The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-16

w. B. Taylor has been appointed engineer
OF maintenance of way on the western d.
vision.
The new directory and officials. including
President Thomas, OF New York, or the
Evansville * Terre Haute road, were al
Terre Haute last night. With yesterday
President Barlow closed his connection
with the road. The directors have elected
he will assume the active management
which has devolved on President Barlow.
The new officials are making an inspection
of the property.
W. ]. Healey, auditor of the Santa Fe
freight department, has issued an order
stating that in future no person addicted
10 the habit of smoking cigarettes will be
employed in that department. This order
is issued in conformity 10 the recent ac-
ton of freight auditors as agreed at a re-
cent conference. they deciding that no per-
son Is competent TO work in that depar
ment of railroading who has the cigarette
habit.
a Toledo paper says it develops that the
Ann Arbor had no sooner permitted the
Wheeling * Lake Erie 10 enter its station
in Toledo than occasion was given for re-
into immediate vicinity OF the Central Sta
ton and purchased five blocks, from which
all the buildings are to be removed, so that
the companys yards may be extended and
a new passenger station for the Wabash
constructed.
The new trains that the Big Four and the
Lake Erie * Western put on each way be-
tween indianapolis and Fort Wayne via
Muncie will run daily except Sunday, leav-
ing indianapolis 1880 a. m, reaching Fort
Wayne 1880 a. m. The answering train
leaves Fort Wayne at $50 a. m, and
reaches Indianapolis at 1O:25 a. m, running
solid trains in both directions. The trains
consist of a combination smoking and bag
gage car, coach and parlor car.
The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
remodeled terminals at East St. Louis are
now practically finished They include two
new freight houses with complete system OF
tracks, platforms and d~riveways built IN
the most substantial manner. The in
bound house is Col feet long by sixty wide,
with an office building 6Oxl00. The new out
bound house is 25x6N feet, and is con-
structed in the same manner as the in
bound house. Between the houses are SIX
tracks, with a capacity to hold ninety-six
cars. The tracks are separated by five
island platforms, seven feet wide and GOO
feet long.
Major s. K. Hooper, general passenger
agent of the Denver & Rio Grande, has pre-"
pared a statement Of the tourist business
in Colorado and Utah during the season
which closed Oct. 81. This compilation,
which is as nearly accurate as possible,
shows a record surprising all previous sea
sons, as 1t amounts practically to $4,000
tourists. estimated to be a 80 per cent.
greater number than any previous year.
He says that summer tourists left in money
in Colorado and Utah fully 81, 100000. Among
the tourist tickets sold We're round-trlp
tickets to Utah, 5,336; California Epworth
League, passing through Utah via all lines,
4.975; Episcopal convention tickets passing
through Utah via all lines, 2,75O. IN this
statement is not included what would be
called regular passenger trathc.
For four years improvements have been
In progress on the Nickel-plate system
which bring a portion of the road to COM
pare favorably with the Lake Shore, and
such Improvements will be continued till
the road its entire length is up to a high
standard. Heretofore the Nickel-plate has
labored at a disadvantage, its light roadbed
and bridges not making ii safe to run heavy
trains and locomotives now in use over 1T.
Nearly all of the work of reconstruction of
the road has been paid out of current earn
inSs. During the past year the Nickel
plate has earned more than enough above
fixed charges to pay 5 per cent on it's pre-
ferred stock and also 8 per cent. on the
second preferred stock, but while the eX-
penditures for improvements are so large
there is no prospect that the present 2 per
cent. dividend on the second preferred
stock will be raised to 5 per cent.