The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-06


ing heavy freight locomotive for the Van
daiia. which will be delivered this month.
There were many inquiries yesterday for
Toledo. N"e"' ''us Lar - 50 "
F. NJ. Nellis. who conducts the air-brake
department. in Locomotive Engineering.
published at New York. Is an old PAN
handle man.
There is trouble ahead for the railroads
In ms ono ~ SMOKE inspector Scott. of Column
Tor violation of the smoke law.
The receipts from excess baggage at the
Union station for June were the largest
eyer reanzed in any month since the custom
use. ee@e0 nos ~ "
Iravel west-bound yesterday was so
neavy tnat Train 81 over the Vandalia, was
hauied in two sections and the Southwest
ern limited for ST Louis was hauled i'm two
sections.
The net earnings of the Chicago, Mil
wdukee q St Paul for the year are esti-
over 1S97-lSsS about 81, 100000 Last year
surplus of N.294,S94 was carried over.
%. H Talbot, medical examiner of the
( at indianapolis, who is In poor health, has
obtained leave of absence for one month
and will go to the seashore for rest.
A: f. Barnett. OF the Pennsylvania lines
J. Smiley. agent of the Lehigh Valley
Iast freight line. Mr.. Barnett has been
eight years.
Last night the Knickerbocker express
from ST Louis hauled fourteen cars six of
mem sleeping cars. one going from here to
New York and New England Travel East
Is heavy beyond all precedent.
ID. b. Martin. passenger traffic manager
business is now, the largest in the roads
history, the travelling public appreciating
tne improvements made to the tracks and
" the passenger equipment
There is a possibility of Trains % and q.
on the Panhandle and Pennsylvania being
F, cut In two sections soon. Travel on these
two big flyers is very heavy and If the run
| ming time is to be shortened two sections
| or each train will be necessary.
| Inc Big Fours large freight engine No
| Io3 besides being one of the most powerful
| iuel economizer, hauling twice as many
| loaded cars as the ordinary freight engine
and consuming but Is per cent. more coal.
no w; c; Arp; superintendent of motive
| says that by Dec. 1 every locomotive the
company owns will be equipped with air.
equipped with airbrakes and automatic
| couplers
| Warren j. Lynch. general passenger
for few the 6onrsg sferd lines. Mas In the city
the passenger business of June with the Big
Four was a. record breaker. indianapolis be-
| coed 1t in volume.
"A letter was received yesterday from E.
": mccormick. passenger traffic manager
OF the Southern Pacific. in which he states
that matters were moving along very pleas
anuy with him, and that In company with
!. {. Stubs. vice president of the company,
he would be East this month.
c. D. d. Pascault, the new general agent
of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg took
/ charge at Pittsburg on July /. He will get
AFFAIRS into shape for the opening of the
4 Pittsburg traffic over the road. Just when
trains will be run into Allegheny cannot be
1 SAID, but 1t is likely that 1t will not be be-
fore August.
1t was reported in New York yesterday
that the litigation between the Evansville
| Terre Haute Company and the Peoria
Decatur & Evansville Railway Company
which had its origin in a loan made by the
| nrst-named road to the latter in 1892, had
| been settled by the payment of 500 600 in
cash to the Evansville & Terre Haute.
Z: H. Cory. superintendent of motive
| power of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton. was in the city yesterday looking after
| the rebuilding of some engines now in prog
Tess at the Indiana, Decatur & Western
shops. This month the company will re-
| celve some of the new engines ordered sixty
days ago, and in August others contracted
The Erie Railroad has received the first
| installment of lot of one thousand new
box cars which were recently ordered. The
| cars are modern in every respect and will
put that road in the best of shape as far
as equipment is concerned. The cars are
built with a capacity for $1,000 pounds and
IL
| their capacity about 5000 pounds.
w. II: McDoel president of the Monon
INES q; W. Kretzinger. general counsel,
and and Judge E. C. Field, general solicitor,
morrow will meet Joseph Line and H. Stet-
son, prominent attorneys, Of New York, who
1t is thought probable that a decision will
| De reached on the question to another
| foreclosure sale of the road.
The Railway Officials and Employees AS
l 0f Ire
ident, and W. x. Bells, general manager m
| are much pleased with the results Of the
year. The company now has large rep
resentation on many Of the leading roads
Of the country. the Santa Fe. the. Illinois
| folk & Western, the Northern Pacific and
other big roads being of the number.
A Pittsburg paper says at present the
| coal carrying roads are having tremendous
traffic. The p. & L. E. is doing the heaviest
| business in its history and it is the same
| with the Pennsylvania lines and the Pitts
burg & Western, where every car and loco
| motive fit for use is in service. On Sun
| day the Panhandle sent over three hundred
| cars of coal to the Sheridan yards and the
Ohio connecting railroad crews were kept
busy hauling trains over the Fort Wayne.
General Superintendent Raymond Dupuy,
| of the Chicago Great Western, has resigned
sey lines of the Lackawanna, with head
| quarters at Hoboken, N. ]. Tracey Lyon
of the Chicago Great Western to succeed
Dupuy., Mr., Lyon is a graduate of the
| Massachusetts, Institute of Technology and
has been master mechanic of the Great
| Western.
Before adjourning for the summer the
| United States Circuit Court of Appeals at
Cincinnati yesterday held the lessees for
| about 81, $685. 900 in bridges and bettermentS
| in the Cincinnati Southern Railway con-
troversy In the case of the Illinois Central
Railway against Reeve Jones for damages
| the lower courts decision affirmed.
In the case Of the International Trust Com
pany, trustees of the bondholders of the
Cleveland. Canton < Southern Railway,
VS.. the Townsend company. the decision
| vas reversed.
The Pennsylvania system will figure more
extensively In the international railroad
| congress, at Paris, next year, than any
other American road or system. The late
| Frank Thomson was one of the members
| of the American delegation, and Theodore
n. Ely chief of motive power, is another.
Among the papers 10 be read at the congress
are the following: Locomotive for Trains
Run at Very High Speed" Alex. s. Vogt.
| mechanical engineer; Use of Steel and
| Ingot Iron in Construction of Locomotives
| and Rolling Stock" Charles b. Dudley,
chemist; Economical Size of Goods, Trucks
| or Capacity of Freight Cars General Man.
Gger l. r. Loree. all of the Pennsylvania.