The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-01

of unbroken double track for 800 miles.
leaving but eighty miles OF single track
between Chicago and Cairo.
The work Of double tracking the Phila-
delphia & Erie division of the Pennsylvania
system is TO be commenced at once. Ihe
contract for laying a second track between
Heating and Lockhaven, a distance or
twenty-four miles, has been let.
Charles o. Johnson to-day goes to kar-
sas City as agent of the Chicago Great
Western. Mr.. Johnson has for some years
represented the road at San Francisco. he
succeeds T.. s.. Hitchins, who resigned 2
short time ago TO engage In commerelal
pursuits.
The Pennsylvania COMPANY has placed
two of its new Atlantic type of passenger
engines In service on the Pittsburg, Fort
engines are 30h by IS inches. and the driy-
ing wheels eighty inches I'm diameter. Ii IS
essentially a high speed engine.
The Lackawanna road will have an ex-
hibition at the Pan-American exposition,
a train $50 feet long, made up OF the most
modern equipment, consisting Of an engine,
baggage car, coach, parlOr car, freight ana
coal car. II will be one of the most com
plete exhibits in the Transportation build
ing.
One hundred and forty-six miles Of the
Central Pacific lines from ogden west to
Lusion over the Kelton and Promontory
shortening Of the line. a cut off 1O5 miles
in length will replace the abandoned Sec
ton. Over three million dollars will be ex-
pended in the work.
Indications of J.. ]. Hilrs influence in the
management Of the Erie are daily mani
Testing themselves. /. S. Miller, who has
been appointed assistant to be president OF
the Erie, is a former Great Northern man,
and James Davis, another Great Northern
man has been appointed manager of the
Erie a k lines at Buffalo.
The c., II. & D. will place in service to-
day. 10 run between Cincinnati and Chi-
bodying all modern conveniencss Of the
car builders art. A new overhead device
has been put in the roof of the dining car
which removes all odors of cooking. The
parlor car has an observation end
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton has
tired OF waiting on other roads running
into t1ndlay to join with 1t in erecting a
new passenger depot and Chief Engineer
Wilson has prepared plans for a new pas
senger station at that point, to be erected
at once, costing about $1,000. Findlay has
become an important station for the G., ii.
q ID.
Wall Street Journal, there has been steady
absorption of Evansville & Terre Haute
stock. 1t is told on good authority that
the buying has been done Sor the Chicago
a. Eastern Illinois and that this company
Is now practically in control of the Evans
vile a Terre Haute. If this be true, 1t Will
eventually be shown that the Big Four has
a hand in the deal.
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be inaugurated between Jersey City and
the Fall River line pier No. l9, North river,
New York. The service will be daily, ex-
and thereafter daily. The boat will leave
Jersey City at $40 p. m. In effect on the
same date the steamers of the Fall River
line VIII leave New York at $50 p. m. In
stead OF 3 p. m. as at present.
The Pennsylvania people were very fortu-
nate in the appointment of w. G. Gushing
To be superintendent of the Pittsburg divi-
way when the great work now going on at
Pittsburg was planned. He is greatly In
terested in the progress of the work, as II
dies Pittsburg division one of the greatest
railroad divisions in the world.
The Monon has scheduled a train from
Bloomington to Lafayette, leaving Bloom
iLgton at 6:55 a. m; leaving Lafayette. re-
close connection at Greencastle, giving the
people along the main line of the Monon
south of Greencastle an opportunity to
hours. going home the same evening. This
Is entirely new service on the Monon and
will undoubtedly be much appreciated by
the people living on the main Inc.
A representative of Speyer & Co.. of New
York, who recently purchased the Mexican
National Railroad, accompanied by Cen
eral Superintendent Brown and j. n. CAL
vision of the Mexican National, arrived at
Corpus Christi. Tex, from Laredo yester-
day and spent several hours inspecting the
company's interests there. II is said that
Vice President Gabriel Morton is to be
made general manager of the National.
The road connects at Alice with the San
Antonio & Arkansas Pass, a Southern Pa
citic property.
Herbert Mahl. who died at Spartanburg,
s. c., Saturday, was "A son of William
Mahl. of New York, who is controller for
the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
Herbert, who was twenty-seven years of
age. had for the last six years been the
heard of the department of maintenance
of way of the Houston < Texas Central
Railway, with headquarters at Houston.
About a year ago his health gave way and
he was ordered TO the Northwest and went
as far as Spokane. No Improvement COM
ing. he went South. The father left New
York last. night for Spartanburg to take
the body home.
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