The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-08

Monon lines. was in Cincinnati yesterday
comforting with Passenger Traffic Manager
Edwards.
George w. Parker. candidate for Repub-
licdn nominee for mayor OF ST. Louis. was
once a locomotive engineer. finally reach
ing the position OF president of the Cairo
Short-line.
Specifications have been prepared for the
three new switching engines TO be pur-
chased by the Union Railway Company,
and they will be the heaviest switching
engines in service in this section of the
country.
The fast ~freights which the Grand papids
& indianapolis will put on next Monday
will make the run from Cincinnati via
Richmond to Duluth five hours quicker
than any of the fastest freights heretofore
run between those points.
One hundred cars. $1,000 pounds capacity.
just built at the shops of the Pennsylvania
Company at Fort Wayne, have been sent
to Chicago to be loaded with grain, being
the first cars Of that capacity placed in
west.
Daniel S. Spencer has been promoted TO
assistant general passenger and ticket agent
or the Oregon Short-line. Mr.. Spencer has
been with the road under its various cor
porate titles for -twenty-seven years. He
began his railroad career as d messenger
boy in 1871.
The Peoria & Eastern earned in the
fourth week of February $60.SS2.9S; in the
month of February. $210,160.9S an increase
over FCDTudfy, lJV0, OF &lZ.J-j.OO. vi luAS
increase so. 40 was made by tho passenger
department. The improvement in train
service made a few months ago Is proving
a wise move.
in the Wabash Circuit Court against the
Big -Four by Mahlon III. Rhodes. On July
"A, 1895, he was injured In the Big Four
or special interest is that his claim is out
lawed by the statue of limitations, attor-
neys of the Big Four claim.
Work was begun yesterday on the extern
sion of the Wabash Railway from Toledo to
Montpelier. o., a forty-mile line. for which
S,OOO,OOO construction and $3,O0O.OO0 equip
ment bonds have been issued. The extern
sion will connect the main line from Toledo
TO st. Louis with the DetrOit-Chicago
branch, thus giving another line from To-
ledO TO Chicago.
The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern has
established a school for its apprentice boys
at It's shops at Elkhart, Ind. The railroad
company pays all expenses entailed in
maintaining the school. The courses of
study are OF a purely technical character,
being such as are practically applied by
machinsts and mechanics. The school ses-
slons are held at night.
1t is stated that the Baltimore q Ohio
building a line from Lester,
on the Cleveland, Borain * Wheeling. which
mas Just come into its control, to Lodi, on
the Akron and Chicago Junction division,
thus cutting out the circuitous route by
which Chicago trains over the Baltimore
q Ohio now enter Cleveland. From Lodi
IL DdltlinOTe ~ OlilO how mas pTdCllCdlIy
an airline.
O. A. Cooper entered the service of the
Erie in 1851, and since 1850 has run an en-
CINE. He wears a gold medal presented
to him by Jim Fiske on the occasion of
MS making a fast run between Hornells-
vile and Buffalo. NJ. A. Shattuck is the
Oldest conductor in active service on the
Erie lines, entering the service of the COM
pany in 1862. and since 1867 has been a
passenger conductor. He still has charge
OF one of the cOmpany's fastest trains.
There is a well-defned rumor to the effect
that w. ii. Joyce, freight traffic manager
OF the Pennsylvania road, is TO become
freight traffic manager of the Western as
well as the Eastern lines. Should the res
MAJ who is connected with the lines both
East and West. The other two are A. j.
McCrea. first vice president of the Pennsyl-
vania lines west and director of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company.
The Bee-line division of the Big Four
system has again become the leading di-
vision of the Big Four, a prestige it lost
when the Chicago division of the Big Four
was operated in the interests of the Chesa-
pedke x Ohio. All light freight and paSSen-
ger engines on the Decline division have
been transferred to other divisions and the
powerful large freight and passenger en-
gines substituted. This division is now
earning, in connection with the st. Louis
division, more than at any time in the
history of the line between indianapolis
and Cleveland.
0AAAt1 oAAA III A0
spreading broadcast advertisements of their
Pan-American Buffalo line. The circular of
y. A. Ford, general passenger agent of the
Pennsylvania lines west, announces that
there will be two daily trains from st.
Louis through indianapolis and
one on schedules of No. 20 and No. IA going
east and Nos. 5 and p west bound. There
will also be two daily trains from Cincin-
natl and two from Louisville. which will
haul through sleepers from those points
and at Columbus will be attached TO the
regular train from st. Louis.
The Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg
are growing so rapidly in Importance that
they will soon dominate over the parent
line. Their lines West reach centers of
population which turn over an enormous
traffic to the Pennsylvania road at Pitts
burg. In analysing the annual report it is
noticeable that there is only a difference
of So, AZ. $50 between the total gross earnings
of the Northwest system and the South
west system. The Southwest system is not
an ore-carrying road, and out OF the enor-
nous coal traffic turned over to the Erie
& Pittsburg and the Cleveland a Pittsburg
line IL has a haul of only twenty miles. so
that much of the revenue of the Panhandle
must come from through first-class bust
ness. In the matter of passenger traffic it
must also come from regular traffic. Those
we'll informed as TO the earnings of the
property expect that within the next five
years the gross annual earnings of the