The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-27

Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Big Four is putting in six miles of
new steel between Lawrenceburg ana Gull
ford.
P. c. Liggett, of Fort Wayne, on Feb.
will go to Chicago as ticket agent of the
Lake Shore road.
The Pennsylvania Company's tourist ear
for California yesterday left this city with
every berth occupied.
The directors of the Ontario & Western
Railway Company have elected Chauncey
NJ. Depew a director of the road.
Charles A. Langdon. chief clerk of 6; L.
Park, division superintendent on the ian, Tan
handle, was buried at Sheridan on Tues
day.
Albert ingalls,, assistant superintendent
of the Indianapolis and Cleveland divisions
of the Big Four. is IN the city for couple
of days.
General Passenger Agent Heafford has
decided to name his new train. The Gold
en- Limited and it will be painted gold
en- color.
A. A. Zion. superintendent of the Belt
road, will to-day ask for bids on two switch
ing engines. the engine proper to weigh
10000 pounds
William Brewster secretary treasurer of
the Erie & PNtsburg Ga Pennsylvania line).
is dead. He begun his railroad career many
years ago on the Lake Shore.
At the fast freight-line meeting yesterday
in Buffalo Lafayette Briggs, commercial
agent of the Nickle-plate at Chicago, was
elected general manager of the Traders
Engine 226, on the Panhandle. has just
come out of the shops rebuilt. 1t is of the
largest Glass p type and yesterday brought
in Train s. making up several minutes of
lost time.
All new rails henceforth purchased for the
Peoria & Eastern will be thirty-three feet in
length. General Manager barnard says
there is a saving in joint spices because or
the length.
NJ Adami, travelling passenger agent of
the Cotton-belt route, vas in the city yes
nrC4nx To "a toe hot hn fnnrr
are doing an excellent passenger business,
largely in excess of that of last year.
Robert. Quayle, superintendent of motive
power of the Chicago & Northwestern, yes
terday delivered a lecture before the stu
dents at Purdue University on Business
Problems of the Motive Power Depart
ment."
Thomas Morris, assistant chief engineer
on the Big Four lines, this month COM
menced his twenty-eighth year of service
with that company. His first work was on
the part of the system known as the st.
Louis division.
A. ]. Smith, secretary of the American
Association of General Ticket and Passen-
sociation at Washington Feb. H. to per-
feet arrangements for the use of a new
safety ticket paper.
One of the new twelve-wheel engines on
the Chicago & Northwestern on Monday
hauled in one train eighty-nine cars,
thirty-nine of the cars being loaded and
fifty empty. The train was nearly three
fourths of a mile long.
w. F. Goltra. secretary of Vice President
and General Manager Bradbury, of the
Brice lines, is one of the busiest men to be
found in railroad service. All detail work
which comes to the general managers office
must be looked after by him.
Large numbers of the delegates to the
monetary commission left for their respec-
tive homes last night The Big Four sent
out four extra Wagner sleeping cars, the
Pennsylvania four extra Pullman cars and
the yandalia two extra Pullman cars west
bound.
1t is stated that the Lake Shore is so free
from curves and steep grades that on no
road In the country can the freight ton
mage be moved at so small an expense per
mile, and on no road would 1t be safer
to run trains at the highest speed than on
the Lake Shore
William Garstang superintendent of mo-
tive power of the Big Four. has gone to
Pittsburg to attend a meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the master car builders
and auditors to fix upon plan to have ac-
counts of this department kept in a more
uniform manner.
General Passenger Agent Daniels of the
New York Central, is determined that the
patrons of the road shall be amply accom-
modated. as is shown in the fact that every
twenty-four hours sixteen trains of the
highest standard of equipment leave New
York for the West.
M. a; Zook; engineer of maintenance of
Tois who has hecn IN The ctv fo dsv
or two, returned yesterday TO Louisville.
The proposition to change his headquarters
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shelved for the present at least. -
No one has yet denied that General Man
| ager Dickson. of the Union Pacific, is to re-
turn to the Baltimore & Ohio. AS Receiv-
err Murray has denied that VIM. Green is
| to retire as general manager of the Balti-
more q Ohio. what position is to be given
Mr.. Dickinson is matter of speculation.
The lease by which the Pittsburg, Gin
cinnati. Chicago & st. Louis operates the
Little Miami is said to be the best for the
owners of the property of any railroad con-
"a ~ ri pKs nov nyic ino rIo
ing the Little Miami owners much better
than it does the Pennsylvania Company, the
lessons.
The Oregon Central e. Eastern road. four
teen miles in length, extending from
Yaquina bay to the Cascade mountains
has been transferred to the new corpora
ton, the Corvallis & Eastern. J. K. Wether-
ford. of Albany. is president of the new
I, company. It is stated that a mortgage has
been executed bonding the road for the sum
CT $4,000 per mile, and that this money will
be used in extending the road eastward.
The new motor ear of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton. which was sent back
to the Baldwin locomotive works a few
weeks ago to be overhauled and some new
features introduced, is ready for shipment
West. On it's arrival it will be tested, and
il it performs as expected it will be placed
in regular service by the middle of next
month. The improvements to the car were
made, on suggestions of Passenger Traffic
Manager Edwards who is also the presi-
dent of the c., Fl. & ID. Traction Company.
singular accident happened on the
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trains was running side by side with one of
the roads freight trains where the track is
double. near Englewood. when Il freight car
Jumped off the track just ahead of the pas
senger locomotive, striking it in such a man.
ner as to take off side of the cab, and
the engine came in with one side of the cab
boarded up roughly to protect the engineer
What might have been serious accident
resulted in no injury TO the train crews
and the property damage was slight.
Beginning Sunday Feb s. a new train
will be placed in service between Chicago
and Denver, which will make the fastest
schedule ever maintained between Chicago
be known as THE Colorado Special" and
Will leave Chicago via the Chicago q North
western Railway at 10 o'clock a. m. every
day. and reach Denver at 80 the following
afternoon. East-bound, this train will leave
Denver daily at $3.50 p. m. and reach Chi
cago at $40 the next evening, and connec-
ton Will be made in the Union Depot at
Denver to and from trains of all the Colora-
do lines. Trains win be vestibuled through
out, lighted with Pintsch gas and will con-
sst Of coaches, free reclining chair cars
buffet smoking and library cars. and dining
cars, serving all meals route.
A large number of men are employed In
making excavations and fills for the new
tracks the Pennsylvania will construct in
addition TO it's present double track be-
shoNelS are at work tearing up the loose
material and steam and compressed air
drills are boring thousands of holes into
the mountain side rock, into which dyna-
mite IS placed and exploded. On the noun
tain side, supported by huge cranes. are
platforms on which large gangs of men
are employed. and when loaded they are
swung round and the contents dumped into
the ravine below and the heavier rock is
hauled away over "A bridge constructed
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