The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-04


his associates. is making the annual IN
spection OF the signal and telegraph apps
Tatus or the entire system West.
Inc Lake Erie & Western ran a special
Maude Adams theater train to indianapolis
last night for the accommodation OF people
from Peru and Intermediate points. over
300 people were brought TO the city.
Improvements TO the yards at Brightwood
have been commenced by the Big Four.
The fourteen tracks will be considerably
heightened and eight new tracks added,
increasing the capacity OF the yards 200
cars.
The Chicago. Dubuque & Pacific Railroad
Company filed articles of Incorporation at
Dubuque yesterday. The proposed line is
from Dubuque southwesterly TO the Pa
cihc coast. IncorpOrators are all Iowa
men.
At a conference of the executive officers
OF the Southeastern railroad lines, held IN
st. Louis yesterday, IL was agreed 10 re-
store the regular tariff rates on packing
house products to Southeastern territory,
effective April %.
Mr.. II. I. Newcomb has resigned the po-
sition of chief of the division of agriculture
in the United States Census Office n will
hereafter have full charge of the news
and editorial columns of the Halfway
World. His address will be Philadelphia
David WINNER, for twelve years past a
1agman on the Belt road. taking that posi-
ton when unable to do heavier work, died
quite suddenly yesterday. The wife OF
4 rank I1lnOIldn, q passenger COuuuClOI
on the Big Four, is a daughter Of the de-
ceased.
w. F. Wilson, general manager of the
Vanderbilt consolidated fast freight lines,
was In the city yesterday: There Is a little
here lest the economies the Vanderbilt
people are now introducing may affect In
dianapolis TO some extent.
The Pittsburg & Lake Erie is having two
big passenger engines built which will not
Only he DOWerful hut very fast. 1t is eX-
pected they will haul the heaviest express
trains of the road, or a train OF ten cars,
from pittsburg to Youngstown in one hour
distance Sixty-one miles.
A. A. Zion, superintendent of the Union
Railway Company, who sent specifications
for three heavy switching engines 10 sew
eral locomotive works asking for bids, has
received word from three or the WORKS tnat
hey cannot take any orders for new en-
gines to be delivered before 1902.
An official of the Pennsylvania lines
states that the company has decided TO ex-
pend fully So 100000 in improvements on the
lines east and west OF Pittsburg. At its
seaboard terminal 5000 600 Will be spent in
building elevators, bulkheads and piers and
many miles of new terminal tracks.
The Muncie Council has granted a fran
chise to the c., /. az T.. Railroad TO build a
belt line I'm the eastern and northern parts
of the town, giving connection with the
Pennsylvania, and one to the c., K. * NJ.
for the laying of its tracks TO its proposed
depot site in the North Side. Work of con-
struction will be begun very soon.
The Pittsburg. Toledo & Western Rail-
lumbus, o., yesterday by j. w. Patterson,
n. p. Ramsey, A. b. Ridgeway, A. &.
Feight and V. c. Winston with n capital
stock OF 100000. 1t is proposed to build
a steam railroad from Mingo FUNSTON. on
the Ohio river, TO Toledo. The head
quarters will be at Toledo.
A new type Of locomotive on the Chicago.
Rock Island & Pacific last week made a
~oonrH- hrna ling r1n hnnlinQ CaVQn oars
It Is 1S2 miles from Davenport 10 Chicago,
and 1t was covered in two hours and twen-
~ minutes. The first 1ls miles was run In
122 minutes, making two stops. There We're
several bursts Of speed when several con-
s~ecutive miles were covered at a speed o.
eighty-fve miles an hour.
The policy of Charles NJ. Hayes. as pres
ident Of the Southern Pacific, is gradually
developing. Not only Is the road and equip
ment TO be brought to a high standard. but
O general policy OF Improvement In other
lines adopted. Already plans for new build
ings at the terminals are prepared, and II is
stated that new passenger depots Will be
built this season at twenty prominent points
en- the line.
foundation. says that the Wabash will
abandon Its shops at Fort Wayne. rms
rumor has led citizens of Lafayette TO
take steps to have shops of the Wabash
located there, proposing to give forty acres
OF ground II Lafayette Is selected. rms
leads the Peru Journal TO say that II Fort
wayne loses the shops Peru is the place
that Will get them.
1t Is stated on high authority that the
readjustment of a number OF the junior
Vanderbilt properties would mean no
change in their management but simply
on a consolida ton mortgage securing lowe
rates of interest for the securities or the
Lake Erie & Western, the Nickel-plate anu
the Canada southern, and, incidental 10
this. the New York Central would have
an increased dividend on its common stock.
M~egaphones are now used on the Phtla-
delphis 4 Reading Railway In Philadelphld
TO enable car men TO transmit train orders
To conductors of freight trains, and Super
intendent Deech has found the idea SO
satisfactory In practice that it will be ex-
tended to other points on the system. The
telephone for long distances and the mega
phone for open air communication are two
modern improvements likely to become Ia
miliar features of railway operations.
truckmen of the Big Four at the city
freight depots. Mr.. Wood when he sue
ceeded Henry s. Fraser as general agent
OF the Big Four after a few days observa-
ton concluded the force was larger than
required. He examined the pay rolls and
dismissed from service twenty of the men
last hired. Truckmen retained say they
have no grievances. The truckrnen work
by the hour and much of the time during
the year make overtime.
The board of directors of the Reading
Company, at n meeting yesterday, ac-
cepted the resignation of President Joseph
s. Harris and elected +. Baer TO succeed
him. President Harris will remain with
the company in an executive position. Mr.
Baer was also elected president or the Phu-
adelphia & Reading Railway company and
Of the Reading Coal and Iron Company.
Mr.. Harris was chosen a member OF the
executive committee of the Reading Com
pany and elected a member OF the BOARD