The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-18

erected.
On Saturday one OF the large compound
engines of the Pittsburg g. Lake Erie made
record of seventy eight miles an hour
on favorable stretch of track between
Warren and Cleveland.
Southwestern roads announce that they
will not participate in reduced rates for the
merchants spring meetings in New York,
but will participate in those arranged for
Chicago and ST. Louis.
w. o. Chase formerly general superin-
tendent of the Wagner Sleeping-car Com
pany has been appointed superintendent or
the dining car service on the entire Great
Northern Railway system
Travelling Passenger Agents Fowler, of
the Illinois Central and Milliken, of the
Louisville & Nashville, were in the city
last night. They will accompany the lum-
bermen's association on its Southern trip.
The Louisville & Nashville has closed
contract TO build fifty miles of railroad
from Georgiana, Ala, on the main line,
to point on the Alabama & Florida road.
This extension will open rich territory.
The Ohio Coal Traffic Association on
Tuesday decided to advance coal rates
April / on long and short hauls ten cents a
ton. This is the second time the coal roads
have advanced coal rates in the last three
months.
d. l.. Brown. Panhandle passenger conduc-
tor, Is quite Ill at his home in Steubenville.
He had resumed his run after having SEEM
ingly recovered from the effects of a surgi-
cal operation, but was compelled to quit
work again.
w. H. Collins, who had served as
engineer on the Baltimore q Ohio forty
six years, died on Sunday from an attack
OF paralysis. His brother, Capt. John Col
Inns, is train dispatcher of the b. K ..
at Washington, ID. G.
The Fort Wayne lodge of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen is endeavoring
to increase its membership, and, as an ex-
ira inducement, has temporarily reduced
the initiation fee from $3.50 TO $3.50. On
March the original fee will be restored.
Hiram Fleetwood, one of the best known
engineers on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne &
heart disease His son, Cliff Fleetwood, is
a passenger conductor, and his son Rodney
Fleetwood an engineer on the Fort Wayne
road.
S. w. Hayes, supervisor of the Bee-line
division of the Big Four, will, on Feb !.
accept a position in the maintenance or
way department of the New York Central.
and w. s. Moore, supervisor OF the Mlcht-
gan division, will be transferred to the Bee
line division.
Frank A Shelton, of the vandalia, passed
through the city yesterday zen route TO
Pittsburg, where he becomes assistant TO
William Wright, superintendent or the
Pressed Steel Car Company. Mr.. Wright
a few months ago left the Vandalia to take
his present position.
The advance In railroad rates now being
enforced will unquestionably lead to fall-
ing on of the volume of traffic. Still, the
most marked decrease is in the grain move
ment, the roads now depending on the ele-
vators and storehouses for their supply of
freight so far as grain is concerned.
Lodge No. 32l. of the Brotherhood of Rail-
road Trainmen, at Mckee's Rocks, holds
the record as premier lodge of the Broth
erhood in point of membership, having at
present 37S members. In 1899 this lodge
paid out $1SiS3 liz benefits, and began the
In tie f~nn
While the railroads have not announced
their rates as yet all the lines are getting
ready TO handle tie business to the Mardi
Gras in New orleans, Feb. p to q. The
railroad men say that the rate this year
will probably be a single fare for the round
trip. and they expect to carry a heavy bust
ness.
N. w. Taylor. general freight agent of
the Vandalia lines. is in the city. He
states that freight traffic on that line is
still very satisfactory. Most of the cotton
has been moved East, but considerable
grain and commodity freights are being
handled, and more coal than in any winter
for some years.
The Baltimore & Ohio is so pressed with
business that IL has borrowed forty freight
locomotives from the Great Northern. The
road is doing an enormous business at pres
ent, and with the hundreds of new engines
and thousands of new cars provided since
Oscar Murray has dictated the policy of
the transportation department, 1t is still
impossible to handle the business offered.
An official of the Baltimore & Ohio states
that 1t is the intention of the management
to make the Chicago division a model one
For miles and miles there is not a curve
and the grades are not sharp, and wher-
ever there are grades it is proposed to cut
them down. The company is also figuring
| to save time at least a half hour by a
cutoff between South Chicago and the
Grand Central Station.
John A. Spoor has been advanced from
| the position of vice president to that of
| president of the Union Stockyards and
| Transit Company, of Chicago, succeeding
John b. Sherman, who retired after hav-
| ing been connected with the company since
its organization. about thirty-five years
| ago. The new president is generally re-
| garded as a Vanderbilt man, and his cleo
| ton, it is said will strengthen the Wander
bilt interests in the stockyards company.
Firemen and possible conductors and
| engineers all over the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad system proper are to be the sub
| jects of a substantial wage advance dat
| ing from jan /. The advance will be close
| TO 10 per cent. IT will vary, 1T is under
| stood. on different parts of the system,
| SO as to equalize the scale, and for the
| most part the advance will be about s
per cent 1T goes to all fireman, however.
| the men Of the yards and the men of the
| road
A large representation of the Brother
| hood of Locomotive Engineers is now lob
Il
working in the interests of bill requiring
| locomotive engineers to pass a rigid exam
| nation and take out a license before they
are permitted to run engines. So difficult
| Is IL for an incompetent man to get the
position Of engineer that such legislation
| seems hardly necessary, and rather reflects
| on the present management of the roads, so
careful are superintendent OF motive power
| in the matter of selecting men to the
| engines on the roads they represent.
Said a far-seeing railroad official yester-
| sylvania Railroad Company, with the
wealth at its command, will stand by and
see the New York Central people absorb
| the New York, New Haven q Hartford,
| which would effectually give notice to the
Pennsylvania that relations with the New
| York, New Haven e. Hartford would ter
inmate and the Pennsylvania be shut out
| of New England. 1t is more likely that the
| Pennsylvania people will secure control of
| the New York. New Haven & Hartford
| lines than that the Vanderbilt people WILL"
| III. Turner, who is employed as an engi-
| neer of the Mexican Central Railway, on
| the night of March 20 last left Esperanza
/ for Orizaba, in charge of a freight en-
| CINE. When about fifty yards from the
] siding he saw dark object directly ahead
| of him on the track. He reversed his en-
| CINE, but too late, and the engine collided
| with another. The fireman of the other en-
| CINE. native, was killed. The engineer
| OF the other engine was Scotc..man,
named Mckay, and both engineers have
| been in Jail since the accident occurred.
Turner was badly injured. but lifted
out of bed, arrested and taken TO the prison
hospital.
All the California railroads interested
| in the uueStiOn the routing of fruit