The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-12

Company, involving the delivery and own
ership OF $4,000 worth OF railroad bonds.
Judge Nj. Donelly appointed c. ID. Critics,
banker of Lima, o., TO be receiver for
the bonds
dispatch to the Journal from Peru says
General Manager Allen has given up the
plan of opening the c., r. x NJ. into Marion
this week, and will not extend train serV-
ice beyond Fowlerton until the line Is com
pleted 10 Peru and they can De run 10 feru-
The presidents of Western lines, it is
stated. Will not meet again in New York.
having decided 10 hold their monthly meet
ing in Chicago. The new bridge OF the New
Haven Butler line of the Wabash across
the Maumee near New Haven, Is now
complete The line will be ready to open
about Jan. l.
The statement of the earnings and ex-
penses of the Baltimore q Ohio Railroad
system. including the Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern Railroad, for the five months
ended in November, 1901. shows; Gross
expenses, $13215, 500, an increase of 20.3l3;
net earnings. sS.546.995, an increase of $685.
40.
1t is stated that no road in the country
connects directly with so many railroads
portant branch Of the Central reaches Oma-
ha. Sioux City and Sioux Falls. Another
branch extends to Louisville, and the main
line runs through thickly settled territory
much of the distance between Chicago and
New Orleans.
A dispatch from GAINESVILLE. O., says it
is stated in railway circles there that the
Wabash is considering plan to buy the
Bellaire, GAINESVILLE & Cincinnati road, a
narrow-guage line running from GAINESVILLE
east to Bellaire. This would give the Wa
bash an outlet to the Ohio river. The
plan. it is said. includes the building of a
line from a point east of GAINESVILLE south
to Parkersburg or Marietta.
The Richmond branch of the American
locomotive works has received since Dec.
fro TCFlnf r.
dation engines, which with the orders on
hand, will keep the works busy until July
of next year. Four engines are TO be de-
livered weekly to the Northern Pacific till
and the Pennsylvania has contracted for
fifteen engines, each of which will weight
195. 600 pounds.
e. w. Meddaugh, attorney for the Grand
Trunk Western Railroad, said yesterday
that articles Of Incorporation have been
filed in California to comply with the law.
You see," said he, I'VE have an agent in
California, the same as many other roads.
Under the laws of that State we must file
copies of our articles of incorporation and
the agent must be person upon whom
service can be made in case anybody there
sues the company. 1t is merely in con-
formity with this law that the copy was
filed"
Several of what are claimed TO be the
largest locomotives ever constructed were
received on Tuesday by the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul. While monster loco
motives have in a way ceased to excite
surprise, those just received by the Mil
waukee are remarkable in their dimen-
sions. The diameter of the driving wheels
is S414 inches, diameter of compound cylin-
ders 2515 inches, stroke OF cylinders %
inches total length of engine 6S feet IL
inches, number of flues in boilers $50 heat
ing surface 3,2l5 square feet, capacity of
tender $4,000 pounds of coal and 1000 gallons
of water.
The Midland Terminal Railway yester-
da mt he
RADIO Springs and Cripple Creek, Col, 10
% cents and announced that it will sell
round-trip tickets with a limit of twenty
five days for 40 cents. The original fare
for one way was $3.50. The general traffic
manager, S. j. Henry, of the Colorado
Springs q Cripple Creek District Railway
would continue to sell tickets for the trip
to and from the gold camps at 80 cents and
round-trip tickets al so cents. The rate wal
has brought the freight tariffs over both
lines down to cents hundred pounds for
all comodities, except coal in carload lots
Some time ago the Union Pacific an
nounced that new service had been estab-
lished via the New York Central. the Lake
Shore, the Chicago & Northwestern, the
Union Pacific and the Central Pacific lines
which will make the time from New York
to San Francisco ninety-SiX, which, it is
claimed. is the best time on record. Now
the Southern Pacific announces that this
is not such an extraordinary achievement
and is no better than the schedule of nine
ty-six hours and fifteen minutes which has
been in force 10 Los Angeles via New Or.
leans for several years. The amusing part
of this controversy to railroad men lies in
] the fact that the Union Pacific owns the
! Southern Pacific and the Southern Pacific
| owns the Central Pacific, which is part
! of the northern route to San Francisco.