The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-16

indianapolis on time The nineteen miles
from Danville 10 indianapolis were covered
Ia sixteen minutes, the train consisting or
six cars. two OF them Pullman cars.
The Central Passenger Association has
announced a round-trip rate OF one fare
plus from points all over its territory
10 Chicago for the international live stock
exhibition, which begins Dec. l. The tickets
will be on sale for three days and be good
returning till Dec. 10.
The gross earnings of the Monon lines,
covering So miles Of road, the first week
In November, were 81. 1854. against $S2,363 in
ings from Jan. / TO Nov were $3.50 1885,
against $3.226934 in the corresponding period
of 1899. and against $2S39,73S in 1895.
The eighteenth annual meeting Of the
American Roadmasters' Association will
convene in Los Angeles next week. III. v
Church of the Lake Shore, w. j. Prindle
OF the Pennsylvania and w. T.. Emery
OF the Chicago * Northwestern will make
reports on important technical matters.
H. B. Hocutt assistant car inspector for
the Georgia Southern & Florida Railroad,
and for years prominent railroad man,
disappeared from Lake City, Fla, on Oct:
Is. Yesterday party of huntsmen found
the body in field a few miles from the
city. 1t was determined at the inquest
that Hocutt had committed suicide by TAX
ing laudanum.
The record of train accidents shows that
in the month of September there was a
persons lost their lives and 1876 suffered
severe injuries. The high record of fatali-
ties to persons in September is due to two
accidents-the collision at Hatfield, on the
Philadelphia & Reading. and the derail-
ment on the Illinois Central at Mound
One OF the longest special trains ever ham
died by the railroads In transporting a
theatrical company across the continent
and back Is that used by the Maurice Grau
company. The train is made up of seven
teen cars and consists of five standard
phi limo rarfxv 1fnin
two Pullman tourist cars and eight bag
gage cars. The total distance TO be trav-
eled in making its tour is 1856 miles.
The Fort Wayne & Butler has asked Fort
Wayne to vote a subsidy to the road OF
100000. and the company agrees to ex-
pend 900 in the rebuilding of the Wabash
shops at that point and charging the plant
for the manufacture of locomotives and
cars and repairs. 1t also proposes TO en-
large the yards at that point and further
stipulates that the junction point of the
Wabash and the Fort Wayne & Butler
road shall remain in that city.
The general passenger agents of the
Pennsylvania, the Baltimore & Ohio. the
Chesapeake e. Ohio and the Southern Rail-
way have issued joint circular notifying
connecting lines that in view of the limited
siding facilities i'm Washington and the
difficulty OF maintaining proper sanitary
conditions the above named companies will
be unable to store any sleeping, private or
reclining chair cars for occupancy at Wash
ington or vicinity for the presidential IN
auguration in March.
The Pennsylvania people are said to be
somewhat disturbed oyer the proposition
cutoff which would give ii shorter line
between Pittsburg and Chicago than that
OF the Pennsylvania Company. and belief
prevails that the Pennsylvania Company
will extend its unfinished railway from
Wooster to West Lebanon, making it a
part of the company's airline between
Pittsburg and Chicago. The new road, IL
wi ma Alliance
would cut the distance between Pittsburg
AID Chicago il is stated. forty miles.
NJ d. Woodford. president of the Cincin-
| natl, Hamilton q Dayton lines including
| the Indiana, Decatur & Western, was In
the city all day yesterday inspecting the
company's terminals at this point and Wis
| ting the shops. G.. r. Balch. purchasing
agent of the lines, accompanied him. Mr..
| twenty miles of new steel rails, weighing
seventy pounds to the yard, to be laid
on the Indiana, Decatur * Western be-
tween Guion and Dana, and he also gave
| instructions to Superintendent Graves to
have twenty-five coal cars of seventy
| thousand pounds capacity built at the
| company's shops in this city. Within the
| next few months a number of new depots
| will be built on the line of the l., ID. e. w.
| AT Newman depot will be built at once.
c. G.. Waldo. general manager of the
| Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton lines, who,
| since the corn crop was harvested, has
| made a trip over the c., II. x d. lines and
| over the Indiana, Decatur e. Western says
| he has never seen such immense quantities
| of corn stored in elevators, warehouses,
| Earns, corn sheds, etc, as this year, and
| had the roads all the cars they could haul
| IL would take three months to ship the
| grain to the markets. John S. Lazarus
| traffic manager of the Indiana, Decatur &
| Western for many years. says there has
never been such a. crop harvested on their
| lines as this year. The company Is fur
nishing all the cars Ii can get, but does
not attempt to keep pace with calls for cars
| at way stations, to say nothing about
calls of connections. The earnings of the
| Indiana. Decatur & Western in October
| exceeded all former exhibits. and Novem-
| Der will improve on October.