The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-30

keep them busy until the first of next year.
The orders include the building OF l5 Class
KY horse cars and a large number of fur
niture cars.
President C. S. Mellen has appointed VIII
liam l.. Darling chief engineer of the
Northern Pacific Railway. Mr.. Darling sue
ceeds Edwin III. McHenry, whose reslgna-
ton was announced more than a month
ago. Mr.. Darling has been connected with
the Northern Pacific for many years.
Receiver Malott. Assistant of the Re
Ter, of the Vandalia, who have been on
a three days trip over the Nandalla. &C
companied by James McCrea, president or
the Terre Haute * INDIANAPOLIS, Will re-
turn this morning. and Mr.. McCrea Will
proceed to PittsburS.
With two new roads entering Richmond.
Ind. the railroad men are organizing
branches of the different associations. One
branch of trainmen, having forty-ive mem
bers. have asked for a charter from the
Grand Lodge. and the firemen at that point
are organizing divisions or the brotherhood
of m Firemen.
1t is stated that the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railway has purchased the Kan
sas Southwester Railway, which runs
from Arkansas City TO Anthony, Kan, a
distance of sixty miles. 1t is said the San
ia Fe desires the line to prevent opposition
to its proposed road from Arkansas City i'm
a southeasterly direction TO Fort Smith,
Ark.
The directors of the Southern Pacific
Company at New York met yesterday, but
transacted only routine business. 1t was
stated that no action was taken on the
resignation of President Hays. The eX-
ecutive committee of the Union Pacific
Railway Company also held a brief SEES
sion. at which IT was said only routine
business was considered.
Thomas Schumacher. who has been APP
pointed traffic director OF the oregon
Short-line. worked for a time In a local
freight office of the Big Four. thence go
ing to the Panhandle, filling the positions
of brakeman and fireman, and for one
year was trainmaster, later returning 10
the freight traffic department and going
to the Union Pacific In 1888.
The New York Mail and Express says:
1.-The Northern Pacific Railroad has de-
cided to build immense steamships Tor the
Pacific and China trade of about the same
Conn, for the Great Northern Railway.
They will be of 1900 tons, or with three
times the. capacity of an average ocean
freighter."
When the new four-track stretch between
Stewart. Latrobe and Lawrenceville is COM
pleted the Pennsylvania will have great
running ground between Cresson and Pitts
burg, and 100 miles an hour. it is believed.
can be readily made. There are those who
predict that the run from Pittsburg TO
Cresson can be made in one hour and thirty
minutes when contemplated improvements
are completed.
President sexton. of the Board of Health
of New York: has served on President
Newman of the New York Central Rail-
road. an order requiring him to alter. re-
pair and improve the railways tunnel
from Fifty-sixth street TO Ninety-ffth
street. The order requires a general over
hauling of the sewerage system under the
tunnel and the removal of some OF the
supporting walls and their replacing By
steel Orders of a more modern type.
Freight officials of the Western and
Northwestern lines are beginning TO worry
over the prospective shortage of cars. All
roads are working to their full capacity.
with prospects that with the coming in
of September the shortage will become
more troublesome. The Missouri river
lines are having trouble from a conges-
ton of business at division points, and the
movement of the grain crops has not fair
ly set in in some sections of the West and
Northwest.
II. NJ. Bronson. assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Big Four. who has been
out on western divisions, has returned.
He expresses much surprise over the ex-
cellent condition Of the growing corr crop
on the Peoria * Eastern and the Indiana.
Decatur & Western. He says farmers tell
him that so much larger acreage was
planted this year than in 1900 that this
years crop will exceed in quantity that
Of 1900. with but 70 per cent. of a crop,
as compared with last year.