The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-07

ness while President Ingalls, is in Europe.
Mr.. ingalls, expects TO be absent about
three months.
j. T.. Eckman, district inspector of the
indianapolis Joint Weighing and Inspection
Bureau, who was injured in a street car
accident several weeks ago, was at his Of
fee yesterday for the first time since his
injury.
Sunday was the forty-eighth anniversary
OF the running of the first train over the
Terre Haute & Indianapolis road. Mr..
Baugh, who had charge of the engine, is
still living, although considerably crippled,
being over eighty-two years Of age.
The general passenger agents of the i'm
portant lines have agreed among them
selves not to grant free transportation 10
committees of either parties who wish TO
visit Philadelphia, Kansas City or any
other point where national conventions are
held.
Michael Hastings, the oldest employe in
time of service on the Little Miami. died
at Xenia on Friday, aged eighty-five years.
When he became too old for active du-
ties he was made a station fiagman. but OF
late years had been cared for by the COM
pany.
Three hundred delegates to the ninth an
nual convention of the International Asso-
citation of Railway Ticket Agents, which
begins in Atlanta, Ga, March s. left Chi
train over the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
road.
The new x-class GA engines on the Pan
handle and Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chi
cago. which are making such excellent rec
ords for power and speed, were designed by
William Stephan, mechanical engineer of
the Pittsburg Fort Wayne & Chicago shops
at Fort Wayne.
Now that the Lake Shore has control of
the Lake Erie & Western. the citizens Of
connection with the Big Four, they will
build a new union station. President In
gals says he has long been favorable to
such Improvement.
Harry Miller. superintendent Of he Van
dalia main line, accompanied Theodore
voorhees,, first vice president Of the Phila-
delphia & Reading. from Terre Haute and
the train being late in leaving Terre Haute
gave an opportunity for fast running which
Mr.. Voorhees, spoke OF in very compliment
airy terms
The Pittsburg &c Lake Erie is handling
tremendous freight business. and even
with the many new engines added last year
and the engines borrowed they can scarcely
keep the business moving. They now have
five engines of the p. b. & l.. +. and five
of the Lake Shore in service hauling coal
and coke trains.
Although Vice President and General
Manager Ramsey, of the Wabash, declined
TO recognize the labor organizations in fix
ing the wage scale of the employees, he
approved of the Increase and the readjust-
ment Of the runs in conformity to the
The Cincinnati Commercial tribune says
there is report that the Office of Assist
ant General Freight Agent J. T. Orndoff,
of the Chesapeake e. Ohio Railway, will
This office has a large force of employees
in Cincinnati. The office of the president
Of the road was recently removed FL
Cincinnati to Richmond.
Train z, on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne &
Chicago. Monday made the run from Van
Vert to Fort Wayne in thirty-three min
utes; the 81 miles between Dixon and Ma
pies was covered in eight minutes and
thirty-two seconds, or at speed of seventy
miles hour. The train consisted of ten
cars and was hauled by one of the new
ten-wheel passenger engines.
G. E. Schaff general manager of the Big
Four lines, and George Kittredge, chief
engineer. passed through the city yester-
day route to Terre Haute, where the
company is having trouble with the bridge
over the Wabash. The special train on
which they travelled made the run from
Indianapolis to Terre Haute, seventy-three
miles, in seventy-five minutes, the fastest
time ever made between the two cities.
In the week ended March the East
bound lines out of Chicago carried 1852
tons of grain and other products, against
1?l 635 tons in the corresponding week OF
1899. The fact that the Lake Shore Sc
Michigan Central carried As per cent. of
that business gives grounds for the be-
lief that the Vanderbilt lines are rate de-
stated that the Michigan Central has con-
tracts ahead for three months TO come.
r. T. Tye, chief engineer of the new con-
struction work for the Canadian Pacific,
has been made chief engineer of construc-
ton, with jurisdiction of the entire sys-
tenn. j. r. Sullivan, assistant engineer,
has been made chief engineer of the Co
lumbia & Western. p. j. Dennis has been
promoted to be engineer of maintenance of
way. Mr.. Tye receives a bonus of 5000
for the excellence of his work in British
Columbia. Mr.. Sullivan $1,000, and the di-
vision engineers $500 each.
The conductor on the southbound Monon
passenger train Monday walked back
through the smoking car the train
pulled out of Bloomington, at o'clock in
the morning. and remarked that there
were two men in the front end of the car
broken out with smallpox. He was as cool
as an icicle, but very much alarmed The
speed with which the passengers ran into
the ladies' car was remarkable in gait, and
the athletic ability of the passengers sur
rrised even the conductor. 1t was in the
gray of the early morning, but the sleepy
passengers awoke In a jiffy and all tried
to rush through the door at once. At the
next station the train was stopped and the
smallpox victims hustled off in short or
der.