The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-15

land on it's schedule and frequently. on its
very fast time and heavy trains. has made
up an hour. when track conditions were
favorable.
lyn. n. Y, Yesterday, was a civil engineer
OF more than ordinary note. he was one
Of those WHO located the line OF the LAKE
AZ st. Paul.
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy has
just opened at Atlanta the handsomest pas
senger and freight office in the Southern
States. J. N. Merrill. the general South
ern agent. and his assistants. took posses
sion on Monday.
A special meeting Of the stockholders OF
bany Sept. q, at which time they will con-
slider and, IL is believed. approve of, the
lease of the Boston & Albany for the term
of SS9 years from July. 1900.
Engine 97 on the Big Four on Wednes-
day hauled thirteen cars, including nine
Wagner sleeping cars, from Cleveland 10
western Limited between those points. Much
of the distance Is up a slight grade.
Surgeons of the Pennsylvania Volun.
tary Relief Association report an unusuai
the result of overwork during the not
weather. Until this month, for some time
past. the list of disabled employees has been
unusually small.
The Pennsylvania Company is now build
ing sixtv-six miles. of second track between
Crestline and Chicago, on the PtttsDurg,
Fort dNne a. Cn1Cd2O, ana II. W. Idpp
has been awarded the contract TO build all
the stone abutments for the new pridges
and extension of already-laid abutments
The Central Passenger Association has
us territory for the fall festival to be held
in Chicago next month. The association
| third fares for the round trip from Chicago
for the Dewey day celebration at New
York Oct. 1.
The Roadmasters' Association of America,
II T. ----s@- "a n AnlAnfnA no
Angeles for its next meeting place after re-
| ceiying invitations from Milwaukee,, Cincin-
natl. Cleveland, Buffalo and Kansas City.
The date was fixed for the second Tuesday
I'm November. The newly elected officers
were installed.
On Tuesday Martin Rough, a section hand
on the Monon, was fined $50 by the mayor of
New Albany for obstructing a public thor
oughfare. the controversy growing out OF
the closing of Fourth street, which crosses
the Monon yards, The railway company
| gave notice of an appeal of the case to the
higher courts and long-continued litigation
Is in prospect.
Under the title of Yesterday and To-
day the Chicago & Northwestern issues
a neat booklet Of thirty-fve pages, giving
a history OF the progressiveness or the COM
pany. which now has 1852 miles of main
better standing than the Chicago & North
western. which has. since 1896. when IN
corporated as the Galena & Chicago Union
| Railway, been at the front.
i The Wabash placed it's order for steel rails
| some months before the works were ready to
| deliver them. and when they were delivered
| Vice President Ramsey succeeded in selling
| old iron rails that the company had in
stock at 81 per ton more than he had to
| pay for the new steel. The management Of
the Santa Fe was equally fortunate In this
| respect. the delivery of it's rails having been
delayed some months after contracted for.
What promises to be a live manufacture
ing town has recently sprung up on the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago, a short
| distance east of Alliance Junction, o. The
| place has been named Sebring, the Sebring
| Brothers having located a large pottery
| plant there. The past summer a large pot
terry plant was built there, a new hotel and
town hall erected, and forty or more mod
ern houses. The accommodation passenger
trains stop at the new station.
1t has developed that the freight war
/ over the differential on packing-house prod
ucts to the Southeast Is affecting other
fields. Omaha packers have discovered they
can shave the rate to Arkansas and South
western points by shipping to Memphis
under the cut rate and from there rebill the
meat to points mentioned. Just what eff
feet this will have, If any. on the dineren-
tial controversy railroad men are not will
ing to say. 1t ma bring about an ex-
tension of the war. and roads interested In
Southwestern traffic may bring pressure
which will end II.