The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-07


w J. Hartez, with the air-brake instruc-
ton car, will to-day go on TO the Sandusky
division of the Big Four.
Commencing with last night Train "a, on
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton leaves
Cincinnati at 30 p. m. instead OF 7:15.
To-day rates on flour from the Pacific
coast TO China and Japan by all steam
snip lines are advanced 80 1-3 per cent.
1. +. Loree, general manager of the Penn
sylvania Tines west, who has been abroad
several weeks, is expected home this week.
The Wagner Palace-car Company has just
completed thirty new cars for service
on its lines between Chicago st. Louis,
New York and Boston.
Since the INTERCHANGEABLE mileage book
was placed on sale Sept. !, in Central Traffic
aged 7O4 books per day.
j. J. Fletcher traffic manager of the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis, is in
the city, coming here to spend Sunday with
brother, who is quite i'll.
James B. Maloney has been appointed
contracting freight agent of the West Shore
fast freight line at Cleveland, under Com
mercial Agent S. A. Lyle.
Miller Page, retired passenger conductor
on the pennsylvania road, who died on
Thursday last, aged eighty-nine years, was
buried at Altoona yesterday.
The Lake Shore and the Grand Trunk last
week led on east-bound shipments from Chi
cago, the pennsylvania lines dropping be-
mind the first time in several weeks.
The Wagner Palace-car company is build
ing one of the finest private cars ever con-
structed for Claus Spreckels, president of
the San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley
road.
The latest rumor is that the West Shore
and the New York, Ontario q Western are
latter road, is said to be favorable to the
scheme.
President Mellen, of the Northern Pacific,
stated at q meeting of the directors last
week that the net earnings of the road for
the first half of it's fiscal year would be
$6,940,000
The Big Four lines proper handled at In
dianapolis last week 1924 cars, 1854 being
loaded, making 1t among the record break
ers and exceeding the number handled in the
previous week 1867 cars.
In January the Pennsylvania handled
over the middle division 800 cars 49, 701
being loaded, breaking all former records.
On this division an average of forty loaded
cars is hauled to a train.
Freight traffic with the Vandalia is again
at about its maximum. The road last week
Brought in 1926 loaded cars. and forwarded
west 1,027 loaded cars. OF the inbound
business l46 cars were loaded with live
stock.
The new sleeping cars on the New York
limited, trains Nos. and 8, of the Van
dalia- Pennsylvania lines, are attracting
great deal of attention because of the lux
urious interior finish and unique exterior
decorations.
a. P. Wilder, general manager of the Mis-
souri, and Kansas Car-service Association
who died last Friday at Topeka, aged six
ty-two years, was buried at Topeka yester-
day. He was formerly accountant of
the Santa Fe road.
The proposition to do away with Sunday
excursions was introduced by w. H. Fish
err, general passenger agent of the Column
bus & Hooking Valley, at the request of a
religious society; but the proposition met
with no favorable response.
Ten Wagner palace cars have been sent
West to take the place of Pullman equip
~
changed, as the equipment is owned jointly
by the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and
the MonOn.
A passenger rate war has broken out be-
tween the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling
and the Tuscarawas electric line, between
Canal Dover, o.. and Uhrichsville. The dis
tance is thirteen miles and both the steam
ana the electric roads are carrying passen-
gers at 10 cents.
The New York. New Haven e. Hartford
last week closed contract with coal op-
orators on the Chesapeake &, Ohio for 400,
600 tons of coal at $2.10 per ton Is cents
less than the road paid in 1897. The Boston
4 Maine has secured its years coal at 81. 80
per ton, free on board at Philadelphia.
Notwithstanding the denial that the Chi
cago, burlington q Quincy and the Kansas
CITY Plttsburg & Gulf were to enter into
closer traffic relationss there is excellent
authority for stating that the two roads will
establish through passenger service to the
gulf, and form a freight traffic alliance.
General John NJ. Hood, recently elected
president of the West Maryland says the
projected road will be built IT will be a
short line between New York and Philadel-
phla the western Maryland in some meas
ure being a connecting link between the
Philadelphia & Reading and the Baltimore
q Ohio.
The Lake Shore has discovered that il
must do something to meet the COMPETE
ton the Pittsburg, Bessemer e. Lake Erie
VIII give 1t in iron ore and coal traffic, and
10 this end to overcome a big grade be-
tween Ashtabula and Andover, on its Pitts
burg branch, will construct a new line. A
corps OF surveyors are locating it, making
q detour of several miles to the west of
the old line.
On Saturday six new switching engines,
hullt Tor the Big -Four by the Brooks loco
motive works, arrived at Cleveland, and
Will to-day be sent to different divisions,
indianapolis getting two. The Brooks peo-
pie credit them with being the best all
around switching locomotives yet built
There are no modern devices of value for
this class of engines which have not been
used in their construction.
The Erie Railway Company claims to
have the fastest passenger engines in this
country They are of the compound pas
senger engine type, and were designed by
A. e. Mitchell, superintendent of motive
power OF the road. The company now has
fifty of this type of locomotive in service,
ana they make excellent records with trains
adapted TO their size. The total weight of
these engines is 107, 800 pounds. The engi-
neers cab is near the center II the boiler.
Unless the Canadian Pacific alters the at
titude 1t has assumed toward Western
possible that there will be concerted
movement among all American roads to
refuse to have any further dealings with
II in passenger traffic. Representatives of
Western roads authoritatively say If the
Canadian Pacific would not consent to
meet and discuss matters with them there
was nothing to do but SEVERAL traffic rela-
tons with it.
One of the longest trains of loaded cars
ever hauled in the South went over the
South Carolina & Georgia road last Tues
day The train was made up of seventy
box cars loaded with fertilizers, and it was
hauled by one locomotive. The test was
successful in every particular, the engine
moving off without the slightest exertion.
Beside being the largest train that ever
left Charleston, it was the largest cargo
Of fertilizer ever shipped at one time in
the South
Two new fast trains from Chicago to
Denver were put on yesterday, one by the
Chicago d Northwestern line and the other
By the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy road
BY means of these flyers the running time
between the two cities will be clipped from
two to five hours. They are more hand
some and luxurious than any trains that
have been used heretofore in the through
service to Denver and were fitted up es-
pecially for the run, Both trains left Chi
cago at 10 o'clock yesterday morning.
A PATROLMAN'S BLACK EYE.