The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-31

the Vandalia is at It's best. everybody SEEM
ing TO nave money 10 travel on.
= -, Nen' who for several years has been
Snisi clerk IN the maintenance OF way de-
lt.leht OF the Pennsylvania nnes al
iHchmond. nd, has accepted the position
OF cnlei clerk TO NJ. j. Carpenter. president
u the chicago d Eastern Illinois.
M. J. Wright. who retired recently from
II pusltion OF superintendent or the sac
Iamehto division Of the Southern Pacinc'
Is 10 De shortly taken back In the employ
- re company and Is to succeed JULIUS
road.
ON July !. the beginning of the Wabash
-Vmpans nscal year, IL operated I,orV
mlles OF main line. Just before It's last
great expansion began.it operated but l,Jlo
niles. In 1883 the Wabash was operating
800 miles. Improbable lines have been
Pennsylvania lines west. was in the city
yesterday. During the knights Templars
meeting at Louisville he had twenty po-
nee on duty. and not a passenger reported
direction.
Inc schenectady locomotive works yes
terday telegraphed the Big Four that on
Sept. . two more OF the large Atlantic type
passenger engines would be shipped. Those
received are doing great work. and no trou-
PIE Is experienced from hot boxes or any
thing of that sort.
president Ingalls,. OF the Big Four. has
notited the citizens OF Urbana. ILL.,, that
the Peoria & Eastern will contribute ST. 500
toward the erection of a building for the
rallroad branch or the Young Mems Chris
tan Association, providing the citizens will
give one-third that sum.
With the Pennsylvania and the Big Four
lines both passenger and freight business
Is at It's maximum volume, limited SEEM
ingly only by power and equipment. and
the same remark applies TO the Lake Erie
az Western, the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton and the Monon lines.
Marcus kavanagh, a member OF the Kav-
anagn family, OF Chicago, is dead at Des
Moines; la. He was born In Ireland in
structed the wintersot 4 Des Moines Rail-
road, the l~ndianola line, a large part of
the Texas Pacific between Long View and
Dallas, and many other roads In Iowa and
Kansas.
A. II. Poe, OF Ottawa, o.. has invented
a machine for announcing stations through
which cars pass. Tn announcer occupies
a conspicuous place at the side of the car
door and Is operated by the brakeman i'm
mediately after the train leaves a station.
The Ffndlay, Fort Wayne & Western has
introduced II and the officials are pleased
with results.
one or the new passenger engines of the
Pittsburg q Lake Erie on Thursday hauled
q train or six cars from Cleveland to Pitts
burg In three hours and six minutes, MAX
ing SCH eduled stops. These engines haul
six cars up the grades on that line at a
speed OF ffty-five miles an hour, and on
favorable stretches have hauled five cars
at a speed of eighty miles an hour.
The railroad companies nave transferred
their fight against the Buffalo ticket
brokers TO the State court. Recently an
injunction was secured from Justice Ken
click in the Supreme Court. restraining the
brokers from selling excur-
sion tickets issued by the New York Cen
trail Railroad. Yesterday another injunc-
ton was issued by Justice Kenefick re-
straining the brokers from dealing I'm ex-
cursion tickets of the Erie Railroad. These
in1unctions are temporary and
Will be heard on Tuesday. The order af-
fects every ticket scalper known TO be do
ing business in Buffalo.