The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-13

SOciat1On handled 1917 cars, with an aver
age detention of LIZ days.
j. r. ReniT has resigned as master car
| builder of the Lake Shore at Norfolk, o.,
| and the position has been abolished.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company to-
| day puts on new line of Pullman sleeping
cars between New York and Charleston.
c. ]. Wiggin has been appointed general
baggage agent of the Boston & Maine sue
ceeding o. w. Greedy, one of the oldest bag
| gage agents in time of service in New En-
gland.
M. Roberts, master mechanic of the ST.
Louis q Iron Mountain, has been appointed
master mechanic of the whole system in
| Missouri and Arkansas, with headquarters
| at Argenta, Ark.
J. Q. Van Wrinkle, general superintendent
| of the Big Four lines and George Kilt
redge, chief engineer, will to-day go to Cairo
| TO look after some contemplated improve
ments on that division.
Next spring the New York Central will
| put on a new train each way between New
| York and Saratoga Springs, making the run
| in three and a half hours, fully as fast as
| the schedule of the Empire State Express
l.. l.. Dawson has been appointed master
mechanic of the New Orleans division or
the Illinois Central with headquarters at
McComb City, Miss, succeeding W. q.
| Baldwin, recently killed Oy jumping from a
| moving engine.
The through trains on the Big Four
which have sleeping cars attached are now
| provided with what is known as the Wag-
| ner broiler, which enables the service OF a
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| haul Il dining car.
Edward HILL formerly engineer of main
| tenanCe of way of the Indianapolis & Vim
| cennes, has been appointed chief engineer
! of the Tennessee Central Railroad Com
pany, which is building 1913 miles of new
| road in the South
| The last issue of the Railroad Gazette
| contains a cut of the interlocking switch
| and signal of the Big Four at Greensburg
and full description Of it. The effective
ness and completeness of the plant is favor
ably commented on
The Illinois Central has let the contract
for new passenger station at Champaign.
Ill; the building to be lSS feet long by 40
| wide, constructed of pressed brick and
| Bedford. Ind, stone trimmings. Work on
the foundation was commenced last week.
| The Big Four is arranging to put into
ge leral use what is known the Tangem
| ticket which cannot, it is claimed, be ma
nipulated in any manner. 1t will be a radical
| change from the present form of ticket, but
| a great protection to the revenue of the
| road
1t is stated that on Jan. the position of
| assistant general passenger agent of the Gin
| cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton line will be
| abolished and that Walter Nichols will DE
| taken care of in another position, probably
taking his former position as travelling pas
| senger agent.
Freeman Godfrey, the contractor, who
built a large portion of the St Louis, Alton
| & Terre Haute, now the st. Louis division
Of the Big Four. and portions of the Illinois
/ Central died at Grand Rapids recently.
| His work on the firSt-nsmed road was done
| in 1851 and 1852.
The Columbus-Chicago rate war was prac-
| tically ended yesterday when the Baltimore
/ & Ohio notified the Ohio Central lines that
| they would no longer accept business at
| the reduced rate. The Baltimore g. Ohio
handles the business from Galesta to Chi
| cago. Pressure by the Pennsylvania lines
ended the war.
| Joseph Averill, general yardmaster of the
| Vandalia at this city, says the manner coal
| is being received here reminds him of the
| time before the introduction of natural gas,
! the receipts now reaching about one hun
| dred carloads a day. Not only the manu-
| facturers but the coal dealers are receiving
| large quantities, and each week is showing
an increase in tonnage. The company is now
| using its SO,OOO-pound capacity cars.
The Chicago Great Western announces the
| promotion of General Freight Agent Peter G.
| Stohr to be general traffic manager, an or,
to be general freight agent. having the place
| of assistant general freight agent for ten
years Mr.. stohr was formerly New York
| known as the kansas City" and both are
we'll known in railroad circles.
! If the statements of the United States
are correct Gd On FEB Tea
| president of the Delaware, Lackawanna &.
| Western will retire and representatives of
/ the Vanderbilt interests take control. Mr..
| Sloan has been president of the Lackawan-
| ma road since August 1867. He entered rail-
| road service in 1854, and Mr.. Holden. has
| been in official position on the road for
many years.
On Saturday last Train IA on the Pam
handle was hauled fifty miles in fifty min
| utes, and the run from Columbus to Pitts
burg was covered in four hours and forty
| five minutes. AS an illustration of the fast
| schedule Train IA is run on over the South
| $50 miles farther than the fast train of the
| Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago, with only
| fifty-five minutes more time TO cover the 6lS
| miles than the Fort Wayne train consumes
| in running 46S miles.
| Engineers and firemen on the Michigan
| division of the Big Four have a new griev-
| ance In order that the main line may be
| of the company prohibit the cleaning of en-
| CINE tireboXeS at any other place than on
| sidetrackS. The men on the foOtboard claim
| that there are times when even the best
| trainmen are caught on the road with a
f1rebox that must be cleaned, and to back
| on to siding TO do this requires time and
causes considerable trouble.
| An official of the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
| Dayton says that the Interchange of bust
| ness the last year between the Cincinnati
| Hamilton & Dayton and the Queen & Cres-
| cent has largely exceeded that of any form
eT year ana mas gone iab u t
| profit if operated as one interest, which will
| very likely be the case when the affairs of
the Queen & Crescent are in such shape
| that the syndicate owning the Cincinnati,
4 Hamilton & Dayton fully understand what
| it is purchasing.
Judge Morris. in the United States Dis
trct Court at Baltimore, yesterday granted
| the application of Receivers Cowen and Muir
ray, of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, to
lease from the Mercantile Trust Company
| 5000 box cars and thirty locomotives, and
| from the Maryland Trust Company fifty
locomotives. 5000 box cars and 1000 coal
cars. The total of the Mercantile Trust
Company's lease is $1.S57,000 at per cent.
for ten years from jan l, 1899 and of the
Maryland Trust Company s, So $4,000, at ,
per cent for ten years from JAN l, 1899.
The Wagner Sleeping Car Company adj
| mlts that lines which they operate
| do the sleeping cars run pay as handsomely
| as do the through cars hauled over the Big
| Four and Vanderbilt lines between St. Louis
| and New York. on the Knickerbocker and
the Southwestern Limited trains This
| senger Traffic Manager Mccormick as to
! putting on other fast trains than those now
| running The convenient hours at which the
| Knickerbocker and Southwestern Limited
| are run for Western cities has done much
| to popularize these trains.
1t is stated that within one year the Lake
| Shore road, including the forty-f1Ve engines
| contracted for last week, will buy two hun
| dred new locomotives. John Newell who is
| president of this road. and his successor,
| d. w Caldwell. cut down the grades and
| lars were spent in that direction; the new
| president. w. III. Newman, now proposes to
| take advantage of the light grades and use
| heavier locomotives. A large portion or the
| Lake Shores present locomotives are well
| worn and can be repaired and sold TO roads
where the traffic is lighter. 1t is expected
| that when the Lake Shore gets some of its
| new heavier locomotives, with its light
grades it win create great surprises in the
| tonnage that one engine will haul.
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