The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-19

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again striking the present roadbed at Disko.
1t is stated that the company Will make
the change providing bonus of per cent.
on the taxable property Of Chester township
is given as subsidy.
The administrator of the estate of Frank
NJ. Foster has brought suit against the Big
Four for $1,000 damages Foster was killed
Aug IA, 1886, when coupling cars at war
saw, Ind.
A large division of the Order of Railway
Conductors was organized this week by
the conductors on the Pittsburg, Bessemer
& Lake Erie road. It will be known as
Division $50.
J. Q. Hicks, general superintendent of the
yards of>rhe Big Four at Indianapolis, Who
has been quite Ill for three weeks, is inn
proving and expects to be at his office again
early next week.
Before the month closes three practically
new engines will be turned out of the shops
Of the Monon at Lafayette, and expert me-
chanical engineers say that some very
creditable work is being done there.
H. Van Dusen has been appointed train
master on the Wheeling & Lake Erie and
he is succeeded as general yardmaSter at
eral yardmaSter of the Lake Shore at To-
ledo.
L. P. Miller, of Canton, O., the oldest rail-
way postal clerk running on Ohio roads,
feet March 81. He is seventy-tWo years
DID, and has run as postal clerk twenty
years.
George w. Alexander, late assistant to
Treasurer Muir, of the Grand Trunk, has
been appointed paymaster of the whole of
the Grand Trunk system, with headquarters
at Montreal, where the treaSurer'S office is
to be soon removed
A general increase in wages of Lehigh
Valley passenger trainmen has been made
Conductors who have been getting $275
per day now receive 49, Baggagemasters
have been increased to $3.50 per day and
brakemen to $190 per day.
The special train on the Erie which car
Pacific, made the run from Chicago to Ash
land, on the Lima division, at an average
time of 619 miles an hour, and the 142 miles
from Chicago to Huntington were covered
in ia minutes
Harvey Noel, general yardmaster of the
Union Railway Company, is i'll with pneu-
mon1a and heart trouble, and last evening
it was feared that he would not recover.
Mr.. Noel was for many years a passenger
conductor on the Indianapolis & ST. Louis,
and entered the service of the Union Rail-
way Company in 1885.
No arrangements have vet been made for
a successor to Passenger Traffic Manager
White, of the Atchison, and it is not likely
that any move In this direction will be
that the general passenger agent of one of
the largest Western lines can have the po-
clares he has not been offered the position,
and has forbidden his name to be used in
connection with the matter.
Indications are that the American Ex-
press will become the largest company in
the world. The negotiations now pending,
which 1t is expected will result in a con-
solidation of the Pacific Express Company
with the American, mean that American
Express messengers will run on all roads
of Utah with one exception including the
Union Pacific and the Navigation Com
the West and all the Gould lines.
The fact that c. F. Daily, general pas
senger agent of the Lake Erie &c Western
and other Brice lines, was called ~ New
eral passenger agents argues well, for the
future officials of the So-called strong lines
have evidently concluded that it is the So
called weak Lines that can do more to de-
moralize rates than some of the stronger.
Fortunately Mr.. Daily is a passenger off,
cha! who believes in the maintenance of
tariff rates.
The monster freight engine the Big Four
has just put in service has one feature
which is highly appreciated by engineers,
and one which the large engines built here
tofore do not have The engineer on the
Big -Four engine, instead # being penned
up in an eighteen-inch space between the
boiler, has ample room, and in case Of ac-
cident does not need to step back several
feet and go around the head of the boiler
before he can jump from the footboard
Chairman Caldwell, Of the Western Pas
senger Association, who was appointed ar
bitrator OF the question of excess fares to be
charged upon the fast Chicago -Denver
trains of the Northwestern and Burlington
roads has prepared his report. 1t will be
submitted as soon as he returns from the
East. While nothing has been said officially
of the finding of the arbitrator, it is said
that the amount fixed is So per passenger.
This will make the fare on the fast trains
$S2, as against $3.50 on the slewer trains of
the competing lines.
The Panama Railroad in conjunction
with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
has issued new freight tariff which con-
tains some startling advances in east-bound
commodity rates The new rate schedule
which has just been put into effect affects
every important item of merchandise that
helps to form the bulk of the east-bound
tonnage out of California by rail or water.
The average advance is so per cent, while
in one instance, that of peas the rate is
tains but one reduction, and on four COM
modities the rates remain undisturbed. All
the rates quoted are,dn cents for the one
hundred pounds.
So seldom is anything said of the value
of the railroad shops at Indianapolis that
their real benefit is lost sight of. For ten
Four, the large shops of the Panhandle
and those of the Indiana, Decatur & West
ern have been running steadily, and in two
cases employing more men than ever be-
fore. Fortunately for the Indiana, Decatur
& Western shops the Cincinnati Hamilton
&s Dayton has had an immense amount of
work done there In the last year twenty
three engines of the c., H. & D. have been
rebuilt, fifty-six coaches of the c., Fl. &
d. have been thoroughly oVerhauled and re-
painted and several hundred freight cars,
and business has been SO good with the
Big Four and the Pennsylvania lines that
it has pushed their shops here to keep up
needed repairs.
The twenty-five new engines which the
Wabash road is having built are con-
structed on plans and specifications of ]. B.
Barnes, superintendent of motive power of
the Wabash lines. Mr. Barnes has been
with the Wabash for almost a. quarter of
century, and he knows the requirements
of the road so well that nothing was
neglected in the construction of these fast
freight locomotives, and it is confidently
predicted that they will do wonderful work.
They are ten-wheelers, weighing 144,0OO
pounds each, with 114,OO0 pounds on the
driving wheels, and cylinders 19x26 nehes.
The tanks are somewhat of a noveltyA They
immense affairs, with a capacity for
1850 gallons of water and ten tons of COAL
with feed water heating appliance. The
Barnes front end and understanding APP
paratus is applied. which is acknowledged
to be one of the best ever invented. 1t is
arranged for both effectiveness and econ
omy, and is so simple in construction that
it is not liable to get out of order.