The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-17

ing .Anti-railroad Legislation and It's Effect
on Salaries Of Employees.
When the Fort Wayne Limited reached
Alliance, about midnight, recently, a lot
Of sleigh bells and robe were found on
the pilot. IL was learned later on that the
engine had struck a sleigh at Remington,
killing the horses and injuring the occu-
pants of the conveyance.
The calls for cars to load yesterday were
so numerous as to worry the transportation
men, and it seemed confined to no one class
or cars, grain, coal and live stock cars be-
ing the most sought for. A few days with
mild weather will lead to the heaviest move
ment OF freights over Indianapolis lines in
years.
There has already been an elimination of
the second-class fares to important points
from Pittsburg and the only ones to which
they are now made are Chicago and st.
Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville and Indianap-
Oils, having been dropped some time ago
from the list Of points to which the second
class tickets are sold.
A rush shipment OF ten carloads of am
bulances, escort wagons, army wagons, tar
pdullhs ana other camp necessities was sent
forward from the quartermasters depot at
JeHerSonNiHe. Wednesday night for Ma
Mia. Major r. r. Finney accompanied the
shipment to San Francisco TO prevent de-
lays as far as possible.
Important results in the Burlington's an
nouncement of change in time are that the
new Denver train will give Omaha the go
by and that the daylight train to Chicago
VIII be discontinued The present No. goes
through Omaha at about midnight, but aft
er next Sunday it will cross from Platts-
mouth to Lincoln, through Ashland.
The Vanderbilt, the Pennsylvania and the
Baltimore & Ohio systems are very active
In the Monongahela valley in the vicinity
or Homestead, preparing to take advantage
OF the encouraging prospective conditions,
and before many months every available
square foot of the first terrace will be con-
trolled by these great transportation lines.
The wholesale merchants board Of the
Chamber of Commerce has arranged for a
series Of merchants board excursions to
Cleveland at one and one-fifth fare. The
territory covered includes the States of
Ohio, Indiana and those parts of the State
OF Michigan illinois, pennsylvania and New New,
York and the province of Ontario within
the jurisdiction of the Central Passenger
Association.
w. H. Hubbard. assistant trainmaster of
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago, met
with a singular accident on Tuesday. A
wreck occurred at the Mansfield crossing
of the Baltimore & Ohio, and Mr.. Hubbard
had gone there with the Crestline wrecking
crew. While an engine was pulling some
cars over the cable broke and Its ragged
end cut Mr.. Hubbards throat from ear to
ear, fortunately not SeVering the jugular
vein. The other end struck a brakeman in
the stomach and inflicted serious injuries.
Myron T. Herrick was elected president
of the Wheeling & Lake Erie road at a
meeting Of the directors held in Toledo yes
terday He succeeds A. G.. Blair. The Off
GERS elected were: d. d. Barnabie, vice
treasurer; r. Blickensderfer, general man
ager, and Dowager Adams, assistant secre-
tary and treasurer. This is the last official
act of the present company. The property
viii be turned over to the company at
once. 1t is probable the new officers will be
retained.
A. Galloway. superintendent of the IN
dianapolis and Cincinnati divisions of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, was in the
city yesterday. He says their business is
simply limited to power to haul IT. Never
in the roads history has it done as heavy
a coal traffic as during the last six months,
and the shipments of Southern pine to
precedent. The company is now figuring on
getting some new power. Twenty new en-
gIneS would not be any too many for the
business the road has been doing of late
notwithstanding the fact that it's power has
been rebuilt in the last three years.
David S. Jenkins, who ran the first steam
locomotive In Wisconsin, died suddenly at
SheDoygan on Tuesday, after q brief ILL
ness. The first locomotive used in the State
having been brought from the EAST It was
put on the track at Sheboygan and used on
the Sheboygan & Mississippi Railroad, now
a branch of the Chicago & Northwestern.
Mr.. Jenkins was the engineer and had the
distinction Of having pulled the throttle of
the first locomotive In the State. He also
unloaded the first engine for the Milwaukee,
Lake Shore & Western, also part Of the
Northwestern system. For nine years be-
was engineer the first road mentioned
and two years on the latter. At the time
Of his death he was one Of the oldest and
most influential citizens of Sheboygan. He
built there one of the best appointed ma
with the latest and most improved machin-