The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-30


going general repairs, etc, and hundreds of
freight cars have been rebuilt at the shops
Meantime the L. d. & w. has kept its own
repairs up. The Belt road shops and those
of the Peoria & Eastern have been kept
center have the railway employees in shop or
train service Jared better than those en-
ployed by the Indianapolis roads.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Big Four has this week opened sta
ton at Paisley, Ill.
e. o. Mccormick, passenger traffic man
ager of the Big Four, has returned from the
East.
w. NJ. Green, general manager of the Bal
timore & Ohio, is on a Western trip. he
was in Cincinnati yesterday.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois increased
its gross earnings in February, 1898, over
those of February. 1897, by $14,16O it's net
earnings by $501.
l.. M. Studevant has been appointed as
sistant treasurer and purchasing agent of
the Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee, vice {.
III. Roser, resigned.
Columbus, o., which year ago had six
In Cincinnati the ranks of ScalperS are be-
ing rapidly thinned out.
The Wabash on Monday received the first
of its new heavy. passenger engines, from
which a high speed record is looked for.
There are four more to come.
e. l.. Burk, general freight and passen-
ger agent of the Northern Michigan Trans
portatfon Company has resigned and has
been succeeded by B. +. Church.
F. p. Sargent, grand master of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive F'iremen. is on
a Western trip, and on Sunday addressed
the Brotherhood al Denver, Col
The Pennsylvania line will build fifty new
coaches of p new pattern, of the highest
grade, to be placed on parts of its system
where the best of service is demanded.
Tits stated that the F'indlay Fort Wayne
r. Western extended
Kankankee, ILL.,. where ii will connect with
the Big -Four and the Illinois Central.
Travel to Portland and Seattle is now
heavier than at any other of the Pacific
coast points, but unfortunately the rate is
so low that the roads are realizing no profit
The washouts on the Louisville division of
the Pennsylvania lines have afforded an eX-
cellent opportunity for the Big Four to adj
vertise its line between Indianapolis and
Louisville.
The surveying corps of the Wabash is now
running a third line for a connecting link
between the Detroit and the Toledo divi-
sions, this line leaving the Toledo main line
at Maumee.
The Big Four is securing options on more
property at Terre Haute, and it is evident
that President ingalls, intends to make
some improvements there which will be APP
preciated by the citizens.
A Milford. a passenger conductor on the
Michigan division of the Big Four, who has
dropped with others a few weeks ago, has
taken situation on the Chicago az South
eastern extra freight conductor.
The economies introduced by President
Ripley on the Santa Fe lines are beginning
to bear fruit The official statement shows
that the net earnings of the road for Feb
ruary were $4,000 in excess of those of
February, 1897.
Train No. 20 on the Panhandle yesterday
afternoon went through to Pittsburg over
the Panhandle tracks, being the first to run
through since Wednesday of last week with
out making a detour over the tracks of
some other line.
Passenger engine 2O4, of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton 81 Dayton will be turned out of
the Indiana. Decatur g. Western shops to-
day, thoroughly rebuilt, and it is claimed
that it will be the notwithstanding engine
of the road as to speed.
Theodore N. Kucher who for some years
was employed in the. shops of the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne & Chicago at Fort
Wayne, has been appointed assistant
master mechanic of the shops of the Penn
sylvania line at Allegheny.
The Oregon Short-line has just completed
at its own shops the locomotives which it is
stated are the first complete locomotives
built by the Pacific coast lines. They are
pronounced equal in every respect to the
engines built at Eastern locomotive works.
Sebastian Miller, of Fort Wayne, has sued
that sparks from one of it's locomotives set
fire to his farm, burning several acres of
muck lands, 12S,000 willow plants, and de-
stroying an elaborate system of drainage.
The fill at Hazelton, the Evansville &
Terre Haute is holding out against the high
waters, much to the qualification of the
officers of the road. When the fill was
made last year. clay was used, and ii is
said it has become as solid as stone ma
sonry.
William NJ. Price yesterday assumed the
duty of travelling freight agent of the Wa
bash lines. His territory will cover New
York State, Pennsylvania and part of Can
ada. Mr.. Price has for some years repre-
scented the Chicago Il Northwestern at
San Francisco.
FTha ipfarehaupa of traffic betyya the
Big Four and the Chesapeake x Ohio at
Cincinnati will be resumed to-day. The Big
Four has on side tracks on Its system 400
loaded cars, most of them made up into
solid trains to move as fast as the power
can handle them.
On Saturday, on the Indianapolis division
of the Cincinnati. Hamilton * Dayton, there
We're twelve points at which trains were
obliged to move slowly on account of dam
age done by high. waters; yesterday the
number was reduced to two, and to-day they
will be fully repaired
The Brown system of discipline is prac-
tically in force on the Big Four lines.
Under the rule an employee will not be laid
off for a trivial offense, but mark will
be placed against his name for neglect of
duty, and when a certain number of marks
is reached he will be discharged.
The roads in the Western and Central
Passenger Association have disagreed upon
the question of home seekers excursions.
The Western Association declines to make
centrsI Trae mt. Hssocation VIII u give . me
duced rates for excursions into its terri
tory.
The first half of March ninety of the i'm
portant roads of the country show an in
crease over the corresponding fourteen days
of 1897 of 20h per cent, but owing to the
trouble of the last ten days from high
waters IL Is feared that the increase of the
first half of the month will be lost in the
latter part
One of the remarkable things about the
recent floods that so damaged railways in
this State is that the Toledo, St. Louis &
Kansas City experienced no trouble or de-
lay from high waters, while the Wabash,
which parallels ii most of the way between
Toledo and st. Louis, was badly cut up,
losing several bridges
Net earnings of the Burlington system for
the month of February were $i06 As, an in
crease of 1886 over the same month of
last year. For the months from July 1897
to February, 1898, the net earnings Of the
road have been $4.9lT006, an increase of
$1,645,O59 over the corresponding period OF
the previous fiscal year.
Col William Shaw district passenger
agent OF the Chicago. Burlington a. Quincy
is I'm the city. He states that their new fast
trains to the Northwest are doing a fine
business, and the through car service estab-
lished about a month ago between st. Louis
and Portland, Ore, is gratifying surprise
the berths in their sleeping cars nightly be-
ing all taken.