The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-15

the office of the Western Passenger As
soctation showing how it is dangerous 10 do
business with brokers.
The Southern Indiana has received from
the Baldwin locomotive works three new
engines, and IL will convert the heaVy
switching engines on the Bedford Belt road
into road engines By supplying them with
pony trucks under the front end to steady
them when running.
The superintendent of motive power of the
Erie lines states that the saving in fuel
by the adoption of the Wooten type of loco
motive amounts to nearly 30 per cent. This
is due largely to the fact that slack and
poor grades of coal can be used TO adj
vantage with this type of locomotive.
There is a question as TO there being such
thing as legal consolidation of the West
Shore line with the other Vanderbilt lines,
as 1t was chartered and built as an indie
pendent line by an independent company
ana operated as such until Jan. l, 1896, when
1t was leased TO the Vanderbilts for term
OF 4I5 years.
The Monon furnishes three-ffths, of the
sleeplng-Car equipment running between
cincinnati and Chicago, and the Cincinnati.
Hamilton q Dayton two-fifths- The Monon
WIZ place Wagner cars on the me as ITS
quota, and the Cincinnati, Hamilton a. Day
Pullman cars.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton yes
terday received the first twenty-five cars
on the contract by which the Peninsular
car works. of Michigan, are to build five
hundred cars for the road, and they will
day. The Barney Il Smith Company will
next week commence to fill its contract
Tor five hundred cars at the rate OF twelve
per day.
Wagner Palace Car Company, and Robert
II. Lincoln, of the Pullman Palace Car Conn
pany, both deny that a movement Is on
FOOT 70 consolidate their interests. A con-
solicitation of the Vanderbilt lines with those
of the Pennsylvania would be about as
likely to occur. as the Wagner Gar COM
al lx a
and the Pullman Car Company's stock is
owned largely by the Pennsylvania Com
pany.
The Big Four contemplates expanding in
the neghborhood of 100000 in Improvements
at Anderson, Ind which has become a
very important point on that system. One
depot, part of it two stories high. to be
used for offices. The most important i'm
provement will be the building of cutoff
which will be somewhat in the nature or an
air line, by which the through freights will
cut off two miles Of road and with this
roundheuse will be built. and the yard
tracks considerably extended.
Welcome Rice passenger conductor on
the Lake Erie e. Western. formerly the In
dianapolis, Peru & Chicago, has been run
ming on that road between Indianapolis
and Michigan City since 1854. In 1857 he
was promoted by " r. Malott, then gem
eral manager of the L., p. & G. road, to
sition ever since, except the three years he
was in the army. To-day he goes to South
Bend to be present at a reunion of his
old regiment and to celebrate the beginning
or MS fortleth year as passenger con-
ductor on that road.
The New York Central has placed in use
at some of its important stations novel
device, the invention of one of the COM
pany's passenger conductors, kpown as an
indicator. They are placed against the wall
near the door of the waiting room On the
'front.' of the indicators there is the time
table or the trains and passengers about to
take a train can lind out for themselves
just when their train is due and if it be
late, how much, without bothering the door
man. The indicators are worked from the
train dispatchers office, where a duplicate
set OF the dials is located. Around the city
In several of the hotels there will be these
indicators, all worked on the same wire as
those at the depot They will be of much
greater use at the hotels than at the sta
ton. vbe
1t is expected that President Hughitt of
q meeting of the presidents of the inter
ested lines to consider the Colorado fast
train situation within few days. 1t was
agreed by the presidents at the time they
decided to take the fast-train problem under
consideration that Mr.. Hughitt should issue
the call. 1t was originally determined thai
the meeting should be held in Chicago by
meeting may not now be held this week.
but 1t is understood by all interested roads
that there will be no reduction in rates un-
til the matter is settled. One general passeu-
ger agent said yesterday that this dispute
between the four Colorado lines marked the
beginning of excess fares in the West. He
said that it might not be the outcome of the
present matter, but that the ultimate effect
would be that roads running fast trains will
charge extra fare for them.