The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-02


hours and twenty minutes, and made twen-
ty-six stops. 1t is claimed that this exceeds
any train ever run on the Fort Wayne road
People on the Michigan division of the Big
-Four are urging the company to give them
Sunday service between Indianapolis and
stin adheres largely to the policy of the
former general manager of the Cincinnati,
Ma69ash & \! Michigan TO run no Trans on
Sunday, or, II any, as few as possible.
w r. McKeen, jr. general foreman of the
mechanical department of the Vandalia
Company, retired from that position on
Thursday. His successor has not been de-
cided on. Mr.. McKeen goes into commercial
pursuits. On Thursday evening he was the
recipient of an elegant gold-headed ebony
cane, presented by his associates in the
shops
Assistant General Passenger Agent Rich
ards, of the New York Central, and party
of friends have just returned from three
weeks trip over Southern roads, travelling
in a private car. During the trip the party
laeSieu Wy TAN 100 lIlSs, anu on WI,
greatly surprised over the excellent cGndl-
ton of Southern roadbeds and Southern
passenger equipment
Freight wrecks had become so numerous
on certain parts of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois that orders have been given that
freight trains on such parts of the line run
on much slower schedule. In one place
where the run was made in eighteen min-i
utes the time is heightened to thirty Min
utes, and at other points a slowing down
OF freight trains has been ordered. - Is 8
Inc excess IdreS on TIE 1dSI IrdIlS OF the
Burlington and the Northwestern and
Union Pacific roads, between Chicago and
Denver, went into effect yesterday, and. as
tar as could be determined, the excess
charges made difference in the amount
of business handled. 1t is not thought like
ly that 1t will make any difference in the
amount of traffic on the fast trains.
At Chicago, yesterday, the Interstate
commerce Commission resumed its investi-
cation of the alleged violations OF the law
by railway officials. The case of the Cattle
raiserS' Association. of Fort Worth, Tex,
against the Fort Worth & Denver Railroad
was heard and argument made on both
sides. The matter was taken under advise
ment The charge against the road was eX-
cessive terminal charges.
After May 1 the White Special train over
the Big Four will be made up of the hand
soonest equipment run in the West. At the
Brightwood shops two combination bag
gage and smoking cars, two ladies, coacp mes
and two dining cars are being built for thlS
train and Barney d Smith, OF Dayton, O.,
are building two parlor cars. The train
runs between Cincinnati and Chicago and
will be complete, full vestibuled trains.
Arrangements have been completed by
which the next regular meeting or the
Western Railway Ciuo, of Chic lg2 will be
held at Purdue Univ arSitv, on Tuesday,
April 10. The club will visit Lafayette for
the purpose of Inspecting the labora cries
Monon shops. They Will ccme and return
by a spe3ill train over the MonDn. 1t IS
expected shat from one hundred to one hum
dred and fifty insfnbers Will make up the
party.
The auditors of the roads comprising the
Union Railway Company yesterday com
pleted the. work of examining the Enion
Station ticket office, preparatory tc turning
it over to Charles Stiltz, who expects that
the board of managers will confirm his APP
ponment as successor Of the late Daniel
Donough. Mr.. Stiltz still being too i'll to be
at his desk, the ticket office was turned
over to Henry Martin, who was given row.
er of attorney to act for Mt. Stiltz until he
RECEIVERS.
George Lowell, general superintendent of
the Monon, is in the city. He states with
the Monon's stone traffic from the Bedford
QuarrieS the present year will be the hcaV-
lest ever handled, and will be limited 10
cars that can be furnished. Having got the
Indianapolis division in standard condition
the company is at work on the main line.
On the first division gravel ballast is te-
ing distributed at the rate IF 100 carlo1ns
per day, and when this division is ballastcd
the steam shovel will be removed from tic
Lafayette gravel pit to GoSport, where
gravel will be taken from the river bed to
ballast the south end of the road.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
will hold its biennial convention in St. Louis,
beginning May IL, and continuing nineteen
days. 1t is stated that if Grand Chief Ar
thur persists in combating the plan of a
federation with the other railway brother
hoods he will be deposed. In speaking of
Always, a few. weeks before one of our
conventions, clique of the discontinued in
to the effect that Chief Arthur is to be de-
posed, but fortunately for the brotherhood
he has every time been reelected, and Will
be this time, federation or no federation"
Charles Vinnedge, auditor of the Union
Railway Company and Belt road yester-
day received a letter from official of
the Missouri, Kansas e. Texas asking that
he furnish that company with information
to the methods which these inter-
ests are operated and the rules and rega-
lations which govern them. He s9id he
asked for this information because the In
dianapolis Union Railway Company ard
Belt road were considered model fnstitu-
lions of this character, and the NJ X. &
II. were arranging with other companies
to form like organizations. The IndIanap-
oils Union Railway Company is the only
strictly cooperative company in the United
States. every road centering here having
a voice in its management.