The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-27

Cairo division by II. Gamble, who has been
track surveyor between NATION and st.
Louis.
C. f. Scharff, general manager. J. @. Van
Wrinkle, general superintendent, and George
w. kittredge, chief engineer OF the Big
Four. yesterday began an inspection of the
division, accompanied by Albert ingalls,, SUI
perintendent OF the division.
The members of the Kansas City Passen-
ger Agents Association on Monday evening
rendered 10 Col. a. H.. Moffett, retiring gem
eral northwestern agent of the Chicago,
Rock Island * Pacific, and to +. s. Hitch
ins. retiring agent of the Chicago & Great
Western, a farewell banquet.
The Pennsylvania announces hat the COM
Ing season the company Will not run a
sleeper between Louisville and Detroit via
indianapolis and LOgansport in connection
with the Wabash. but will. as heretofore.
run a sleeper from Louisville and st. Louis
via Richmond to Michigan points.
The Panhandle is preparing for a third
track between Dennison and Columbus,
portions of which have already been laid.
IL Is claimed that with the elimination of
the grade at Uhrichsville there will be
sixty-seven miles of as good track as any
10 be found on the Pennsylvania system.
On Monday p. S. Blodgett. general su-
perintendent. and Z. S. Handy, chief en-
gineer OF the Lake Shore and the Lake
Erie & Western, were in Elwood and laid
out the ground on which TO erect a new pas
senger station. and make other impor-
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at that point.
The new combination cars Of the Penn
~sylvania. In which one-fourth of the car
Is set aside as a smoking room, the remain
der or the car being finished equally with
the best day coaches, are proving a de-
cided success. Twelve cars OF this pat
tern have been built and others will be,
sc much is the design appreciated.
The decrease in gross earnings of the
Big Four lines the second week in March
Is only technically true, II is stated, and
Is due 10 the method of the Buffalo Clear
ing House, under it's peculiar system OF ac-
counting. 1t is said that in the last week
In March the shortage in comparison with
last year will be fully overcome.
"A bomb was thrown among the lines OF
the Central Passenger Association a day or
agent of the Northern Pacific. he insisting
that the Central Passenger Association
lines take their orders out OF his territory.
This they have agreed TO do, and he has
asked the New England Association TO con-
cur In the action of the Central Passenger
Association, but no reply has been received.
The New York Evening Post said yester-
day: Vice President F. p. Underwood, of
the Il. q o., has accepted the presidency
OF the Erie road. President Hill, of the
GREAT Northern, is to-day in Baltimore
conferring with Mr.. Underwood. and when
ne returns 10 New York, later in the week,
II Is probable all details as to when Mr..
underwood will take up his duties on the
Erie will be settled"
AT the recent meeting of the presidents
or the coal roads entering West Virginia,
Pittsburg and the Ohio coal fields. an eff
Tort was made to change the rates on fuel
coal TO the different stations, it being the
some of the roads showed that they had
contracts which would not expire until
sept. l. based on the present rate, and IN
sisted that 1t would be unfair 10 their pa
irons TO make a change now.
The Supreme Court of Michigan yester-
DAY filed an opinion UNFOLDING the ruling
of COMMISSIONS Osborne, that the earn
lngs OF the Wabash Railroad i'm Michigan
exceeded 5000 per mile last year, and that
the company must reduce it's passenger
fare in Michigan to 2 cents per mile. The
court holds that in determining what the
domestic fares shall be, it is competent to
include the amount of interstate fares
earned by that portion of the road lying
within this State. That was the question
involved.
Confirmation was had yesterday of the
report that papers have been signed be-
tween the Oregon Short-line Company,
which is part of the Union Pacific Com
pany, and the White Knob Copper Com
pany Qimited) concentrating a contract
for the construction Of about one hundred
miles of railroad. This road will run from
a point near ~Blackfoot, on the Short-line,
TO Houston, located in the central part of
Idaho. The district has been the scene of
extensive mining operations for the past
forty-two years.
The Salt Lake Tribune says: "The next
big move in railroad circles will be the in
corporation under the laws of Utah of a
Denver * Rio Grande Incorporation TO cover
the Utah-Colorado lines, which are 70 be
formed into one system; this system is to
be part of the Missouri Pacific system. At
this time 1t is impossible to give the capital
iZation of the new system, but the Denver
* Rio Grande, Rio Grande Western and
Rio Grande Southern at their present
capitalization would create a capitaliza-
ton of $S4, 600, OOO."
Engineer Richie and a large corps of as
sistants have begun the survey for the pro-
posed railway of the Calvary-Morris-Gar-
field syndicate. The road. II completed, will
extend from the lake port at Richmond,
o., TO PhalanX, where IL VIII join the Pitts
burg q Wheeling. forming the lake branch
of that road. The same line was surveyed
in 1893. but on account of the financial panic
at that time was abandoned. The new road
ore and will form an important feeder to
the large rolling mills in Pittsburg. A large
amount of additional dockage will be re-
quired at Richmond City TO accommodate
the new business.
J. L. Goddard. commissioner of the Trunk
Line Association, has been asked TO
arbitrate the claims of the Akron route
II ade up by the Pennsylvania and Erie, to
the same differential on Buffalo business
ferential is combated by the Baltimore ~
Ohio and the Cincinnati.
Hamilton * Dayton and by the Big -Four.
the three claiming that the Panhandle has
nc right to the diferential from 81. Louis
or Cincinnati, never having exercised one
matter will be arbitrated before April J..
and it is expected that a temporary truce
will be patched up.