The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-21

Petoskey on Sunday. aged hfty-seven years.
agent for twenty-six years.
Preparations for the annual fall inspections
OF the pennsylvania lines are now In prog
fesS- Section gangs will be increased. work.
Ing full time cleaning bitches, resodding
cuts and other improvements.
The Illinois Central. it is said, looks favor
ably upon the scheme TO build a railroad
from indianapolis TO Evansville. and has
given the promoters 10 understand that they
might give IL financial backing.
The report is renewed that W c. Rinear-
SON. general passenger agent Of the Queen
&c Crescent. will be made general traffic
manager of that road, the present general
traffic manager going TO the Chicago q
Alton.
Among the betterments to the Illinois
Central charged to income were the con-
struetion Of twenty-five miles OF second
walton OF a considerable mileage and the
purchase Of 800 freight cars.
In the higher railroad circles an impression
prevails that the day OF New England con-
ford will pass away with Mr.. Ciarke-s re;
tiTement as president and that the control
Will certainly go to New York.
On June 30 the Wabash had 1880 freight
1852 yet to provide with this Improvement;
Ssl2 cars equipped with air,brakes ana a.
go without. All new cars the company Is
now receiving are equipped with air brakes
and automatic couplers.
X. d. Hughes, general superintendent of
TIE American Express Company, was In the
city Yesterday; going to st; nI Louis sds last w,tb night INT
company's new quarters at Indianapolis. He
says the express business is very heavy and
Improving of late remarkably
George F. Leingang, Who has been con-
nected with the general freight department
of the Cleveland Terminal & Valley Rail-
road for the past thir cen years, has re-
signed his position and goes to Sandusky.
where he will take a position as chief clerk
in the Baltimore & Ohio office.
On Oct. 1 W.. H. Lewis. treasurer and
apoIis s. Louisville, will complete his forty
nrst year In that position and every cent
OF money has been accounted for honestly.
the company's treasury being carefully
guarded by this veteran official.
Another extension is to be asked for by
many railroads after Jan. 1 to comply with
the law compelling the automatic coupler
and air brake appliances on all cars. TIL
appliances cannot be manufactured fast
enough to meet the requirements of all the
year.
TT American Association of Travelling
Passenger Agents finished the business of
e eIec annual ! abe m fn,somig at nei Denver yesterday'
W., Landsman; vice president, w. L. Wy
and; OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Sidney w. Van
as the next place of meeting. The members
go around the Georgetown loop to-day and
ascend Plkes Peak on Friday.
The Wabash in February last placed con-
tracts for forty locomotives for May, June
and July delivery. but owing to the delay
In builders getting material from the mills
weeks ago, but the company hopes that
they will be delivered, all of them, and In
service before the end of September. These
engines cost sSs6,125. To purchase the same
engines at present would cost over $500. 900.
The party employed to locate a line con-
Meeting the Columbus & Hooking Valley
road with the Chesapeake & Ohio have
makes the Chesapeake & Ohio connections
from Gallipolis. down the south banks Of
the Kanawaha river, through Point Pleas
ant and winfield to a point on the Chesa-
peake & Ohio at the mouth of Scarey
creek. The distance is forty-two miles, An
is a more feasible line.
From Omaha comes this news: 1.-The old
l Wabash Railroad Company, once a power
in the traffic world Of this part Of the
| west. under the management of the late
Jay Gould. has withdrawn entirely from
this territory. The company for some time
has had but an agency for passenger bust
| has now been closed. The company at one
time had the most direct line to ST. Louis
ton in this direction" This Will he mi inter
esting news 10 the management of the Wa
bash; which is now seeing its most prosper
Samuel Stevenson, who has been connect
ed with the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
lines since 1856. was in the city yesterday.
Mr.. stevenson says the Cincinnati, Hamilton
K Dayton is loing the largest passenger and
freight business In its history. In the early
sixties. when rates were much higher than
now, larger net earnings were shown on the
gross earnings of that time, the road then
| paying Z per cent. per annum dividends reg
ularly; now, after paying the extraordinary
expense Tor Improvement to roadbed and in
| crease OF equipment. 4 per cent. is paid an
nually. but larger dividends may be looked
for in coming years.
A track thrower by which a stretch of
rails one thousand feet in length can be
moved twelve inches either way, with the
4 assistance of but a few men, was gievn a
trial on the Pennsylvania at Conway last
week. d. {. Reese, an employee of the Penn
sylvania Company at New Brighton, is the
obtained at the test 1t is probable that il
will soon be put in use on all the roads.
The new device is so constructed that il
can be operated in connection with any
ordinary fiat car and consists of a fourteen
inch wheel which extends back on the rail
forty feet and Is operated from the car by
a bull pole fastened to one side of the car
and a hog rod to the top; the latter is
worked by a swivel, so that the wheel can
be drawn up taut when throwing the track
to that side In the center and in front
OF the car is placed a crab, which Is con-
nected to the wheel by a line working over
a gin pole. this device elevating the track
and throwing. When a piece of track is
to be changed the wheel Is placed on the
rail-. to the side to which it Is to be moved;
everything being ready. the engineer opens
| the throttle and in five minutes the track
Is changed from twelve to eighteen inches
without having to lift the ballast before
| hand. All that Is necessary to run back
over the track already moved is to lift the
wheel and the train can pass over the rails