The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

and points south thereof. The rate from St.
LOUIS Will pc the same as the Mobile q
Ohio's cut to Mobile, viz, SO.
Coal operators in the Brazil. Ind. district
complain that the railroad companies do not
furnish enough cars to keep the miners at
work. The trouble is that too many cars
for storing coal.
Yesterday there were in one party carried
over the Panhandle seventy-eight men
bound for the Yukon, all from New York
and Pennsylvania. They go over the Pan
handle to Chicago. the Chicago, Milwaukee
d st. Paul, and the Great Northern.
Engine 1904, of the Pennsylvania road,
which was sent to the Panhandle to be
1t is stated, did well with the machine,
while Others were too preiudiced against
Schenectady engines to get good results.
Edmund D. Goldman. who has been acting
president or the Fitchburg road since the
death Of President Marcy has been elected
president by the directors Mr.. Goldman is
thirty-three years old and is one of the
youngest railroad presidents in the country.
George Bender, superintendent of the Big
Four's Chicago division, stated that since
Feb. this division alone had handled an
average of 1,400 loaded cars a day. The Ell
gin, Joliet a. Eastern is interchanging sew
eral hundred cars per day, and west, as well
as east-bound business. is very heavy.
On Wednesday Commissioner Blanchard
Of the Joint Traffic Association, said to q
reporter of a New York paper that he had
received no advices that rates on the Letter
wheat had been cut adding that the results
OF the recent meeting were satisfactory,
and a slight reduction in rates by lake and
rail routes was agreed on.
The Pennsylvania has petitioned Congress
for exclusive privileges in Washington for
carriage service from the depots. The
Pennsylvania officials aver that other roads
have abandoned this service because it is
Improbable, and that they want to con-
tinue it for the sole reason that 1t is an
extra inducement to travellers to use their
lines.
The Kansas City Belt road is proving of
great benefit in the moving; OF freight
promptly, as is the case with the Indian
ordered two new locomotives from the
Baldwin locomotive works OF much the
same proportions and design as the two
just contracted for by the Indianapolis
Union Railway Company for the Belt road
The industrial department CT the Chicago.
Milwaukee & st. Paul is issuing a daily re-
port of the ice situation along its entire
system, some twelve hundred points fire.
quently reporting. This company has given
this line of business much attention and is
realizing good results. Station agents are
much interested in the matter, and forward
data with view OF increasing the business.
Lewis Williams, formerly general super
intendent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton, in speaking of the fast run over
the Erie on Sunday, said that high speeds
ago, when he began railroading. Then"
he said, I'VE had the old-fashion hand
brake, and the trouble was not so much in
making fast time as being able to control
are now far superior to those of even twen-
ty years ago, when broken rails were fire.
quent. The limit of speed has not yet been
reached, and much faster time will be made
appliances and continual betterment Of
equipment"