The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-07

Superintendent George Dyer. and it is
stated that should Mr.. Boltz's resignation
be accepted three other of the employees OF
the local office will Cult the service of the
company.
From a New York source it has been
learned that the Wabash system has pur-
chased the Ohio & Little Kanawha Rail
road between Marietta and GAINESVILLE.
Having last week purchased the Little
Kanawha road from Parkersburg to the
West Virginia coal fields, the system now
has a through line from the lakes 10 the
West Virginia fields.
In railroad circles an impression prevails
that in securing the Santa Fe, Prescott *
Phoenix road the Atchison, Topeka K Santa
road extends from Ash Fork A T., 10
Phoenix, a distance of 24S miles. and is SO
peculiarly situated that the lumber. coal
and supplies needed for mining districts of
Arizona must pass over ii.
Thomas J. Foley, whom President Loree
asked to come To Baltimore assistant
TO George l.. Potter general manager of
the Baltimore * Ohio is thirty-six years OF
age and when twelve years old took the
position of a messenger boy in a Pittsburg.
Fort Wayne & Chicago office: in 1896 he
held the position Of trainmaster of the
Pittsburg. Fort Wayne x Chicago.
Robert b. Donough. for several years one
of the ticket agents at the Union Station,
and more recently an auditor with the
pennsylvania Company at its Union Station
at Chicago has resigned and accepted an
important position with the Chicago, Rock
Island a Pacific. and will leave on Satur-
day for his field. He is the son of the
late Daniel Donough, who was many years
general ticket agent at the Union Station.
and LETT behind him an enviable record for
ms correct methods of transacting railroad
business.
The Edgar Thompson mills of the Car
negie Steel Company turned out in Octo-
Der the largest tonnage of finished steel
that was ever turned out in a similar period
by any plant in the world, beating their
own previous record by a wide margin.
The tonnage for October was: IngOts, 81, 256
tons; blooms, 1853 tons; rails. 67,236 tons.
At the prevailing prices of rails S2S ton,
the total value of the rails for the month
would be 81, $50, COS.
Thermal fruit warehouses are to he built
at terminals on the Chicago. Milwaukee x
St Paul. These will be designed for the
exclusive storage of fruit in cold weather.
The stations will be used for the receipt
and storage of fruit in carloads and the
accommodations will permit handling entire
perature. regardless of conditions outside
of the buildings. Each station will accom-
modate twenty-five cars. The houses VIII
be heated by boilers placed in separate
buildings.
The committee appointed TO award the
prizes for the best section of track on the
Pennsylvania lines west consisted of w. II.
Schriven OF the Cleveland and Pittsburg
division, n. G. Bennett of the Louisville
division and Nj. W. Mansfield of the In
dianapOlis &, Vincennes George NJ. Farley
was awarded the first prize of 500. ]. r
Mckenney the second prize of $50, both on
the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne & Chicago line.
In addition to these prizes the foreman of
each superintendent division showing the
greatest excellence of work is awarded
cash prize of $50
There were a series of conferences at
New York yesterday among the financial
leaders who control the Northwestern rail-
way properties as TO the future of the
Northern Pacific Railway, but at the close
no announcement was made as to the result
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derbilt. who was agreed on as arbitrator
by the conflicting interests during the tenn
porary truce that followed the contest for
supremacy in Northern Pacific last May, re-
turned from Europe yesterday, and some
of the men interested in the matter were
in communication with him.
a final decree of foreclosure and sale of
the properties of the Kansas City Suburban
Belt Railway Company, the Consolidated
Terminal Railway Company, the Union
Railway Company and the Kansas City q
Federal Court at Kansas City yesterday
| These properties constitute what was
known as the Kansas City system Of ter
mnals formerly used by the Kansas City.
Pittsburg * Gulf Railroad, now the Kan
sas City Southern. They were built and
operated by a. +. Stilwell before he was
deposed president of the Pittsburg x
Gulf Railroad.
Persons who travel on the Chicago. Mil
waukee & st. Paul and board their sleeping
cars are impressed with the names for
SiCtpllS Ceil equipment VI mat lOetu.
road traverses territory once exclusively
occupied by Indians, and the passenger de-
partment takes advantage of every Oppor
tunity to perpetuate the memory of the
red men. Consequently, when order was
given last week to the Pullman Company
TO build ten sleeping cars embOdying every
improvement, +. a. Miller. general passen-
ger agent of the st. Paul, specified that In
dian names should be given the cars. One
of the cars will be named Nepahwin, the
Indian name for sleep; another EWayea
which means lullaby; another Omena
meaning the fight of a pigeon, and the en-
tire equipment of this class of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee q st. Paul now in service
as well as that TO be purchased, bears some
Indian name.