The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-10

twenty-three of the locomotives of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton were rebuilt at
these shops.
The Hotel Adams, at Muskogee, Indian
Territory, has been purchased by me Mis-
souri, Kansas q Texas read With the ac-
QUESTION of this hotel this company has
control of all eating stations on its line be-
tween ST. Louis and Galveston.
Workmen at the shops of the Peoria &
Eastern, at Urbana, H.. are building one
hundred hopper bottom ears of $1,000 pounds
capacity The order is being filled at the
rate of eight cars per week, the first in
stalment having been put in service yester-
day.
The official report of John Ferguson. gen
eral baggage agent of the Union Railway
Company, shows that in 1898 there were
handled at the baggage rooms of the Union
Station Cos. 65S pieces of baggage, against
59S929 in 1897, an increase in 1898 of Sc, 729
pieces.
Andrew Young, assistant general freight
agent of the Lake Erie q Western lines, has
resigned to become traffic manager of the
American Tin-pate Company, with head
quarters at Chicago. His position will be
filled by the promotion of Marvin Rice Max
well, now local agent of the company at
indianapolis.
A big DEAL contemplating a consolidation
of the leading car manufacturing interests,
to include the Michigan PeninsulaT Com
pany, the Barney az Smith Company the
Ohio Falls Car Company, the freight de-
partment of the Pullman company and the
Haskell & Barker Company, at Michigan
City, is pending.
1t costs a brakeman on the Pennsylvania
road 500 to carry a passenger coach key.
When they are provided with a key they
are compelled to sign bond of that value,
which Is forfeited if the key is lost or
stolen. The bond was originally $40. Some
of the passenger brakemen have keys they
have carried twenty years.
A. Waggener, district passenger agent of
the Chicago & Northwestern, with head
quarters at Indianapolis, will go into the
general offices, and this territory will be
looked after by Bert Cox, who resides in this
city Charles Traver, travelling passenger
agent of the company, with headquarters at
Pittsburg, will go to Cincinnati.
1t is stated that the loss in local passen-
ger revenue to the Lake Shore between Elk
hart and Goshen since the new electric line
between those points was put in operation
is nearly 30 per cent. It's new thing
however and an Improvement that the
Lake Shore contemplates making in train
service will largely offset the decrease, it is
thought.
Henry Russell counsel for the Michigan
Central Railroad. stated yesterday that an
agreement has been reached between the
railroads concerned in the erection of
bridge across the Detroit river The rail-
roads interested-the Michigan Central. the
Wabash, the Grand Trunk and the Canadian
Pacific-have agreed on plans of a bridge
to cost $3000,00G
1t is exciting comment that President
Galloway, of the New York Central, in
placing a large order for steel rails, speci-
fled eighty pounds tG the yard to be their
weight. AS a portion of the line is laid
it is inferred that he has decided that the
lighter rail is as serviceable as the one hum
dred pound rail, as have several expert
railway chief engineers.
1t begins to .ook as # the rivalry between
the Pennsylvania lines and the Vanderbilt
roads will be transferred to the affiliated
lines west of the Mississippi river. Officials
of the Pennsylvania lines were very anX-
iCus that the Chicago Burlington & Quincy
should win in the race to Omaha, while the
Vanderbilt line officials were equally anX-
ious that the Chicago 81 Northwestern
should beat its competitor.
A new car seal has been placed on the
market which in at least one feature is
novel. Instead of bearing the number of the
numbered consecutively from one up indef-
nitely. 1t is claimed for this seal that ii will
insure correct seal record, as agents. YARD
clerks and conductors cannot take sea-
number from way bills or assume that car
bears certain station number because the
car was sealed at such station
Another suit to foreclose mortgages on the
Baltimore 6, Ohio Southwestern Railway
was brought yesterday in the United States
Court at Cincinnati. This is by the Farm
ers Loan and Trust Company of New
York. Suit is brought for SAG, AL 600, as fol-
lows: Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern first
mortgage bonds, $l1, 600 coo; first income
mortgage $5.500D00; second income mort
gage bonds, $6400,0O0 third, %,lO0.CO0 On
Ohio & Mississippi bonds, $112,C0O $500, 900,
49, 213. 900, $2C09,C00, $4OO6,0OO.
In view of the present interest in the fast
time made by lines competing for mail
contracts. the fast run made by the Santa
Fes limited, which arrived IN Chlcago yes
Lajunta, Col, two hours late and covered
the 20212 miles of prairie in three hours and
forty-siX minutes, reducing the delayed time
forty-four minutes and running at an aver
age speed of $50 miles per hour. From
Syracuse to Garden City the limited main
tanned a speed of siXty-three miles an hour:
Deductng delays for taking water and
cleaning fires the actual running time was
nearly mile a minute.
I'M, T@lox
passenger train from Chicago to Omaha was
a most successful one. The train was eight
cen minutes late getting away from Engle-
wood. but the lost time was easily made
up and the train arrived at the union depot
in Omaha five minutes ahead of schedule
time The time which is the fastest of any
train west of Chicago carrying passengers
the officials and trainmen assert. was made
with the greatest ease, and II necessary
can be improved upon. They are confident
of ability to bring it in on time with favor
able weather. The train made the run of
SOB miles in eleven hours fOrtytwO minutes.
The annual meeting of the st. Louis, Van
dalia & Terre Haute Railroad Company, the
property of which is leased to the T. H.
& l. Railroad Company, will be held at
Haute q indianapolis Railroad Company
will be held at Terre Haute on Wednesday.
Vice Presidents James McCrea, j. T. Brook
and Joseph Wood of the Pennsylvania Com
pany, went West last night to attend these
meetings The reports of the operations of
the year by Receiver Malott, the result of
which has been heretofore published in the
Journal will be read and directors and cor
poration officers elected for the current year.
The meetings will not in any way affect
the management of the properties.
II. w. McKenna, when appointed superin-
tendent of the Indianapolis e. Vincennes
road, had a youthful appearance, and on
making one of his trips over the road he
approached a fireman. who CHANGED to
know he was superintendent, and asked to
ride the locomotive. The fireman
promptly fixed a good seat for him. When
the engineer running quite fast Super
intendent McKenna said to him. Look
here Ola 1erow are you mot Po9nGiH i oyer hs
condition. The engineer answered:
young man. if you think we are running
at too lively a gait. get back into the
coach" Not until Mr.. McKenna had left
the footboard did the engineer know that
no was the new superintendent of the road.
Mr. McKenna still speaks of the incident
with Measure.