The Indianapolis journal., 1898-01-26

$500 new men, This is one Of the roads on
which it is alleged there is too much discf-
pfine to make 1t run smoothly
The furniture manufacturers at Corners
vile and Shelbyvile have recently made
some large sales of furniture TO go 10 West
ern States and 10 the Pacific coast, and
there is a good deal of rivalry between the
freight men to secure the business.
On the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern 2SS men
worked during the year 1897 under the
Brown discipline and of these but fourteen
received demerit marks that under the
rules compelled their discharge; l0I had
perfect records and p received special
credits.
The Toledo, ST Louis & Kansas City
earned in the third week of January ySl,36l
corresponding week of 1897. Since jan l the
road has earned S1101A.49. a decrease as
compared with the corresponding period last
year of I624.
Chief Engineer Brown. of the Pennsyl-
vania lines makes by recent measurement
the mileage of the system east of Pittsburg
and Erie 4,l67, while the mileage OF the
Southwestern and Northwestern systems
aggregates 4704, making the total mileage
operated S,S2.
The eighty miles of heavy new steel rail
on the Vandalia main line that has been
put in within the last twelve months is now
ballasted and in perfect condition, and 1t is
claimed is as good track as can be found
on any road in the extensive system of the
Pennsylvania.
Indications now are that the stone traffic
from Bedford, Ind, the present year will
exceed all former records. The MOnon is
getting things in shape to handle an inn
mense business of this class, and the new
Indiana Southern road will be able to do
heavy business.
The Union Railway Company at Kansas
City has elected e. S. Washburn president
Mr.. Washburn was at one time general
freight agent of the Big Four, and is now
president and general manager of the Kan
sas City, Memphis & Birmingham and the
Fort Scott roads.
The first of the Pennsylvania Golden Gate
specials from New York TO San Francisco
will pass through the city tomorrow going
west via the Vandalia. The train will con-
sist of dining car, i've sleeping cars and
an observation car. Other trains will be
run later in the season.
Last Saturday the limited mail on the
Panhandle with a United States mail
service official on board, made the run from
Indianapolis TO Columbus in four hours and
seventeen minutes, making the fastest time
between those points record. 1t was for
ty-eight minutes faster than its regular
schedule.
have ordered twelve coaches and three COM
bination cars built at once at the shops in
Columbus. 1t is stated that the new equip
ment will be put in service over the Penn
sylyania line between Louisville and Chi
cago via Indianapolis and between Cincin-
natl and Chicago via Richmond.
The Ohio Falls car works at Jeffersonville
will this week complete the delivery of one
hundred box and one hundred stock cars
ordered by the Queen q Crescent a few
weeks ago, and will at once begin build
ing for that road two hundred coal two
hundred box and one hundred furniture
cars ordered since the first of the year
Some months ago the Pennsylvania road
built at its shops in Juniata five locomotives
of the consolidated type introducing several
new features, aGd so powerful and fast
with heavy trains have these engines proved
that five more are to be built at once. They
haul from ten to fifteen more cars than any
engine used before, and at much higher
speed
Evidence was given yesterday before the
grand jury at Chicago against a ticket
broker who has been active before the con-
gressional committees in his efforts to pre-
vent the passage of the anti-Scalping bill.
Two witnesses were heard both being from
the Wabash road and it is said that others
will follow. AT late hour In the afternoon
it was announced by the Office of the states
attorney that the hearing of the case is not
yet finished. but that it would not require
much time to finish it.
In the construction of the state-line inter-
locking switches of the Chicago & Western
Indiana road the pipe connections aggre-
gated twelve miles in length and the length
or wire used was twenty-one miles in
length. The work at the signal tower is
done at all hours by two men, who work
eight hours, there being six signal men, un-
der charge of George Espey, signal engi-
neer. Over two hundred trains pass this
point every twenty-four hours, and numer-
Gus train orders and kilograms are received
and delivered
The suit wherein the Pennsylvania Com
pany seeks to prevent the city of Lima o..
from issuing $9S,000 in park bonds will come
up for a hearing before Judge Hammond
at Toledo next month. The Pennsylvania
alleges that the money received from these
bonds is TO be given the Cincinnati Hamil-
ton q Dayton and the Detroit q Lima
Northern railroads for shop purposes. The
authorities of the city agreed to release the
Pennsylvania Company from d portion of
the taxes providing it would withdraw the
suit, but it secured a temporary Injunction
and the coming suit will decide whether it
shall be permanent.
There is little doubt that the roads of
the Central Passenger Association and those
of the Western Passenger Association,
which meet in Chicago to-day to consider
the question of rates to Alaska will ask the
lnterstate-commerce Commission to suspend
the long.and-shor clause of the law
in order that they may meet the rates of
the Canadian Pacific through to the Pacific
coast without demoralizing their local
tariffs. Ic was, in the opinion of the pas
senger representatives of the Western roads
who held meeting yesterday, the best
thing to be done. There is some doubt as
to the percentage the Eastern roads will
stand in the reduction in case it becomes
necessary to make. one. in order to meet
the rates of the Canadian Pacific. This
matter may provoke a lively argument to-