The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-10

tlNeS on Monday naule0 SlXtN-nlne lOaGed
cars over the road.
W. c. Arp. superintendent of motive
power OF the Vandalia. is spending the week
at French Lick Springs.
The Wabash is receiving new cars at the
rate of 100 per week. and will soon be well
equipped in that respect.
The Indiana & Illinois Southern will here
after be known as the St. Louis, Indian
apolis & Eastern Railway.
The Wabash has a passenger engine on
it's Buffalo division numbered 1913. which
never met with an accident.
William ~SPangler. passenger conductor on
the Panhandle, has been reinstated. TO run
between Logansport and Cincinnati.
Work on the Columbus, Lima & NIL
are laid to within a few miles Of Lima.
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy has
opened its office in Pittsburg. c. ID. Hag-
german represents the road at that point.
Business men on the Michigan division of
the Big Four are complaining of the slow
scheduled.
hundred stock cars for the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern and has about half the
number completed.
The Travelling Freight Agents Associa-
ton Will meet in Cincinnati on June =.
Usually these meetings are attended by two
hundred or more freight men.
Within the last ninety days the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton q Dayton has equipped sew
tAdl Nv VI - II|lknl tdAo win Gil
brakes and automatic couplers.
The promoters Of the Columbus. Bloom
ington. * Terre Haute line are not meeting
with the encouragement they had expected
In the way of township subsidies.
Wednesday. May II. has been fixed as the
date for the members of the Western Pas
senger Association TO meet and put the nm
ishing touches to the new agreement.
In the passenger car department of the
Panhandle a large force is employed in re-
painting and general repairs to the coaches.
Sixteen are now ready for the shops.
Within the last few days the Monon has
received three of the heavy type of locomo-
tives. weighing lightweight tons. They
will be put in service on the middle division.
President Truesdale. of the Delaware,
ing in the report OF consolidation or com
binations Of that line with the Nickel
plate.
The project of building a short line to
connect Mansfield. o.. with the Big Four
road at the nearest point is being revived.
About eleven miles of road will have to be
built.
ledo. St. Louis & Kansas City Is said to be
making good progress in agreeing upon
plans for putting the property on its feet
D. s. Gray, general agent of the Penn
sylvania Company. and his private secre-
tary, d. E. Neereamer. left for New York
yesterday to look after some Joint Traffic
Association matters.
Last Thursday the Wabash continental
limited covered one stretch of nine miles.
near Litchfeld. ILL.,. in less than eight min
utes. One of the big Baldwin Columbian
engines hauled the train.
A railroad superintendent remarked yes
terday that indianapolis was becoming TO
the Big Four what Philadelphia is to the
Pennsylvania lines. Go per cent. of the trains
handled here being Big Four trains.
The Chicago and Nashville limited was
hauled over the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
on Saturday from Danville 10 Chicago. ia
i nl0 In fuyo hnIrr ~ VIC min
utes. The train consisted of six cars.
The Monon now runs a through sleeping
car nightly between Chicago and French
Lick Springs and on Saturday two sleeping
cars. Last Saturday the business was so
heavy that 1t required three sleeping cars.
A new engine built at the Brightwood
shops or the Big Four was put In service
yesterday, hauling the fast train between
Cincinnati and Kankakee. Expert mechan-
les say the machine is a credit to the shops.
Erie Railroad engineers are getting out a
souvenir publication containing portraits
and biographical sketches of every engineer
on the system. of whom there are about
$500. The work will also contain sketches
of deceased engineers.
d. A. Fraser, formerly with the Michigan
Central dining car service. has accepted the
position of superintendent of the new dining
car service on the Denver & Rio Grande
and the Rio Grande Western, which goes
into operation June l.
J. Q. Van Wrinkle. general superintend-
| eQt. and George Kittredge. chief engineer
OK the Big Four. were in Marion, Ind; yes
terday arranging with the Toledo, ST. Louis
& Kansas City for the erection Of an inter-
locking plant at that crossing.
+. E Fisher, late general freight and pas
senger agent of the Ohio Southern. has de-
cided not to go with the Columbus & Hook
ing Valley, but has accepted a position with
the street railway of Joliet. H.. succeeding
G. c. Rush, recently deceased.
George Lowell, general superintendent Of
the Monon lines. was in the city yester-
day. He says Cedar Lake Park is being
fixed up for summer business in a fine man.
ner and nearly every day some excursion
Is arranged for after June 1 until fall.
The time for stockholders of the Chicago
& Alton TO deposit their stock in favor of
the reorganization has been extended until
May ~. Ninety-six per cent. of the COM
mon stock and 81 of the preferred stock
has already been deposited in favor of the
plan.
The hauling of a sleeping car between St.
Louis and Boston on the Knickerbocker
express, over the Big Four, is giving the
company more space for points on the New
York Central TO which there is a good deal
of travel. The two New York .sleepers are
usually crowded
F.. B. Pryor has been elected assistant
secretary of the Wabash, with headquar-
ters at St. Louis. TO succeed II. A. Lloyd.
He has been assistant auditor of the COM
pany: The duties of the claims department,
of which Mr.. Lloyd has charge. have been
transferred to the law department, and will
be in charge of B. c. Winston, assistant at
torney.
- AIdaO vi Aht dRpOlIl
ment of II. S. Rearden as general manager
OF the Kansas City. Pittsburg & Gulf lines
With be OF at K quincy. City III. b. H F. 5 hss $ was
recently named for this position. but diff
f fsren nfSs arising from the reeeiyerships of
the change made to-day.
General Manager Underwood. Of the Bal
timore * Ohio, has issued a new circular Of
instructions. which excludes loud neckties,
tan shoes and button hole bouquets and re-
quireS clean collars. carefully brushed
clothes and shining black shoes. The brake
men are also required to call out the name
of the stations plainly and announce the
name OF the next stopping place when the
train starts.
The track-testing car of the Pennsylvania
lines has been over the lines of the North
west system for the past few days. The
trip over the Fort Wayne main line has
been made. and yesterday the car returned
from a trip over the Cleveland and Pitts
burg division. This car goes over the road
at a forty-mile-an-hour rate, and the slight
est defect In the track is marked by a de-
post OF w~hitewaSh.
II is reported that S. NJ. FELTON,. OF the
Queen & Crescent line. has been selected
sas City, Pittsburg & Gulf road for the adj
justment committee, of which Ernest Thall-
mann Is chairman. 1t is said that Stephen
Little will not examine the books. as was
reported, but that this will be done by Price.
Waterhouse X Co: The reorganization plan
will not be formulated until a complete ex-
animation has been made.
The Cleveland. Cincinnati. Chicago & St.
Louis Railroad reports gross earnings for
March of 81. l92. 123. an increase OF $A5 as
year. and ne, $3S1.355. an increase OF 81. 525.
For the nine months ending March 81 the
gross earnings were SO. 9e9. 936. an increase
of s27 .1A as compared with the corre-