The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-05

redge vice president. J. r. Kiffaber treas
urer and Fred Smith secretary. The COM
pany is now capitalized at s4.500.0 900 and has
orders for over Sl,0o0,000 worth Of new cars
The Pennsylvania Company has over
seven hundred men employed putting down
the new switches ana directing the new
signal bridges between Allegheny and
Rochester, on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne q
Chicago. These modern appliances Will
make safer the service over this busy piece
of road.
President McDoel, of the Monon lines,
has contracted for six more new engines,
to be delivered in April and May. Next
Saturday a new square vestibuled passen-
ger train will be completed and Will be at
once put in service between Chicago and
Cincinnati over the Monon and the Cincin-
natl. Hamilton & Dayton lines.
Work on the extension of the Southern
Indiana road from Linton to Terre Haute
has been stopped on account OF the severe
weather. The road Is now completed TO
Linton and passenger trains will commence
running to that point on Jan. 10. A new
station is nearing completion at Linton.
The road is built and rails laid to point
four miles north of Linton.
In 1899 the movement of freight over
the mIudle division of the Pennsylvania,
in number of cars and tonnage, exceeded
all records. Miffiin, Pa, is reckoned as the
central point of the Pennsylvania main
line and there passed through there in 1899
1913, 426 loaded cars, against 1,659.3lS in 1898,
and against 1851. 410 in 1897. December was
the best month, when 15S,66l loaded cars
passed through Miffiin.
George Lowell general superintendent of
the Monon lines, is in the city. He stated
last evening that the road is crowded with
business at present, among other Things
hauling 100 carloads Of ice daily from Cedar
lake to the cold storage houses of Armour
& Co. and the Knickerbocker Company,
Chicago, and has about 5000 carloads con-
tracted for to haul south from houses now
being filled at Cedar lake for Southern es-
adjustments
retired after over forty years of service on
the Lackawanna, has been appointed CHIEF
engineer OF the new road now being con-
structed from Scranton to Jersey City.
which it is said will be more direct and
freer from grades and curves than is the
Lackawanna. The latter, however. has un-
der contemplation the building of new
| tracks which will shorten its line and avoid
some of the steepest grades.
The litigation now in the Supreme Court
of Ohio to aid the consolidation of the
| Cincinnati & Hamilton Electric Street
| Railway and Cincinnati Miami Valley
| Traction road into a through line from
! Cincinnati to Dayton has been compro-
| missed The termini of the roads are three
blocks apart and the connecting strip OF
| track owned by the Hamilton & Linden
| valid Electric Transit Company has been
| leased for sixteen years to the interurban
roads. The consideration in the lease is
| said to be $4,000 year.
The Lackawanna passenger department
has issued notice that no more commits
| sions will be paid to outside ticket sellers.
! and the Lackawanna will insist on recev-
| ing its full proportion from the sale of
| any tickets calling for transportation over
| it's lines. This action of the Lackawanna
| shows the determination Of the differential
| lines to wipe out the commission evil and
| to stop playing into the hands of unauthor-
| lied agents, and will correct the abuses
| which affect this traffic. The action of the
trun1A lines makes il evident that a strong
arm is holding the companies in line.
| General Passenger Agent Horner, Of the
| Nickel-plate, sent a New Years greeting to
his subordinates in the passenger service.
| in which he says: However able the man.
| agement of any property may be. the sue
cess of that management is largely de-
| pendent on the assistance of the represent
atives who are in immediate charge of the
work in the various departments. The
passenger business of our line in the year
just closed affords favorable comparison
with the same done in the year 1898, and
the results are no doubt largely due to the
personal efforts of those employed in the
passenger service of the Nickel-plate road
| for which I desire to convey the thanks OF
the company to each and every person"