The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-28

the anti-commission agreement is in jeop-
ardy.
Jerome c. Beam. northwestern passenger
has been appointed district passenger agent
OF the Southern at Atlanta.
The Lake Erie & Western is placing the
eighteen niles of its track between Latay-
cite and Templeton in excellent condition.
This piece of track is used jointly with the
Big -Four.
a. A. Zion. superintendent of the Union
Railway Company, has under contempla-
ton the establishment of an
bureau at the station. President ingalls,
speaks favorably of the proposition.
The Peoria & Eastern earned in the third
week of September S5O.S6.SS,, an increase
over the corresponding week OF 1900 OF 80
1920; in the three weeks. $l55 .9S2.99. an in
crease over the corresponding three weeks
OF 1890 of 81, 1886.
On the different divisions of the Wabash
the t-rainsmasters have notified train en-
ployes that loud talking and other noises
must be strictly avoided around sleeping
cars and trains at night where passengers
would be disturbed.
The Baltimore & Ohio is %equipping five
of its locomotives with the fire box in
vented by Cornelius Vanderbilt and pro-
poses to give it a thorough test. The new
box is not meeting with much favor from
engineers. ii is stated.
l. r. Smart. who has been in the office
or maintenance of way department of the
Panhandle as chief clerk. has resigned and
accepted a position with the American
Bridge Company at Pittsburg at a hand
some increase in salary.
The Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific has
built more than 400 miles of new road this
year, and ii included many bridges and
t~restles. The bride over the Canadian river
was the most important. 1t is a steel struc-
ture, 500 feet long and $50 feet above the
river.
The Monon has applied to the New York
Stock Exchange TO list 100000 additional
%refunding mortgage 5 per cent. gold bonds.
a mart lnf the bonds authorized nv the
mortgage deposited with the Central Trust
Company. The amount now listed Is So
$40. 900.
The Wabash is experiencing a little
trouble with its Butler-New Haven line.
At St. Joe the line crosses the Baltimore
4 Ohio, and the latter objects to the Wa
bash crossing its tracks. CONDEMNATION
proceedings were commenced on Monday
at Auburn.
In handling the train which carried the
people TO Canton, o., who left Washington
Mckinley the managers of the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad made unusual arrangements,
and for the first time in railroad history a
solid train was run through from Altoona
TO Canton, 2lS miles.
The Big Four earnings for the week end
ed Sept. q were 1890, SOS. 90, an increase over
the corresponding week of 1900 of S2i.9IS.l6.
For the first three weeks the earnings were
81, 1S2. 264. A, an increase over the correspond
ing period last year of $50, l03.04. The gross
earnings are now the largest I'm the history
VI NiC DIS IOul system plOBCAs
On Oct. /. 1898, common stock of the Pc
oria & Eastern sold at $3.50 per share; this
week several blocks of the stock have been
sold at so per share. Fifteen months ago
income bonds of the Peoria & Eastern sold
at p; this week they have sold at 79. and 1t
IS predicted by friends of the property that
they will sell at 80 within thirty days.
The Wabash on Thursday received two
of the thirty-four heavy freight engines
the Richmond locomotive works are to de-
liver between now and Jan. l. These en-
weigh $4,000 pounds, have sixty-two-inch
driving wheels and tanks carrying 5000 gal
Ions of water and twelve tons of coal.
Earnings of the Evansville & Terre Haute
showed a decrease of s3.416 as compared
with the corresponding week OF 1900. Since
July an increase of $4,000 is shown, In
the third week of September the earnings
of the Evansville & indianapolis were S456
smaller. compared with the third week of
last year.
Frank Penield, an employe of the Wa
bash, who on the Fourth of July fell off
a bridge near Lafayette. breaking his neck,
is still at the company hospital at Peru.
He is paralyZed below the stomach, yet
suffers but little pain. and on Thursday.
for the first time since the accident, was
able TO sit up in an invalid chair and was
wheeled about the building.
The st. Louis & Memphis Railway. which
is a consolidation of the st. Louis, Caruth-
ersville & Memphis. the St. Louis & Mem
phis and the Memphis & st. Louis, has is
Sutu NlICuldIS dililOuiltlilS lew OlllCtIS DO
follows: s. Brinkerhoff. president; j. Z.
Worst, vice president; j. V. Cunningham,
general manager; John a. Cunningham,
secretary and treasurer.
In a half-doZen cases the Wabash, in
gaining entrance to Pittsburg, must cross
the tracks of the Pennsylvania, and will
do so by elevating its tracks. The Wa
bash has asked the Pennsylvania to di-
vide the cost of such work. Contracts for
building twenty-eight miles of road be-
tween Bridgeville and the Ohio river have
been awarded in twenty-eight sections.
The West Jersey & SeashOre road has
received two passenger engines OF the larg-
est type in the world. Each carries TWEEN
ty-eight tons on each pair of its driving
wheels, which are seven feet high. and the
engine carries 205 pounds of steam pres
sure. One of the peculiarities of these en-
gines is that the driving power is applied
to the rear driving wheel by a direct rod.
thence by a parallel rod TO the front
driver.
On Oct. 4 the Hooking Valley will in
%augurate a series of excursions from Co
dumbus to Chicago similar to those run
by indianapolis lines every fall, the Lake
Erie & Western leading last Saturday. In
the first case the Panhandle, the Big Four
and the Baltimore * Ohio will take turns
in running the excursions between Column
bus and Chicago, following the Hooking
Valley. The low rate tickets will be good
on local trains for the day such excur-
Ginn rntnC y made