The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-17

ed 10 SoI,l9os3, from 1relgDt forwarded 10
Ss7.i24S y. receipts from sale of tickets to
S26 004.62.
A. c. Turpin has been appointed travel
ing passenger agent Of the Chicago * Rock
Island for New England, with headquarters
at Boston. He will give special attention
to the tourist business
Traffic on the Pttsburg, Fort Wayne &
Chicago and the Panhandle is now heavier
than In 1892. On Thursday evening fifteen
long freight trains passed lakewood Station
In seVenty-1ive minutes.
One of the surprises to freight officials is
that with the restoration of rates on JAN
there has been no diminution in volume
of west-bound traffic, but rather an increase
III the higher class freights.
Harry Conrod who has been employed at
the Dennison shops Of the penhan lie, has
resigned to become assistant master me-
chanic of he shops Of the Columbus &
Hooking Valley at Columbus.
The wife Of Harry Olds, of the Union
line, died on Saturday and will be buried
to-day. She was a daughter of Thomas
Shields, general yardmaster of the Penn
sylvania Company at this point.
Frank e. Moore, who has been with the
Big Four as agent at Delaware was buried
yesterday. He had been in the employ of
the Bee-line, now part of the Big -Four sys-
TEN, forty years, since 1874 as agent at
Delaware.
The statement that the new North Shore
Dispatch is to be q pet with the Michi-
gan Central people and that the road VIII
throw all its traffic and its influence in IA
ton by railroad men.
The fast mail train on the Pennsylvania,
on Thursday, between Altoona and Harris
burg, made a record breaking run. At one
point seven miles was covered in six min
uteS, with twelve cars in the train. A Glass
Il engine hauled the train.
The Pennsylvania Company has offered
q reward of $3.50 for information concerning
E. B. Walton, private secretary of c. E.
Pugh, second vice president, who so myS-
teriously disappeared on Nov. 20. His af-
fairs with the company are correct.
At the instance of the Pennsylvania Com
pany the suits begun in Cleveland against
a number of roads entering that city for
the recovery of certain portions of the lake
front now occupied by these lines have been
transferred to the United States Court.
Last night eighty prominent coal opera
tors of the Pittsburg district left Pittsburg
| for Chicago over the Lake Shore lines, trav-
cling on an elegant train of Wagner palace
cars. From Cleveland to Chicago the train
was run on the fast-mail-train time between
those points.
Ticket agents are not pleased with the
movement making by the Union Pacific, the
Northern Pacific, the Canadian Pacific and
the Great Northern to abolish payment of
their revenues and may be followed by
other important Western lines.
G. r. Root. of this city, has been award
ed contract to furnish slate for the roofs
for the new shops and roundhouse the PeO-
ria & Eastern is building at Urbana, ILL.,
II will require 965 squares TO cover the roof
a
peake & Ohio
An impression prevails that there is some
ground for the rumor that the Big Four
is sel5ing to acquire control of the Elkhart
Gently inspected the line. Although but
TIVE We nil org, the road rea~ hes the man
ufacturing concerns at Eikhart and South
Bend. and the latter place has valuable ter
minals. The road was built by Herbert
Bucklen, a patent-medicine millionaire.
The Pennsylvania has under contempla-
sion which will eclipse anything yet under
taken on that division 1t is said to be
nothing less than abandonment of the
Spruce-creek tunnel, the only long one on
that division, and the construction of a line
along the other side of the creek. Such an
undertaking would involve large outlay of
money and it means the construction OF at
least two miles of expensive work.
The Schenectady engine that is being test
ed on the Panhandle is not doing as
satisfactory work as do the Class p en-
hills west of Columbus, hauling fourteen
cars the Glass p engine loses but three
minutes on the schedule, while the Science
tady engine loses seven minutes. But
when once up the hill the latter, with its
larger driving wheels, makes up the loss
1t should be borne in mind that IT is hard
to convince an official or an engineer on
the Pennsylvania lines that a better engine
can be built than at the Altoona shops, says
an engineer who is not in any manner pref
udiced.
The Alexandria Express contains the fol-
lowing concerning the business Of the Big
Four road at that place: 'TE closing
month of the old year was a big month for
the Big Four at this point, and the first
month of the new year promises to be bet
t r The eigf sc out ON this city dur
ing the month of December shows an in
crease of 200 per cent. over the last month
Of 1896. The same comparison shows an in
crease of 300 per cent. in freight received.
The ticket sales are $750.4S greater than for
December a year ago The Big Four's bust
ness prospects are better than for several
years. The accounts for December show
that the road carried from Anderson 100
cars of freight for the Union Steel Com
pany. More than 200 per cent. of material
was received by the American Glass Com
pany, and twenty cars of finished glass were
shipped out
The establishment of the North Shore
Dispatch has created a good deal of COM
motion amongst the fast freight line men,
and General Manager Mann has not Less
ened the interest in the line by saying:
THE North Shore Dispatch fast freight
line. is simply an association of the eight
reads mentioned for the handling of traffic
between the West and the East. We wish
to facilitate the ugh-freght business on
these lines There is to be no Incorporation.
We shall use about seventy connecting
Western railroads, in addition to the eight
that belong to the association We expect
ours to be one of the largest freight lines
in the country. The main Eastern line to
be used is the West Shore. while the prin-
cipal one in the West will be the Michigan
Central. Both are Vanderbilt roads A
book of billing instructions is in course of
preparation and will be issued about Jan.
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