The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-01

Grande President Palmer and Vice Presi-
dent Dodge viii retire from active rail-
road life.
The machinists. boiler makers. black
smiths and laborers i'm all the shops of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad between New York
and Buffalo have made a demand for a
nine-hour work day.
The New York Central has begun work
on the new branch of the Beech Creek
Railroad. which will be used for all through
coal traffic from the Indiana county penn
sylvania) coal fields.
President Earling. Of the Chicago. Mil
waukee & ST. Paul. says the only building
his company Will do this year Will be on its
Kansas City cutoff in Iowa. and that il
IS not figuring on going 10 the Pacific coast.
During March the Pennsylvania volun-
tary relief department for the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad division paid out for death
benefits $l7, l9l.67; for accident benefits. SILL
2s%.SS.' ." ''"' ~ ~" "'
Directors of the Georgia, Carolina &
Northern. the Raleigh & CASTOR. the
Cheraw & Chester and the Seaboard Air
these properties be merged into the Sea-
board Airline Railroad Company.
During the next seven months Pittsburg
will trade q. 10000 tons of coal and coke
for over 100000 tons OF ore. This bust
ness will furnish an enormous amount Of
traffic for the railroads, which are getting
their equipment in order TO meet it.
Experience shows that the big ca and
Ga A mogul engines OF the Pennsylvania
lines are not adapted for fast work. They
can haul heavy trains up stiff grades, but
when IL comes to speed the class + and l.
engines can beat them by twenty miles.
1t has been decided to extend the 500
road TO Bismarck. n. ID. 1t Is also the in
tention to build from that point to Aber-
deem. S. D., a distance of 80 miles. The
road at present touches Braddock. n. D..
and work will be commenced from that
point.
A bill is pending in the Pennsylvania
4 aufclnfrtra annona1lfnU tho nn0nlnNnonpt ~
three men on every passenger locomotive.
Ii provides for a penalty of $500 in every
case where an engine is permitted 10 leave
a divisional point without compliance with
the law.
The special low colonists' rates to Cali
fornia. In effect for the past three months.
during the three months the low rates were
taken advantage of by at least $4,000 emi-
grants from the middle States and the mid
die Northwest.
travelling freight and passenger agent of
the ST. Louis & San Francisco. with head
quarters in New York, and will enter upon
his duties to-day. Mr.. Truitt is a brother
OF L. L.. Truitt. general Eastern passenger
agent of the Chesapeake & Ohio.
The intentions of the Cincinnati. Rich
mond & Muncie to extend its line north
from Muncie toward Chicago were demon
strated last evening. when condemnation
proceedings on property owned by l5 per-
sons north of Muncie were filed in Circuit
Court ne tAltISiOU Will " puchtu Ol "
Peru and then north at once.
Delegates from all parts of the United
States gathered In Chicago yesterday to
attend the opening session of the eighth
annual meeting OF the Air-brake AsSo-
citation. The meeting was called TO order
by President Otto Best, of Nashville. who
read his annual address. Among the prin-
cipal speaker were Godfrey w. Rhodes,
of Lincoln, Neb.. and Angus s. st. Clair,
Of New York. The convention will close
Thursday with the election of officers.
The semi-annual meeting of the share
holders of the Grand Trunk Railroad in
London yesterday was largely attended.
The directors report, showing decreases
in the receipts and an Increase in the ex-
The president. Sir Charles Rivers Wilson,
said the Buffalo exhibition ought to bring
largely increased traffic and
that the shareholders visit II. He dilated
on the advantages which accrued TO the
Grand Trunk Railroad by the new arrange
ment allowing IL to enter the Union Depot
at Buffalo.
A prominent official of an Eastern trunk
line, speaking of the strained condition re-
garding through rates, says: with an In
sured rate of az cents for the trunk lines
and an uninsured one of the same amount
ty the Wabash, i do not see how the lat
ter is to get very much business, for il $
at a decided disadvantage. For this reason
IL is absurd to suppose that this road, or
any other via st. Louis. will complacently
let traffic drift away without an effort to
held some of IL by shading rates. There
vie l. tuiuh IL 10 iuiC W tApcNb lhdl nc
S0-cent scale can or will be maintained
throughout the season. i am positive that
there will be secret manipulation, and when
In is discovered, as 1t will be. there will
have TO be a reimbursement or an open fight
for lake and rail business.
The April number of Social Service, a
monthly magazine devoted to improving
the condition of the unemployed, is fun of
interesting matter, including the proceed
irgs OF the Get-together Club. an organi-
cation made up OF railroad men, manu-
fscturers and men engaged in trade, in
surance and every department of industrial
and business activity. One of the most in
teresting papers read before the meeting
was that of General Passenger Agent Dan
iels, Of the New York Central. in which
he gave a statement of the efforts made
by his company to improve the conditions
OF its $500 employees. Chief among the
instrumentalites employed is the work of
the Y. NJ. c. A., the establishment of hos
pitfalls. etc. Mr.. Daniels said the company
was actuated by three motives: First. it
believes in the fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man; secondly, it believes ii
to be a patriotic duty to set an example
u their employees which will incite them
TO become wiser and better citizens; and,
thirdly, ii is considered good business poll
icy TO surround their men with helpful,
healthful, homelike temporal as well as
| moral influences. Mr.. Daniels thinks it no
exaggeration TO say that the employees of
the Central are to-day in the enjoyment
Of a greater number and greater variety
Of privileges and are surrounded by more
creature comforts and better facilities for
healthful living than any similar number of
employees in the worlds history.