The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-09

members of Company H, Of the Thirty-ifth
Regiment OF Indiana Volunteers. Mr..
Peirce was lieutenant of the company and
never fails to be present at these reunions.
The rule recently introduced on the Pitts
burg. Fort Wayne & Chicago requiring con-
ductors TO make memorandum of the
passengers carried in smoking cars. first
class coaches, parlor cars and Pullmans has
been extended to the Panhandle
The stockholders of the Chicago Great
western Railway held their annual meeting
yesterday and reelected 4. b. Suckney. +.
w. Weyerhouser and Arnold Kalman direc-
tors for three years. The remaining direc-
tors terms hold over another year. The
board Of directors elected officers this aft
ernoon.
All the railway companies are copying
after the Pennsylvania and paying more at
tention to the appearance of their passenger
tram men and station agents, some going
so far as to require white shirts, collars
ana CUTS, black ties and patent or we'll
polished shoes. The Wabash has of late be-
come quite strict in this matter.
w. o. Thompson. secretary of the Trav-
cling Engineers Associate will go to Buff
falo next week to arrange for their annual
days. The association is composed Of road
firemen of engines on railways in the United
States. Canada and Mexico. d. r. McBain,
of the Michigan Central. is president of the
organization.
The office of the North Shore Dispatch at
Milwaukee will be closed on Oct. l. S. c.
Tiftin, agent, retiring. f. w Ten Wrinkle,
be agent of the Canada Southern and the
North Shore Dispatch. r. j. Nicoud, present
agent of the West Shore. will succeed G..
NJ. TfbbitS as agent of all the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern lines.
"A number of Western roads are using
gumbo Tor ballast with marked success.
Gumbo is composed of peculiar substance
of earth taken from banks of creeks and
small rivers in the South. 1t is baked in
large quantities in layers. 1t is commonly
called huckshot because it crumbes when
forms solid il
mass for ballast. 1t is dustless. cheap and
servceabe.
An official of the Monon lines said yester-
day that were there any foundation for the
statement that the Monon was to be alb
sorbed by the Big Four, work on the ex-
pensive ninemile cutoff at Bedford would
doubtless be suspended and the joint ar
rangement between the Cincinnati Hamil-
ton IL Dayton as to freight depots at In
dianapolis would have been abandoned.
These Improvements will cost in the neigh
borhood of 100000
II. L. Magee, general superintendent of
the wabash lines, states that the company
has laid this season 5000 tons of eighty
pound steel rail on it's main line in In
diana and Illinois. and eighty-pound rails
Detroit and Buffalo Mr.. Magee claims the
Wabash has as good a roadbed as any line
IN the country. On me main line in Indi-
ana and Illinois It's carloads of ballast are
being distributed daily.
A ballast spreader invented by shopman
at LoganSpOrt is proving a success 1t con-
sists of fiat car with wing or out-rigger
alton to the level of the grade The car
is pushed along behind the side dump cars
from which the ballast is dropped and
spreads it out after them on either side or
both sides, as desired. The spreaders are
made of old rails. The car weighs 46 600
pounds, and at recent test spread twenty
five carloads of crushed stone in thirty
minutes as evenly as it could possibly be
done by any other method.