The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-28

utes. making twenty-five stops: distance,
that between stations on but few roads is
faster running Gcne
The Pittsburg Fort Wayne & Chicago is
handling daily between Crestline and Pitts
burg l25 trains, hauling from 1850 to 5000
cars. The train dispatchers work but eight
hours, there being three sets of men.
The pay car of the Pennsylvania road on
its trip this month disbursed the premiums
for the best sections of track on each di-
vision, the first prize being $50 and the
second $50. Two prizes are awarded for each
division
On Jan. / the building of fifty new box
cars, S0,000 pounds capacity, will be COM
menced at the shops of the Vandalia in
Terre Haute The material for their con-
struction is now in the compaEys yards at
| Terre Haute.
The movement of citizens of Omaha to
have another exposition held there next
year has received backset by the roads
| centering there stating that they will neither
contribute to such an exposition nor give
reduced rates.
1t is stated that the Lake Erie & Ohio
road. which has its southern terminus at
Bergholz o., will be extended to Jewett.
o. Agents of New York capitalists are on
the line of the proposed extension leasing
coal lands adjacent to the projected road.
Frank Bronson, son of H. NJ. Bronson, as
sistant general passenger agent of the Big
-Four lines, who is a teacher in the IN
dianapolis Industrial School, is spending the
holidays with his brother the chief clerk
of the Chesapeake & Ohio at Washington,
d. c.
Receiver John K. Cowen, of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad yesterday said that F. d.
Underwood had not accepted the position of
general manager. Mr.. Cowen also said that
the b. q o. had not purchased and did not
contemplate buying, any of the so-called
Brice roads
Engine 1877, on the Vandalia, on Monday
morning hauled Train II, consisting ,of five
cars, from Terre Haute to Indianapolis,
seventy-three miles, in eighty-seven min
utes making four stops, which is said TO
be the fastest time ever made by a regular
train between the two points
Operating officials of Indianapolis lines
are gratifed over the exemption from ac-
cidents on their respective lines during the
year 1898, and it is the more remarkable
when 1t is considered that never in the his
tory of any of the roads has so large ton
mage of freight been handled in any twelve
months.
Train IL, on the Big Four, between Chi
cago and Cincinnati, and Train 49, the
knickerbocker. between st. Louis and
Cleveland, earn about the same per mile
run and are the best paying trains run on
the. Big Four system the year round. The
knickerbocker with each year is increasing
in popularity.
After two months of negotiations between
the officials of the Missouri Kansas & Texas
and the grievance committee of the Order of
Railway Telegraphers an agreement has
been reached, and the committee of the
telegraphers, who had been working on the
matter since Oct. IA, have returned to their
The net earnings of the Atchison system
for the month of November were 81 434,1 49.
an increase of $780, 4S6 over the net earnings
of the same month last year. The net earn
ings for the five months of the fiscal year
ending Nov. 30 amount to $4,968 ,l31. a de-
crease of $144,S77 from the net earnings of
the same period of the preceding f1Scal year.
The freight tonnage is now so heavy that
but few of the roads suspended any of their
through trains for Christmas. On the Pan
handle lines it was one of the busiest days
of the year. The loaded-car movement east
ward is nearly double that of west bound,
and some of the roads are forced to delay
on side tracks what are known as slow
freights.
All shippers in Cincinnati have received
notices from the headquarters of all rail-
roads. centering there that, on and after
Jan. /, 1899, tariff rates will be rigidly ad-
hered to. This is in consequence of recent
decisions and admonitions by various
have complained to the courts of loss of
business by reason Of their competitors CIV
ing rebates on freights.
Officials of the Pennsylvania Company
have been notified of the introduction of an
ordinance in the Chicago Council which will
further necessitate the elevation of the COM
The ordinance provides for the continuation
of the Lake Shore and the Pennsylvania
elevations from their present terminus, just
beyond the crossing of the illinois Central
tracks at Grand Crossing. 1t is a tremendous
work and will entail great expense.
George It. Gunnip, general agent of the
passenger department of the Santa Fe lines,
is in the city. He states that the company
has made itself very popular with the Pa
eitic coast people by it's purpose to possess
an Independent line into San Francisco. To
do so the company must build seventy miles
of road which will be completed by Sept.
/, 1899. The Santa Fe terminal will be at
Point Richmond three miles from Oakland.
Mr.. Gunnip says that the east-bound travel
over the line has shown more increase than
the west-bound, which has been very salts
factory.
One of the most singular accidents on
record occurred on the Indianapolis & Vim
cennes on Monday. l.. L. Michaels. engi-
neer, who was running an engine hauling
a freight train running along about twenty
miles an hour, changed places with his fire.
man. Without any premonition the engine
separated from the tank, and Engineer
Michaels fell, striking his shoulder on the
! drawbar in such a manner as to throw him
to one side, clear of the tank and train,
and after the train had passed he got up,
brushed his clothes and resumed his run.
The oldest railroad men say that such an
escape from falling under the tank and be-
ing crushed to death would not occur in one
Gas OIIf of q fb0nSand of similar accidents.