The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-20

Haute ana LOUISVILLE nine carloads of fast
horses from New England and New York
NJ. W. Mansfield. superintendent Of the
Indianapolis q Vincennes road, to-day goes
TO Pittsburg to be away most of the week.
F. V. s. Crosby has been appointed treas
urer of the Union Pacific vice James Harris
resigned, after holding the position thirty
years.
The Wells & French Car Company, of
Chicago, yesterday commenced on a con-
tract to build 800 cars, 60, 900 pounds capacity,
for the Grand Trunk.
SO numerous were the students en- route
to educational institutions yesterday that
some Of the roads found it necessary to put
on special baggage cars.
AS in Indiana, the Illinois State law
against ticket scalping is imperative, al
though If enforced in either State it is said
1t would end scalping of tickets.
The coal operators on the Toledo, st. Louis
& Kansas City are getting out but fifty car
loads of coal day. Two of the most i'm
portant mines are shut down on account of
strikes.
The big Pittsburg freight engines on the
Vandaiia, hauling thirty cars of live stock
or perishable freight will run forty miles an
hour most of the distance between st. Louis
and Indianapolis.
1t is stated that M. F. Bonanza, who last
week rendered his resignation as superin-
tendent of the Columbus Sandusky & Hook
ing, is to take position on one of the
Northwestern lines.
The Columbus shops are turning out three
new passenger coaches for the Panhandle
lines month and they are credited with
being the best cars in their construction in
use on Western lines.
The general managers of the roads COM
prising the Union Railway Company will
meet to-day. As there has Eeen no meet
ing for two months it is expected that all
the lines will be represented.
The Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City
earned $47 1886 in the second week of Septem-
week Of 1897 of $3.50. The first half of the
month the earnings increased $2460.
Samuel Sweet. general freight agent of the
Lake Lake. Erie & Western, and J. ". Smith,
agent of the Erie fast freight lines. have
gone to Cincinnati TO attend the meeting
of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite.
The Big Four yesterday received from the
Richmond locomotive works a large con-
solidated freight engine, simple type, and on
Thursday will receive from the same works
consolidated engine of the compound type.
In the fraternity of the Brotherhood of Lo-
comotlve F1remen the opinion prevails that
j. j. Hannahan will be elected as grand
chief of the order, succeeding f. p. Sargent.
and that F. w. Arnold will be reelected
secretary and treasurer.
Officials of Indianapolis lines are much
gratified that through the weeks of heavy
travel in this section not a passenger has
been killed or injured and the Big Four
and the Pennsylvania lines, the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton and the Monon have
been carrying as many people as in the year
of the worlds fair
Eastern papers are commenting favorably
on the Evansville & Terre Haute again be-
coming dividend-paying road. Without
question the road was never better man.
aged and its paying a dividend is interesting
as indicating that the general prosperity has
not been enjoyed alone by the large and
more prominent roads.
The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad will
be sold not later than November. A decree
will be asked for at the present term of
court in Toledo and there will be no oppo-
sition. The reorganization committee has
given this out and says no trouble is being
had to gather in the assessments. The re-
ceiver will be discharged early in January.
There are 725 miles of main line in the Lake
Erie & Western system proper, and but few
roads in the country make as even earnings
from year to year. Its gross earnings for
1896, 1884 273; 1885, $3.50 O4; 1894 $3945, 4OS
1893, $3512 $40, and in its net earnings the ex-
hbit is fully as striking, being as follows:
1897, $l463 2S2; 1885, 81 427 OILS; 1885. $16O2,96l
| 1894, $1,4 ,552 1888, s., 46S,S7S.
| P. A. Bonebrake superintendent of the
indianapolis division OF the Panhandle, mas
become, well settled in his new position be
states that Notwithstanding the heavy traff1c
of two months since he was promoted there
has been no friction and the relations be-
tween the officials of the division and the
trainmen are of the pleasantest character.
| The Brown merit system has seeming
| ly been shelved, Mr.. Bonebrake having
| system of discipline which he thinks better.
The Pennsylvania has abandoned the col
| lection of Decent excess fare from train
paying passengers on account of the internal
revenue commissioners decision that the re-
bate check REQUIRES a stamp. The Chicago
& Alton has the advantage over most other
| roads Passengers must show their tickets
before they can go through the gates to
the train, and no one is more pleased over
the plan than the passenger conductors, they
now having no anxiety lest their positions
be jepordized by spotter.
For over one hundred miles east of Chi
cago the Lake Shore has locust posts and
woven wire distributed to be put up and
inside of six months the road from Chicago
limits to Cleveland will be inclOSed by
neat, safe, practical and economical fence of
galvanized wire. The Pittsburg. Fort Wayne
& Chicago and the Panhandle are also fenc
ing their main line in the same manner.
1t is estimated that within the next twelve
months ten THOUSAND miles of fencing of
this description will be erected.
The stockholders of the Chicago, Indian
apolis & Louisville will mold their annual
meeting in this city tomorrow. There have
been so many rumors as Ia the road chang
ing hands that whether there VIII be any
change in the board of directors is a matter
OF some interest. 1t is understood thSt
John Greenough. who has been a director
of the company for many years, will retire,
as he is retiring from all business so that
he may have no occasion to worry over
the fluctuations of railroad properties.
E. w. McKenna, formerly superintendent
of the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis.
says that his process of making over steel
rails is a complete success, and the mill for
that purpose at Joliet, ILL.,. although large
establishment is inadequate to do the work
offered. The general presumption has been
that rails lose by use considerable portion
of their metal, rendering them incapable of
being used again. The fact is proved how
ever, that the rails lose only a very small
proportion of their metal, only becoming
unserviceable from the displacement of the
metal the tread of the rail. the usual
loss not averaging more than one pound per
yard-that is, rail of seventy-five pounds
section or seventy-five pounds per yard, and
weighing originally $50 pounds, on being re-
moved from the track will have lost but one
to two pounds of metal per yard the
scrap rail accordingly weighing from 100
to $40 pounds But in this most recent, or
Mckenna, process of producing such rails,
the manipulation of the rail. equaling two
and one-half to three and one-half pounds
per yard; and thus it is that rail of sew
enty-fve pounds section. after having served
its original life, can be renewed. weighing
seventy pounds to the yard-from two to
five of such renewals in fact. being nrac-