The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-11

doubled and an addition made to the build
ing for waiting rooms for the trainmen-
On Monday a special on the Chicago q
Alton was hauled from Chicago TO Kansas
city in ten hours and ~thirty-seven minutes.
the quickest run ever made between the TWO
cities.
On May II the general baggage agents of
the leading roads will meet in Chicago TO
and keeping records of baggage checked and
received.
The Lake Erie & Western on Monday put
on several construction trains and COM
menced ballasting the road with gravel west
OF Lafayette. Most OF the western DIVISION
is lightly ballasted.
The Pullman conductors are pleased with
the workings of the new system Of discip-
line which the company has adopted. The
system went into effect on May /. 1t is SINH
lar to the Brown system.
The Chesapeake & Ohio received from the
Pullman works several new sleeping cars OF
the best type ever turned out at these
works. everything OF modern invention for
this class Of cars being used.
With the opening of the Buffalo, Roches-
ter & Pittsburg, the Lake Shore and the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie will still have thu
shortest lire between Buffalo and Pittsburg.
II being go miles, against $50, by the new
line.
The office of assistant trainmaster of the
b. * o. was abolished on Monday, Capt. j.
d., Clayton, who acted in that capacity.
taking an engine, and w. j. Duffy. was
made travelling passenger engineer OF the
fourth and fifth divisions.
Superintendent Of Motive Power Coburn,
of the Monon lines. was in the city yester-
day. He states that the shops at Lafayette
are employing $50 men and running full time.
and the engines and cars of the Monon are
in better condition than at any time in years.
The Industrial department Of the Illinois
Contra! in April located twelve new indus
tries on its lines fn Illinois, Iowa and Min
nesota. The twelve months ending with
June 80 promises to be by far the best In the
hiGfOrV of the HOnnanv'G Industrial 0eDart-
ment.
H. /. Miller. superintendent of the Van
dalia line. states that the large new Sche-
nectady engines are doing splendid work
and their Performance demonstrates the
fact that such heavy locomotives can be
run safely over an OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
yard steel rail on a gravel-ballasted road.
Ferd Hall. chief engineer OF the Monon
lines, was in the city yesterday. The In
dianapolis division is in such excellent con-
dttlon that little will need be done TINS sea
main line a good deal is being done in cut
ting dcwn grades and Strengthening curves.
The weighing of mails demonstrated the
fact that on Eastern roads a much lighter
tonnage Of mail matter Is handled on Sun
day than on other days, while on Western
lines the decrease is not so perceptible. On
Sunday twenty fewer mail cars leave over
the trunk lines out of New York than on
week days.
The Big Four is doing some good work at
Terre Haute as its new passenger station
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station proper are being laid with asphalt.
The platforms will be fully four hundred
feet long. and passengers on long excursion
trains can alight without trouble on the
pavement.
Shipments of stone from the Bedford
quarries are now reaching sixty to seventy
carloads a day. and about 60 per cent. OF
Boston and other Eastern points. Several
carloads are being shipped daily to Peoria.
Ill. to go into a public building in process
of erection there.
May Is has been set by Judge Morris. of
the United States Circuit Court, at Balti-
more, for hearing the petition. OF the Balti-
more a. Ohio for authority TO issue the new
bonds and stock provided for under the new
| reorganization plan for the purpose of fund
ing and discharging the present indebtedness
Of the company.
NJ. d. Woodford, president of the Cincin-
natl. Hamilton & Dayton lines, has decided
to remain West until Saturday, and last
evening passed through the city on his pri-
vate car en- route to Chicago for a confer
ence with President McDoei, of the Monon
lines. On Friday he will make a trip over
the Indiana, Decature & Western lines.
The building at the southeast corner OF
| Washington and Meridian streets. which has
been remodeled and a story added. will here
after be known as the Big Four Block, in
stead OF the Blackford block. as in years
past. The Big -Four will probably locate
other of its Offices in this building. still oc-
cupying the corner room as its uptown
ticket Office.
1 Inc QulCkSnlDR OF l0e SC0euule llIIic III lfic
Baltimore & Ohio trains win have no eff
| feet on the schedule time of the Pennsyl-
vania system. as thei: Pittsburg special Is
now faster than their limited express, and
IL they should quicken the running time OF
the limited serious complications might
| arise. owing to the objections that other
trunk lines might file.
Last year considerable mileage of the high
ways in Owen and Greene counties was
graded and graveled. making them passable
in bad weather. and so satisfactory have
| hear, tho raSrIfC r. m hafnO HE 70 roach
stations on the Indianapolis & Vincennes
with their grain. produce and cattle in
winter months. that quite "A feeling has
been raised in favor of doing more of this
improving of highways. NJ. w. Mansfield,
superintendent of the indianapolis & Vim
cennes, Is encouraging the townships in
those counties TO do more in this direction.
Rates are low, say freight men. but tariffs
| are being strictly adhered to by all lines. A
conservative railway official says: The
truth is, the Interstate-commerce COMMITS
| sion has pumped SONS common sense into
the minds of the big railway managers and
they have at last come TO a verbal under
4 standing TO maintain rates and get a rea-
sonaDie return for service rendered All the
interests in the GENITAL Freight Association
territory and the trunk lines have of late
it was agreed TO keep the railway situation
In more healthy condition
A war is on between the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton & Dayton and the Dayton & Xenia
| Traction Company. The latter is building
an electric railroad parallel to the c.. HIS
ID. tracks. and the c., II. & d. people claim
| that the traction company Is trespassing on
their right of way near Trebeins. In order
to prevent the traction company from occu-
| plying its grade the opposing company had
a force of men early on the ground. Tues
day, and built a line of barb wire fence
along the traction company'S roadbed. An
other gang OF men In the employ OF the
traction company destroyed the fence as
rapidly as il was built. and thus the work
has been going on for two days.
A great deal has been heard recently
about the new monster express engines of
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and a
few facts and figures relating TO their di-
mansions will be read with interest They
are three-cylinder compounds of the Vau-
elaine type. high pressure cylinders. l39 by
% and low pressure, % by rs inches. The
driving wheels are S4A inches in diameter,
the weight on drivers $3.50 pounds. weight
on trailers $1,000 pounds and on the four
front truck wheels 40. 200 pounds. making a
total weight of $4,000 pounds for the en-
CINE alone. The steam pressure Is 30 pounds
and the firebox has a heating surface of $50
square feet.
The Pennsylvania Lines Voluntary Relief
tin that ballots cast for members of the
advisory committee must be forwarded by
train service or mail before May "a, which
appointed are: David Rock and II. ID. Case,
the Pennsylvania lines. Ballots are TO be
forwarded to the present members of the
| advisory board. and each voter must cast
\ hfc bofl0t for Soma On d;Co4a on Tho Aixy;o;an