The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-11

will be finished within month. The ex-
tension into the Hartville iron mining dis
trict Is being pushed rapidly and Will soon
be completed.
l.. Rush Brockenbrough. general freight
agent OF the Baltimore & OHIO. accom-
panied by his secretary, Robert r. Magee'
will go 10 French Lick Spring. for vaca-
ton. which will be his first since he TOOK
his present position with the baltimore q
Ohio, nearly three years ago. Prior TO tnat
Mr.. Brockenbrough was assistant general
freight agent of the Big Four.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
OF the Indianapolis e. Vincennes was held
in this city yesterday and the following
persons were elected directors for the en-
suing year: James McCrea, Joseph Wood.
j. T. Brooks, w. H. Barnes, j. b. Miller.
Fl. III. Hanna and III. Darlington. The vot-
ing was done by proxy, The annual report
was published in the Journal with other
Pennsylvania lines statements In March.
President Walsh, says a railroad man
who recently passed over the Southern In
diana road. has set an example In railroad
building that all railroad builders should
copy. The road. as far as completed, al
though practically a new line has as solid
and well-constructed roadbed as there Is
in Indiana, and it's bridges are of the most
substantial character. Its depots are
model in every respect and the one at Bed
ford would be a credit 20 a much larger
city.
On Wednesday a big CA mogul was used
to haul the fast mail No. IL west. on the
Panhandle for the first time. This engine
few days and was broken In on freight
AS the train No II is very heavy and the
schedule very fast. the officials of the roads
watched the performance of the new engine
with more than usual interest. The Pam
handle now has nine of these engines In
use. and the Fort Wayne Is beginning to
receive its allotment
The appointments and transfers incident
to the absorption OF the ST. Paul & Duluth
by the Northern Pacific property, will not
be announced until May 81. Tt is given on
excellent authority that ID. A. Mckinley,
general auditor OF the Duluth, will be, re-
tanned. and that General Freight Agent
Broughton will remain In his old position.
II Is universally conceded that Mr.. Stone
will continue TO officiate as general passen-
ger agent of the line of railroad he has
done so much to advertise.
Two hundred Western ticket agents will
depart from Chicago, May 13. in a special
train over the Wabash, for an inspection
of that system and the lines of the Lehigh
Valley Company between Chicago and New
York. At Buffalo the party will be joined
by Eastern ticket sellers. The trip will be
made at the expense Of the Lehigh valley
Company, which will provide free trans
portation, berths and meals. The tourists
will use the cars as their hotel. The
longer stops will be at points east
Mention was made day or two ago that
the Wabash and the Lackawanna had
formed a new fast freight line between Chi
cago and New York. Now II is announced
that passenger line will be formed over the
two roads and trains are to make the run
from Chicago to New York in twenty-five
hours. The companies will use the differ
entail that the slow trains between those
points are now allowed. Such a step. says
a well-informed passenger Official will be
the entering wedge to the greatest passen-
ger rate war between the trunk lines yet
INDUCED in.
Civil Engineer Draper. of the Chicago &
Alton Railroad. and a surveying corps have
commenced surveying line from Barnett.
ILL.,, the eastern terminus of the Quincy,
Carrollton e. Eastern, now part of the
Alton system, and Witt. a station on the
Big Four twenty miles east of Barnett,
for the purpose of ascertaining the prob
able cost OF building the twenty miles pro-
posed extension. 1t is thought in Carlin-
Vile. this means the securing of the
Quincy, Carrollton & Eastern by the Big
Four. so the latter can build west from
Columbiana through Missouri to Kansas
City.