The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-25


nation to be engineers.
Edward Viquesney. one of the veteran en-
gineers on the Michigan division of the
Nandalia, has retired to engage in business
at Terre Haute.
The Big -Four has further increased its
force at the shops in Wabash, and is now
doing more work there and employing more
men than at any former period.
General Manager Waldo of the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton, is expected home
from Florida where he has beeh q couple
of weeks, on Saturday or Sunday.
4. NJ. stimson, purchasing agent Of the
Big -Four lines, is seriously i'll. He has
been confined at his home in Lafayette
much of the time of the last month.
A special train on the Pennsylvania on
Monday made the run over the mountain
miles. in Ill minutes. and made two dead
stops.
The new locomotives of the Wabash have
commenced arriving, and it is found that
fifteen of the big freight engines are too
large to enter the roundhouses of the COM
pany.
The Panhandle shops in the eastern part
of the city are now running full time and
full-handed. Since 1898, much of the time,
these shops have run but eight hours and
short-handed.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton is re-
ceiVing its new box cars at the rate OF
thirty-two a day. Some of them are being
sent to the Indiana, Decatur d Western
road to be loaded.
w. vi.
vented and applied for letters patent on
an elevating baggage and freight truck.
which is pronounced by railroad men VINO
have seen it an invention of merit.
Edward Van Week for years a passenger
conductor the Southern Pacific, has been
appointed travelling conductor of the At
lantic system Of the Southern Pacific, ana
A. w. Shafer, another conductor. has been
appointed his assistant.
r. B. F. PIERCE, receiver of the Toledo,
st. Louis & Kansas City spent THURSDAY
facilities. for handling trains there During ing
the evening Mr.. PIERCE was the guest OF the
Commercial Club of that city.
On Saturday a special train was hauled
220 miles in 23S minutes. Taking out stops,
one of which was of twelve minutes, the 22O
miles was covered In 2OS minutes, or at d
speed of Sixty-three miles An hour
An official Of another system of roads.
who recently rode from Peoria to Indian
apolis over the Peoria q Eastern, said that
the depots platforms ana tnelr s th nat
inviting of those OF any road he had trav-
eled by.
Frank Mohany, who has been in the en-
ploy of the Big Four in a clerical position
twenty-four years, has been appointed
agent of the company at Delaware, o., sue
ceeding Frank e. Moore, deceased, who had
been agent at that point Ter forty cohsecu-
tive years.
The report of T. B. Eckman district in
spector of the Joint Weighing and lnspec-
ton Bureau, SHOWS IHdI III It's olJS1dlloll1
the roads centering at indianapolis gained an 60
in January $S,925S2, at TerFe Haute $S,23l.Sl,
at Louisville A,O79.S6, at Evansville $l696.S6
and at Vincennes 5000.
Passenger conductors say the best evil
dence of better times is the large increase
in local travel it being fully one-haf heaV-
Ter than in the winter of 1897; Farmers and
their families now seem to have money 10
spend in travel as do employees in the man
ufacturing establishments.
AS a result of Frank Finney being APP
Of the Findlay, Fort Wayne & Western,
w. r. Garstang has been appointed con-
tracing freight agent of the Big -Four at
Indianapolis, and is succeeded by Charles
Cost as contracting agent Of the White
line.
A movement is on foot looking to the
reorganizing of the Railway Telegraph
Operators Association on q different basis
from the present organization, 1t being the
intention to have the headquarters OF the
new association at Indianapolis The pres
too expensive d scale.
L. X. Walsh. private secretary of General
Manager Waldo, of the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton, is very apt in making short
addresses before railroad branches of the
Young Mems Christian Association, and
much of his time would be taken did his
official duties admit of his meeting the de-
mands in that direction.
When the Big -Four took into its system
the Cairo division, an impression prevailed
phant, but Cairo has grown in business
steadily; it has taken on city airs has street
railways and many other modern conven-
fences; all of which have operated favora-
bly, to the roads centering at that point.
T. C. Kimber, who represents the pas
Senger department of the Missouri Pacific
lines, with headquarters at indianapolis,
March ! by G. A. Deane, who now has his
headquarters at Chicago. Mr.. Kimber yes
terday visited the several passenger offices
and introduced his succession. Mr. Kimber
retires to accept more lucrative position
with the Missouri Car and Foundry Com
pany.
A. Toledo man has invented an unscalpa-
BILE mileage ticket which is said to be very
ingenious. 1t is sealed when sold. After
the mileage strip is pulled out it cannot be
but back into the book, and the ticket Is
numbered in such a manner that it Is i'm
possible to tell how much of the mileage
has been used. This, it y thought, win
prevent the scalpers using it. A book with
a. broken seal would not b0 accepted by the
conductor.
An old employee on the Cleveland, Akron
q Columbus was last Sunday transferred
from Clinton to Akron yards, and the yard
crews with two exceptions, refused to work
with him. The result was the discharge of
eighteen men. The Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen propose to take the matter up.
As George Bradbury is general manager of
the road, 1t being a Brice line. the brother
hood will hardly accomplish much: It IS
stated that the places of the men dismissed
We're filled the next day.
Harry Drew, who is at the head of the
Synulcdte Wnlcn IL Dullulng a. new ROAD
from Converse to Muncie, was in the city
Yesterday. He says there is no question
to the road being built. It's length is forty
eight miles, and citizens of several town.
ships on the line are Offering such subS-
dies as insure the company getting the
funds to complete and equip the road,
which is now partially constructed. Mr..
Drew and his associates took hold of the
enterprise at an unfortunate time, but he
said Yesterday he confident the hard
place had been passed.
A joint meeting of Wabash and Grand
Trunk officials was held at Detroit yester-
day to complete arrangements for the run
ming of Wabash trains between Detroit and
Buffalo over the Great Western division of
following fast freight lines should operate
with the Wabash. over the Canadian dvi-
sion: Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg,
Ontario Dispatch; Lehigh and Wabash,
locomotives and cabooses over the river to-
day To- be used In operating in the freight
department The new deal takes effect
March !.
There has been SO much complaint of the
inconyenient hours of the passenger serV-
ice over the Big Four between indianapolis
and Cleveland that the company now has
under consideration putting on a fast train
10 leave indianapolis at Il. m. making
no stop until reaching Anderson, and
this train hauling parlor car TO so north
over the Michigan division of the Big
Four making direct connection at Bellefon-
tame with a train for SanduSky in the aft
with trains for Toledo and Detroit, the
parlor ear on the Michigan division to go
through to Benton Harbor. People the
Michigan division desire TO have faster
service by one train each way daily