The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-16

matism. has obtained months leave OF
absence and with his wife. will spend the
time at springs i'm Michigan
+. w. Saint chief clerk in the passenger
department of the Pittsburg * Lake Ere
has resigned. He succeeded ID; {. NC
Waters two years ago, who took d POSI-
ton on the Colorado Midland
Since Sept. I the Pennsylvania lines have
received ffty-hve Of the 134 locomotives
contracted for sixty days ago. As they
arrive they are being sent 10 different IL
visions on the east and west systems
Joseph Ramsey. president of the wabash,
who has been resting ten days at Lake
wood. y. Y arrived in Pittsburg on Sat
urday. where he will remain two or three
days looking after Wabash interests.
T. l.. Adams, jr.. has been appointed as
sistant engineer of the Pittsburg division
OF the Baltimore * Ohio. He is only TWEEN
ty-sevcn years of age and commenced as
rodmaD on the Pennsylvania lines In 1870
Will r. Staley formerly of the Big Four
car service. is with the Central Passenger
Association at Chicago. which has Joint
agency at the Union Station for the valida-
ton Of excursion tickets, of which II. Kim
ball is in charge.
An official of the Peoria e. Eastern says
that despite the partial failure of the corn
crop on those lines gross earnings will con-
tinue to show large increases for many
months to come. favorable are conditions
in other lines OF freight and 50 heavy is
the passenger traffic.
1t is expected that by Oct. s, the time
of the meeting of the directors of the
Wabash the Toledo d Chicago link will be
SO nearly completed that they can make a
| trip over 1t. and it will then be decided
what shall be done i'm the way of locating
new stations. new depots. etc.
The Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul
| earned gross i'm the fiscal year ended June
| 30 s42369.012. an increase over the preceding
| year of s443.334 net. S14.391 500. an increase
this year of 1927 ,654. The company has in
| over the amount held at the close of the
! fiscal year ended June 90 1900. of 1851. 500.
An official Of the Vanderbilt lines says
the story that those roads are TO be in
! cOrporated as the New York Central lines.
/ In the same manner as are the PennSyl-
vania lines, for the homogeneous opera
! of truth. and something of this kind may
/ be done about the time the lease of the
| Canada Southern to the Michigan Central
| expires i'm 1903.
One of the Class p engines on the Pan
| handle. hauling Train Z. last Wednesday
| made record that the new type of pasSen-
ger engines on the Panhandle will find diff
| ord-breaking pace between Pittsburg
and Columbus. The III miles between
| Steubenville and Newark were covered i'm
100 minutes, making four stops, two to take
| water. Much of the distance was run at
a speed of eighty miles hour.
Fares between Chicago and New York
via all lines are to be reduced 81 on the
| round trip. The round trip by the differen-
| tial lines will be S29, except the Pennsylva
mia. the Lake Shore and the Michigan Cen
| Pennsylvania. the Lake Shore or the Mich.
\ igan Central $33 for the round trip: COINS
by any of the differential routes and return
ing over any standard road. s91. The tick
cts will have twenty days limit, will be
first class and on sale until Oct. 20.
At the meeting of the executive board OF
| the Pennsylvania road last Friday nothing
was done regarding rumored changes OF
the Baltimore 81 Ohio lines, and a gentle
man who was present is quoted as saying
nothing Will be done, as the operating de-
partments of both interests to be kept
separate The rumor that certain posi-
tiOns on the Baltimore x Ohio would be
abolished has been a persistent one For.
mer changes are explained as having beer
made to introduce Pennsylvania methods
on the Baltimore & Ohio.
Expensive improvements are being made
on the Missouri. Kansas & Texas There
is river grade for two hundred miles. anC
in many cases where the old roadway
Rugged the bluffs the curves are beinl
eliminated and solid road Is being bull
across bottom lands, thus reducing the dis
lance and cutting out curves: Genera
Passenger Agent Barker says that wher
the work is completed and the new stee
bridges and stone arches are completed thu
road will be able to make fast time a:
any line in the country.
II is stated that employees of the Pennsyl
vanfa lines west residing at points alonl
the road will be without annual passes
after Jan. l, this determination havin,
been reached by the executive board afte
several former attempts TO adopt such
| course. The movement was started by /
F. Loree when general manager of TIL
lines west, and il is understood that, a.
| president of the Baltimore & Ohio, he will
| adopt the same rule on that road. Ii
compensation for taking away passes tick
cts will be sold TO all employees at one
, | third or one-half rates.
The Boston Advertiser says: Buying o
! Evansville & Terre Haute has been mucl
| in evidence OF late The road is not con
trolled by any single large interest, un
less such control has been obtained dur
ing the past few weeks. Its stock ha
been pretty well scattered. The compan.
has a close traffic contract with the c
| & T.. /. This has expired, but is continue,
| as before without formal extension. Int
, whoever's hands the z. & T. II. may fall
there is no danger that this contract will b
| abrogated by the new owners. as the con
tract is much more important to the
& T. II. than to the c. & T.. l. Indeed
without the latter the +. & T. III. would b
effectually bottled up