The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-07

poor health. and j. FITZPATRICK, CONNER
cial agent of the Peoria Company, has
been appointed his successor. H. r. Girls
void. assistant general freight agent OF
the Evansville * Terre Haute, succeeds
Mr.. Fitzpatrick at Peoria.
President John Shelton Williams. OF the
Seaboard Airline. announces the purchase
of large additions 10 the rolling stock of his
system. including passenger and freight
cars and locomotives, and the closing TINS
week of contracts for $4,000 tons of steel
rails.
The work of laying the tracks on the
New Haven-Butle line of the Wabash is
nearing completion. The sink hole seven
miles from Butler has been overcome and
tracks have been laid over il, with pros
poets of no further trouble from that
source. The line will be open about the
holidays.
August Hockenbeamer. chief clerk to SUI
perintendent Ohliger, of the Richmond di-
vision of the Panhandle, has been pro-
noted To a position in the general offices
of the Baltimore & Ohio at Baltimore. He
will leave on Jan: /. G. l.. Greer, who
has been in the Richmond Offices for sew
eral years. will succeed him.
Two hundred Observation-Disclosures
left Minneapolis on Thursday over the
Wisconsin Central and the Wabash to take
a steamer at Boston to-day. Most of the
eXcursionists will be gone from two to
four months. About half the number went
from Minnesota and the remainder from
other points of the Northwest.
l.. B. Freeman. formerly city passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania lines at Indian
apolis, but who three months age was APP
PENNSYLVANIA at Columbus, o., is said to
have already made his mark in his new
position and is proving one of the most
popular officials the Pennsylvania has ever
located at that point.
President Cassatt. of the Pennsylvania
accompanied by Chief Engineer W. II.
Brown. was in Washington on Thursday
In conference with Senator McMillen,
s ~ 49, nAD If tho
District of Columbia, regarding the new
union passenger station to be erected In
that city by the Pennsylvania and the Bal
timore & Ohio jointly.
1t is stated that the Wabash is pre-
pared now to begin work on about twenty
new bridges between P~ittsburg and the
Ohio river, including the bridge that is
to span the Monongahela at Pittsburg,
and which is TO be a magnificent structure.
An army of stone masons, bricklayers and
structural iron workers will be employed,
and the work will be pushed with all posi-
BILE speed.
The return of Charles NJ. Hays to the
Crank Trunk as vice president and general
manager is said to be hailed will much
satisfaction in Canadian circles. When Mr..
Hays first assumed control of the railway,
in 1895. the system was in bad shape. but
by his energy, perseverance land judicious
management he raised the standard of the
road to a state of efficiency hardly second
to any of the lines on the continent.
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy has
isused orders TO all station agents TO tear
from the walls of the station all orders.
circulars, hangers posters, etc. Rules and
regulations are to be neatly framed and
hung on the walls of the rooms. and no
advertising matter allowed posted. In. adj
ditiOn. the most rigid rules in regard to
cleanliness of waiting rooms and attention
to passengers while at stations will be en-
forced.
The directors of the Pennsylvania have
further swelled the total for new locomo-
tives and passenger cars to 81 0O,0oO. The
recent order increases the number of loco
motives to be built for their lines next
year to 400, and che Baldwin locomotive
works will build $50 of these. President
Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania. denies the
report that the company is to abandon the
Baldwin works and build its own
engines.
An idea of the large through train serv-
ice of the New York Central to the north
and west may be obtained from the fact
that there are fourteen trains per day to
Buffalo, ten to Niagara Falls, eight to
Chicago. eight to Cleveland. six to De-
troit. three to indianapolis, three to St.
Louis, three to Cincinnati, two to To-
ronto. four to Montreal, three to One Thou
sand islands. four TO the Adirondack noun
tains. four to the Berkshire hills and eight
TO Saratoga.
Workmen were never so busy in the
Monon machine shops at Lafayette as 1T
present. There is an engine on every
track undergoing repairs and more wait
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the machine shops and roundhouse are
working several nights in the week. Com
mon helpers in the, roundhouse have put in
so much overtime that next month many
of them will draw from $50 to $50. General
Foreman Bennett says he could use a num-
Der of first-class fnachinists if they were
~obtainable.
A large number of persons who have long
enjoyed the privilege of having packages
carried free by the express companies will
be deprived of this privilege at the end of
the present year, as on and after Jan. /
the companies will decline to grant any
more franks except to high officials of the
different railway lines over which they
operate. This decision by the executive Of
ficers will be made known through an of
fetal circular. influential shippers, state
and city officials are affected by the order.
1t is in line with the movement to restrict
undoubtedly will be strictly enforced.
The Detroit News saws Joseph r. Moore,
of that city, who returned from England
a week ago, placed S21 goo, GOO of 5 per cent.
thirty-year gold bonds in that country.
This means that the projected Gulf ~ Man
itOba Railroad from duluth to Kansas
City, a distance OF 700 miles. will be con-
structed at once. the remainder in the
spring. Mr.. Moore is treasurer of the con-
%struction company. The Iowa Loan and
Trust Company is. made trustee under the
mortgage. Hon. r. L. Campbell, ex-Gov-
ernor of Iowa. is the leading spirit in the