The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-08

commercial agent of that company. With
office at Kansas City.
The Indiana Car-service Association
age detention of 1.56 days. being the largest
number OF cars ever handled by the asso-
citation In any one month.
II is evident the so-called 800 line
hrst ten months OF its present fiscai year
were 81, 414.S 35 In excess Of those in the ten
months ending April /. 1901
F. NJ. Pomeroy. formerly travelling freight
Pacific coast a few months ago as agent
or the Pennsylvania, has been promoted 10
general agent at San Francisco.
The railroad and commercial men OF Co
lumous, o., last night gave a farewell Gin
ner 10 James b. Hill. general freight agent
or the Panhandle lines, who recently re-
moved his headquarters to PitisburS.
H. P. Greenough has been appointed vice
president OF the Rock Island d Peoria
Railway Company, vice II. r. Gable, VINE
on May / became general manager or the
Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific lines west.
The trains which constitute the Northern
Paclhc Coast limited were started on sun
day. When these trains stop at a station
electric lights outside the cars light the
station platforms and and surroundings for
quite a distance.
The Senate bill giving electrical-railway
companies the same privileges as are now
- NNoAAN Oil Oo1
the condemnation of property for right
of way passed the Ohio House yesterday
and is now a law.
The Monon has a large force of men lay
Ing ten miles of new steel, weighing eighty
pounds TO the yard, north OF Monon, on
the indianapolis division. and has com
menced reballasting with gravel thirty
miles OF the Indianapolis division.
The Wabash has commenced reballasting
its track between Toledo and Montpelier,
has completed ballasting the New Haven
and Butler line, and with the completion of
the improvements fast train service viii be
established between Toledo and Chicago.
The retirement of d. Russell, ST., as SUI
perintendent of the Brooks locomotive
works on Tuesday was marked With a COM
plimentary banquet given by associates in
the works and business men Of Dunkirk.
Superintendent McNaughton presented him
with a diamond ring.
1t is reported at Norfolk. o., that the
Cincinnati, Hamilton q Dayton will in the
near future transfer its recent acquisition,
the Tangent line, to the Wabash man
agement, and that the road will be used
as one of the connecting links in the
through e~ast-and-west system projected by
the latter company.
There are ninety-fve different corpora
tions in the Baltimore & Ohio system,
t~wenty-eight being In Pennsylvania and the
remainder divided among Delaware, Mary
land, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
and New York, and ii is still the only line
between New York and Chicago controlled
ny OAt OllACG.
The Barberton Bedtime Railroad Com
pany. of Ohio. the Cleveland. Barberton
e Western Railroad Company and the
Barberton, Akron & Canton Bedtime Rail
name of the Akron & Barberton Belt-rail-
road company. The capital stock or the
new company is 100000.
The Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul has
placed export flour on a level with wheat in
the matter of transportation charges, and
II Is understood that all Western lines Will
take similar action. Strong appeals have
been made by Western millers TO President
Roosevelt direct, to congressional commit
tees and to the Interstate-commerce Com
mission.
The contract of the government for car
rying the naval forces of the United
States, their baggage and equipment, from
stations on one side of the continent to the
other for one year has been awarded to the
Chesapeake & Ohio. the Big Four, the Chi
cago. Rock Island & Pacific. the Denver &
Rio Grande and the Southern Pacific after
lively competition.
The wonderful growth in railway traffic
is illustrated in the preliminary report of
the Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific, which
$29, 351, Ga, compared with $26, OF, ia in the
previous year: net earnings, ST., III ,35l, as
compared with S.9c0,9S2. In the one case
there is an improvement of 126 per cent,
in the other Of $50 per cent.
The Lake Shore and the New York Cen
trail officials made a record run between
Buffalo and Cleveland on Tuesday. The
distance. 1873 miles. was covered in $50 min
utes. The officials now believe that a
through train between New York and Chi
cago can be maintained at a speed equal
TO that of the Empire State express be-
tween Buffalo and New York.
The Southern Pacific has decided to take
under its own management all the eating
houses and lunch places on its entire rail-
way system of more than 5000 miles in
California. Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona,
New Mexico. Texas and Louisiana, and to
assume supervision Of the restaurants on
the San Francisco transbay ferries between
San Francisco and Oakland and San Fran
cisco and Alameda.
In railroad circles the belief prevails that
should the Louisville * Nashville secure
the Monon or its more natural allies, the
Evansville & Terre Haute and the Chicago
& Eastern Illinois, it would mean that the
Southern Railway would soon consolidate
with the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton,
as the Southern and the Cincinnati. HamIl-
ton q Dayton jointly now own the Gin
cinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific.