The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-27


Haute to Indianapolis. making a stop at
Greencastle, In eighty-four minutes. Dis
lance. seventy-three miles.
William r. McKeen. ex-president of the
Vandalia lines, was in the city yesterday
looking after his interest In property the
new Stock Yards Company expects TO pur-
chase.
On June / the Southwestern Freight Bu-
reau will drop four of its commissioners. re-
ducing the associations annual expenses
$4,000.
The New York Central has prepared plans
and will at once let the contract for an
at Weehawken. Its capacity will be 100000
bushels.
An official circular announces the appoint
ment of Gen. III. ]. Booth as traffic man.
! recently absorbed the Cleveland, Canton &
Southern.
E. o. Mccormick. passenger traffic man
ager of the. Southern Pacific, is arranging
TO spend a few days with friends in Cncin-
natl next month. combining pleasure with a
business trip.
This month 400 cars OF the vandalia have
been turned out of the shops at Terre Haute
equipped with air brakes and automatic
couplers. The. company has 500 more to
provide with like Improvements.
p. p. Shelby has been appointed vice
president and general manager of the Pa
ciic & Idaho Northern. Mr.. Shelby has had
a large railroad experience on the Union
Pacific and Great Northern lines.
Charles II. Kingsbury, who on June / will
become commercial agent of the Norfolk &
Western at Pittsburg, is the son of f. H.
kingsbury, for some years assistant general
freight agent of the Panhandle lines.
The Chesapeake g. Ohio will make extern
sive improvements in its terminals at Gin
clnnat1 In the way of additional yard room,
and when completed there will be no danger
OF a congestion OF business at that point.
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy will
build a four-mile cutoff between st. Joseph
and Kansas City on its Kansas City divi-
sion, Strengthening the curves below Bever-
ly, and thus escaping all danger from high
water.
The gross earnings Of the Chicago. Mil
waukee & St. Paul for the third week in
May were $6, lG0 in excess of those of the
corresponding week of 1895. and the larg-
est in the history of the road for a week
in May.
AT all points on the Baltimore & Ohio
where the company has valuable property
| fire departments of the employees have been
| organized At Locust Point every Saturday
afternoon the fire plugs are tested and the
men practice.
ing any reductions from the Missouri river
to California for the transportation of the
army and navy and United States volun-
teers returning to their homes, to become
effective June /.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy has is
sued a booklet giving illustrations of its new
passenger station at Omaha. which is one
of the finest in the country. The Missouri
Pacific has issued a very attractive folder
setting out the summer resorts along its line
and the best hunting and fishing points.
The roads running west from Buffalo
reaped a harvest during the strike. some
of the roads carrying out as high as three
hundred carloads per day: in fact. they
stripped the freight depots and docks of a
parge portion of the west-bound freight
which would have gone TO Chicago by boat.
A New York paper quotes President In
gals. of the Big Four, as saying that the
recent decrease in earnings of the Big Four
Is due TO a cOmDariS0n with phenomenal
earnings last year. Weekly earnings are
now larger than at the corresponding
period of 1897. He looks for a decided i'm
provement within a short time.
The Pennsylvania Company is making
tests of coal from Indiana and Illinois mines.
Wlss a view dfyysio OF using Isl t6s II for fuel sho1 on the
lest be satisfactory. All the coal the Wa
bash. Railway uses is taken from mines To-
Illinois, and 1t is considered irst-class engine
fuel.
William Bowde Lyons. superintendent of
the Missouri. Kansas & Texas, Is dead at
Albany, Ind, and served in the civil war.
marching with Sherman to the sea and ris-
ing to the rank of colonel. He assisted at
Cheyenne in the construction of the Union
Pacific Railroad.
c. II. Ackert, who has been elected pres
Lake Shore & Eastern, in addition to his
duties as president and general manager OF
the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern, begun railroad
service in 1872 as a telegraph operator. In
1883 he was made general manager of the
Iowa Central and in 1893 general manager
of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern.
Within the next ten days the Big -Four
will have in service seven new Wagner
sleeping cars of the latest pattern. They
were built at the Wagner palace-car works.
The Chesapeake & Ohio has just received
four new Pullman cars, which will be placed
in service at once on the F. F. v. limited,
to run between Cincinnati and New York,
Those of the Big Four are to be hauled or
TIED. anu NH
J.. L. Webster. Of Omaha, representative
of William and Robert Z. Todd, yesterday
O'Neil & Western Railway for 10000 to
satisfy 2,350.0O OF first mortgage bonds
held by j. Kennedy Todd & Co. of New
tends from Sioux City to OyNeiI. Neb. II
was originally intended to build 1t TO San
Francisco. but the panic of 1898 threw ii
into receivers hands.
George Kittredge. chief engineer of the
Big Four lines, was in the city yesterday
to confer with General superintendent Van
Wrinkle concerning some Improvements al
points on the st. Louis division. He states
that by June l the Big Four will have re.
ceived sixty miles of new steel, weighing
eighty pounds TO the yard. Fortunately
President Ingalls, contracted for this steel
before rails advanced 81 per ton. He has
purchased ten miles of new steel for the
Peoria & Eastern.
tons Of Ohio have arranged for a monster
meeting 10 be held at an early date. 1t Is
said one of the principal questions to be
discussed Is the biack-listing rule. In the
circular sent out attention is called TO the
fact that submission to every rule or abso-
lutte slavery is demanded. In commenting
on this circular a very conservative rail-
way official said: with the rules now en-
forced such appalling accidents as that re-
Gently on the Philadelphia q Reading occur,
So far as train service Is concerned it's the
trainmen who claim to be most aggrieved.
yet but for the observance generally of the
l. sfandard rules accidents mould he nn,,nh