The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-26

Washington. More credence would be given
to the rumor were its Eastern terminal 10
Gated on the Atlantic coast even If the road
was built via Washington.
The office of chief engineer on the Chesa-
peake & Ohio has been abolished with the
resignation of Fl. Frasier The duties will
be performed by the engineer of mainte-
nance of way on each grand division.
The Vandalia is doing only what is alb
solutely necessary to keep up the repairs
on its Terre Haute & Peoria division, the
pennsylvania Company evidently being de-
termined to drop that division as early as
practicable.
James R. Hatmaker, who has been private
secretary of Cornelius Vanderbilt for fif-
teen years, has severed his connection with
the New York Central and will go into bust
ness as an administration adviser and or
ganization expert.
The Big Four on Sunday brought in off
the Cincinnati division twenty-three car
loads of excursionists, most of whom came
from Cincinnati The first train consisted
of eighteen cars, hauled by two locomotives,
and six extra cars were hauled on Train 1.
The Chesapeake & Ohio has placed an or
der with the Pullman Company for sec
ond thousand box cars, work to be COM
menced on them as early, as possible, SO
that the cars may be used in moving the
fall crops. The Ensign Car Manufacturing
Company is building 500 coal cars for the
G. e. o.
Passengers arriving at the Grand Central
Station of the New York Central at New
York are profuse in their thanks to the
management of the road in having aboi-
ished the cab nuisance at the Forty-second
street exit, the CentraPs cab system hav-
ing done away with the old-tme painful din
of hundreds of hackmen.
H. Bailue, a freight conductor on the
Monon. will, it is thought, lose an eye
through accident. few days ago
cinder got in one of his eyes and it has be-
come SO serious matter that he was taken
TO specialist at Chicago who says he does
not think the eye can be saved. Mr. Ballue
was for years passenger conductor on the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois.
It is said by Receiver Cowan, of the
Baltimore e. Ohio, that the movement in
London to obtain a modification of the re-
organization plan will prove unavalllng,
as the terms granted are really liberal UNI
der the circumstances. He says the plan
in its present shape promises to be sue
cess, and the reorganization Will be consum-
mated sooner than was expected
The heavier sections of rails adopted in re-
cent years are not giving as good service
as the lighter sections heretofore used. 1t
is stated that on one of the trunk lines the
hundred-ponnd rail has worn only from one
half to three-quarters as long as the eighty
five-pound rail- The reason assigned is that
the larger quantity Of metal in the head
takes longer to cool and is softer.
BY October 81 every foot Of track on the
Pennsylvania road proper, will be laid with
rail weighing 100 pounds to the yard A
railway official who travelled over the Pitts
burg division last week states that for nifty
miles rails of this weight are distributed
along the line More work has been done
than on any other part of the system, even
exceeding the improvement on the Atlantic
City division.
The reorganization of the Pacific Express
Company is now complete. President Burt,
of the Union Pacific, who was elected pro-
visionally to succeed President Morsman
when the latter resigned some weeks ago.
handed in his resignation to the board of
directors and it was accepted. James Egg
gleston, of the Adams Express. of New
Pacific. Oliver sr0' W. Mink resigned as vice
president and director of the company. No
one was elected to succeed him as vice
president, but Erastus Young, general audi
tor of the Union Pacific, was chosen to fill
the vacancy on the directorate.
A settlement Of the Canadian Pacific rate
war seems to have been reached at length.
Van Horne of the Canadian Pacific, met at
st. Paul last week to discuss preliminarieS
for ending the fight. The Canadian Pacific
is understood to have expressed it's willing
ness to give up it's differentials on Pacific
coast business provided certain other con-
cessions are granted. There is little doubt
to bring about a settlement of the rate war.
The decision of the Interstate-commerce
ton at Chicago next Monday is believed
to be largely responsible for the changed at
titude of the roads on both sides.
A motion was made yesterday before
Gerry chambers for the sale of property of
the Hudson Tunnel Railway Company for
the satlS1actlon or a mortgage or $4OOO,O0
held by the Farmers Loan and Trust Com
pany of New York and Henry Broughton
Kendall of London, as trustee for the bond
holders. The property consists chiefly of
tunnel, lacking $50 feet of completion, under
the Hudson river between Fifteenth street.
Jersey City, and the foot of Morton street,
New York. The object of the sale is said
to be the reorganization of the company
and the completion of the tunnel. The APP
plication was made by former United States
District Attorney Henry S. White. Chan
cellOr McGill reserved decision, but it is
thought he will grant the motion.