The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-27
will recommend that the minimum mileage
be increased from 1000 10 1000

will recommend that the minimum mileage
be increased from 1900 TO 5000.
Col. r. G. Butler, division freight agent
of the Wabash at Detroit. has resigned to
accept the position of agent of the United
states Express Company at New YORK,
with salary of $500 year. Mr.. Butler
has been with the Wabash fourteen years
A. J. Crane general traffic manager of
the Fitchburg road, has made announce
ment of the death of Richard j. Rees, who
for six years has been the foreign freight
agent of that company. He pays appropri-
ate tribute TO the deceased, his life ending
with every work and duty well done
The annual report of c. H. Bronson, audi
tor of the Pittsburg q Lake Erie. shows
that in the year 1888 the road earned $2S,l14
on every mile operated, which. it is claimed,
is the best exhibit per mile of earnings
shown by any road in the country. In pas
senger earnings there was an increase of
$4,000 over 1897.
The Chicago & Northwestern will. on Sun
day. put on a train between Chicago and
Omaha which will make the run daily be-
tween those two points, leaving Chicago at
p. m. and reaching Omaha next morning
at 1855. This is one hour and fifty-hve min
utes quicker than any of its present trains
than the new fast train put on last Sunday
by the Chicago q Rock Island.
The c., II. V & T. yesterday announced
a reduction of 10 cents per ton in coal rates
from the Hooking valley to Columbus 1t is
stated that the cut is made to meet the re-
duced rates given by the Norfolk & Western
on West Virginia coal which is driving the
Hooking valley product out of the Ohio
markets. The cut in freight rates will be
followed by a similar reduction in the mar
ket price of coal.
There is CONSERVATION in the ranks Of
general agents, travelling passenger agents;
with the ticket departments of the
tt trunk railways, because the pres
idents have issued strict instructions
to abolish the paying of COM
missions For years it has been the prac-
tee for Western roads to pay commissions
TO ticket agents for favors received, but
TINS has been discontinued.
G. II. Waldo car-service superintendent
OF The Cincinnati, Hamilton g. Dayton, and
A. j. Ball, assistant superintendent Of mo-
tive power of the same lines, were in the
city yesterday to arrange for putting more
engines and cars into the Indiana, Decatur
d Western shops for repairs. In the last two
division of the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Day
ton has been rebuilt at the l., d. w.
shops, in this city. Some of the mainline
engines will now be sent here.
c. II. Cory, superintendent of motive
power of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton lines, claims that Engine 126, that
road, has made the best record of any
engine run on any Ohio road it running
the tires of the driving wheels show only
an eighth of an inch wear. For three con-
secutlve years the engine was not sent to
the shops. and when 1t is considered that the
average run for an engine is $1,000 miles
without repairs it is a good record.
The Chesapeake & Ohio. in the last two
years, has laid sixty miles of heavy steel
rail, sixty feet in length. and the advisable
ity of laying more of that length is under
consideration. In summer the rails expand
so that it requires very heavy ballast to
keep the track in line while in winter il
contracts to such an extent that the ends
OF the rails show more or less battering.
The trackmen, who favor the shorter rail,
say the climate in the territory the road
passes through is such as to affect the rail
more than on roads farther north.