The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-26

history OF the Westinghouse air brake and
a cut OF its extensive works, also a photo
gravure Of the new passenger station of the
Big Four at Terre Haute.
Freight Traffic Manager z. F. Cost, of
the Big -Four. will this week issue a ci-
Cular announcing The retirement of L. =
lteyde as assistant general freight agent
and the appointment of w. q. REYNOLDS
as his successor. Tine latter has had
charge OF tariffs for some time.
General superintendent ]. 3. Yohe. Of TIE
P~fttsburg & Lake Erie, addressed the meet
ing of the Pennsylvania Railroads Y. M.
{. A. department at Pittsburg yesterday.
Mr.. YOhe is an earnest, honest. practical
railroad official who has fought his way UP
from telegrapher to general superintendent.
w. J. Lynch on Saturday completed his
first year as general passenger agent of the
Big Four lines and, although he succeeded
T.. o. Mccormick, one of the best passen-
ger men In the country, under Mr.. Lynch
the passenger business of the Big Four
the past twelve months has been a record
breaker.
The vandalia in the week ended March
"A handled at Indianapolis 3,6l2 cars, ISL
being loaded, the road forwarding west
Loss and bringing IN LASS loaded cars. OF
The In bound business, 16 cars were loaded
with live stock. This was an increase over
the corresponding week last year of 3S2
loaded cars.
New $1,000 pounds capacity box cars for
the Pennsylvania lines are coming in daily
from st. Louis. Terre Haute and Detroit.
They are complete cars in every respect,
having all the modern safety appliances.
These cars are pressed into the grain serv-
ice at once, and on the return trip from
the East will be loaded with merchandise.
Passengers on the fast trains of the Wa
bash notice the smooth and quiet manner
in which the train is handled. buick stops
are made without jar. and in starting the
engineer appears to try to avoid violent
Juggling of the cars. One reason for the
smooth stops is that the Wabash has very
strict rules regulating air brake work.
The voluntary relief department IF the
Pennsylvania lines west disbursed in death
benefits from accidents in February $3.50
in death benefits. from natural causes ST.
80, in di~sablement benefits from accident
S9,SS, in sickness benefits 1858, making
the disbursements of the month $S1, ga. OF
the membership I .492 drew benefits during
the month. Since organized $2,673,3S S lave
been disbursed, 122.0O7 members. OF in case
of death their legitimate heirs. drawing
benefits.
The Indianapolis division of the Cincin-
Dati, Hamilton &c Dayton is showing fully
as handsome an increase in business as
are other divisions of the system. Lest
week the road handled at indianapolis 1,24z
cars, 9S5 being loaded, 101 more than in the
corresponding week of 1899, and 1S7 more
than IN the corresponding week of 1897
The better facilities the c., II. & D.. now
gives through its recent terminal improve
Inents are appreciated by shippers and
cOnsigners.
General Passenger Agent George H.. Dan
iels. of the New York Central, is the man
ager Of the largest restaurant business in
the world. The New York Central has
placed its entire dining car and station
restaurant business in Mr.. Daniels's
charge. Upon him devolves the work of
providing from day to day the dining sta
lions at Poughkeepsie, Kingston. Albany.
Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo and
Suspension Bridge, in addition to operat-
ing fifteen dining N nine buffet cars.
1t is stated that the new work on the
Panhandle between Dennison and Column
bus is rapidly nearing completion. The
grading for the double track is about COM
pleted. and the great cut at Waupetonica,
designed to reduce the grade, is almost
finished. At one point the old main track
is twenty-five feet above the level of the
new track, and at another point the old
track will be below the new track. This
great change in the grade will make the
road almost level, and the train loads can
be vastly increased. 1t will also permit the
company to increase the speed of the fast
express trains.
The new Northern. Pacific trains will DE
hauled by ten-wheeled Schenectady en-
gines, weighing, exclusive of tender, $50, 900
pounds, or eighty tons. Each ngine has
six driving wheels, the diameter of which
are s~iXty-nine or seventy-three inches. The
steam pressure carried is 200 pounds to the
square inch. which will enable these mon
sters to pull the heavy trains at a high
speed, even eighty miles an hour If neces-
sary. The fire box furnace, which supplies
the heat that generates this great steam
pressure, is nine feet long, six feet high
and five feet wide. These locomotives are
of the compound pattern used in one cylin-
der. They also supply steam for heating
the train and operating the dynamos to
supply the electricity for lighting the cars.
At a meeting of the board of directors of
the Evansville x Terre Haute Railroad
Company, held last week. the net earnings
of the company for the six months ended
Dec. 81, 1899. were shown 10 hav amounted
to $i26, 939, which, after deducting the $751;
1872 for interest, rentals and taxes, leaves a
surplus of $135, 745, sufficient to pay the full
annual dividend of 5 per cent. in the pre-
ferred stock, amounting TO s64. 120, and to
leave a balance of 81, 625. 1t was decided
per cent. on the common stock, amounting
to $59,950, and leaving a balance Of 81, 675.
The last dividend on the common stock,
which was the first that had been declared
on the stock for many years, was an an
nual dividend from the earnings of the road
during the fiscal year ending June 80, 1899.
The board of directors rave declared this
dividend OF 12 per cent. out of the earnings
of the road for the six months ending Dec.
81. 1889, which is at the rate of 3 per cent.
per annum, or 1 per cent. increase in the
dividend rate over the rate of last year.
The policy of making considerable outlay
for permanent betterments on the road is
to be continued.