The Indianapolis journal., 1901-12-19

Will hold together. These engines are TAX
ing the place of the Class r machines, sew
eral of which have been sent to the Indian
apolis * Nincennes and the Nandalia.
The remains OF the late A NJ. Underhil.
engineer of maintenance of way OF the
Nandalta line, will pass through the city
this morning on Train II, en- route to
Richmond. Ind, for burial number of
the Vandalia officials of Terre Haute will
accompany the funeral party and will be
joined here by other officials of the line
Ford Wood. general freight agent of the
Peoria < Eastern, Samuel B. Sweet. gen.
eral freight agent of the Lake Erie &
Western. John 5. Lazarus. traffic manager
of the Indiana, Decatur < Western line
and A. II. Mcleod. of the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton & Dayton. are in Chicago attending
a meeting of the Central Freight Associa-
ton.
The car department of the Panhandle
shops has received the largest single or
der for passenger cars in the history of the
road. The order includes sixteen wide yes
tibule coaches. three siXtyfOOt mail and
express cars, and two postal cars. The
baggage, mail and express and postal cars
will be u ID between Pittsburg, St. Louis
and Chicago.
President Ramsey. of the Wabash. pre-
diets that the company will have 10 dou-
ble-track its line before five years. He
says that after a most careful review or
the freight situation at present. with future
possibilities, he cannot figure out an end
10 the present congestion and blockades
Unless other lines come in to help relieve
the situation.
Fl. S Storrs. division superintendent of
the Chicago, Burlington * Quincy, with
headquarters in Creston, Ia, yesterday an
nounced his resignation, TO take effect
Jan. 1. He has accepted an appointment
TO become general superintendent of the
Wheeling & Lake Erie. with headquarters
at Toledo, the duties of which position he
will assume at once.
Work on the bridge across the Mississippi
from Thebes, H., TO Gray's Point, Mo-,
Will be begun at once. The total length
of the structure will be 500 feet, with
approaches at either end about 600 feet in
length. Two tracks are TO be laid across
the bridge and 1t will be used by the Chi
cago * Eastern Illinois, the Illinois Cen
tral, the Missouri Pacific and the Cotton
Belt.
The understanding is that E. H. Harri-
man will retire from the Northern Pacific
resignation is the same as that given by
James j. Hill, namely, to remove the prin-
cipal point of controversy raised by Gov
ernor Van SAINT, of Minnesota, TO the effect
that men in control of one railroad should
have no participation in the management
OF competing roads.
Tie business in the passenger offices of
the railroads shows that travel is rather
light at present Passenger men usually
count upon such a falling off in travel
prior to the Christmas holidays and not
much comment is usually made upon IT,
The holiday rates will be inaugurated Dee.
%, and will be available for the two fol-
lowing days, and again on Dec. 81 and Jan.
l. The outside return limit is Jan. ?.
The steam shovel at Mechanicsburg, on
the Cleveland division of the Big Four
since it has been in operation has loaded
$4,000 cars of gravel for use on the new
second track just completed on the CleVe-
land division, and several thousand car
loads have been distributed in reDallaSt-
ing the Cincinnati division. On the en-
cinnati division several sidetracks have
been put in the past season, each 3,OO teet
long.
The Lake Shore is experimenting with a
new method of lubricating the principal
bearings of locomotives, doing away with
the present system of Oiling from cans.
The new lubricant is a sort of paste COM
posed of lye, tallow, valve oil and rosin,
and is forced into the bearings of cups by
screw pressure. the heat generated by the
revolving axle melts the grease, but 1t does
not run out and waste as readily as the
common engine oil.
The results attained by the Pennsylvania
this year eclipsed all records made by that
or any other American railroad, or Tor
that matter. any railroad in the world The
indications are that the Eastern lines VIII
show over S100O00,000 gross earnings for
the year, being something like $4,000 per
mile, and that the surplus over all charges,
taxes rentals etc. will be about $2l, 10000
this being about twice the amount paid in
dividends the stock for the year.
Fl. j.. Rhein, general Eastern agent of
the Lake shore who has lust returned
he considers Seattle the coming great port
of the Pacific seaboard and was astonished
at the largeness of its railroad and steam
ship terminal facilities and the enterprise
shown i'm that city. While absent he visited
many well-advertised sections of the coun-
try between Buffalo and the Pacific coast
but i'm Seattle and the Puget sound district
he looks for the greatest and quickest de-
Yelopment.
No agreement has just been reached by
the Western roads as regards the proposed
reorganization of the military rate pool.
The special committee appointed TO pre-
pare a plan of action that would obviate
the objections of the Southern Pacific 10
the old agreement was not ready to re-
port to the general meeting to-day, and 1t
was instructed to report tomorrow. 1t is
generally understood the existing difficult
ties will be overcome and the military rate
pool be given another lease of life. The
colOnist rate question was up for consid-
Grafton all day, but no definite conclusion
had been reached at the time of adjourn
ment.