The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

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The four Pennsylvania lines handled at
Indianapolis last week 6.413 cars. 400 being
loaded; 672 more than in the week ending
July 49,
The directors of the Peoria & Eastern, at
their meeting on Saturday elected NJ E.
ingalls, president. j. G. Dayie secretary, and
+. ID. Comstock treasurer.
The Big Four lines handled at Indianap-
oils last week 500 more loaded cars than
in the week ending July is, but 1,430 fewer
than in the corresponding week of 1897.
The Chicago & Rock Island is building
at its shops six large eight-wheel passenger
engines much the same type as the Gar
stang engine on the Big -Four.
Engine los, on the Big Four on Friday
night hauled Train from C1arks Hill to
Lafayette, sixteen miles, in sixteen minutes.
making three dead stops. John Cheek was
engineer.
The annual report shows that the Chicago
& Rock Island carried in the year ending
June 80. 1888. 4,925,OS4 passengers, against
4,12J,zlF in the corresponding period of the
previous year.
Yesterday there were nineteen excursions
on the several divisions of the Big -Four,
and In three OF. four cases the trains were
run in two sections. Every coach the COM
pany owns was in service.
Colonel Frank Hecker. who has charge of
the transportation of the Spanish prisoners,
for years was superintendent of the Eel
River division of the Wabash, with head
quarters at Logansport, Ind.
1t is stated that j. T.. Odell. general man
ager of the Pittsburg Bessemer Lake
Erie, will retire on Sept. to accept posi-
ton as general manager of one of the West
ern systems of roads.
The Vandalia handled at Indianapolis in
the week ending July % 3,101 cars, 2,290 be-
ing loaded. The road brought in loo and
forwarded 1000 loaded cars. OF the in
bound business 1G6 cars were loaded with
live stock.
In June there were 146 railway accidents
In this country, IN which twenty-eight per
sons were killed and 131 injured. There
were hfty-two collisions, lightweight de-
railments and six other accidents from
causes not stated.
On Saturday the Brooks locomotive works
turned out their three thouSandth locomo-
tive, and the occasion was an eventfui one
which will long be remembered by the en-
ployers and employees, so elaborate was the
celebration of the event.
The Philadelphia & Readings sixty-min-
ute train between Camden and Atlantic
City celebrated it's initial run last week by
making the run, 55l5 miles. in 45A minutes,
a minute and a quarter quicker than the
best time made last season.
Immense quantities of farm products off
of the Burlington Il Missouri division of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy are daily be-
there were standing on sidetracks at Pitts
burg about $50 cars of potatoes off this line.
The City Council of Pittsburg has passed
a stringent ordinance against ticket scalp
fine Of 800 or thirty days Imprisonment for
each offense. 1t also prohibits railways
from employing solicitors outside the ticket
offices.
was given a contract to build a bridge 1000
feet long across the Allegheny river at
Moss Grove ON the Buffalo, Rochester &c
Pitsburg road. The bridge win rest i25 feet
above the stream. In its construction $500
tons of steel will be used and it is to cost
$lb0 COO.
n.
sylvania Company is taking off the brake
men on it's passenger trains, the conductor
to look out for signals, assist passengers
and collect tickets. On the short runs
where the economical measure has been in
troduced the passengers are disposed to
complain.
1t is stated that Thomas Timpson will
be appointed successor. to the late Cyrus
X. WILDER as assistant general passenger
agent of the. Lake Shore, with headquarters
at Chicago. Mr.. Timpson was for years
of late has represented the Lake Shore at
New York and other points
The Chicago, Burlington G. Quincy is
spoken of as the Pennsylvania road of the
Northwest, so excellent is its track and
equipment. Its passenger engines, with
eighty-seven-inch driving wheels, are maxi
ing some remarkable speed bursts, and its
fast freight trains are now run as fast as
were its passenger trains fifteen years ago.
w. d. Wilson, chairman of the executive
committee of the National Association of
Railway Agents, writes that the delegates
from this section have had a fine time. The
were given a trip from Buffalo TO Erie on
the Cleveland and Buffalo boat, and some of
their sessions were held on the steamer.
Milwaukee was selected as the place to hold
the next annual meeting.
Pittsburg & Western officials, 1T is stated,
admit that Senator Brice made overtures to
the receiver, Thomas M. King, for the use
of the company's tracks from New Castle
to Pittsburg in order to get an entrance
into the latter city, but his offers were re-
jectsd. 1t is therefore + suggestedt IN Splte
ing acquired the road and the assertion
that it will remain a part of the Baltimore
ter, that the Brice syndicate has secured
enough of the stock to make its influence
felt.
E. A. Ford, general passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania lines west, is not much
pleased over the turn matters are taking
in the differential questions, and II pressed
he will put on train service, 1T is stated,
over the Panhandle between Pittsnurg ana
larger differentials than they now enjoy.
Quicker time can be made between Pitts
burg and Chicago over the Pann n1 ne tn nan
provements that a twelve-hour train be-
tween the two cities is not at all impracti-
tration of tht Joint Traffic Association has
done more to complicate than to settle the
question of differentials.
The receivers of the Baltimore & Ohio
have turned their attention to the improve
ment of the grades on the third division
from Cumberland to Grafton, or rather that
portion which lays between Altamont, the
ton of the SeVenteen-rnile grade, and Terra
Alta, where the Cranberry grade begins to
descend The line passes through. Deer
Park and Oakland, and crosses what is
known as the "gladeS" of the Allegheny
mountains. The grades are short and chop
by, some of them being eighty to eighty
I'VE feet to the mile. One of the first pieces
of work to be done is now in progress az
No. IS cut, where the grade is being re-
duced from eighty-one to forty-two and a
half feet per mile, with equations for curva-.
ture 1t is expected the cutting down OF
this grade will enable the receivers to in
crease the train load from 900 tons to 300
tons on east-bound trains. one mile or the
roadway will be lowered, and it is expected
that the work will be completed by the
middle of October.