The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-18


will extend it's road from Guthrie Center
10 Sioux City.
The Westinghouse Air Brake Company
secured control OF its chief competitor,
the New York Air Brake Company, and
the result will probably be the merging of
the two companies.
Southern lines yesterday carried a good
many florists and horticulturists 10 Ashe-
vile, y. G, TO attend the annual conNen-
ton. The rate on the 10th and nth was
one fare for the round trip.
Passenger Traffic Manager Sebastian, Of
the Chicago, Rock Island & PACING, mas
one-ed cash prize of 500 for a sulta PIE
name for the new California train which
is to be put on in November
Section men on the Omaha division of
the Chicago, Rock Island & PACING nave
struck for an increase in pay OF . cents
per day; They now receive SIS. only
section foremen are now at work
The new rOundhouse of the Pennsylvania
at Fort Wayne will have a diameter of
S75 feet, covering three acres of ground
and a capacity to house seventy-four loco
motives. with a seventy-fve-foot turn
table in the center.
tinue its custom Of ordering uniforms LOT
its trainmen and making the charge to
them. and hereafter they will be allowed TO
get their own uniforms, using STANDARD
specifications as adopted by the road.
Preparations are being made for the es-
Enlistment at Nashville. Tenn. Of large
Plntsch COMPRISING plant for the purpose
of supplying the several roads running
in that territory with lighting gas for their
passenger and Pullman cars.
Construction Of the extension of the Mis-
souri, Kansas & Texas from stevens to
Guthrie, o. T., is being pushed. The con-
tractors are much troubled TO secure the
number of men they want. Track laying
is now progressing at the rate of mile
day.
Z. L. Albeit, recently appointed agent of
the Lake Shore-Lehigh Valley route at
Columbus, o., spent Sunday in the city.
He states that in the short time the line
has been represented at that point II has
built up good business, and the future Is
promising.
When another season of tourist business
begins 1t is stated that there will be an
understanding between the trunk lines and
the Central Traffic lines as to time when
these rates apply. This year the trunk
lines started in with May and the Central
lines in June.
The next meeting of the Central Pas
senger Association in Chicago will be an
important one. Applications for reduced
rates to a number of conventions 10 be held
this fall and theatrical rates for the win
ter will be fixed Ticket scalpers will come
in for a share of the discussion.
Benjamin Kelsey, travelling passenger
agent of the Big Four, with headquarters
at Marion, o., in the city yesterday.
He reports large gains in sales of tickets in
the territory TO which he has been assigned.
some stations increasing their sales OF
tickets from 5000 to $1,000 thus far this
year.
o. w. Lake. who has been passenger
agent of the Wabash at Huntington, IND,
has resigned and taken the management of
the Fort Wayne Employees Bureau. He
had been with the Wabash for twenty
years. NJ. Hargrove who has been his
assistant for some years. has been appoint
ed his successor.
General orders have been issued by the
Pennsylvania lines that all partitions in
frst-class passenger coaches which serve
Cor smoking purposes be removed, and that
instead solid cars be run for the Conven-
fence of smokers. Compartment cars are
being sent to the shops fast as possible
10 undergo such change.
Tolbert c. Fear has sued the Monon for
$4,000 damages. He alleges that while
working as a section man a train APP
preached, running sixty miles an hour. He
walked back a distance of fifteen feet, and
as the train passed him a piece of coal
fell from the tank and fractured his jaw,
causing him great pain and expenditure OF
500 in surgeons bills.
c. w. Cross, master mechanic Of the
Lake Shore, has devised an observation car
and engine which is a great improvement
over the car in which the Lake Shore Off
Gals went over the Lake Erie & Western
last week, which belongs to the New York
Central The Lake Shore officials have in
structed Mr.. Cross to equip car and en-
CINE in accordance with his design.
The Vandalia on Saturday received two
large Atlantic type engines from the
American locomotive works, and to-day
will receive two others, ordered some
months ago. They are 10000 pounds heav-
Ter than any passenger locomotive now in
use on the road. On Sept. l the road will
begin receiving six large freight locomo-
tives. The road is greatly in need of their
services.
The Pennsylvania management has au-
thorized change in the steps of their
passenger equipment. AS each car goes
into the shop it is provided with four IN
stead of three steps. This will bring the
inches closer now. The work will cost
over S1OOO00 and will apply to lines west
as well as east Of Pittsburg, including the
Vandalia
The Pennsylvania is planning TO install
electric motive power between Pittsbure
and Pitcairn. A motor is now under course
of construction in the Wrestling house works
at East Pittsburg, which has been de-
signed according TO the dictations Of the
railroad company's engineers. The motor
is of the kind operated by the third-rai
system, and in a measure similar TO those
recently adopted by the New York Central
New York city. stretch of test track
has been laid at the East Pittsburg works
on which the new engine will be given a
thorough trial If adopted for use on the
railroad the laying of the third track be-
tween Pittsburs and Pitcairn will be start
ed within a short time II is said thai
the company has In view at present the
of the electric motor only for passen-
ger trains but 1t may be applied 10 freight
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