The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-23


trains Will then carry through mails.
I. NJ Gent and wife. of Auburn, Ind, are
spending few days with Mr.. and Mrs.
Nicholas Ensley. Mr.. Gent has been agent
OF the Wabash lines at Auburn sixteen
years
President Caniff OF the Nickel-plate, and
associate officials will this week inspect
the lines and map out what shall be done
in the way OF improvements the present
sedSon.
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy and
the Baltimore & Ohio are working much
more closely together, and the interchange
of traffic has reached several hundred cars
per week.
The big Four lines proper last week ham
died at indianapolis L. $50 cars. 6s sd more re
the number 1852 were loaded cars, an in
crease of 1,467
Baltimore & Ohio officials state that the
revenue OF the road from it's passenger
$4,000 in excess of that of the correspond
ing period of 1899
Edward H. Hartman, president of sew
eral of the leading railroad companies, ac-
companied by his family, who have been in
California, passed east over the Pennsyl-
vania on Saturday.
John Fitzgerald, who was last week ap-
pointed superintendent of the terminals
at st. Louis, was formerly district freight
agent of the Louisville & Nashville. travel
ing In this territory
The paymaster of the Indiana, Decatur
& Western will start this morning in the
new pay car, the rebuilt private car No. 70,
III which the. late II. B. Hammond. when
president Of the l.. d. & W. travelled.
Wilbur Lee, general passenger agent of
the Lackawanna, has increased the pay of
ticket agents at important points, and the
management has under consideration adj
vancing pay of agents at local stations.
The story is revived that the Pennsyl-
a
Gallitizin. at the top of the mountains, to
Altoona, cutting down the distance several
miles and abolishing the famous horseshoe
curve.
The Wisconsin Central is arranging to
have its own line into Milwaukee and its
cwn terminals at that point, making ii in
dependent of the Chicago. Milwaukee &
st. Paul. over whose tracks II now gets
into the city.
The Pennsylvania now operates all its
signals and switches between New York
and Philadelphia by means of the COM
pressed-air system. and has done away
with most OF the towers which were once
a feature of the block signal system.
The Pittsburg g. Lake Erie is laying
large mileage of new steel weighing ninety
pounds to the yard. AT the completion OF
this years work the entire north-bound
track of the main line will be laid with
rails Of that weight, and two-thirds of the
south-bound tracks.
There were transferred over the Belt
road in the week ending April II 20,070 cars,
2.l92 more than in the previous week. Belt
road engines handled at the stockyards
l,037 carloads of live stock. 1874 more than
in the week ending April IA, and for private
switches on its line sos cars.
The Wabash to-day begins operations
in Its new shops at Fort Wayne, built on
the ground where the shops Were burned
few months ago. Some of the machin-
cry, the HOSTS and transfer table are OPP
Grated by a compassionate engine. Most
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There Is much complaint among station
agents as to the salaries they receive and
the number of hours that they are ex-
pected to be on duty. and 1t is resulting in
the railroad companies losing some ex-
cellent men whom they cannot well spare,
say the travelling auditors.
w. w. Finley, vice president, and subor-
dinate officials of the Southern Railway
were in Mobile on Friday and Saturday
and arranged for many improvements. The
company contemplates going into the i'm
porting OF tropical fruits and early vege-
tables and inaugurating fast-freight sery-
ice from that point.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
says the Southern Railway Company, to
secure control of the Monon lines. has
offered $40 per share for the preferred
stock and $50 for the common, which are
about the same figures the Southern paid
for the controlling stock of the Louisville,
Evansville & st. Louis.
The committee on rules of the Central
Passenger Association has made novel
proposition to the effect that at every
monthly meeting hereafter the representa-
tive of each line shall announce whether he
proposes to carry out for the ensuing
thirty days the rules and rates of the
agreement his company has filed with the
commissioner of the association.
George Stevens, president of the Chesa-
peake & Ohio, is strong advocate of pool
ing cars. the cars to be distributed from
central bureaus for the benefit of all the
roads I'm the country or for specified dis
tricts, the cars irrespective of ownership,
to be placed under the supervision of such
bureaus and distributed to the road in need
He thinks this the only method to prevent
car famines.
One OF the Chicago, Burlington & Quin-
cy's new ten-wheel engines hauled the
fast mail train on Thursday from Burling-
ton to Chicago, 206 miles. in 205 minutes.
stopping seven times for water. and wait
ing six minutes at one place for train to
pass. Between Mendoza and Aurora,
forty-1ve and fourteenth miles. the dis
tance was covered in thirty minutes, the
best run this type of engine has ever
made on any road.
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