The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-28


B%rightwood will be shipped to Cincinnati to
a junk dealer.
J. J. Turner. general manager of the Van
dalia lines. has gone TO Pittsburg.
The Baltimore e Ohio southwestern will
next month purchase twenty new passenger
coaches Of the best standard.
The Lake Shore has ordered 800 gondola
cars. of $1,000 pounds capacity. from the
Michigan Peninsular Car Company.
w. II. McDoel. vice president and general
manager of the Monon lines, will this week
return with his wife from California, width
er they went on their bridal trip.
1t is understood that J. l.. Laying will re-
tire at an early day from the vice presl-
dency Of the Big. Four Company, intending
to relieve himself of all railroad service
r. r. McKeever. the late superintendent
Of the Fonda. Johnstown & Gloversville.
has been made general passenger agent Of
the Rutland Railroad, with headquarters in
Rutland.
1t is reported that the famous Katy"
flyer. between ST. Louis and Dallas, Tex.
is to be run again. 1t was a favOrite in the
Southwest the time of it's suspension about
a year ago.
1t is stated that the Lake Erie & Western
has closed a contract with the Brooks loco
motive works for five new locomotives, and
With Haskell & Barker, Michigan City, for
1000 freight cars.
George T. Gunnip, general agent of the
passenger department Of the Santa santa Fe lines
general agent Of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy passenger department.
The Ohio courts have decided that a dis
charged employe of a railroad company who
does not receive "A Clearance cannot main
tain q suit for damages If it be shown he
was dismissed because of an alleged dere-
LECTION of duty
officers of the Baltimore & Ohio report
that their ordinary sleeping cars are DONG
a good business. 1t Is the general opinion,
however, among passenger men that the at
tempt to induce patrons of frst-class sleep
pTG tn Ch9nOa into this kind Of "A car or 10
fill them with people who have never taken
sleepers at any price will result only IN
failure.
It is stated that the Hooking Valley will
be combined with the Toledo & Ohio Cen
trail, the Columbus, San6usky & Hooking,
and perhaps with the old Toledo, Ann Arbor
q Northern Michigan, recently reorganlZed
as the Ann Arbor Railroad. This would
give Il combined mileage of nearly l,O0O
miles and would put the allied roads IN a
most favorable situation in the coal fields.
The Big -Four will make application for
membership in the Buffalo clearing house of
the Vanderbilt lines in the near future.
With the opening of the clearing house
there will be a general consolidation of sta
ton agencies of all the Vanderbilt lines. All
through freight carried through the East by
the New York Central, which Will include
the West Shore road, will be billed to des-
t%ination instead of being rebilled at Buff
falO.
shops night and day. AS the Pullman Com
paDy builds passenger, freight and street
ears, ii supplies almost anything in that
line. The freight-car building department
has orders ahead for freight cars to keep
it running until Dec. 81, and nc contract
Will be made with a guarantee for delivery
employed at Pullman, and the capacity Of
the shops is one car each hour.
TIL official roster of the st. Joseph, South
Bend & Southern Railroad Company. which
has acquired the Indiana Il Lake Michigan
Railway, is as follows: NJ. L. Scudder. presi-
dent, New York; Colgate Hoyt. vice presi-
dent, New York; F. R; Hale, superintendent
and traffic manager St. Joseph, Mich. Ed
ward Gale, auditor, St. Joseph. Mich;
Frank H. Carter, treasurr, New York; Har-
old Scudder, secretary. New York; S.. B.
Humphrey. commercial agent. Milwaukee,
WIS.
Tire growth of business at Indianapolis is
illustrated in the increase in number of cars
which have been unloaded from year to year
on the bulk tracks of the Pennsylvania
lines at South street, since the yard was
established, as follows: In 1894 there were
unlOaded on these tracks IL, 691 cars; in 1895,
1865; in 1896, 53.423: in 1897, 81. 1894; in 1895,
60, 1873. 1t should be borne in mind that with
each year there has been an increase in ton
mage carried by cars through the introduce
tom of the car Of 10000 pounds capacity.
OF the many important transactions in
connection with the Chicago, Burlington d
Quincy system, either past or contemplated,
that of the board of directors on Thursday
last in deciding to raise SIG, 900, 900 with
which to purchase leased lines and new
equipment easily takes the lead in the eyes
of the officials of the company. While one
of the lines to be bought is the Keokuk &
Western, a transaction. which has been
mentioned already, the decision to purchase
outright the Chicago, Burlington q Quincy
comes as a surprise to the company'S man
agement
Receiver Oscar G.. Murray. General Mama
ger Underwood and a number of other Off
Gals of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
were in Chicago yesterday inspecting the
extensive terminals at that point. The party
left Baltimore last Thursday morning and
has given the lines west of the Ohio river
ten months something like five or six mil
lions Of dollars will be spent on this part
of the system, and the officials are arrang-
ing the preliminaries for the beginning of
the actual work. They left Monday even
ing for Cleveland and expect to reach Balti-
more by Thursday.
DIR. Webb's declaration last week that the
Pullman Company would take the initiative
in case there was an effort to consolidate
the Pullman and Wagner interests is said
to have caused Pullman authorities TO
laugh.N A Pullman official said that the
Pullman Company, being twice as large as
the Wagner. IL would not seek a combina-
ton. Moreover, the capital stock of the
Pullman Company was recently raised SIS
900, 900 so as to absorb that amount of sur
plus, and even then 100000 remained to
be distributed. If the Pullman and Wagner
companies were to combine. said the Off
cial, there would be a hue and cry about a
trust.
1t is learned from reliable sources that
the transportation and traffic departments
of the West Shore road will be combined
with the New York Central on April l.. One
of the most prominent officials to be affected
by this change will be Percy L. Todd, gen.
eral traffic manager. but he is sure to fall
into a rich berth. At one time recently he
was mentioned as vice president Of the
Lackawanna road, in charge of the traffic
department. This report was circulated.
but it is now claimed that Mr.. Todd will
be given a position with the New York Cen
trail system. There will be some changes in
the passenger department of the West
Shore, and in the transportation line some
releases are expected.