The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-28

mencing March 10. 1861. on the Bee-line,
now part of the Big Four, as messenger
boy.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton is
making further improvements to its recent
~ built shops at Lima, one of the additions
being boiler shop, l24 feet long by % wlde,
and it is to be equipped entire with new
and modern machinery.
After paying its employees by check for
fifteen years. the Wabash will next month
go back TO its old method Of paying cash
from paymasters cars. 1t will require
two pay cars, but will be much more salts
factory to the employees.
NJ D. Wodford, president of the Cincin-
natl. Hamilton * Dayton lines. and of the
Indiana, Decatur & Western, arrived in
Cincinnati last evening and will probably
make a trip over their Western lines be-
fore returning to New York.
William b. Gaskins who on April ] will
become superintendent of motive power of
the Pecos Valley az Northwestern, a line
extending from Roswell, ~. NJ. into the
Texas Panhandle, began his railroad career
as an apprentice in the Wabash shops.
c. r. Meyers claim agent of the Big Four
lines, now with Minister Harris in Austria,
writes John I. Dye. general solicitor of
the Big Four, that his health has much
improved and he expects to return early in
July He obtained leave of absence for
six months.
z. L. Hill, superintendent of car service
OF the Louisville & Nashville, and r.
Cayce, holding the same position with the
Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis, were in
the city yesterday examining the methods
OF the Big Four in operating its car SER
vice department
a new train will be put on the Baltimore
& Ohio Southwestern for Cincinnati which
Will be called the Mitchell accommodation.
1t will leave Mitchell Ind. early in the
morning and return in the evening. train
similar to this was run several years ago
and was success.
The annual election OF board of di-
rectors for the Pennsylvania Railroad took
place yesterday. all the members of the
old board being reelected. meeting will
be held the first week in April to elect Off
GERS No changes are likely to occur in the
present personnel.
Traffic Manager Caldwell. Of the Lacka-
wanna, announces the appointment of Mr.
Z. 3. Jewett as foreign freight agent of
that company, with headquarters in New
York. Mr.. Jewett has been foreign freight
agent of the Fitchburg in Chicago, and is
well known in Western railroad circles.
The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago
now has a large number of men at work
laying new heavy steel. putting down bal
last, erecting signal bridges and adjusting
the new interloclxing plants. 1t will take
almost two months yet to get these tracks
in the shape desired by the transportation
department.
The Central Passenger Association has
so modified its recent rulings as to rates
for the Grand Army of the Republic that
committees for the posts can go ahead
of the regular convention and arrange
quarters one-half the authorized rate.
which means half-cent mile to such
committees.
Colonel VIM. Shaw, district passenger
agent of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
lines, Is in the city. He says their new
fast service between st. Louis and the
Pacific coast, which is to be inaugurated
May l. will consist of the finest passenger
equipment run on Western lines, which are
second to none.
Manager Thorne, of the Pennsylvania
Coal Company testifes that last year his
company paid s., 100000 to the Erie. He said,
however, that the building of the new road
would not mean a loss to the Erie of any
such amount, and that If his company
broke its contract with the Erie and d.
verified all the coal it could it would not
amount to a loss to the Erie of more than
$SOO,0OO year in business.
The Interstate-commerce Commission met
in Los Angeles, Cal, yesterday and began
hearing of important coast freight prob
lens. Yesterday the proceedings concerned
the complaint of the st. Louis Business
Mems League against the transcontinental
roads. The various interests are repre-
sented by attorneys. Judson c. Clements
presided. The other commissioners present
were j. ID. Yeomans and ]. w. Fifer.
A routing of freight and passengers more
advantageous than in previous years will
waukee TO northern Michigan points this
season. Heretofore freight or passengers
destined to Frankfort, Mich, and points as
far north as Cheboygan, went to Chicago
first, and were then transferred to the
northern Michigan lines of steamers for the
trip across the lake. This year the trip to
Chicago first will only be taken for freight
or passengers destined to Frankfort and
points as far north as Charlevoix.
One of the latest evidences of the con-
Serys. tive and buSfneSSlilSe mana q
be injected into the operations of the Ches-
apeake & Ohio Railroad since the Pennsyl-
vania became practically dominant in its
affairs is the abolition of the office of gen.
eral coal freight agent on April / and the
concentration of this traffic under the
jurisdiction of the freight traffic manager.
The Chesapeake & Ohio has always been
a disturbing factor in the soft coal trade,
and much of the decentralization that has
existed in that business in recent years has
been caused not only by direct reductions
in rates but by concessions to shippers and
purchasers of coal by that company. Its
five-year contract with the New York, New
Haven & Hartford several years ago. and
at a time when rates and prices of coal
were already very low, is still remembered
as 1t created a Generalization in the soft
coal trade from which it has but recently
recovered.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy has
reached a point where extensions into new
territory give 1t very long haul TO Chi
cago. st. Louis and St. Paul. The Big Horn
basin in northwestern Wyoming is settling
up, and the c., 3. & q. has planned an ex-
tension of about 200 miles from its Billings
branch to give railroad facilities to this
section. The road may be begun the latter
part of this year, and its cost probably
will be above 1000, 900. AT present the con-
struction forces are finishing the Alliance
line and are working on the Brush line to
connect the Black Hills with Colorado.
The mainline grades in Illinois are being
reduced to a twenty-four-foot maximum.
In Iowa the double tracks and sidetracks
are gradually extending, and the maximum
grades for the most of the lines in Iowa in
a few years will be thirty-five feet to the
mile 1t looks as though the c., B. & Q.
would spend more this year for construc-
tion than last year, when S,5Oo,0OO was put
into the property.