The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-09

Logansport division. that their trains must
run through that place at lower speed.
The Big Four lines proper handled at IN
cianapolis in the week ending Jan. a total
of l1.7S6 cars 1852 being loaded
Firemen on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne &
Chicago are now assigned to regular runs
with the same engineer al the time.
John J. Archer. travelling passenger agent
of the Ohio River road has resigned. His
successor has not yet been agreed on.
Freight men are Boosting of having held
freight rates TO tariff for one week, and
there has been no falling off in business.
The engineers and 6remen on the Pitts
burg & Lake Erie are TO be uniformed, as
are the same class of men on the Lake
Shore road.
The four Pennsylvania lines handled at
indianapolis last week 5.226 loaded cars, an
increase over the corresponding week last
year of S4l.
Last week was record breaker with the
Grand Trunk, it handling at Portland, Me,
$40 more loaded cars than during any pre-
Vious week
In 1898 there We're handled on the Big Four
lines ,313 passengers, and not a traveller
was killed or seriously injured, and not a
passenger train employe
William c. Taylor has been appointed en-
gineer Of maintenance of way of the Wa
bash district of the Big Four, with head
quarters at Wabash, Ind.
Like his predecessors President Newman,
of the Lake Shore lines travels consider
ably and examines carefully into the con-
dition of the roads in that system.
The Fftchburg Company has closed a con-
tract with the Wagner Palace Car Com
pany by which its cars will take the place
of the Pullman service on that line.
The records show that for four consecutive
years the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy has
brought into Chicago more live stock and
grain that any other Chicago line.
C. G: Waldo, general manager of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton lines, who has
been detained several days by illness at De-
troit, expects to be at Cincinnati to-day.
There was such demand for the 1889 cal
endar issued by the Wabash, entitled, 1T 5
Awful Nice" that General Passenger Agent
Crane has ordered second edition issued.
Charles Rhodes, superintendent of tele-
graph of the Big Four lines YESTERDAY
buried his ia, father at West chester, o. Inc
The Indiana Car-service Association han
died in 1898 total of 22S, 2S6 cars. with an
average detention of Les days The bureau
handled in 1897 d total of 2l5, S3l cars in 1896,
a total of 205,475.
Train H. on the Panhandle is the heaviest
and said to be the best paying mail train
run on any road. 1t hauls twelve cars, is
drawn by two locomotives, and its average
speed is forty-two miles an hour.
The Great Northern made a remarkable
run all things considered. with the fast
mail train from St. Paul to Seattle on its
initial trip last week across the mountains
and plains, averaging fifty miles an hour.
The Erie last week placed an order with
the Richmond locomotive works for nfteen
standard ten-wheel freight locomotives, and
the Northern Pacific contracted for ten new
postal cars and twenty first-class coaches.
The Vandalia, in connection with the
Pennsylvania lines. has contracted to carry
! 200 coo bushels of grain from Missouri
river points to Baltimore and Philadelphia
at tariff rates on export grain, which is Is
cents per 100 pounds.
Mail train H. on the Pennsylvania COM
posed of twelve mail cars, on Thursday
made the trip from Altoona to Pittsburg
in two hours and six minutes, distance III
miles and over the mountains, which makes
the run more remarkable.
There is considerable friction between the
trainmen on the Pittsburg, Bessemer d
Lake Erie and it's management over re-
cent order relating to the making up of
trains, and it is feared that ii will lead to
trouble unless the order is modified.
The bridge at Salt creek. on the Monon,
which was washed out three weeks ago,
was a new one and cost $1,000 The COM
pany has to depend on temporary struc-
ture while new bridge is being construct
ed and from this comes the trouble in
handling the trains on the main line re-
Gently.
The official report of j. O. Hicks general
yardmaster of the Big -Four, shows that in
1898 there were handled through the ter
minal yards at Indianapolis I2l.lO5 loaded
and 1876, 974 empty cars. against 545,92S loaded
and 146, 400 empty cars In 1879 total OF
S57,019, an increase over 1897 of GA, al cars.
ZSS, 55S loaded cars; for the Peoria & Eastern,
So $50; for the Decline division, 221, 927 for
the St Louis division, 122,44O
1t comes from a source which should be
given credence that negotiations are pending
which will probably result in a consolida-
ton of the Lehigh Valley with the Phila-
delphia & Reading. Five years ago/an eff
fort was made to consolidate the two sys-
TENS and the papers were made out before 1t
was discovered that the laws of Pennsyl-
vania would make the transaction illegal.
. accom-
plished without any hitch of that character.
The controlling interest in the Seabord &
Roanoke Railroad Company, the parent cor
poration of the Seabord Airline. has been
sold. it is announced, to a syndicate COM
posed of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New
York capitalists The purchasing syndicate
is supposed to represent the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad and to have for its complete plans
a through line In connection with the Penn
sylvania Railroad from washington to jack
sonVille Consolidation of the SeabOard Air
line with the Georgia & Alabama road the
gap to be closed by the Petersburg x caro-
lima, now under construction, is said to be
part of the plan.
The St Paul Press has the following
about the new manager Of the Baltimore
&, Ohio lines who will take charge on
Feb /: Universal satisfaction with the
appointment of F. D. UNDERWOOD as gen
eral manager of the Baltimore & Ohio is
expressed by his friends and contempt
rares. Seldom has more suitable appoint
ment been made. Under existing clrcum-
stances it was a very difficult matter TO
find a general manager who could handle
the intricate and growing business OF the
Baltimore & Ohio and please the many OIL
Versfied interests in the property. Mr. I'm
derwOod's agRresSiVeneSs and vigorous per-
Sonality will be needed in his new position.
Although i'm the prime OF life he has had
a vast experience of the character which
should stand him i'm good stead on the
Eastern line that will set an example to
prouder competitors without becoming en-
tirely 'WeSterniZed. "