The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-20

pany. with headquarters at Chicago. the
promotion carrying a handsome increase
in salary. He will have 1900 men under
his supervision.
Gently put $s.co.OOo into low priced stocks
OF Vanderbilt lines. All OF the junior Van
derbilt stocks, II is said, are 10 be made
which is expected to soon sell ten points
higher, due TO a report that the directors
are TO increase the dividends
The transportation department of the
Baltimore x Ohio has issued an order 70
the effect that no more than fifteen cars
shall hereafter be hauled in one passen-
ger train. If there are more than that
number the train must be run In two sec
tons, regardless of the ability or the loco
motive to haul more than fifteen cars.
Judge Brownlee, of Kokomo. has con-
irmed the sale OF the Eel River Railway
announce that the road will be operated
by them. and will not be sold TO the Penn
SylVana system, as has peen reporteu.
The judge allowed $4,000 attorneys ices
and $4,000 fees TO Receiver Richard Rud-
dell, of this city.
On Sunday the Chicago & Alton aban-
doned the fight that has ragged twenty
city passenger business. On that day II
TOOK OF its st. Louis and Kansas City pas
senger trail 1t has been a losing game
from the beginning. the Alton line De
tween those points being 323 miles against
"a by the Wabash and 23 by the Missouri
Pacific.
Inquirer-It is not an annual thing for
special trains TO run considerable distances
at. a speed Of seventy miles an hour, but
the fastest run probably made in the
world under regular schedule from plat
form TO platform was the run made by the
Philadelphia q Reading, from Camden TO
Atlantic City; the distance, BOO miles, was
covered in fifty minutes, or at a speed or
oo.6 miles per hour.
The Southern Railway has issued the
following statement: STORMS heretofore re-
ported In western North Carolina and Ashe-
vile territory subsidized with saturday, the
18th inst. The Southern Railway reports all
lines open and assuming normal conditions.
Repairs have beef made and trains NOV
ing on time. 1t is found that the damage by
floods as first reported is largely over
estimated. No further trouble is antlci-
pated."
The Wabash. by purchasing the Omaha
* ST Louis Railway, secures a line under
its own control from st. Louis to Omaha.
This makes the third through line from st.
Louis to Omaha, the Missouri Pacific and
Union Pacific connecting these two cities.
The road purchased is las miles In length,
and will at once be brought up to a high
standard. Securing control of the Omaha
x st, Louis greatly increases the value OF
the Pattonsburg branch of the Wabash.
The first train over the Memphis-Frisco
| connecting track from Miami to Alton, L,
T., was run yesterday. The track is almost
completely ballasted now and will be ready
for through trains from Kansas City to
eAA III a. Nv &C. hc1A
vas the terminus in the Indian Territory
division OF the Kansas City, Fort Scott &
Memphis The connection at Alton with
the st. Louis az San Francisco is the re-
suit of the consolidation of the two prop
critics.
Judge Murphy made known his decision
yesterday in the case of the ten ticket
scalpers who were tried by his last week
on the charge of dealing in railroad tickets
bearing the forged signature of Harry T..
Smith, head of the joint agency. He hon
orably discharged Louis A. Callahan, Abra-
ham f1ngebaum and j. F.. KurtZ. Albert
Reeves, Fred Young. II. S. Douglass,
Theodore Wolfstein, Edward z. Sisson.
John b. Pugh and John T. Smith were
held TO await the action of the grand jury.
An official of the Lake Erie & Western
says this road by no means shows It's true
standing in its reports, as a large part of
the earnings are used up in operating ex-
penses. which the proportion of these ex-
penseS to gross earnings conclusively
proves, 80 per cent. going into operating
expenses, which are increased by the large
expenditures on the property. Were it but
40 per cent. a full dividend on preferred
and 4 per cent. on common stock could
now be paid.
Samuel j. Clifford. who was the first tele-
graph operator on the Lake Shore & Michi-
; an Southern and dispatched the first train
eyer run over IL under Geographic orders,
Is dead at his home at Dunkirk, N. Y.
After filling positions on the Erie and the
Lake Shore roads as operator and train
firm of Skinner q Clifford, which built large
shops in Dunkirk for the construction of
engines and railroad fixtures. and also in
1910 and 1876 the Texas e. New Orleans
Railroad. now the Southern Pacific. Gift
ford later went into the insurance business.