The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-01

Peoria e. Eastern. c. T. Kalbaugh has
been appointed assistant trainmaster be-
tween Belle Vernon junction and New
Haven
III. c. Barlow, president, and ". NJ. Cor
bett, superintendent OF the Evansville &
Terre haute, with some prominent New
York men, and W. II. Goadby, director
OF the company, have this week been in
speeding the property. President Barlow
says the trip has no significance.
Joseph keavey, division freight agent of
the Big -Four. who few months ago was
transferred TO the Indianapolis division, is
making a fine record with Indianapolis
of Col. Oran Perry as agent Of the freight
department of Pennsylvania lines at this
point.
To-day W. III. Lindley takes the position
Of superin tondent of the dining car service
on the Lerse Shore road, vice NJ. L. Jones'
resigned. Mr.. Lindley has held similar
position for some years on the Michigan
Central He will have an office in Chicago
and from there will conduct the business OF
the two roads.
The complaint of John J. Young against
the Wabash blacklisting has been amended
and will be brought up at the next term Of
the Miami county Circuit Court. Young
was train dispatcher of the company dur
Ing the strike some years ago and was dis
charged. The Supreme Court decided
against him on an appeal.
w. II. Newman, president of the Lake
Shore and Lake Erie & Western, on
Wednesday returned from Marshall Tex,
where he went to attend the wedding of his
niece. 1t is stated that he has deferred his
visit to Indianapolis to adjust some mat
tiers pertaining to the policy of the road
until the early part Of next weeR.
William Garstang, superintendent of
motive power of the Big Four lines, yester-
day received a telegram from the Inter
state Power Company stating that three
more of the Dig freight engines had been
shipped, completing the contract for ten.
Six are now in service and making a bet
ter record than had been expected they
would.
The trunk line passenger agents have ac-
cepted and approved the recommendations
of the Pennsylvania, the Reading and the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroads relative to
the Republican national convention which
convenes in Philadelphia on June 10. The
recommendations of the roads provide for
single fare for the round trip ticket, good
for ten days.
The Central Massachusetts Railroad has
brought a bill in equity in the Supreme
Court against the Boston & Maine, the
Boston & Lowell and the Fitchburg Rail-
road, asking for an injunction restraining
the Boston x Maine from leasing the
Fitchburg and from negotiating for or buy
ing any of the common or preferred stock
of the Fitchburg road.
The item going the rounds of the press
to the effect that there is dissatisfaction
over the manner in which the clearing
house at Buffalo is operated is said to be
without foundation, and one of the officials,
says: 1.-The success of the clearing house Is
clearly established. 1t is operated on an
intelligent and economical basis and the
Vanderbilts are perfectly satisfied with the
results attained"
Isaac Evans died on Tuesday at Irwin,
Pa, aged sixty-three years. Mr.. Evans
was one of the Oldest engineers on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, having run an en-
CINE over thirty years on that road. He
was born in Boston, Mass. During the re-
bellion he an engineer on one of the
United States war vessels, and held that
position on the man-of-war that carried
President Lincoln from Washington to
Richmond at the close of the war.
Much is heard of the new passenger en-
gines of the present day, but the best of
them cannot make better record than has
Engine 27S the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
& Chicago, which has been in passenger
service seven years. In September, 1899. 1t
ran h. 729 miles. This engine last week
hauled the Chicago limited from Fort
Wayne to Chicago In two hours and fifty
minutes, not deducting stops, and the 21.5
miles from Valparaiso to Clarke Junction
was covered in sixteen minutes or at an
average speed of sos miles an hour.