The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-22
passengers per day. Yesterday in both d.
rections If carried sixty-six passengers.


passengers per day. Yesterday in both d.
rections ii carried sixty-six passengers.
The Panhandle Company has been max.
ing extensive improvements to its yards a
Carnegie, rearrangIlg the system 81 tracks
A new interlocking plant is being put il
position, the largest in Pennsylvania. Whe1
the improvements are completed the fast
trains can run through safely at a speed Of
sixty-iye miles an hour.
On Tuesday, Train 90 on the vandalia
was hauled from Terre Haute TO IndiaEap-
oils in one hour and thirty-two minutes
including stops at Brazil, Lmedale Green
castle and the Relt road THE train CON
sisted of eight cars, including three Pull
man cars. The seventy-three miles was COW
cred in eighty-one minutes actual running
time
Charley Merrill, Western travelling pas
senger agent of the New York Central who
has been in the city for couple of days,
said yesterday: If the business of the
Knickerbocker over the Big Four continues
to increase, arrangements will be made to
put on another New York car, New Eng
land business row being so heavy that its
Boston car is fully occupied"
A few years ago the Louisville Evans
vile & St. Louis was noted for it's large
number of high trestles and dangerous
waterways. Since George I. Jarvis became
trestles, filing several miles of them with
dirt and broken stone, and all streams are
now crossed on new steel bridges, the APP
proaches to the bridges being protected by
masonry and riprap.
c. z. Strong, general agent of the Erie
lines, in charge of the fast freight service
is in the city. the guest of Chalmers Brown
with whom he was for years associated as
a telegraph operator. Mr.. Strong states that
the fine record the Erie is making in it's fast
freight service is due to its very complete
block signal service, devised and operated
by A. I'll. Mozer, who was for some years
trainmaster on the Indianapolis and St
Louis, under E. 3. Mcclure, then general
superintendent.
nF-
cago division of the Big Four have ex-
pressed desire to enlist in case their serV-
ices. are needed, H. f. Houghton superin-
tendent in charge of transportation on this
division, opened correspondence with Cen
eral Manager Schaff for the purpose of
learning whether in case the men should
tons on returning. There is bur little ques-
ton that Mr. Schaff will agree with Mr..
Houghton that this would be the proper
thing to do.
Thomas e. Fisher has been appointed as
sistant general passenger agent of the Union
Pacific, Denver & Gulf road, to success B.
l.. Winchell who takes the place of George
Nicholson, on the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco. Some comment has been occasioned
by the fact that although Mr.. Fisher is to
nave control of the passenger traffic of the
Denver & Gulf he takes the title of assist
ant general passenger agent. This is taken
by some of the roads to mean that the
Denver q Gulf viii in a short time become
part of the system of the Union Pacific.
way Club to Purdue on Tuesday was
THOMAS Anderson. Mr. Anderson com
inenced railroading on the Indianapolis &,
lafayette, now part of the Big -Four, in
1914; after serving an apprenticeship he was
appointed master car builder of the Indian
apoiis d Lafayette, then to the same posi-
ton on the Wabash. After seventeen years
service on the Wabash he accepted a sim
liar position on the Pittsburg Il Western.
which position he now fills and is credited
with being one of the best master car
builders in the country.
The executive officers of the Western
roads met in Chicago yesterday at the Of
nee of President Cable, of the Rock ISL
and, to consider the trouble in rates on
packing house products and the best method
or doing away with the decentralization The
situation has reached a pass where it is ain
actual loss to the roads TO carry this class
of freight and the presidents are of the
opinion that it is time for them to do some
thing TO conserve revenue. 1t was gener-
ally conceded that the rates should be re-
stored at once, but the obstacle to this is
the great number of outstanding contracts
Which call for the transportation of packing
house products at the low rates 1t was
conceded that there is no way in which the
railroads can restore the rates Unless all
these contracts are abrogated Other rates
are being demoralized by the packing hellse
products and the presidents determined ia
make every effort to restore these rates at
once.