The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-01


annual ball will be given on the evening of
oct. 81 at Tomlinson Hall. Invitations 10
members OF the brotherhood at other rail-
way centers have been sent out quite lib
orally.
Freight Oficials Col. s. F. Gray. OF the
pennsylvania lines; John Lazarus, OF the
Indiana, Decatur * Western: Samuel b.
sweet, of the Lake Erie & Western and
Ford WOOD, OF the Peoria * Eastern, left
last night for Chicago TO attend freight
meetings TO be held there to-day and to-
morrow.
The Panhandle is purchasing additional
land along IT'S right Of way through Grant
county, preliminary TO laying a second
track. The time is not distant when the
Panhandle will be double track between
Pltts6urs and Indianapolis and
ana chicago. Between Pittsburg and Co.
Iumous it is now practically double track.
The Illinois Central has under cOnsidera-
ton some radical changes in its passenger
termial arrangements at Chicago. Work
is now in progress on an eight-stOry build
ing adjoining its present passenger station,
and an entrance to the remodeled station
can be had from Twelfth street, obvlatlng
the circuitous route by which il is now
reached.
Fifteen years ago the fastest train run
between indianapolis and Terre Haute was
scheduled two hours and twenty minutes.
Now accommodation trains make better
time, and the express trains cover the
SeVenty-three miles in one hour ana forty
minutes. In the near future twenty min
uNtS qdlCkeT Tin VIII De maze DS II AdSl
trains.
The Chicago & Northwestern will within
sixty days have a double track from chi
cago TO Council Bluffs, with the exception
OF thirty miles between Dennison and Ma
pie River Junction, and next year TINS
thirty miles Will be SO improved. This
gap closed the Chicago q Northwestern
Will have double-track service the entire
0VO miles from Chicago 10 the MISSOURI
river.
f. ID. Casnave, general superintendent
OF motive power of the Pennsylvania, has
been appointed TO a similar position on the
who goes to the Erie Road to-day. Mr..
Casnave, Ii is stated officially, will retain
his present position on the pennsylvania
HlS appointment to a like position on the
Baltimore * Ohio shows cOnclusively that
the Pennsylvania dominates the policy OF
both corporations.
On the Wabash for August eastern di-
V1Slon) dement, marks were given six con-
d%uctors, five brakemen, two clerks, seven
engineers and fourteen fremen. one brake
man and a section man were dismissed.
credit marks were given to three conduc-
tors, six brakemen, one switchman and
-FOUR engineers. a number or clerks re-
ceived clear credit records for six months;
Visiting saloons when on duty caused
most Sof the demerit marks.
1t is stated that the Pennsylvania will
place orders for steel rails for the Balti-
more q Ohio, the Chesapeake d Ohio and
the Norfolk & Western. The Pennsylva-
MIA has for some time been purchasing
stock and securities of the Norfolk q
Western, and it is believed now holds or
controls a majority of the stock. TIL re-
port that the Gould syndicate had Sc
cured enough stock to give it a repre-
sentation on the board of the N. & V. is
denied officially.
Edward F.. Cost, freight traffic manager
of the Big Four lines. was in the city yes
terday, last night going TO Chicago. Mr..
Cost states that the situation with the Big
Four could not well be improved. While
the lines are handling less grain than in
any fall of several years past. in other
classes of freight the tonnage is so heavy
in the aggregate the earnings are a sur
prise, and he sees no indications of an
early falling of in business.
The last move indicating an abandon
senger department of the Erie lines has
taken place. the Erie announcing that
on Oct. l it will become a member of the
clergy bureau of the Central Passenger
Association. Mr.. Roberts, when general
passenger agent. refused to place his line
In the Central Passenger Association, TAX
ing no part in auxiliary bodies such as
clergy and mileage bureaus; now the Erie
is in full fellowship with its competitors.
The latest report is that the Erie has
an understanding with the Wabash re-
gardfng the ~latter's Pittsburg extension,
and that soon as the Wabash gets entrance
into Pittsburg all Erie and Wabash traf-
fc from all points reached by these two
lines In Indiana, Ohio and Illinois will be
handled by the Wabash extension from the
point where the Wheeling * Lake Erie
connects with the Erie. This refers only
to traffic on the Wheeling q Lake Erie
and the Wabash in territory north of Mar
ion, Mansfield and Gallon.
j. ]. Hill. president of the Great North
ern, is in New York city, and will attend
the annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Northern Pacific to-day. President
Hill has attached to his annual report of
the Great Northern a map showing the
lines owned jointly by the Great Northern
and the Northern Pacific, as well as the
cles ii is looked upon as indicating that
days meeting will set at rest many ru-
mors regarding the Northern Pacific di-
rectoTy.
The Big Four received on Saturday the
last of its four Atlantic type engines or
dered three months ago. and all were in
service yesterday, two running between In
dianapolis and Bellefontaine and two be-
tween Cincinnati and Cleveland. The two
running between this city and Bellefon-
tame double the road daily. running PSI
miles. One of these engines, No. 39S, on
Saturday hauled Train 10 ten miles in
eight minutes and ten seconds. and Will
liam Tamblyn, who runs it, says he be-
lieves ii will run six or eight cars on good
track "A mile in thirty-eight to forty sec
onds, and keep up such speed for consec-
utive miles. Another of these engines left
Be~llefontaine last Friday thirty-eight min
uteS late and on its fast time reached
Cleveland on its schedule.