The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-17
"Extra cars are never added to this train.

| Extra cars are never added to this train.
and IL is necessary for passengers to re-
serve berths several days ahead, although
the train has been on only since April y. =
The Big Four was obliged to run two ex-
ira sections OF passenger cars TO GreensDurg
yesterday, TO carry the Odd Fellows and
their friends, who went to that place to
attend the dedication of the opening of the
new Odd Fellows home, they filling thirty
three coaches.
Up TO the present time eleven townships
on the line of the projected Indianapolis
Southern road have voted liberal subsidies
seven more will hold elections and Will
doubtless vote the subsidy asked. Much en-
thusiasm is said TO exist on the line sur
veyed in favor of the construction of the
road.
Frank Reed. general passenger agent of
the Monon, was in the city yesterday: he
says the passenger earnings are consider
ably in excess Of those OF the corresponding
period of $685. and this is the more gratify-
ing from the fact that last year passenger
earnings were handsomely In excess or any
former year.
The Nickle-pIate has decided to adopt
the club plan generally on its entire sys-
tenn In it's dining car service. A test OF Its
practicability on two of its through trains
was highly satisfactory. The club plan al
lows the passenger to select from the Dill OF
fare what he wants and he can grade the
cost of the meal to the size of his purse.
On the Panhandle. between Pittsburg
and Wheeling Junction. a distance of nine
miles, there are nine interocking plants,
ard over this piece of track $50 trains pass
daily. eighty-two being passenger trains,
several of them running on very fast
schedules. and 1T is said to be one of the
most difficult sections of road in the coun-
try to operate without accident or delays.
July has been fixed upon the date for
the removal of the auditing department of
the Baltimore e. Ohio Southwestern from
Cincinnati to Baltimore. The auditing de-
ri Of hot xxrin fhor, F,o
placed under the supervision of j. C.. Neale
who was formerly auditor of the Indiana,
Decatur K Western. now at the head of the
auditing department of the Baltimore &
Ohio.
The Pennsylvania has taken floor in
the sixteen-story building which is being
erected by the American Exchange Nation
al Bank in the Wall-street district. New
York. The building will be finished by mex.
September and 1t is said the Pennsylvania
Will then move to New York most, il no.
all. of its general Offices. and will estab-
lish Its permanent headquarters. which are
now 1t Philadelphia, in the city of New
York.
The business the new through trains of
the Big Four recently put on between ST.
Louis, New York and Boston is a sur
prise to the passenger officials, especially
east-bound, and that Ii has not cut into
the business of the Knickerbocker Ex-
press is gratifying In fact. III. M. Bron-
son. assistant general passenger agent,
says the way edSI-DOunQ business Is now
increasing and to accommodate 1t will re-
quire another sleeping car on the Knicker-
booker.
Two years ago fir ties were used in an
experimental way by some of the roads,
and for bridge timber and dock stuff also
and from this beginning il has become
large industry, and the millmen of Wash
ington, where IL grows, are unable to fill
their orders. Eastern and Western roads
in the last sixty days placed orders for
30.OOOo00 or more feet of Washington fir
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the
Chicago e. Northwestern are large pur-
chasers of the new material.
Some remarkable runs have been made
recently on the Monon between Indian
apolis and Chicago. On Sunday Train go
hauling five vestibuled cars, made the run
from Indianapolis to Chicago in four hours
and twenty-eight minutes, and yesterday
Train 81. hauled by one the Monons new
large passenger engines, with nine cars
made the run from Chicago to Indianapolis
II five hours, stopping at Monticello. Del
phi. Frankfort and Sheridan, and taking on
fully three hundred Grand Army people.