The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-10

fact that it will become a part of the Balti-
more & Ohio system.
c. A Brunn. division superintendent of
the Erie road. left yesterday for a months
vacation at Hot Springs, Ark.
Under the direction of r. II. Cole, of
Peru. the Wabash is surveying a new line
between Butler and Fort Wayne, and the
company's reason for so doing is exciting
considerable
w. H. Marshall. the new superintendent
OF motive power of the Lake Erie * West
ern, has been inspecting the shops the last
three days. II. +. Ball, mechanical engi-
neer OF the Lake Shore, accompanies him.
NJ. w. Mansfield. superintendent of the
Indianapolis & Vincennes. who has been
confined to the house three weeks with a
low grade fever. was so much better yes
terday that he expected 10 be at his office
to-day.
On the western division of the Nickel
plate lines six firemen were this week pro-
NOTED to engineers and six new fremen
employed. This road now has the largest
number OF men In this line of service in the
roads history.
a letter was received yesterday from
Caesar Rodney, agent OF the Vandalia,
stating that he had left Florida and gone
TO San Antonio, Tex. He is improving in
health and expects TO return to ~Indianapo-
lis about April 1.
Judge Taft will to-day issue a decree Of
foreclosure and order of sale of the Column
DuSs 0dnOuSky q Hooking fNdllTOdQ OH the
suit of the Metropolitan Trust Company,
OF New York. The court fixed the upset
price at 81, 500,000
The sudden illness of Morley T. Byers.
private secretary of President Mellen. of
the Northern Pacific, terminated in death
at his home in st. Paul on Tuesday. He
was seized with a chill three days before
and pneumonia developed.
The Canadian Pacific last week gave
up its d~ifferential of 10 per cent. on trans
- A. a. a.- II 1919
six years ago by the United States roads
In order to stop rate cutting on the part
of the Canadian Pacific, which has caused
much trouble
Eighteen of the sixty men the Lake Shore
recently discharged at the shops In Elk
hart nave been employed by the Big Four,
which is short of men in its shops. None
were employed except frst-class workmen
who would agree to remain with the COM
pany permanently.
The I~nternational Association of Ticket
Agents convention came to a close at At
lanta last night with the election of the fol-
lowing officers: President, E. N. Blood,
Buffalo. N. Y; first vice president, J: A.
Robbins, Chicago; second vice president,
w. F.. Hambright, Lancaster, Pa.
One result OF the coming alliance of the
Baltimore & Ohio and the Pittsburg &
Western will be a through train service
between st. Louis, Cincinnati and Buffalo
via PittSburg. There Will be solid veSti-
buled trains of the most modern style of
equipment and they will make fast time.
The 500 will not withdraw its s25 rate to
New York, no matter what the Chicago
lines may do. The former believes that it
has met the secret rate of the latter when
II issued it's s25 tariff, and the tariff will
stick until the Chicago roads can con-
vince the 500 that they will observe agree
ments.
The new trains that the Big Four will
put or in connection with the Lake Shore
and the New York Central lines will haul a
New York and Boston sleeping car in both
directions, and will be scheduled, between
st. Louis and Cleveland, 1S hours and As
minutes, five minute faster than the
knickerbocker.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois manage
ment is seriously contemplating abandon
ing the miners trains run out over the G.
& /. G. division. In a former accident the
company paid thousands of dollars in dam
ages, and that Of a few days ago to the
miners train near Brazil will cost the COM
pany many thousands more.
Among those who attended the funeral OF
Major Worthipgton at Pittsburg on
Wednesday were General Superintendent
William Gibson and Oscar G.. Murray, vice
president of the Baltimore & Ohio. Many
other prominent railroad men paid their
tribute of respect to the deceased, who
was held in the highest esteem by all who
knew him.
The Wabash Railroad air-brake instruc-
ton car is again at Peru and is giving two
sessions Of instruction a day. All men who
have been with the road three years or
more are required to show a proficiency. OF
Is per cent, and all being in the employ
less than three years must show so pei
cent. If they fail to do so they must fol-
low the car until they show the required
proficiency.
A. A. Heard, Western passenger agent OF
the Lehigh Valley road, has been appointed
assistant general passenger agent, with
headquarters in New York city. George r.
Chesborough, chief rate clerk. succeeds Mr.
Heard as Western passenger agent. The
baggage agent of the Lehigh alley. is an
Eounced. After many years of service he
retires on account of i'll health.
Railroad and financial circles are greatly
interested in a bill introduced in the Legis.
lature of Maryland, the chief object OF
Railroad Company and its associated cor.
porations to hold the stock of other cor.
porations. The purpose is to enable the
Pennsylvania to distribute its holdings ir
Baltimore & Ohio stock among the various
railroad companies controlled by IL.
The class HIS engine which broke
through the bridge on the P~ittsburg, Fort
Wayne & Chicago is not as heavy in &C.
cordance with wheel base as the class
G-4-A express engine used on the same
road, and one of the new monsters haC
passed over the span only a few minute:
before II gave way under the lighter en-
/ SlIie. Ina IL gave way idIteIdliy appear
to be an established fact, as the engine
fell to one side and the Orders were broker
latterally. The collapse of this bridge will
cause all railroads to institute a rigorous
inspection of bridges of the same kind.
Charles Huntington, the oldest genera
baggage agent in the United States and the
oldest employee of the Chicago * Alton
who this week resigned the position Of
general baggage agent of that road, is sew
enty-six years of age. He was born in
Hartford, Conn. May "a. 1924, and entered
railway service as conductor of a construc
ton train on the old Canandaigua & FL
mira road i'm 1S45. From 1S47 to 1s4S he wa:
locomotive engineer on the Panama road
and i'm 1853 went to the Great Western o.
Illinois. which later became the Chicago
& Alton. He used to run an engine tC
Springfield when wood was the only fue
used. In 1855 he was given the position h
has just resigned Mr.. FELTON, has giver
him the privilege Of remaining with the