The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-16

J. Q. Van Wrinkle, general superintendent
of the Big Four. has returned from a
trip to Colorado.
The Southern Railway Company has de-
cided to put on it's fast mail between New
York and New Orleans Nov. l..
T~wenty-eight cars Of new steel rails are
being unloaded by the Lake Erie at Cicero
and will be used between indianapolis and
Peru.
The Big Four to-day will receive sixty
two carloads of home visitors for Ohio and
Indiana OF of the st. Louis and Peoria
divisions.
J. w. Riley, superintendent of transpor-
tatton of the P%ittsburg & Lake Erie, at
Pittsburg, is with his wife in the city WIS.,
iting friends.
The c., r. & NJ. Railroad has been extend
ed twenty-seven miles northwest of North
hudson TO Beatrice. 1t is expected to reach
Hammond in a month or more.
In the last two years stock of the Nor
folk & Western, now a Pennsylvania line.
has gone from so to so, and il is becoming
a most promising railroad property.
The Big Four and the Pennsylvania
will run late trains out of Indianapolis
to-day, tomorrow, Thursday and Friday
nights to accommodate State fair people.
The general managers of the roads COM
posing the Union Railway Company will
hold their first meeting since the sum-
mer vacation to-day at the Union Sta
ton.
Wabash Engine Gil, which hauled the Con-
tinental Limited a speed of eighty-two
miles an hour. is of the Richmond Atlantic
type, has seventy-eight-inch drivers, carries
81 coo pounds on its driving wheels.
Greoge p. Creel,nan, chief clerk In the
Empire-line office at this point, has ac-
cepted a position in the Pennsylvania Of
fees at New York city, and is succeeded
by Charles Z. Brown, of the Lake Erie &.
Western.
On no part of the Big Four has passen-
ger traffic increased to a greater extent
than on the st. Louis division. Almost
nightly an extra sleeping car is required.
ON Saturday night there were forty-eight
west-bound passengers.
The result Of the conference of engineers
of the Nickel-plate with the officials re-
garding the petition for an increase I'm
wages will be announced. il is stated. this
week, and the engineers will be granted
their request in part at least.
The building of the st. Louis fair de-
voted to railroad exhibits is rectangular.
525 feet by 1900. Locomotives and cars will
be placed in the center. There is no charge
| for space. and all arrangements for power.
light, etc, are on an elaborate scale.
The lettering on the equipment of the In
( diana. Decatur & Western will not be
| changed at present. which is taken as an
| Indication that with the organizing of the
| Cincinnati. indianapolis * Western the
merging of roads is not yet complete.
John WEIGH. for sixteen years conductor
on the Jeffersonville. Madison & Indian
| apolis road, was in the city yesterday. He
| has a fine stock farm near Martinsville
and is returning from a visit to the Toronto
| fair, where he purchased some fine blooded
| stock.
What was once the private car of Jim
| Fiske has been abandoned by the Erie road
| as it's ticket Office at Marion, o., a purpose
/ for which IL has been used for several
/ years. The car, which was when built the
| hnest ever constructed now goes 10 the
| scrap heap.
The advisory committee of the Immigra-
ion Bureau mas adopted a resolution pro-
Sest-bound be taken into the pool. The
yest-bound bureau has been In operation
| cveral years, but no effort has been made
.cretofore TO establish an east-bound pool
MIR. Hanna. of the publicity department OF
| The Ssaboard Airline. says. Every season