The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-27


way if 1 lives to be thousand years old
feeble. He is respected and provided for
for the improvement of transcontinental
service.
The Union and the Southern Pacific lines
have ordered 100000 tons Of steel rails for
immediate delivery, the rails TO be of he
eighty-pound standard This means that
416 miles of new steel will be laid as fast
as delivered.
The Erie has just issued TO its stockhold-
ers the report for the last fiscal year ended
June 60 Ii shows gross earnings amounted
to $40, S94, 4S3, an increase over the preceding
year of $l.79213l; net earnings, Settle S3,
an increase of s2.022,505
Thomas Rodd chief engineer of the
Pennsylvania lines west, has completed
long stretch of double track on the CleVe-
land & Pittsburg division, and expects dur
ing the present year to double track the
line between the two cities.
A. L. Elicit travelling passenger agent of
the Chesapeake & Ohio, is in the city. He
states that business for some time past
is exceeding all records, the company being
obliged to haul extra sleeping cars very
often to accommodate the travel.
The Nashville. Chattanooga & St Louis
is building compressed air plant at Nash
vile to cost $4,000, the air being used to
clean passenger coaches There are a num-
Der of such plants in the East, but this
is the first one on Southern road.
Four hundred telegraph operators on the
Northern Pacific road have been notified
of a salary advance ranging from $3.50 to
SO per month. G. G.. Greene, superintendent
of telegraph of the road, states that the
advance was voluntary on the part of the
company.
The Brooks locomotive works will to-day
ship the last of ten large Atlantic type of
locomotives it is building for the Big Four.
Since the plant was taken into the Ameri-
can locomotive works its capacity has been
doubled and two engines a day are now
completed.
Milton Wilder, a veteran railroad man
who died last week near Bunffalo, ninety
years of age, was master car builder for
the Erie for nearly forty years. He had two
sons who held official positions on the
Southern Pacific one c. ID. Wilder, dying
recently.
Adolph II. Schwarz, who recently left the
Lackawanna, to become general manager or
the Niver Coal Company, had been super
intendent of the Syracuse and Utica d.
visions of the Lackawanna for sixteen
years For six years previous he was en-
The Toledo, st. Louis & Western road and
the Central Passenger Association are in
tangle over rate difficulties. The road
in securing the glass blowers violated the
rules of the association, and IL has called
upon connecting lines to refuse to accept
the business on the basis provided
A territorial charter was granted to the
Guthrie, Shawnee & Coalgate Railroad
Company with 100000 capital to build
a line from Guthrie o. r., westward to
Beaver, a distance of $50 miles The in
corporators include Ex-Governor Barnes
and half a dozen other OklahOmains.
President Ramsey, of the Wabash, says
the Gould terminal properties in Pittsburg
will be ready for business next spring, and
the company will be in condition to handle
1000 cars of freight a day. He does not
think the total expense of establishing the
Wabash in Pittsburg will exceed S1O,OOOOOO.
At present engineers on the Boston &
Albany receive $2S per week and work but
twenty-four hours running between Albany
and Springfield. Under the plan effective
Sept. l the engineers will run from Albany
to Worcester, be employed twenty-eight
hours and receive a few cents short of $40
per week.
Railroad circles are much interested In
the progress of the fight the Boston &
Maine is making against the ticket scalp
ers. The company is doing ii independent
of the New England Passenger Associa-
ton, and is filing charges of conspiracy
against the ticket scalpers for fraudulentiy
using the thirty-day tickets
c. A. Paquette. superintendent of the
! Peoria & Eastern, will be the successor of
/ II. F. Houghton, superintendent of the Chi
! cago division, who on Sept l will become
assistant general superintendent of the Big
Four. General Manager Barnard has not yet
! decided who will be named as successor of
| Mr.. Paquette on the Z. * E.
The St. Louis Railway Club, having es-
! tabished a scholarship in Purdue Univer-
| sity, has appointed Mr.. II. p. Barnard, of
l..
honors and benefits of the same. 1t has
| also appointed Mr.. H. j. Blair, of Wash
| ingtOn. Ind, first alternate. and Mr.. II. NJ.
| Patton, of st. Louis, Mo, second alternate.
The employment bureau installed on the
! Chicago * Alton a few months ago is prov
ing a decided success. 1t is at present
under charge of the superintendent of tele-
graph, and IN connection with this bureau
/ employment in the different lines OF service,
the chief object being to recruit among
1 its own employees.
| On Sept. / the Pennsylvania will inau-
/ gurate passenger service on it's Western
Washington road. The line runs from
| Hickory TO Houston on the CHARTERS
/ branch of the Panhandle, and since its
/ completion, one year ago. has been used
! threatened to bring suits If passenger serv-
] ice were not established.
a party Of Baltimore * Ohio Railroad
| officials including General Manager Pot
ter Superintendent COrothers and Chief
/ Engineer Spielman. is inspecting the CO.
lumbus & Lake Michigan Railroad. for
merly the Columbus. Lima * Milwaukee.
/ 1t is stated the b. & .. contemplates pur-
chasing this line to secure a short route
from the Northwest into Columbus, o.
/ 1t is stated that d. 1. Roberts. in &C
I cepting the vice presidency OF the Little
/ Kanawha road, is stepping stone TO
/ something better. When general passenger
/ agent Of the Erie he made an excellent
record and is highly regarded by Presi-
/ INT Ramsey, OF the WABASH. Under the
expansion of the Wabash II is understood
/ that the Kanawha road Is likely TO become
/ property of the Wabash.
/ The Yellowstone Park excursOnists over
/ the Pennsylvania, the Chicago, Burlington
/ * Quincy and the Northern Pacific returned
/ yesterday, and are loud in their praises of
/ the entire trip. especially over the treat
ment they received at the hands OF the
/ Northern Pacific. On the trains arriving
/ al St. Paul an elegant coach OF the North
ern Pacific limited train was attached, also
/ two dining cars. making a train OF eleven
cars. The two dining cars were run on the
/ train the entire trip and were furnished
with the most palatable food that the coun-
try provided.