The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-09

has, with the new lines built the past sea-
son, 5,l50 miles of mainline track, LOO To-
conotives and 1900 cars.
The car department of the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne & Chicago. at the Fort Wayne
shops. has just completed five hundred new
box cars. and yesterday were ordered 10
build $50 more OF the same pattern and
twenty-five refrigerator cars.
\ circular announces the appointment of
l.. j. Parks as general passenger agent OF
cific, the position held by G. B. F. Morse
now assistant passenger traffic manager OF
the Southern Pacific system.
While the railroads give only holiday
rates Of one and one-third fare round trip.
as usual, they are more liberal in the time
limit tickets, which will be on sale at re-
duced rates Dec. %, "a. % 30 and 81, and on
Jan. l. good to return on Jan. 2.
Present earnings of the Hooking Valley
are at the rate of 81, $50 900 per annum, and
$4,000 per annum. which justifies the d.
rectors in declaring a dividend of per
cent on its preferred stock. leaving a sur
plus
Freight traffic of the Indiana, Decatur &c
Western at indianapolis mas become so
has been put on. The road is now bringing
In from seventy to eighty carloads of corn
daily from local points on its line, most of
which goes to the cerealine industries at
William c. Mclaughlin, a flagman at
Connersville. has completed his fortieth
year of service with the c., II. & d. He
commenced on the main line as section
man, was afterwards for many years con-
nected with the bridge gang. and becoming
too old for such work he was placed at
Connersville as fagman.
The demand for copies of "a Message to
Garcia" issued by the passenger depart
ment of the New York Central, continues.
N n ri <Nff haN no
been distributed in this and foreign coun-
tries, and there is no falling off in demand.
for IL is now being used as a reading lesson
In hundreds OF the American schools.
II. M. Waite. for several years past an
engineer of maintenance of way on the
Queen & Crescent, has been appointed SUI
perintendent of the Cincinnati division.
with headquarters at Lexington, KY, and
NJ w. Mcguire superintendent of the Chat
tanoogo division, with headquarters at
Chattanooga, vice a. Griggs, resigned.
The passenger department of the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton has issued in
structions that all passenger conductors
except on the short communication trains.
shall, taking up a ticket or cash fare,
hand to the person paying fare a check.
the check to be taken up by the conductor
before the passenger leaves the train. Con-
ductors are not taking very kindly TO the
order.
An event of unusual Importance to Geor-
the Southern Railways extension to Savan-
nah. At noon the first through train ar
rived at Savannah bearing the officers Of
the company and a number of newspaper
correspondents. The party was welcomed
to the city by fifty leading citizens headed
by Mayor Myers and entertained during
the afternoon. On Dec. 10 the passenger
and freight traffic of the Southern will be
taken into Savannah from New York and
Washington and East: also from Cincin-
natl. Louisville and the West in Southern
Railway trains.
The Rock Island has stirred up a row
in railroad circles by announcing a new
rate on package house products from
Omaha and Kansas City. This line pro-
poses TO begin to-day to haul this class
of freight from Kansas City to TeXarkana,
Ark, in carload lots, minimum $4,000
pounds, for IS cents per 100 pounds, and
from Omaha for a cents per 100 pounds.
The Burlington road and the Memphis line
have just got through with a rate war
on this same class of freight and conse-
quently railroad people are adverse to see
ing a new war launched. If the Rock
Island rate is not withdrawn a rate war is
inevitable.
When the Lackawanna receives the big
new engines that have been ordered IL will
have a supply of motive power that will
enable Ii to successfully. compete with its
rivals either in freight or passenger traffic.
The Brooks locomotive works in Dunkirk
are building twenty-thIee consolidated en-
gines for freight service. and ten or the
same type are now under way at the Dixon
works in Scranton. These engines, with
the tenders. will weigh 100000 pounds. The
Brooks works Is also building new engines
for passenger service that will be partcu-
larly adapted for speed and power. The
Lackawanna is one of the best power
equipped railroads in the United States,
IL having a total of Cos locomotives, or
nearly one to the mile.