The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-16

Samuel Rauh, president of the Union
Stockyards and Belt Road Company, will
leave to-day for French Lick Springs to be
absent several days.
The Pennsylvania Company has made
Hartford City a freight division point, and
yesterday placed in service there a corps
of train dispatchers.
OF the twelve directors of the Baltimore
sylvania, and three others are more or less
identified with Pennsylvania interests.
w. b. Wheeler, representing the passen-
ger department of the Lehigh Valley road,
Is in the city; also Col. VIM. Shaw, repre-
Senting the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois has asked
for bids for new depotS at Clinton and
Hoopeston, the latter to be a union station,
the G. * T.. l. and the Lake Erie * Western
occupying 1t.
who on June 3 will hold a celebration at
Terre Haute. have purchased two old
e.ght-wheel passenger engines to be used
In a head-end collision.
In the ten months ending April 80 the
Baltimore az Ohio earned, gross, S29, 044, 06G,
an increase over the corresponding period
Of 1900 of 50, 1925; earned, net, $l3, 176, 76O, an
increase this year of $3.50, 142.
While Joseph Ramsey has been elected
president of the Wheeling & Lake Erie
Company, Robert Blickensderfer will have
active management of the line as hereto
fore, reporting to Mr.. Ramsey as president.
II OlIldHd IOdu, III CODleCllOn WITH the
Union Pacific, claims fast running time
from st. Pau to the Pacific coast, having
a train which covers the 2,l91 miles between
ST. Paul and Portland in siXty-eight hours.
The Panhandle has three construction
trains distributing gravel ballast between
Richmond and Greenfield, Ind, from pits
near Richmond ana at Germantown, and
the track is being brought up to the highest
standard.
The Local Car Inspectors Association
held it's monthly meeting yesterday, fully
one hundred inspectors being present. who
were addressed on operations of air brakes
by s. ID. Hutchins, assistant secretary Of
the Westinghouse Air Brake Company.
The passenger department of the Penn
sylvania has issued a folder entitled
Around the World" with a map. The
folder gives fourteen different tours. ac-
co~mmodations, rates and all necessary in
formation regarding the respective trips.
Train 7 on the Panhandle yesterday
turned over to the Vandalia two cars car
rying 40 babies With attendants from the
Orphans Home in New York city, en- route
10 st. Louis and other Western points,
where homes are TO be provided for the
little ones.
chairmen of the district freight committees
of Western lines all the responsibility they
have had will be concentrated on George
w. Ristine. and IL remains to be seen
whether he personally can compel an abso-
lutte maintenance OF tariff rates.
All competing lines have announced that
they would meet the dlfrerential of the
Wabash. $25.51 Kansas City to New York,
and would apply II via standard lines as
well as differential lines. This brings the
fight back to where IL started. except that
the rate is now S.4 lower than then.
Not in many months have the shipments
Of stone from the Bedford quarries been as
heavy as at the present time. over the
MOnon and the Southern Indiana daily
large shipments are made, going TO all
parts of the United States. Five hundred
carloads are contracted 10 go to New York
for building purposes.
Charles Roder. roadmaste of the Lake
Erie x Western, is pushing the work OF
reballasting and laying new rails on the
Fort Wayne, Cincinnati < Louisville di-
vision of the road. and in ninety days pas
senger trains will be able TO make as good
time safely as Is made on any part of the
Lake Erie & Western system.
Train Al of the Cincinnati. Hamilton &
DAYTON. now awaits the arrival of Train
% over the Nandalia when il has any pass
engers for Cincinnati, and as q result this
train frequently does some very fast run
ming between indianapolis and Cincinnati.
having made the run in two hours and fifty
minutes several times of late.
George e. Rockwell. formerly district
passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines
at indianapolis, now assistant general pas
senger agent at Cincinnati. has purchased
from Colonel NJ. X. Howard a farm near
Milford. on the Little Miami division, pay
ing $4,000 for IL. During the summer
months. with his family, he will make the
farm his home.
Local ticket scalpers who attended the
Brokers Association, held in Kansas City,
returned yesterday. They report that the
session was a very pleasant one and that
they were royalty entertained by the