The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-09
present year. as his position will call him
At Buffalo frequently.

present year. as his position will call him
At Buffalo frequently.
People are returning from Eastern pleas
ure resorts in so large numbers that me
railways are troubled for room 10 carry
their baggage. and often the Pennsylvania
and the Big Four are obliged 10 put on an
other baggage car which they dislike %
40, as most Of the trains are hauling one
business
With its more pros ,arOus conditions the
number Of its old depOts and erecting Inod
ern ones. An artistic station costing SlJo,-
90 has just been completed at WAYNE
Junction. and at nine other points new
depOts are 10 be erected that Will De
included.
Traffic over the St Louis division of the
Big Four is becoming so heavy that a
double track, Indianapolis 10 ST. LOUIS
would he Of great advantage. Chief Engl-
neer Kittredge says IL not double tracked
some long sidings will necessarily De put
I'm as passing points. Big freight engines
are hauling forty 10 fOrty-five loaded cars
over the line.
James J. Hill president Of the Great
month or more. on Saturday returned TO his
headquarters at st. Paul. For years the
personal characteristic of Mr.. Hill was his
long hair. his black locks reaching well
down to his shoulders. He can no longer
he identified that way. he now wears
his hair closely cropped.
since sept. l the pennsylvania mas con-
tracted with the Baldwin locomotive works
for forty new heavy freight engines
designed for fast freight service. The com
pany now has under course of construction
i34 new engines. to be completed this year.
Several fast express engines are building
at Altoona for the Panhandle and the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago lines.
Most of the steel rails required to build
the Decatur e. Springfield extension of the
Indiana, Decatur & Western are on the
ground. and most of the grading is com
farming country that has been ten to
twenty miles from "A railroad, and 1t is
stated that a result of it's construction
seven new towns will be located. 1t will
given new life to three towns already
built, but without railroad facilities.
On Tuesday it will be better known what
there is in the talk of a consolidation OF the
Hooking Valley and the Toledo & Ohio
Central lines. That they are 10 be operated
more closely is generally understood. M.
s. Corners, formerly with the Cincinnati,
eral superintendent of both lines, and ii Is
thought that Hudson Fitch general freight
agent Of the Toledo & Ohio Central will
act in that capacity for the more closely
allied lines.
President Jeffreys, of the Denver e. Rio
Grande. has issued his annual statement
Receipts from traffic were again gratifying
and yielded a marked increase compared
with the previous year. Freight revenues
were $84SS.44 1854. against 1851, 643.23, and
passenger, $2,O66, SO, against S.776, 1853 81
llt SIOWln Oh business utCeSSlldleO the
purchase of fifteen powerful standard
gauge freight locomotives. eight passenger
cars, six mail and baggage cars and one
dining car, the aggregate cost of which
was 1851 .076.9S, of which 1852 1865 was
charged direct to profit and loss. The mo-
i've power was taxed TO its capacity
throughout the year and farther additions
to II will be necessary If the present ac-
tivity in business continues.
The Pennsylvania Company securing
control of the Eel River road in the in
terest of the Vandalia was one of the
shrewd strokes of the powers that control
the Pennsylvania. Some weeks ago an
article appeared in the Journal predicting
that would be the outcome for the Eel
River road, but at that time II was spoken
OF as being improbable by one of the at
torneys of the Pennsylvania interests. Sc
curing the Eel River road greatly enhances
the value of the Terre Haute & Logans-
port division of the Vandalia, which of late
has been developed in a manner which
makes that division more than self-sus-
tanning. The new acquisition gives the
Vandalia direct line from St Louis to
Detroit, and quite direct to Toledo.