The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-15

will be constructed of brick and steel Ii
will cost $4,000.
Company have declared a semi-annual
dividend OF 2i2 the preferred stock, pay
able April J. This is an increase of half
OF l per cent, the previous rate being
per cent. per annum.
Receiver Malott. OF the Vandalia, has
contracted for fifteen miles of new steel
rails. weighing 30 pounds TO the yard. for
the main line, and for ten miles, weighing
seVenty-two pounds 10 the yard, to be laid
on the Logansport division. of which he
is trustee.
District Passenger Agent Algeo, of the
MonOn and the Cincinanti, Hamilton q
carry the knights of Pythias TO Chicago
March 20. The knights guarantee 200 tick
cts sold and are given a rate of s.. 20 for the
round trip.
j. w. Grennen, trainmaster OF the In
dianapolis division Of the Panhandle, is
now confined 10 his room. For years ne
has been great sufferer from rheumatism,
and the company generously continues his
name on the pay roll he having been one
of its most faithful men.
The Panhandle is putting in service be-
tween st. Louis and New York some COM
bination cars built at the Columbus shops.
wheeled trucks and have all modern i'm
provements The cars are combined bag
gage and smoking cars.
Engine No of the Indiana, Decatur &
great speed when required with express
trains The engine was built at the Grant
locomotive works in 1879, and is claimed
TO have run as many miles any engine
in service on indianapolis lines.
The management of the Panhandle lines
has under consideration changes which Will
establish a through line along the river
grades between Wheeling and Pittsburg
and Denison and Pittsburg, which will
permit one engine to haul seventy loaded
cars a distance of ninety-three miles.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton will
eXpend 100000 in improving its dock facin-
ties at Toledo. The company will do the
dredging necessary to admit of the largest
boats on the lake handling coal and ore at
its docks and expects TO double its business
at Toledo. installing rapid coal-loading ma
chinery.
George T. Gunnip, representing the Santa
Fe; Mr.. Fowler, the Illinois Central: Mr..
I8emus, the queen & Crescent; Mr.. Blair.
the Chicago, Milwaukee q 81. Paul; Mr..
Houghton, the Southern Pacific; Mr.. Ben
jamin. the Canadian Pacific, and Mr.. Mill
ken, of the Louisville & Nashville, were
in the city last night.
The Southern Pacific has begun actual
Salt lake from Ogden to Lucin. The first
twelve miles is through water six to eight
feet deep, while the remaining thirty-eight
miles will be through water forty feet deep.
The construction cuts off forty-two miles
and eliminates many heavy grades.
President Truesdale, of the Lackawanna.
announces the resignation or George A.
Holden, for many years general agent or
the coal sales department, and the abolition
of the position. Z. Z. Loomis, who went TO
the Lackawanna from the Erie, has been
appointed general manager or the depart
ment and r. A. Phillips superintendent
1t is announced that j. L. Brass has ten
dered his resignation as general manager
of the Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Conn.,
pany, operating in Kentucky and Virginia.
Mr. Brass also resigned as general man
Of ba g.
way. The designations take effect April l.
W. r. Wills, treasurer OF both companies,
has also resigned. He will be succeeded by
John w. Cure, the iron company's travel
ing auditor.
At the meeting of the new board of d.
rectors of the Evansville & Terre Haute,
held this week in New York, the question
of retiring the preferred stock was dis
cussed but no definite action taken. The
company has the right to retire this stock
at par, but no method of retiring ii has
been fixed upon. The question OF merging
the property with the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois has not so far been officially con-
sidered.
At meeting of the railway committee
at Ottawa, Ont, yesterday extension of
time TO commence work was given to the
Canada Michigan Bridge and Tunnel Com
pany 10 build a bridge from Windsor to
Detroit, and to the River st. Clair Bridge
and Tunnel Company to build over the st.
Clair at Sarnia. Both bridges may be built
within two years after the United States
Congress gives consent. Five years is
given to obtain this, after which the time
limit expires.
Official announcement was made yester-
day of the appointment of c. II. Ackert as
general manager of all the lines of the
Southern Railway except the St Louis
Louisville lines, with Offices at Washington,
ID. c., and of ]. NJ. Cup as fourth vice
president of the Southern Railway, in
charge of the traffic departments. Charles
S. Clarke was appointed general manager
of fbo obi e. all x-ina
Ackert, resigned. All of these appoint
ments become effective March 10.
B.. d. Caldwell. traffic manager of the
Lackawanna, recently read paper before
the New York Railroad Club. His sub
ject was the Community of Interests from
a Traffic Managers Standpoint" He laid
great stress on the necessity of the pub
licity of rates 1t is admitted that there
is nothing conducive to correct methods
of traffic work, both in the interest Of the
railway and the public, as publicity. Hon.
Chauncey Depew has express ed the hope
of living to see the day when railway rates
will be as stable as are postal rates.
Just when Chicago shippers were con-
graduating themselves on the prospect of
lake navigation opening April i, or nearly
a month earlier than usual, vessel owners
have started movement to delay the sea-
son until May 1. The object of the combina-
ton is to raise carrying charges. A general
canvass of vessel owners all over the lakes
is now under way to secure signatures to an
agreement not TO start out their boats be-
fore May l. The United States Steel Cor
poration and other steel companies owning
ships will not go into the arrangement and
their boats will be in operation just as soon
the ice is out of the way.
The Chicago, Burlington * Quincy has
ordered built seventy-five new locomotives,
twenty-five to be passenger and fifty
freight engines. The freight engines will
be of the prairie type, and will weigh 40
tons in working order; the passenger en-
gines will weigh 135 tons and be of the At
lantic type; they will have driving wheels
eighty-four inches in diameter. The road
is now double tracked from Chicago to
Red Oak 400 miles, and will be completed
to the Missouri river this season. BY elm
mating curves and cutting down grades the
Burlington now has straight, level track
between Chicago and the Missouri river.
An artistic thirty-two-page souvenir, en-
titled Il 500 Miles over the New York Cen
trail Lines with II. r. II. Prince Henry Of
Prussia" from Chicago. via Buffalo and
Niagara Falls. to Boston, Albany West
Point and New York, has been issued by
the Passenger Department of that rail-
road 1t is printed i'm four colors. contains
nineteen half-tone illustrations. two maps
and beautiful title page, with an excel
lent portrait of the prince The letter
press is descriptive of the German immi-
grafton TO America and our trade relations
with the empire. 1t gives the itinerary and
the most interesting events Of the tour.