The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-05

in October. S4. and in November $50 more
loaded cars than in the corresponding
months last year.
The stone abutr1ents for two double
track bridges on the Belt rOaG are COM
plete and the new steel structures Wi
Immediately be placed on them. Superin-
tendent Zion expects TO have them ready
tor service by Jan. l.
Trunk line managers have been voting
on the question OF doing away with excess
fares from New York to Chicago. and b.
Il vote OF six to four a resolution TO abolish
excess fares weSt-bOund between the two
cities after Jan. l was lost.
J. D. Lippincott will on Jan. 1 succeed to
the position OF division freight agent OF
the Panhandle at Pittsburg on the retire
ment of James Means. He entered the Of
fee OF Mr. Means in 1850 and was there tor
nine years and Mr.. Lippincott now sue
ceeds him.
The passenger men who recently went
10 the Pacific coast at San Francisco met
+. O. Mccormick, passenger traffic mana
ger of the Southern Pacific. and were
given a banquet by the Southern Pacific
Company, which was admitted TO be the
finest ever seen in San Francisco.
The Illinois Central. which now controls
500 miles of main track. ana earned last
eleven States. in 1858 borrowed of David
Cough, of Golden, H.. $2.Oc0 TO build a
oePot there; the company giving its note
pletion of the building.
a. 5. Kent. chief engineer of the Monon,
was i'm the city yesterday He stated that
the Monon enters the winter with its
track in better condition than in any
former year, the main line and Indian
apolis division now being laid almost en-
tirely with a steel rail weighing eighty
pounds TO the yard, and the bridges are N
excellent condition.
The order for fifty engines which the
American Locomotive Company has been
given by the Pennsylvania is regarded as
significant, since ii has been the practice
of the Pennsylvania to construct the
greater part Of its motive power at its own
shops, and when unable to fill its require
ments has given orders chiefly TO the Bald
win locomotive works.
Orders were received at Cleveland yester-
day from Baltimore for the removal to that
city, to be consolidated with the Baltimore
81 Ohio car record office, the car record
department of the Cleveland. Lorain *
Wheeling Railroad. This is the first step
toward the getting together of several de-
partments of the Baltimore q Ohio and the
tributary lines recently absorbed.
Joint notice has been given by the Illinois
Central. the Wabash and the Chicago &
Alton that they will put into effect a SIS
rate from Chicago TO Hot Springs, Ark,
for hotel help. The chairman OF the West
eIH passenger ASSOCIATION Iuleu ma d
the rate is one in which all the roads are
| interested 1t must first be submitted for the
approval of all before ii becomes effective.
and it is now being voted on.
Inc construction or the pennsylvania
depot at Richmond will go forward without
any further delay. The City Council and
the company have reached an agreement
on the last point in controversy and the
officials say the work will go forward. That
it is the intention TO push the work is evil
denced by the fact that the receiving
freiShthOuse has been moved out of the way
and the Offices in the old depot vacated.
The new engines of the Big Four of the
Atlantic type, and of the MonOn of the
Chautauqua type, are proving very valu-
able. They frequently attain a speed of a
mile a minute and often reach speed OF
eighty miles an hour for several consecu-
tive miles. There is some difference in the
build of the engines, but in weight and
power they are said to be much similar,
and that they are the best locomotives run
ming the Indianapolis lines is conceded
by expert mechanics. The Big Four has
ordered ten more of the same type and the
Monon has under contemplation ordering
several more.
White walters. members of unions, in
several of the large labor centers of the
country are preparing to make a general
! fight on negro walters in dining cars, and
| prominent members of the Hotel Mems As
Sociation are said to promise to help in
negroes on the part of the whites is that
! ing to work for lower wages; on many of
! the heavier patronized routes of the coun-
/ try negroes said to work for almost
/ nothing, relying almost entirely upon tips
! for their services. What is true of the
negro in the dining cars, they say, is true
! of the sleeperS, but for the latter position
! the whites make no claim.