The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-05

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E. o. Mccormick. passenger traffic man
ager of the Big Four, is in the East arrang-
Ing the winter time schedule with the New
York Central.
The new elevator of the Hoosac tunnel
line at Boston viii be ready to commence
operations Dec. 10. 1t has capacity OF l.
O0o 600 bushels
Arthur w. Street, formerly general man
ager of the Hoosac tunnel line, has pur-
chased an interest in the railway transfer
business at Chicago.
One Of the old narrow-gauge engines OF
the Toledo, St, Louis & Kansas City has
been rebuilt at the company shops ana
sold to Mexican road
Train No 2, over the. Vandalia and Penn
sylvania lines. has become SO popuII5ar, nnat
on reaching Columbus another FulIman
sleeping car is added.
President Ingalls, of the Big Four and
the Chesapeake q Ohio, has formally an
nounced the withdrawal of his companies
from the Joint Traffic Association.
The big Glass II freight engines of the
Pennsylvania are still in an experimental
stage and, it is stated, no more will be built
of that type, for the present, at least
Judgment has been affirmed for over
$50, 900 in a suit against the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad Company az purchaser
of the Louisville. Lexington & Cincinnati.
George Bradbury. vice president and gen.
eraI manager of the Lake Erie &, Western
lines, who has been in the city since
Wednesday, will return to Chicago this
evening.
The freight traffic of the Big Four at
Indianapolis is now so heavy that the yard
men are working from four to six hours
overtime daily to prevent congestion Of
business
The estimated earnings of the Terre Haute
& Indianapolis Railroad and leased lines
(Vandalia) for the month of October were
1925, 1915 an increase of $26, 406.76 over the
same month of the previous year.
During the peace jubilee at Philadelphia
last week the Pennsylvania carried into
Philadelphia on excursion tickets S72,975 pas
seHgers, swelling the business of the line
for the six days to over one million passen-
gers.
Charles r. Davis, who a few months ago
resigned position on the Panhandle, at
accepted a good position in the engineering
corps of the Oklahoma, Choctaw d Gulf
road.
The sanitary department of the Pennsyl-
vania Company has given instructions that
at every important division point coaches
run in the through trains should be cleaned,
busted and their sanitary condition closely
inspected.
The Big -Four. with it's unprecedented
heavy traffic the last three months, has had
an exemption from accident seldom en-
joyed. In that period the wrecking train at
this point has been called but once to clear
up wreck
Frank McMullen of the Panhandle lines,
who few weeks ago went South for the
benefit of his health. has returned and will
go to New York to accept position with
George T. Smith, Eastern superintendent of
the Union line
The report of Caesar Rooney, general
agent of the Vandalia at this point, shows
that in October 962 more loaded cars were
handled in the local and transfer depots
than in October, 1897, which was the best
month of that year.
w. Seward Webb president of the Wag-
ner Palace-car Company, on Wednesday
visited the large works of the company. Re-
Gently the force has been increased seven
hundred men, the works now giving employ
ment to over 1,4O0 people.
All the mail cars handled in through serv-
ice are lighted with Pintsch gas, and Super
intendent Zion, at the Union Station, has
made arrangements for supplying the re-
torts of the several cars in the through
trains more conveniently.
At Keokuk. Ia, yesterday, Judge Wool
son. in the United States Court, signed a
decree of foreclosure against the Chicago,
Fort Madison & Des Moines Railroad. The
amount due bondholderS IS $l,313,0O0 The
! sale will occur about Jan. l.
Chauncey Kelsey last week completed his
| eighteenth year as auditor Of the Chicago
| & Alton, he going from the Indiana, Bloom
position. He begun railroad service as a
clerk of the Decline in 1863.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton has
notified the Big Four that 1t will need it's
old Decline freight depot for the c., H.
e. d. city freight depot for some months,
as the building Of the joint freight depot
with the Monon has been delayed until early
! spring
Oscar Murray, receiver of the Baltimore
| & Ohio, and policy dictator of the Balti-
more & Ohio Southwestern, has given in
| structions that good care be taken of their
| business at local stations. This will utilize
| their cars at better paying rates than does
| through business.
1t is a significant fact that the first week
i after the decision of the Supreme Court in
! the Joint Traffic Association case the east
| bound shipments of grain flour and pro-
visions from Chicago largely exceeded those
| of the preceding week. and were in excess
/ of the shipments of the corresponding week
of 1897.
The Pennsylvania Company has in the
/ last eight months spent over 100000 on the
| Chicago division of the Panhandle in cut
| ting down grades, Strengthening curves,
laying new steel and other improvements,
and its track from Richmond to Chicago
is as good as that of the Indianapolis di-
| vision of the Panhandle.
The lines which formerly constituted the
| Joint Traffic Association and the Central
! Freight Association have filed a notice with
! the 1nterState-commerce Commission of an
board, of 2 cents per 100 pounds, effective
! Nov. 10. This is the advance which it was
| proposed to make Nov. l.
For several years the Pennsylvania lines
! have worked very closely with the Chicago,
| Burlington & Quincy and really have a
| strong traffic alliance; now it is stated that
the latter is purchasing additional stock of
| the Chicago Burlington q Quincy, and that
| the relations between the two systems are
| to be more closely identified.
! The official figures show that the special
| of three cars carrying General Manager
| Ramsey and subordinate officials over the
| Wabash on Wednesday covered 4SO miles in
| SIT minutes. The average speed of the
| train was fifty-six miles an hour, but at
| some points q speed of eighty-nine miles an
| hour was reached. The engines which are
making such remarkable speed were de-
| signed and built on plans of j. B. Barnes,
i superintendent of motive power of the Wa
| bash lines
A terminal station, said to be- unlike any
| other elevated railroad station in the United
| States, is being erected for the Alley L.
| road in Chicago. The new station Is equipped
| with elevators ten feet square and capable
| of making the round trip from the ground
| to the level of the platform, thirty-two feet
| ing capacity of each will be sixty persons.
| The elevator will be operated by hydraulic
| pressure. They will be lifted on ffteen-inch
| cylinders, forty feet long. When the car is
down the cylinder will extend its length IN
| a we'll underground The motive power en-
| ployed will be electricity.
Cornelius Vanderbilt. jr., who is employed
| liam Buchanan. superintendent of motive
power and rolling stock OF the New York
Central system has a paternai interest in the
great new freight locomotive No 1S1. He
| prepared the designs from which this loco
| motive was built, and he has just had the
| satisfaction of seeing the embodiment of his
mechanical theories successfully undergo a
| severe practical test. This engine Is or the
| mogul type and has proved economical IN
| fuel consumption and capable or handling
| a load 20 per cent. greater than the type
| in use heretofore. 1t hauled a train OF sixty
| cuse, to West Albany distance OF about
| 40 miles. last week in good averge time and
| with perfect ease The weight OF the loco
motive is 144,670 pounds.