The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-14

The Indiana. Decatur & Western will to-
day occupy its new depot at Tuscola.
c. E. Schaff, general manager of the Big
Four. has gone East, but will return on
Friday.
C.. s. Crane. general passenger agent of
the Wabash, has returned 10 headquarters
from the East.
The annual convention of master me-
chanics and master car builders convenes
at Saratoga next week.
The Erie is expanding $50. 1000 at Gallon in
enlarging its yards and putting In a new
coaling and watering plant.
w. +. Stark. superintendent of the Day
ton & Union. was in the city yesterday TO
confer with William Garstang.
General Traffic Manager Blabon. In
charge of the western district of the Great
Northern. is in very poor health.
The Peoria & Eastern earned. in the first
week of June, $f5. $685., ar increase over
the corresponding week of 1899 of S,O03.4.
j. A. Barnard, general manager of the
Peoria & Eastern, returned, last evening,
from Cincinnati. accompanied by his wife.
The Big Four lines proper earned, in the
first week of June. $325. 570.94. an increase
over the corresponding week of 1899 of 49,
O53.62.
Both the Wabash and the Illinois Cen.
trail are just completing handsome passen-
ger stations at Decatur, ILL.,, costing $4,000
or more each.
The fourth annual meeting of the Vet
eran Employees of the Cleveland & Pitts
burg Railroad will be held at Cleveland,
o., on June is.
August Belmont chairman of the board
Of directors of the Louisville < Nashville,
authorizes a denial of the report that Pres
ident Milton III. Smith intends to resign.
Sixteen miles of new steel rail. weighing
eighty pounds to the yard. has been dis
tributed on the Big Four. between Indian
! apolis and Lebanon, and will be put in the
track at once.
The Wabash earned. in the first week OF
June. $279.9S2. an increase over the CORE
spending week of 1889 of S13.026.. Since July
| | the road has. earned $1f, 4l6,7 III, an in
crease of $1,00s. $50.
The work of laying the Chicago & East
ern Illinois main line its entire length with
rails weighing ninety pounds TO the yaro
will be commenced this season and com
pleted within two years.
The Pullman Company has commenced
the delivering OF ten new sleeping cars Il
the Chicago & Rock Island. They are saiC
to equal. in every respect, the best product
OF the works in the past.
The Monon is putting the road between
| Monon and Michigan City In good condi
ton. Road Master Wright. with a force oi
thirty men. is relaying the track the en-
| tire distance with heavy new rails.
The Panhandle Company is purcha sins
additional ground at Logansport prepare
tory 10 making extensive yard improve
ments and increasing the facilities fol
handling the business at that point.
John p. Greene, James McCrea and Sam
uel Rea. representing the Pennsylvania
| Company's interests. were yesterda,
/ elected directors Of the Norfolk & West
/ ern. TO succeed w Il. Boulton. w. b
| Campbell and Henry Wheeler, resigned.
Engine 776, on the Wabash. which hauled
| the heaviest load ever taken over the east
ern division of the road, seventy-six loaded
and three empty cars. was designed by ]
b. Barnes. superintendent of motive pow
er of the Wabash, and Is known as th'
Columbian type.
On Tuesday. Train 81. on the Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton. was hauled, just cas-
of oxford. six consecutive miles at an av
erage speed of a mile in az seconds, ant
Train "a. on that night. coming west. RAJ
from Rushville TO the Belt road, thirty-si,
miles. in thirty-seven minute
The Toledo. st. Louis & Kansas City will
pass 10 the new owners July /. The fxet
charges will be s575. 600. and IL Is claimed
this is considerably moresthan the road hal
ever earned under the best of manage
ments. Last year the road earned $4,000
net I'm addition. to putting $4,000 into tn
property In the way Of betterment.
The Ba~rney-smith Company Is doing tn,
largest business I'm its history. and an OF
! lcer OF the company says the future Seems