The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-16


in response TO a telegram from the Amer
lean Locomotive Company. Offering him the
position of general manager of its PITTS
burg works. and Will take charge July 70.
w. G. Rinearson, general passenger agent
Of the Queen & Crescent has gone to
Buffalo TO install the representatives OF
tne road at that point. the road now run
nng through car IN connection Win me ne
sig Four and Lake Shore 10 BuIalo. W
A Becker has been appointed 10 take
falo
The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad for
mally announces that preferred stock OF
the Rio Grande Western Railway Company
will be exchanged after July IL for pre-
ferred shares of the Denver d Rio Grande
on the basis of eleven shares OF the pre-
ferred stock Of the Denver & Rio Grande
for ten shares of preferred stock or the
Rio Grande Western.
In the latter part of last week Joseph
Ramsey. jr.. president OF the WABASH,
spent much time in conference with George
j. Gould relative to letting the contracts
for building the first section OF the extern
sion of the Wabash 'nto PittsbUrg. Fol
lowing one % the conferences Mr. Ramsey
is quoted as saying that work on the eX-
tension would begin in August
]. A Thompson, general agent for the
Santa Fe, is in the city. He says there is
no end 10 the business in sight for that
line, and Notwithstanding a large purchase
OF new equipment in the last two years the
company IS now borrowing cars from any
road that has surplus and has just asked
the Northern Pacific TO turn over to IL 5OO
new box cars, which it is now receiving.
The PENNSYLVANIA now holds virtual con-
troll of the Baltimore & Ohio. Its repre-
sentatives comprise half the Baltimore IL
Ohio directors, and an additional vote can
always be safely counted upon. The ex-
act amount of the Pennsylvania holdings
Of Baltimore & Ohio stock is not known,
but il is understood does not exceed S40.
100000. n large part OF it is preferred stock
John F. Green, first vice president of
the Pennsylvania is having a new private
car built. 1t will be finished in solid ma
hogahy, and is expected to be marvel
of up-to-date car building. The car will
be so constructed as to furnish very COM
Portable quarters for a small party on an
extended trip. and II is probable that IL
will be chosen for the different presidential
tours
President Truesdale. of the Lackawanna,
speaking of the report from Scranton, that
the company in order to induce the strik-
ing employees to resume work, is planning
10 make concessions TO them, denies posi-
lively that there is any truth in the story.
Mr. Truesdale says these announcements
are circulated by the leader of the strikers
to mislead the men and bolster up their
cause.
The new cafe cars of the Wabash will
seat eighteen persons IN the cafe and
have a library and smoking room in the
observation end of the car which will seat
fourteen persons. They also contain
private cafe with seating capacity for
tricity, and nothing has been omitted and
no expense spared that would add to their
luxurious elegance.
w. H. Carbee has been running as an
express messenger out of Indianapolis for
forty-one years, the first eight as mes
senger for the Adams Express Company
and the last thirty three as a messenger
of the American Express Company. He is
now seventytwo years of age, and is con-
sidered one of the most capable men in the
service. Until a few days ago he ran be-
tween indianapolis and Terre Haute, his
run now extending TO St Louis
Passenger men are surprised at the
growth of the Sunday excursion business.
Only a few years have passed since the
Big Four and the Cincinnati Hamilton &
Dayton inaugurated Sunday excursions,
and from this little beginning all the roads
in the Central Traffic Association are run
nlng Sunday excursions at reduced rates.
During the summer months there is not
Sunday that there are not from 5000 90
1900 eXcursionists handled at INDIANAPOLIS.
In 2 comparatively short time the entire
right of way of the Illinois Central Rail-
road in Chicago and as far south as Mat
teson. Ill. will be as light during night as
during day. The company has just finished
a big electric plant at the foot of Twenty
power for Illuminating all the tracks. sta
tons and yards for a distance of nearly
thirty miles. The wires for the lighting are
laid in cables in stoneware conduits under
ground.
sylvania Company, or, in other words, the
Vandala, is behind the movement to build
another bridge across the Mississippi at
St Louis. The Pennsylvania has no ter
minal facilities in St. Louis of its own.
When the new station in that city was
organized the Pennsylvania did not take
proprietary interest. and the belief pre-
walls that with the removal of the re-
ownership from the Vandalia the Penn
sylvania will take more aggressive steps.
The New York Press says this morning:
''It developed yesterday that ]. p Morgan
& Co. have a representative on the Union
Pacific board of directors in the person of
Roswell Miller, chairman of the board Of
directors Of the St Paul. who resigned
from the Union Pacific board, but who will
be reinstated; the Kuhn-Loeb Hartman
Gould faction will have representative on
the Northern Pacific board, and +. d. Adj
ans. il is expected. will be retired in the
reorganization in the management of that
property, but the composition OF the new
board will be under the direction of ].
Pierpont Morgan, James ]. Hill and their
assistants. w. X. Vanderbilt will be elected
a Northern Pacific DIRECTOR