The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-25

last fall This delivery included twenty
heavy engines, which are now being broken
in for service between Cumberland and Bal
timore. These locomotives are OF the con-
solidation type. with 21x26-inch cylinders,
and the average load that they pull approx
imates 1900 tons. sF
The engineering department of the Van
dalia line has spent a large sum OF money
in enlarging the openings of the waterways
on the main line, ami the present high
waters have done the road no damage. An
official of the road who has been connected
with the Vandalia for many years says this
is the first time the main line has gone
through one of these floods without losing
some of it's bridges or stretches of embank-
ment being washed out.
H. Foster Chaffee, of Montreal, passenger
agent of the Richelieu * Ontario Naviga-
ton Company. has been in the city for a
day or two. He states that this company
now has twenty-seven fine steamers in serv-
ice and is building two more to cost $240,O 900
each. These boats run between Toronto
and Montreal, via Thousand islands and
numerous other points of interest. The en-
tire route made by these steamers is from
Toronto to the Saguenay, eight hundred
miles.
Chairman CALDWELL of the Western Pas
senger Association, to whom was referred
the matter of excess fare or no excess fare
to be charged on the fast trains put ON be-
tween Denver and Chicago by the North
western and the Union Pacific and the Bur
lington roads, has reached decision in the
matter. He will not announce 1t for some
days, 4DuL the IMPRESSION Is lLdl Itb Will
decide in favor of a charge of ain extra fare
of $3.50. Chairman Caldwell refuses abso-
lutely TO say what his decision will be.
George r. Nicholson, now general passen-
ger and ticket agent of the Atchison road,
has been appointed passenger traffic man
ager of the Atchison road to succeed Will
liam F.. White, deceased. Mr.. Nicholson
was for years general passenger agent OF
the ST. Louis & San Francisco road. He
is familiar with every foot of the Atchison
system and with all the work done by. Mr..
White in building up the traffic OF the At
Gibson 1t is but recently that he resigned
his position on the AtchiSon to become pas
senger agent of the ST. Louis & San Fran
cisco. y, 5fS ~at.f
John J. Mossman. division freight agent of
the Wabash lines, with headquarters at
Buffalo, ". Y, says he is not worrying over
the threats that his line is cutting west
bound rates and that other lines Will meet
it. He says; THE extension of the Wabash
freight service into Buffalo had no more TO
do with the alleged decentralization of freight
rates from Buffalo to the West than did the
man in the moon..s WeSt-bound rates We're
in a deplorable condition long before that.
In no way whatever have they precipitated
this rate cutting or in the least encouraged
it, The condition at present is no worse
than it was last November. when Buffalo
shippers could get any figure they wanted.
On Jan / it was agreed to restore the old
tariff, but some of 1.-THE roads which had
large contracts ON thea cut-rate basis refused
to cancel them. 1t is an apparently nope
less task now. .st