The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-01

Mecca. Ind. which will connect the main
line with the Brazil division. Its construc-
ton Will necessitate the building OF a new
dale.
The Toledo & Montpelier cutoff. which is
now being built by the Wabash, was under
contract 70 be finished by Nov. 10, but so
much difficulty has been experienced IN
getting teams and laborers that the con-
tractor Will hardly be able TO complete the
road by that time.
General Passenger Agent Crane. of the
Wabash. announces that his company.
which now controls the Wheeling * Lake
Erie, VIII, on the taking effect OF the spring
timetable. start through passenger service
to Chicago over the Wheeling < Lake Erie
and the Wabash.
The Pennsylvania people are surprised
over the heavy travel this season via Pitts
purg, 1t exceeding that of last year, despite
the tact that tho Pan-American Exposition
expected 10 affect travel 10y the south
ern route. Thus far the result has been a
gratifying disappointment.
Passenger officials Of the Grand Rapids &
Indiana say the company has never carried
a heavier business to the pleasure resorts
IN northern Michigan than in the month OF
July. The Northland express has hauled
two or three extra sleepers every night the
greater part OF the month.
To-day J. Howard Jones. chief train dis
patcher OF the Lake Erie x western at
Muncie, will retire and be succeeded by j.
" recently q tram dispatcher III
the Illinois Central. Mr.. Jones resigns to
become a director of the National rolling
mill. now well under way of construction
at Hartford City, Ind.
The directors Of the Chesapeake & Ohio
nave decided to make a large appropriation
Tor an income this year for betterment.
probably ~expending a million dollars. The
net earnings for the year ending June 80,
1901, were something like S2,000,0o0, so that
there Will be left after the Appropriation for
betterment Sl,0OO,O coo for dividend.
The Pennsylvania system has announced
an advance of 10 cents a day for all sec
ton gangs on the Indianapolis and Vim
cennes branch Of that line. This advance
Is very gratifying 10 the men and increases
the pay OF day laborers to $40 a day.
month. The increase is TO take effect at
once.
The Mercantile Guide and Bureau Com
pany, of this city, will soon issue a direc-
tory giving the names and location Of every
railway official in this country, Canada and
Mexico. TO be revised monthly, and on
Sept. I the same house will issue the first
number of a high-class illustrated weekly
journal. with the appropriate and self-eX-
planatory title. Travel.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and
the Choctaw Railroad. in hauling the crowd
of hOIneseekers TO Oklahoma. made a rec
ord that Will stand as a model in American
rallroading. During a period OF nfteen days.
BEGINNING July 10, the two roads carried in
and out OF Ell Reno 10000 passengers. with
all this immense travel not a single passen-
ger was killed nor did one receive a scratch.
The st. Louis & San Francisco passenger
department. has let the contract for the
largest number of OIL paintings ever de-
signed for advertising purposes. The pic
lures are intended for the main ticket Of
hces OF the company and for certain hotels.
a landscape artist has orders to paint six
twelve-foot and twenty-five s~ix-foot repre-
sensations Of attractive scenery along the
line of the road.
The new passenger equipment which the
Big Four is receiving from the Barney &
Smith car works is composed of new
coaches, full vestibule, which will carry
eighty-seven passengers; they are seventy
eight feet long; the parlor cars are the
passengers; a combination car will carry
fifty passengers an1 leave twenty-eight
feet of the car for gage.
General PasseJ gent Galloway. of the
500 line, has { to wager $500 that
his road is IOi te cutter. This is said
TO be the first zee on record where the
management o ilway has offered to bet
on its tariffs. offer of the 500 line
passenger age. nd he makes IL with the
approval of the pa 'ident OF his company
is to the managers of all roads operating
apolis.
Stockholders of the Iowa Central yester-
day authorized the directors to issue gold
bonds not TO exceed s25, 900. 600, and bearing
4 per cent. interest. These bonds are to be
secured by a mortgage executed i'm favor Of
the Morton Trust Company as trustee. The
bonds are 10 be used for refunding pur-
poses, paying or redeeming the outstanding
obligations of the company and of such
other companies as may be acquired by
consolidation. construction or purchase.
C. A Paquette. superintendent of the
Peoria & Eastern. has returned from the
convention of the Central Association Of
Railroad Officers. held at St. Clair Springs.
Mich, last week. he reports the following
officers elected President, w. II. Crimson.
superintendent Of the b. 81 O. Southwest
ern; first vice president. b. S. Sutherland.
superintendent of the Michigan Southern:
second vice president. G. A. Paquette. SUI
perintendent of the Peoria & Eastern; O.
G. Fetter, secretary of the association; ex-
ecutive committee. George NJ. Burns, of the
Wabash. and j. ~. Gordon, division SUPER
intendent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton.
The New York Times says an important
meeting of railroad men was held i'm New
York city on Wednesday 10 consider the
doing away with the services of what are
known as import agents These agents are
those representatives of American railroads
who contract with foreign. mainly Euro
pean, shippers, for the carrying OF the
merchandise which is imported into the
United States. These agents mostly have
their Offices abroad and receive 10 per cent
and upward as commissions on the amour;
of business they secure. 1t is claimed tina
these agents have, by splitting commissions
with foreign merchants, been a frequent
cause or demoralizing rates for west-bounC
freight.
Engine 397, one of the new Atlantic tyne
recently received by the Big Four, yester.
day hauled Train II from Gallon to Indian
apOllS, and IN the afternoon took out TraiT
10. J. q. Van Wrinkle was on the train west.
bound, and IL made several spurts with
ten cars, in which "A number of miles were
| covered at a speed OF SeNenty-siX miles ar
hour. The engineer said the engine rode
easily and handled the train at that high
speed as readily as an ordinary passenger
engine would haul three or four coache:
forty miles an hour. 1t is claimed that witt
the improvements introduced on these Bis
Four engines this road is entitled TO the
credit of having the best type of passenger
engine in use on any road in the country
The speed that can be attained by an en-.
CINE of this type has not yet been ascer-
tanned, but that they will haul six car:
one hundred miles an hour is not cues
toned by experts in the mechanical line.