are the
second largest engines in the world. 1t is
now generally admitted that an extra fire.
man will be- required who can assist the
regular fireman, and at the same time assist
the engineer in looking out for signals.
William Garstang superintendent of mo-
tive power of the Big Four, who formerly
had the same position on the Chesapeake &
Ohio, said yesterday that a wrong impress
sion prevailed as to the Chesapeake q Ohio
as freight route between Cincinnati and
Newport News Freight from the West is
sent over the James river division going
around the mountains, and the maximum
grade is but thrty-three feet to the mile.
On the passenger line to Washington is
where the mountain scenery is to be seen
at its best. On that portion of the road
there are mountains where the grade is
seventy to ninety feet TO the mile.
The Big Four on Wednesday received an
order from the United States government
to make a quick shipment of fifty cars of
provisions for the army from Chicago to
Newport News. and fifty hours was the
time given for the freight to be moved. The
Big Four divided the cars into two sections
and made the run from Chicago to Cincin-
natl in twelve hours. which was the former
passenger train schedule between the two
points. The Chesapeake & Ohio took the
freight at Cincinnati and scheduled the
special train to make the run from Cincin-
natl to Newport News in twenty mine hours.
nine hours quicker time than the order of
the government required.