The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-27
B. & O. REHABILITATION
EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS DURING
THE RECEIyERsHIP.
The b. & %. 8. w. VIII BE Brought Up
to the same High Standard-Per-
sonaI and General Notes.

81 do not believe" said an engineer of
maintenance of way of one of the principal
roads crossing Indiana. that there is a case
CT record where so much has been done in
a like period TO a line Of ALWAYS as in the
case of the Baltimore & Ohio and its West
ern connection. the Baltimore & Ohio South
western, as since John X. Cowen and Oscar
q. Murray were appointed receivers. Mr..
Cowan has given his attention largely to
furnishing money for improvements TO the
property and increasing its equipment. and
Receiver Murray has carried. out his policy
in the rehabiltati OF the road. and
through his influence the improvements now
in progress on the Baltimore & Ohio South
western were inaugurated. Within the last
ten days contracts have been let amounting
TO $4,000. mostly to be expended on the
roadbed." Mr.. Murray sets out somewhat in
detail what has been done since the Balti-
more & Ohio property was placed in the
hands of receivers. The expenditures on
roadbed and equipment are summarized as
follows: Two hundred and sixteen engines.
s2.34S.s25; 24.sO freight cars. 1902. s25: 81
passenger cars. s154. So. so: floating equip
rent. s1s2. 600: $3.50 tons new rail. 81, 80 900;
AS, s51 ties. 81. 705. 80. 10: about COS, O0 cubic
yards of ballast. $780, coo: 40 miles of sidings
laid. $4,000: 100 bridges and culverts
erected. $4,000; about 20 miles of second.
third and fourth track built; for construc-
ton. S3.5O0.00O: revision of grades and curves.
seven curves. Myers, Tabs. Tablers, Bairds
and Doe Gully; additional yards. Cumber-
land. Grafton, Locus Point: sidings: dredg-
ing: Mount Clare. As a result of the in
creased capacity and efficiency of the prop
erty. and the ability to render the trans
portation services at a cheapened cost, the
company was able further to enlarge its
tonnage in a very striking way. The adj
oition to the number OF tons moved was
movement one mile the increase was $4,000
COO tons, or as much as A.67 per cent. Nor
coal or grain 2s Srpe The road did add i.sso.is5 tons
10 its coal and coke tonnage and 42l,S tons
TO its grain traffic. but this still leaves
citing department of the Baltimore & Ohio
proper Is conducting its work with a view
OF Of closing up the reeeivers' accounts Ss june me
the old Baltimore & Ohio to begin, as the
new Baltimore e. Ohio with a fiattering
opinion of well-informed railway managers
and experts. On the basis of the reorganiEa.
ton the company will have s5.5oo.oD to ex-
pend in further improvements to its road
bed and increasing Its equipment.
MilIers Complain Of Delay I'm Transit.
American freight service was severely
criticised yesterday In the convention OF
the Winter Wheat Millers' League at De-
troit. The occasion was a discussion of de-
lays 'in transit" by the millers and repre-
sentatives OF the foreign flour markets.
steamship lines and inland carriers. That
there was unnecessary delay In the shipping
of grain. all agreed. but fixing the respon-
sibility was not so easy. The steamship
men averred that the inland carriers were
to blame; the carriers referred the matter
back to the shippers; railroad representa-
tives say that shippers figure and wait for
a low carrying rate, and then when y.
get II fairy swamp tue road with grain.
Thomas +. Hasiam. of the London Flour
Association, thought that American grain
exports would increase . to 80 per cent. II
the delays were remedied. After all the in
terests had presented their respective sides.
a general discussion followed. Numerous
ideas for obyiating the delays were sug-
gested. one Of the most plausible being that
a thirty-ive day shipment limit be attached
10 grain purchases. A committee was APP
pointed to confer on the subject with repre-
sentatives of the steamship lines and TO
represent the lea que at the next meeting OF
the Central Traffic Association.