The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

mileage they are called upon TO make.
three passenger train crews running "a
miles every t~wenty-four hours, and they
have asked the master mechanic to in
crease the number of engineers and fire.
men.
The business at the union ticket office
on Massachusetts, avenae for 1899 was the
largest in the years IL has been opened.
The sales Of tickets for each month show
a handsome Increase over the correspond
ing period OF 1895, and January this year
showed better results than did January,
1899.
V. B. Long, who recently resigned as
master mechanic OF the Queen & Crescent
at its shops in Chattanooga, to-day takes
the position of master mechanic of the
mainline shops of the Chicago & Alton
at Bloomington. President FELTON, is TAX
ing quite a following with him from the
former road.
Adoption of the twenty-four-hour clock
system by the railroads of America is be-
ing urged by the Canadian Pacific and
lntercoionial companies OF Canada. The
system. which recently has been adopted
in France. has been given a trial by the
Canadian Pacific, and the officers en-
Enthusiastically declare ii TO be superior in
every way to the present plan.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy off,
Gals announce that more than S3.0Oo,00O
VIII be spent this year in improving the
main line from Chicago to Omaha All
heavy grades will be reduced and curves
Strengthened, and new steel bridges will be
substituted for wooden ones. The plan
Is to double track a good part of the line
this year and provide for its continuation
in the future.
General Superintendent Stuart, of the
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
road, who severed his connection with that
line yesterday, will, it is said. become gen.
eral superintendent Of the Baltimore &
Ohio road, with JURISDICTION over the lines
Of the latter road west of the Ohio river.
All the passenger and freight agents in
the Central Traffic Association will gather
In Fort Wayne at a social reunion March
8 next. Nearly three hundred will be pres
ent. A banquet will be served at the
Wayne Hotel in the evening, after a day
given up TO sightseeing and having a good
time. No business of any kind will be
transacted, the meeting being solely for
social purposes.
The engineers and firemen of the Penn
sylvania Railroad are receiving checks for
January wages and also payment on ac-
count Of the increase granted since the
first of the year, which is equivalent to
2 cents per hour, and as the men put In
full time and much overtime since the list
Of January the back pay amounts to con-
siderable. The pay checks represent the
largest amounts ever received by the Penn
sylvania engineers and flremen in the his
tory of that system.
George J. Mohler, general agent of the
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company.
itCclNeQ OTuciS yesterday " tiOSc III COll
pany's office Immediately. The affairs of
the road will be looked after by the Union
'acific. The recent consolidation of the
Union Pacific and the Oregon has resulted
in a campaign to save money. The Oregon
will conduct the Union Pacific's affairs at
Northwest coast points and the Union Pa
cific will handle matters for both lines at
various places in this section of the coun-
try.
The Panhandle is only a few thousand
dollars per annum behind the Lake Erie
In the amount of revenue received from
mail business, and the Fort Wayne is now
earning over 100000 from mail traffic. This
means that the Pennsylvania lines are
earning over 81, 100000 per year from mail
traffic alone. West of Chicago the Bur-
lington is the greatest mail route, but this
line is meeting with active competition
from the Chicago & Northwestern and the
Santa Fe. The Pennsylvania still main
tains, however, it's prestige as the greatest
of mail-carrying routes, but the Lake
Shore as a single line and a part Of the
great system remains in the lead, with only
one close competitor, and that is the Pam
handle.