The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-09


The Pennsylvania Company is this week
delivering to the Wabash 700 carloads OF
steel rails for the Missouri Pacific at the
rate OF nfty-hve cars per lay.
Earl S. 5. Smith. who has resigned the
commissionership of the Sioux City trans
pOrtatlon bureau, viii on Nov. 10 take an
important position on the st. Louis * San
Francisco.
The Pennsylvania owns 100000 Of the
chesapeake u Ohio stock, ana mas oeen
of late making extensive purchases OF coal
property along the line in the interests OF
that road.
The c. II. & D. has arranged to sell
OF Thanksgiving day. Tickets VIII De on
sale Nov. = and p. good returning to and
including Nov. %. 1901.
From "a length Of $40 miles in 1896, earn
ing $2,02S.000 gross. the Minneapolis IL st.
Louis has been extended until Isl miles are
operated and gross earnings were for the
last fiscal year $3.215.O00.
Miss Jane Whitcomb. who for many
years was matron at the Union Station,
left last night for New Hampshire. where
she goes to reside with relatives, giving up
her position on account of poor health.
Only fifty miles of Canadian Northern re-
mains TO be built to complete the road
between Rainy river and Fort Arthur;
S25 miles are now in operation from Rainy
river west. and several short branches
Next week the headquarters of the gen
eral superintendent of the Chicago division
Huntington, Ind. The division extends from
Chicago TO Marion, O., and Huntington
is about midway.
NJ. D.. Woodford. president of the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton and the Indiana,
Decatur Il Western. passed through the
city last night en- route west TO note the
progress making i'm the construction OF the
l., ID. q w. extension.
George II. Campbell, assistant general SUI
rerintendent OF the Baltimore & Ohio. will
hereafter have jurisdiction over the freight
and passenger stations and piers at New
York. Philadelphia, st. George Station,
Staten Island. and Washington.
This months issue of the official local
time table of the Pennsylvania lines Will
have an unusually attractive. cover. The
design is appropriate for Thanksgiving
months. A kitchen scene with November
edibles is shown in brilliant colors.
J.. II. Lahey. who has been for several
years superintendent of the Missouri di-
vision of the Iron Mountain, has rendered
his resignation. He has been in the employ
of the company twenty-one years, and now
goes TO the Kansas City Southern Railway.
The Baltimore d Ohio has a corps OF
engineers at work surveying the line from
TabD's Crossing. two miles west of Mar
tinsburg, w. Va, to Harper's Ferry, TWEEN
ty-two miles, to form a cutoff for east
bound freight trains and avoiding heavy
grades.
Tomorrow e. +. Cost. freight traffic
manager of the Big Four lines, and several
Of the assistant general freight agents Will
stuart OH iii eAlelutu 4NOIllM IL Nllps "a
pecting to be absent a week, visiting Chi
cago, st. Paul, Denver, Kansas City and
st. Louis.
The reelection of NJ. E. ingalls, as pres
ident of the Big Four and the other eXecu-
tive officers of the past year at the meet
ing in New York on Thursday puts at rest
the rumor that President ingalls, desires TO
be relieved or that he proposes to move to
New York.
The American Locomotive Company has
begun work at Dunkirk on extensive addi-
tions to what were the Brooks locomotive
works, large tracts of land have been pur-
chased and numerous additional shops will
be erected. When completed over 1900 men
Will be employed.
NJ. Knight. vice president, S. B. knight,
general freight agent, and p. w. Coyle, as
sistant general freight agent, will leave
st. Louis Sunday evening on a special train
TO make several days inspection trip over
the new acquisitions of the Wabash, includ-
ing the Omaha q st. Louis.
Several Vanderbilt officials are now max
ing a trip through the Northwest. The
party includes w. f. Wilson, general man
ager of the New York Central q West
Shore line: r. w. La Bau. general freight
agent of the West shore. and h. l.. Somers,
general freight agent of the same line.
The Chicago & Northwestern has given
orders for the building of ten entire new
trains, from engine to baggage car, at an
expenditure of approximately $1.2O0.O0
This is said TO be the largest order ever
given for the equipment of a single train.
1neSe trains VIII be USED 10 make up the
Overland Limited.
The Lackawanna Railroad opened a fine
new passenger station at Washington, n.
j. 1t is built of rock-faced brick and the
general style of architecture is very orna-
mental. The opening of the station prac-
tically completes improvements at this
point which have been under way for near
ly eighteen months.
1t is stated that Frank w. Morse. third
vice president, will assume the second vice
presidency and general managership or the
Grand Trunk Railway on Jan. /. Mr..
Reeves, the present occupant OF that office,
will go to England for three months and
upon his return will resign and retire to
his farm in California.
w. ii. Starr. who has been superintendent
of the western division of the Chicago d
Alton Railroad, with headquarters in Kan
sas City, during the last two years, will
go to Chicago Nov. 10, where he will &C
cept another position with the same road.
He will be succeeded at Kansas City by Z.
Ryder, of Charlottesville. Va, who comes
from the Southern Railway.
William Nicholson, general manager of
the Central Railway clearing house, has
completed ARRANGEMENTS by which the Chi
cag6, Rock Island g Paci6c system is
included in the operation of that bureau.
The territory of the Central Railway clear
ing house now extends from the Atlantic
seaboard to all points beyond the Missouri
river on the Rock Island system.
d. T.. Bacon, general manager of the In
diana Car Service Association, has made a
NUMBER or changes, effective on Monday,
as a result of the resignation of III. y.
Johnson, for ten years travelling Inspector.
Mr.. Johnson is succeeded by H. NJ. Elliott,
formerly of Indianapolis, and now inspec-
tor at Fort Wayne AT that point Mr.. FL
lott is succeeded by j. Golf, inspector at
Alexandria, and +. G. Butler succeeds Mr..
Gon at Alexandria.
The study of the schedule of the new
train the Union Pacific put on last Sunday
shows il to be the fastest railroad service,
long distance, in the world. 1t covers the
distance from Omaha to Ogden, LOIS miles.
in twenty-One hours, the average speed of
the train, exclusive of stops, being ~ffty-five
miles an hour. On some portions of the
distance a speed of SiXty-iVe and seventy
miles an hour is maintained for a number
of consecutive miles.
Robert A. Newburn, of Philadelphia, as
sistant superintendent of the fire insurance
department of the Pennsylvania system,
and c.. r.. McKim. of the Western lines.
have started on their annual inspection of
the risks of the company III the various
large cities on the Western lines and were
in this city yesterday. The Pennsylvania
carries fire insurance on the bulk of its
property. Two inspections are made, one in
the spring and one in the fall.
Secretary Root is striving to induce the
Pennsylvania 70 make the new bridge
which the company will build over the Po-
tomac at Washington one of architectural
dignity and beauty. The plans for the
new structure have been drawn and sub
mitted TO the secretary, with the result
that they have been approved. but they
stop short of the design that the secretary
would like to have adopted, and he has UNI
dertaken to persuade the company 10 build
an ornate bridge.
The board of control of the Union Depot,
| at Atlanta Ca has hppn summarized n