The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-22

daily at the yards.
1t is officially announced in Wall street
that Chauncey M. Depew will enter the di-
rectorate of the Ontario & Western Rail-
road company at next weeks meeting OF
that board.
Since Shaw Stevens, late master of trans
the position of tTainmaster on the Wabash
mas been abolished, and it is intimated Mr..
stevens on his return will take q position
on the Chesapeake & Ohio.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul has
given orders that 1900 cars be. built at their
shops IN Milwaukee at the rate of fifteen
Gay, which can be done as soon as the ad-
ditions to their shops at that point, now
nearing completion, are done.
The meeting of the board of control of
the Joint Traffic Association announced for
next week has been indefinitely postponed.
1t was understood that the meeting was
to investigate the charges of rate cutting
preferred against the Big Four.
Judge Dallas, in the United States Circuit
Court at Philadelphia, yesterday, ordered
nonsuit in the case of Charles II. Despaux
against the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany for alleged discrimination in rates for
carrying oil in 1884, 1882 and 1883.
The Big Four has 57S locomotives, one
locomotive for each four and one-half miles
of main line the Wabash has 400 engines,
or one for each five miles of main line. The
average power equipment per mile of track
Tor American railroads is seven and eight.
The Lake Erie & Western earned gross
for the eleven months to Nov 80 So, 1898,
and net, 81, $50 JOG, a comparative increase in
the former of $6S, Isl and in the latter of $751;
LIS; surplus for the period amounts to $685.
SIT, against $651, 765 in the same months of
1886.
On Feb. the trainmasters and train dis
patchers on the Wabash's eastern division
will remove their offices from Ashley to
Montpelier, the terminal Of Detroit Chicago.
On and after that date the car distributor
will be handled at Montpelier instead OF
Peru.
The Monon earned ia the second week of
January $6,S9S more than in the correspond
ing week of 1897, and since July shows an
fe at f1rfge OF nrina tS
present fiscal year of the company are very
tiattering.
1t seems that there is a question as to
r, W. Davis being appointed as general
manager of the Lackawanna fast freight
line. The Western roads in the line are de-
termined to have the position given to a
Western freight man, and Mr.. Davis is an
Eastern official.
]. B. Connors. formerly with the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton at Indianapolis,
has been appointed assistant trainmaster
of the Norfolk & Western, with headQuar-
tiers at Roanoke. Mr.. Connors is brother
OF M. 5. Connors, superintendent of the
Columbus q Hooking Valley.
Terminals excepted Anderson, Ind, is
to have the best station on the Big -Four
system. Muncie ranks next, Marion is close
behind Alexandria fourth, and Goshen and
a loading point Shelbyville is an Important
station. Terre Haute and Lafayette are con-
sidered division points.
The Cleveland Car Service Association
held its annual meeting on Thursday and
reelected Lewis Williams general man
ager. Mr.. Williams was formerly general
ton & Dayton lines. In 1897 the association
handled 2S9, 935 cars, against 26S, 697 in 1896,
with an average detention of III days.
Edmund Taylor, who was buried yester-
day at Sedalta, Mo-, he dying at RatOn
N. NJ, on Tuesday was one of the old
est railroad men in the Southwest. He was
eighty years of age. He was with the Bal
on the Wabash, the Iron Mountain and Mis-
souri, Pacific Us master mechanic for many
years
The Louisville & Nashville has authorized
reduction Of cents per 100 pounds on the
following commodities shipped in car lots
from Ohio river crossings to all local points
on their lines: Grain and grain products,
packing house products, etc. This will
doubtless be beneficial to indianapolis job
bers, who have heretofore been unable to
compete in this territory.
The ST. Louis Republic says: 1t is stated
on what is considered the best of authority
that r.. st. John, who recently rendered his
resignation as manager of the Seaboard Air
become general manager of the Union Pa
cific. He will succeed Edward Dickinson.
who will accept an executive position with
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
The stockholders of the Terre Haute &
Peoria, at their annual meeting held in De-
catur Thursday, elected as directors James
y. Leonard, of Peeria; J, r.. Parrish and
Chestnut Parrish, of Paris, Ill. The board
of directors elected James McCrea pres-
dent, j. r. Brooks vice president, George r.
harrington secretary, and r. b. Thompson
treasurer.
According to report from United States
ished in the daily consular reports at
Washington, the French have finally begun
the construction of railroad to connect
their East African possessions in the So
mali protectorate through Abyssinia. The
road is expected to drain one of the most
fertile countries in Africa. The line is to
run from Djibouti to Harar, in Abyssinia,
distant about 186 miles. The surveys have
been completed and work has commenced
on several points on the line.
Replying to persistent reports that rates
are again being cut in the West, an official
of the Joint Traffic Association said at New
York yesterday that, to the best of his
the general conditions are better than for
more than year past. At the same time
it is admitted that the conditions west of
Chicago are not so favorable. Grain rates
from st. Louis to Minneapolis and Chicago
have been reduced to s cents, and report
has it that provision rates have been cut
to 10 cents. These points are net in Joint
Traffic Association territory
Another meeting of the freight officials
of the Western roads is being talked of to
consider the rate situation from the Gulf
of Mexico ports. The rates that are being
made from these ports are again proving
a thorn in the sides of the Western roads
and they are fearful that they will not be
able to hold their traffic for a much longer
time unless they reduce their rates to meet
those made by the roads reaching to Colo
RADIO and Kansas City from the gulf. No
date has been set for the meeting, but all
of the roads are growing very restless and
say that unless something is done in the
near future there will be nothing for them
but reduction of rates
The improvements that the Baltimore &
Ohio has had under way at PittSburg for
the past fifteen months have been COM
peted with the exception of a small amount
Of paving between the tracks, which will
be done in the spring. The line now has
cent trackage to handle the vast amount
of business with not only economy but with
celebrity The changes cost in the neighbour
hood of $450000 and consist of new yard
at Glenwood Zone of Pittsburgs suburbs),
double track trestle nearly two miles in
length, the changing of the line OF road
leading into the passenger station and the
building of new freight yards near that
point.
There are civil engineers who predict
that within the next thirty years the great
work on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Lilly
will be abandoned just the same as the
Portage tunnel was abandoned years ago,
and that the greatest railroad on earth will
have the greatest tunnel IN the world, which
will begin at between Lilly and South Fork
and extend all the way to a point just west
of Altoona, a distance Of over eighteen
miles. Such a tunnel would give the Penn
syIvania Railroad an easy grade all the way
from Pittsburg to New York, and the long
est tunnel in the world. The problem of
ventilation could be easily solved by the
boring of numerous vent holes, and In the
tunnel the big engines could make seventy
five miles an hour If necessary