The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-27

and 1883 in the week ending Feb. II. Belt
road engines handled at the stock yards
last week 760 ears of live stock against 9l
cars in the week ending Feb. IS, and against
LBS carloads in the week ending Feb. a..
Belt road engines last week handled for
private industries on it's line 788 cars, against
7S cars in the week ending Feb. IL, and 40
cars in the week ending Feb. II.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
James Reilly, engineer on the Panhandle,
slipped on the ice last Thursday and broke
his leg between the knee and ankle.
The engineers of both the Great Northern
and the Northern Pacific have petitioned
the managers for an increase in wages.
BY May l the Pittsburg q Western will
be a double track line from Pittsburg to
Youngstown and the old track relaid with
new heavy steel.
II. J. Herbert, former contracting agent
of the Baltimore & Ohio, has taken a posi-
ton in the auditing department of the
Michigan Central.
It is stated that w. H. Truesdale will not
enter upon his duties as president OF the
Delaware, Lackawanna q Western until
the second week of March.
Work was commenced by the Pennsyl-
vania Company last week at Mansfield, o.,
where its side track capacity is to be In
creased to hold 800 more cars.
The Big Four lines proper handled at In
~dianapo(is last week 10,6O loaded cars, 33S
fewer than in the corresponding week of
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Letter wheat.
In the year 1898 the voluntary relief de-
partment of the Pennsylvania lines east of
P~ittsbuTg disbursed in benefits $51S, S44, and
at the close of the year had a surplus in its
treasury of $685.
The Vandalis handled at Indianapolis last
week 1856 loaded cars, 264 more than in the
corresponding week of 1898, the road bring
ing in 1,451 loaded cars and forwarding west
915 loaded and 6T3 empty ears.
OF late the Peoria & Eastern has been
movement, handling at indianapolis last
week 1851 loaded cars, against 1,4S0 in the
corresponding week of 1898, and against l735
in the corresponding week of 1897.
The Pennsylvania lines continue to do a
good business, the four divisions handling
at this point last week 4,527 loaded cars, $40
more than in the corresponding week last
year. The indianapolis & Vincennes had a
record breaker, handling 1855 loaded cars.
John II. Dye, general solicitor of the Big
-Four lines, returned on saturday from
Cleveland, where he has been most OF the
time since Jan. 10, representing the Big
-Four in the lake front case before Judge
Hammond, who on Saturday took the case
under advisement.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company an
nounces that, commencing yesterday, the
through sleeping cars which have been run
between Jersey City n Jacksonville via the
Atlantic Coast line and the Plant system,
will hereafter run through from Jersey City
to Tampa via Sanford.
The Illinois Central has set aside a hand
some sum of money to bring its track be-
tween Evansville and Henderson up to the
company's high standard. Where in the
past the former owners experienced much
trouble from high water the track will be
elevated to do away with all trouble of this
character.
that the Pennsylvania has ordered from the
Baldwin locomotive works this month, the
company is in the market for twenty-five
more and 5000 more cars of different classes.
The company is now receiving 1000 steel
cars and will probably place an order for.
LOCO more next month.
Despite the decrease in gross earnings of
the Big Four lines proper the first two
weeks of February, since July l the exhibit
is highly satisfactory and will improve from
now on. Since July 1 the read has earned,
gross, 9,2S5, 4S9, against 5000, 275 in the cor
responding period ending. with Feb. IA. 1898,
and against 1921. 3D8 in 1897.
The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago
Yesterday shortened the running time of the
fast mail train between Pittsburg and Chi
cage twenty-five minutes, and Trains Z, 3
and II fifteen minutes. With the taking eff
will further reduce the time of two of it's
fast trains between st. Louis and Jersey
City.
The special committee appointed by the
Western Passenger Association to consider
the minimum numbr of miles to be Travelled
under the interchangeable mileage system,
it is stated, will recommend that the min
imum mileage be increased from 1900 to
5000 miles. 1t was suggested that 1t be
made 5000 miles, but the committee thought
it would be too great a jump and COM
DIR. Talbot, medical xamine of the In
d~ianapOlis division of the Pennsylvania
lines, says he thinks the 20 below zerG
weather killed the grip. Before the cold
grip and many others sneezing and shifting,
but many who were i'll are now reporting
an Improvement in the health of the en-
ployes. He says it was a rather remarkable
fact that but few men contracted colds or
pneumonia, although exposed to all the fury
of the late blizzard.
The Rev. e ]. Divine, S. j., professor in
st. Mary's College in Montreal, besides be-
ing a scientist and electrician of great abili-
ty, is also an inventor and has the model of
ar automatic electric signal which can be
pplied to freight as well as passenger
trains, and is an invention of great merit. 1t
has been patented in Canada. and besides
being a novel and ingenious device is en-
inently practical and simple. Tests of the
Pacific and the Grand Trunk railways in
Canada, and were in every way successful.
Vice President George A. Burt, of the
Ohio River road, emphatically denies that
was to pass into other hands / am certain
| would know 1t, and know nothing of
regular order of business Regardless of
this. it is persistently reported that the
Pennsylvania Company outbid the b. & o.
syndicate and has secured an option on the
property at 81, 900 900; also, that a number
OF the Panhandle officials will make an in
spection trip over the entire line within a
few days.
An English paper announces that within
a short time a lightning express railway
will be constructed between Liverpool and
Manchester, on which rains will be run at
the rate Of one hundred miles per hour. The
new line will differ from the ordinary track
in that il viii consist of a single rail, ele-
waited about four feet from the ground and
supported on "A' shaped steel ~trestles. The
coaches intended for the line will be fitted
with wheels in the center, and these will
run on the rail. They will be like the posi-
ton of the saddle pack which hangs on each
side Of the camel's back.
About half way between Cumberland and
Martinsburg, on the second division of the
Baltimore & Ohio, is a picturesque spot
known as Doe gully. There is quite a little
hill at this point that the road goes through
and the approaches to this tunnel include
several reverse curves. The company has
been engaged for the past two months in
removing these curves and reducing the
grades. The chico engineer says the i'm
provement Will a. away with one of the
most Objectionable pieces of track on the
second division. 1t will not only make n
much better riding track for fast trains, but
materially assist the west-bound freights in
climbing this grade.
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