The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-27

Of the Santa Fe lines, the additional title
OF general manager. which will mean that
ne Is TO have complete charge OF the opera
ton of the lines.
Stockholders OF the New York Central
have been advised that the directors deem IL
advisable to increase the capital stock from
500 Geo. 900 10 $l15 GOO 900 to provide additional
rolling stock. A special meeting has been
called for Dec IA TO act on the matter.
Colonel Samuel Moody assistant general
passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines
west. with his family have gone East TO
spend several days. portion OF the time
will be spent at Boston, where his daughter
is being educated at Wellesley College.
The Columbus & Hooking Valley was OPP
Grated In October on $50 per cent. OF lts
gross earnings. and for the four months
since July ! on 1886 per cent; since July
the net earnings were 1854 ,s6l.2S, against
s2SO.924.OS in the corresponding four months
of 1898
]. w. Renner, controller. Charles Watts.
general SUPERINTENDENT of the Northwestern
system, and c. ID. Law, real-estate agent
OF the Pennsylvania lines, west, are spend
ing several days on the western lines look
ing after real-estate matters the company
is interested in.
The voluntary relief department Of the
Pennsylvania lines, west. in October dis
hursed in death benefits from accident $o,-
7J0 from natural causes, $3.50; in disable
ment benefits from accident, T.IS0; from
sickness, Ss.f3 10 making the disbursements
Of the month S25,2ls.10.
menced the building. at its own shops, at
McKee's Rock, Of ten large freight locomo-
tives of what is known as the hog type:
IL has borrowed from the Lake Shore eight
freight locomotives.
During the past spring and summer the
Panhandle erected along its lines hundreds
of miles of wire fence so constructed that
neither hogs, sheep nor cattle can get upon
their tracks. The fencing is without barbs
and mas made the. company popular with
farmers along its lines.
On Nov. 10 the Duluth & Iron Range
road loaded from its ore docks eleven ships
in eleven hours with an aggregate of 41,O9I
gross tons of iron ore: The regular gang
OF one hundred meE did the work, and in
addition to loading the eleven ships in the
time given, 5S5 cars or ore were dumped, a
record that the railroad company thinks
cannot be exceeded.
The City Council Of Fort Wayne has ap-
pointed a committee to petition the railway
companies 10 build two union stations in
that point. the Pennsylvania, the Wabash.
the Findlay, Fort Wayne * Western and
Grand Rapids * Indiana to occupy a build
ing in the southern part of the city, and
the Lake Shore the Lake Erie & Western
and the Nickel-plate the north side union
station.
1t is stated that at no station on the
Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton lines has
| there been so marked an increase in reve-
nue. from freight as at Indianapolis the last
few years, and it is thought that when the
company occupies its new freight depot and
center, with no railroad tracks TO cross,
the busiTess will still further increase. In
fact, the stations on the entire Indianap-
oils division are showing remarkable in
creases in both freight and passenger bus
mess, that of Connersvile in five years hav-
ing increased fully % per cent.
The Wabash has placed an order with
the American Car and Foundry Company
for twenty specially constructed cars, sixty
feet long. much higher than the ordinary
/ freight car, and Of eO.co0 pounds capacity.
! These big cars are designed to carry cellu-
/ lose from the factories to Eastern ship
! yards. Cellulose is manufactured from corn
/ stalks and Is used in the construction of
| vessels The process of loading is peculiar
! 1t is blown into the car by means of COM
! pressed air. the force packing il solidly.
| while suction is used in unloading. There
/ now two Of these manufactures In OPP
Grafton in Illinois.
On Nov. 16 the Black Diamond express
I on the Lehgh Valley broke all previous
! records for fast time. by making run from
/ Wilkesbarre to Sayre. a distance of ninety
l four miles in eighty-tive minutes, which in
! cluded two stops and two slow-downs. The
/ ma ximum speed and distance of this train
under regular schedule, is follows
/ West-bound. siXty-eight miles per hour for
forty-fOur miles. eaSt-bOund. SiXty-three
/ miles per hour for twenty-nine miles. In
addition TO the figures given, a speed of
eighty miles per hour 10 often made and
maintained in emergencies by this train
! for distances of from ten 70 twenty miles.