The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

is scheduled in both directions to make the
run between Peru and Logansport, sixteen
miles, in twenty minutes, but seldom is
there a day that the distance is not covered
by these trains in fourteen to sixteen min
utes.
When the Lake Erie e. Western adopts
It's spring train schedule. probably Train q,
which leaves Indianapolis at 1:20 daily, will
leave a half hour earlier and connect with
the Continental express of the Wabash at
Peru, which would deliver passengers in De-
troit at s p. m.
Il. o.. Mccormick, passenger traffic man
ager Of the Big Four lines, and K. A. Ford,
general passenger agent Of the Pennsyl-
vania lines, have sent additional circulars to
their ticket agents impressing on their
minds that in selling tickets tariff rates
must be strictly adhered to.
The executive ommitt Of the Brother
mood or Locomotive Engineers has adopted
resolutions against the bill introduced by
Assemblyman Phillips. of New York, in
the Legislature, requiring two engineers on
each locomotive, and have requested every
ngine to assist in defeating the bill.
The pay car of the Big Four, while paying
OF yesterday at the Belt road crossing,
caught fire from the kitchen range, and
Paymaster Horton ordered the car run to
the Diuon-street shops, near by, where the
fire hose of the shops was brought into
service before the car was much damaged.
There is quite a stir in passenger circles
over the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, in con-
nection with the Chicago. Milwaukee 81 St.
Paul and the Northern Pacific, having fur
1ished a party Of twenty-siX transportation
from Danville. ILL.,, to Whatcomb, Wash,
with two free tickets and carrying the other
twenty-four on a cut rate, 5000.
The local passenger agents association
held a meeting yesterday. The most impor-
| t9nt business transacted was in relation TO
fixing rates for the Epworth League, which
| convenes in indianapolis in July. The rates
connections will make will be ascertatned,
and then the local association will get out
its rate sheets, ETC., for the occasion.
The local ticket offices yesterday had a
fine run of business. The Big Four sold ten
tickets to the City of Mexico and return,
the fare being $S7 for the round trip. The
| Cincinnati, Hamilton G. Dayton sold four
tickets to California by the Southern route,
and the Pennsylvania several tickets to
California by the more northern lines.
The Erie. the operating men claim, was
the only trunk line that kept its right of
way clear during the blizzard in the East,
and they operated through trains with little
loss of time, caused more by cold weather
than bv snow blockade. 1t is said the Erie's
famous Mother Hubbard engines worked
very successfully in fighting the storm.
DR.. Webb, president of the Wagner Pal
ace Car Company. will to-day pass through
this city on his special car en- route to the
Southwest, and this evening the Vanderbilt
train for the Southwest over the Lake
Shore and the Big Four, the latter turning
the special train over to the Illinois Cen
trail to carry the party to destination.
Judge Thompson, Of the United States
District Court at Cincinnati, yesterday au-
thOrized the receivers of the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern Railway to issue receiv-
/ ers' certificates for an outlay of 81, 49O, 600 in
equipment and improvements of the road.
The proposed equipment includes forty-ive
locomotives and $50 box and coal cars. The
Improvement includes nine bridges and forty
thousand tons of eighty-five pound steel rails
for extensive sidings.
j. A. Barnard, general manages of the
Peoria & Eastern, sent a letter of regret to
j. ID. Laying, who is to retire from the gem
eral managership' of the West Shore road on
April 1, and yesterday received an answer
! from Mr.. Laying, who said that he was sim
ply carrying out a promise to his family
that when he had been in railroad service
fifty years he would retire and get better
acquainted with them. He has a beautiful
home on the Hudson, and his life in a fnan-
cial way has been a success.
General Manager Barnard, of the Peoria
e Eastern, contemplates making further
improvements to the property, providing he
| can convince President Ingalls, that such
improvements are advisable. The western
division is in as good condition as the best
divisions of the Big Four; still, General
Manager Barnard sees room for further
Improvement. The new shops are in full
operation, employing nearly three hundred
men, and the power and cars are being re-
built and repaired as rapidly as the shops
can turn out the work.
Persons who are planning a trip to the
Pacific coast this summer will have no trou-
BILE in securing cheap rates. Two large con-
ventions will be held at San Francisco and
Los Angeles, for each of which a rate of
one fare for round trip will be granted. In
addition the Great Northern road has al
ready served notice that it will offer the
same rates to all points on the North Pa
chic coast. The national Baptist SOcletleS
will hold their anniversaries at San Francis
co beginning May Is, and the Natona Edu-
c~ational Association will meet at Los An
geles about the middle of July.
The contractor who Is building the eleven
miles of new road from Bedford to Bloom
ington, around Smithville hill, has over six
hundred men at work, and expects to have
the work completed in six weeks, when it is
understood that the construction of the new
branch from Swift City to Cloverdale will
be commenced, opening the fine coal fields
| near PatriCKSbUrU Ind. which are not now
reached by any railroad. 1t is said that it
need not be a surprise if the Monon builds
from Cloverdale to Indianapolis on the line
once surveye and located over a very feas-
ible route by the Cloverdale q indianapolis
Coal Road Company, some ten years ago.
Following the official announcement that
the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy has pur-
chased the Keokuk & Western comes the
story that the purchase was FASTENED to
| designs upon the line. Had that company
secured the road ii would have furnished a
short and direct line to the gull and central
and southern Iowa. and encroached heavily
upon the traffic to the seaboard now enjoyed
by the Western trunk lines. To prevent this
the Burlington and Santa Fe officials in
| spected the Keokuk & Western line, re-
sulting in the purchase by the former, al
though the latter may be interested in it
also.
Chauncey NJ. Depew is very popular with
the railway wage earnerS because he has
always looked out for their interests. The
senator was billed to speak in Chicago at
the congress of railway men. but an attack
of laryngitis prevented the trip. The exc
cutive committee sent him the following
telegram: THE railway men of Illinois will
not be satisfied with any other speaker, and
| the meeting will be postponed until you can
be with us. We sympathize with you and
desire to express our earnest wish that your
sickness is not dangerous. This wish does
not arise from our disappointment, but from
sincere regard for yourself, whom we con-
slider the foremost representative of our
craft"
Division superintendent Robbins, of the
WabS sA. reports that the Detroit river is
open and ferry passage is all right. For a
time the ferry route across the river was
blocked with ice. Next winter the
railways running into Detroit from
Windsor will not be tied up with. a
blockaded boat ferry, but will use the bridge
If it is built in time. Everything is ready
for work on the new bridge. and it will be
located at the south bend of Belle Isle. The
structure will be a high bridge, III feetabove
the water, with a clear cantilever span of
1900 feet over the Canadian channel, and a
total length of cantilever construction of
400 feet. There is also a steel viaduct one
thousand feet I'm length and three truss
| spans over the American channel each S35
feet long.