The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-12

at Logansport. vice G. A. Prescott. retired
AFTER a service OF thirty or more years on
the Pennsylvania and. Vandalia lines.
o. Il. Crasper, joint agent of the Lake
Shore and the Lake Erie & Western at
Fort Wayne. is seriously Ill. as is his wife.
with typhoid fever. Both are being cared
Tor at Hope Hospital, Fort Wayne.
Z. NJ. /. Duchesnay. superintendent of the
Pacific division of the Canadian Pacific
Railway, has been appointed superin-
tendent of construction of the Cuba Rail-
way, succeeding the late Frank r Brother.
Passenger men nave received notice not
10 contract for any more drawing rooms
IN cars on. the Santa Pc line to California
for several days. the tourist traffic 20 the
Pacific coast now being something I'M
precedented.
The board Of managers of the Union
Railway Company will hold a meeting at
the Union station on Tuesday next. and
on Wednesday the Car Foremen and In
spectors' Association will meet at the
Union Station.
The Royal Blue book Of the Baltimore
& Ohio for January is an unusually inter-
esting number, giving a sketch OF the late
John Brown and his family, with several
illustrations of homes he occupied and or
striking scenes during his life.
President Williams. of the Seaboard Air
line. has temporarily appointed Capt. V. u.
McBee, now superintendent of the Seaboard
system, as vice president and general man
ager 10 succeed Il. St. John, TO take eff
feet Immediately.
The new bridge of the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne * Chicago over the Allegheny river
near Pittsburg is to be pushed TO compile
ton. 1t will be a deck bridge wide enough
for four tracks and high enough to com
river traffic.
Saxby's Magazine for January Is a
bright, newsy number and contains pic
lures OF ID. b.. Martin. Il. O.. Mccormick,
III. c. Townsend and other prominent pas
senger officials, with sketches OF their rail-
road careers.
II is apparent that the gross earnings of
the Big -Four for the fiscal year ending
June 80. 1901. will exceed $4,000. 900, as the
first six months of the year the earnings
reached $9.266.S4 4, an increase ever the cor
responding six months of the preceding
year of $3.50. 135.
F.. j. Sanford. for four years superin-
tendent of the Union Railway and Depot
Company at Kansas City, has been elected
president of the company. filing the oiice
which, was occupied by the late Edward 5:
Washburn. c. G. Ripley was reelected
secretary and treasurer.
The 4 per cent. fifty-year first mortgage
gold bonds of the Indiana, Illinois & lowe
road recently placed on the market have
all been taken. They are a first and only
lien on the entire property of the COM
pany, which earned in the year ending
Tune 20, 1900. $425, 600 net.
Miss Emma and Miss Nora Conklin.
who after twenty years service as tele-
graph operators In the Bee-line offices at
indianapolis. went to California and pur-
chased a ranch, at Redlands,, have become
quite wealthy through the advance In real
estate and the fruit orchards in that vi
cinity.
The new passenger service which is being
introduced by Charles Stone. general pas
senger agent of the Louisville & Nashville,
becomes effective on Monday. The Florida
limited Will leave LOUISVILLE at 2:45 p. m.
next day. 1t will be a daily solid train.
modern in every respect.
w. E. Hurlburt, general passenger agent
OF the Oregon Railroad and Navigation
Company, has resigned to accept the po-
sition OF general manager for a banking
hrm in Portland. Mr.. Hurlburt will also
De president OF the East Side Railway
Company, an electric street railway re-
Gently acquired by the same banking con-
Germ.
E.. st. John still declines to give a rea-
and general manager of the Seaboard Air
line. He says he expects to remain In
definitely at Norfolk. being arbitrator
sixteen railways, including two Canadian
lines; He has declined several offers of
positions on other roads.
A circular announces the following
changes on the Pennsylvania road: Gill
bert III. Cobb, now division freight agent at
Harrisburg. TO succeed w. j. Rose, division
New Jersey division; Robert G.. Wright.
now division freight agent at Altoona, to
succeed Mr.. Cobb at Harrisburg; George
D.. Ogden, now freight agent at Harris
burg, TO succeed Mr.. Wright at Altoona.
One well informed regarding Wabash
financial affairs and a member OF the OFF,
Cldl DOdFQ SalQ llal no pfOpOSlllOH mas
come before the board looking toward the
consolidation of the Wabash with some
other system. He would not be surprised,
however. il the announcement is made any
time that outside interests have acquired
large blocks of the stock, but an examina-
ton of the transfer books does not re-
veal anything definite on this point except
that foreign buying seems TO continue.
The Wabash Railway will next week
place orders for twelve passenger and
thirty-two freight engines. Six of the pas
senger engines will be built to haul seven
cars at a sustained speed of ninety miles
per hour and run 100 miles without stop
ping. They will have driving wheels seven
ty-nine inches in diameter, cylinders twen-
ty by twenty-eight, tanks with capacity
for six thousand gallons of water and
boilers with a working pressure of two
hundred pounds of steam.
The railway managers have their eyes on
the express companies. and In due course
they will be absorbed by the railway COM
binations. The Adams. the American, the
United States and Wells-Fargo Express
Companies operate on 141. 40 miles of the
principal railways, and at current quota
lions their aggregate capitalization repre-
sents a valuation of $50, 0O0. 600. The idea
is that every railroad should own and con-
troll every revenue-producing line of traffic.
The Michigan Central is just completing
a steel bridge across the st. Joseph river
which cost $50 0m-