The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-24

run through, leaving Kansas City daily
at 1o:40 a. m. and arriving at destination
the third morning.
At the next joint annual convention of
at Hot Springs. Ark. an effort will be
made to consolidate both associations on
the same plan as the Central Association
OF Railway Officers.
William T. Wallace assistant engineer Of
the Buffalo division of the Lehigh Valley
has resigned TO accept a position as con-
sulting engineer in Pittsburg. Mr.. Wal
lace has been connected with the Lehigh
Valley for ten years.
The officers of the Erie announce that the
spring schedule OF that road will not be in
troduced until the first or the middle of
on the Erie just prior to the opening of
the summer season trade.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois by the
purchase OF a new and powerful type of
locomotives has increased the number Of
loaded coal cars in single train from
thirty-five TO fifty or sixty. and reduced the
train crews about so per cent.
w. II. Philley. of Valparaiso, who for
twenty years was a passenger conductor
on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago,
for trustee. Mr.. Philley has been quite
prominent in the Order of Railway Con-
ductors.
When the two new fast trains of the
New York Central. the Big Four and the
Lake Shore are put on, April 20. the Con
tinental Limited of the West Shore and
Wabash will be run entirely on the tracks
of the former between New York and
Buffalo,
Lake Erie g. Western officials will inves-
tigate the advisability of making arrange
ments with the Lake Shore whereby a
through train may be put on from Jackson
to Muncie. The train would be the regular
Lake Shore passenger train which has it's
terminal at Fort Wayne.
1t is now thought that the vanderbilts
VIII not take the Toledo, st. Louis &c
Kansas City road. 1t was reported that
the latter would be absorbed by the Michi-
gan Central. but the Vanderbits consider
$12, 200, 600, which was paid for the property
at the foreclosure sale. more than it is
worth.
Chicago to attend the annual meeting of
the American Railway Association: j. Q.
Van Wrinkle, j. r. Cavanagh. George
Bender and III. F. Houghton, of the Big
Four lines; A. A. Zion. OF the Union Rail-
way Company. and Harry Miller. of the
Vandalia.
Since July 1 the Big Four lines proper
earned S13.239,S 2f. an Increase over the
corresponding period of the previous
year of s., 6S0,9 32, which means that
should business continue as good as at
present and rates as we'll maintained the
Big -Four will. in its present fiscal year.
endlng June 50, show an increase IN gross
earnings of over S2.000,0O0.
The paymaster of the Nickel-plate states
that the pay rolls of the transportation
department for March were the largest Of
any month in the roads history. The pay
or engineers ranged from $3.50 to $40; some
OF the freight conductors received $l25 to
$50 FOR the months work. and firemen
and brakemen the usual proportion of sums
paid engineers and conductors.
President J. J. Hill and family left ST.
Paul on Sunday for New York, en- route for
Paris, where they will remain a year. Mr..
summer, but before doing so will visit
Berlin for consultation with the German
stockholders of the Great Northern Rail-
way in regard to several proposed extern
sions of the line in the coast States, OPEN
ing UP new mining sections.
Pennsylvania railroad officials yesterday
pronounced as absurd the story from AL
toona that the famous Horseshoe curve
was TO be eliminated by the Strengthening
of the track. Chief Engineer Brown said:
I'VE have just completed putting down the
fourth track on the curve To eliminate
the curve would be impracticable, as it
would necessitate an increase in grades
that would be practically insurmountable. I"
The promoters of the Chicago & Eastern
Indiana say their trains will be running
into Muncie by December. and its engin-
GERS are instructed to at once make surveys
for the most feasible line to Richmond,
lHu Il he ftlCHflOHu DlSpdtCii, WHICH duVO-
Gates extending the line to Richmond, lis
meeting with considerable opposition, but
this is no unusual thing where the Penn
sylvania lines have such a hold as they
have in Richmond. Indianapolis would
now have a good road to Rockport, Ind,
but for the fight the Pennsylvania made
against the construction of the line.
Vice President and General Manager
Ramsey, of the Wabash, who returned to
st. Louis last week. from the adjourned
conference of executive officers of Eastern
yond the adoption of a resolution to adhere
strictly to tariff and to observe all pledges
previously made for the absolute mainte-
nance of rates. the conference accomplished
very little. The solution of the great prob
lem how to cooperate in good faith so
that each competing interest is enabled to
secure a healthy volume of business. with
regular practices for obtaining tonnage. is
yet to be worked out by the master minds
OF the traffic world.
An official of a Chicago road, who was In
the city yesterday and investigated the
charges made at Indianapolis for switch
ing cars TO private industries, remarked
that he did not believe there was another
point in the United States where so much
switching was done at so low prices, and in
the Belt road and many other private
switches, of 81 per car, yielded to the roads
the revenue the service cost, and he
thought the switching rate to industries,
a little distance from the heart Of the
city, such as North Indianapolis. Haugh-
Vile and West indianapolis, were so low
that there could be no room for complaint.
and would do much to draw industries to
Indianapolis.