The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-08

leaving more valuables on trains than ever
before. When a parcel is left on a train
IL passes from the conductor 20 the gen
eral offices, where a record is made and
ii may be found on Identification, but all
this trouble incurs expense.
It is asserted by a railroad man usually
well informed that the new Iowa & st.
Louis road will be built as a connection
with the st. Louis. Kansas City & Colo
rado line, and that these two. in connection
with the Iowa Central and the Minneapolis
& St. Louis. will make a combination 100
miles shorter than the road now built be-
tween Minneapolis and St. Louis.
The executive of the Indiana
Car Service Bureau held a meeting yester-
day at the office of General Manager Bacon
TO discuss plans for operation of the bureau
in connection with the per diem plan with
out friction. General Manage Bacon was
given authority to increase his clerical
force 10 meet the increased business OF the
bureau through new roads coming In.
The Boston & Maine Railroad Company
is about TO purchase bituminous coal land
at West Beach. Pa, and expects to get its
own fuel much cheaper than under present
circumstances and also to furnish manu-
featuring interests on its lines with fuel.
The Boston & Main tracks extend TO Rot
terdam, y. Y, and il can reach its new
coal lands over the New York Central. the
L-ackawanna or the Delaware & Hudson.
A. B. Atwater. assistant general superin-
tendent of the Michigan Central Railroad.
has resigned. his resignation taking effect
July l. His place has been filled by the APP
pointment of w. S. Kinmear, who, since
last October. has been assistant to the gem
eral superintendent on the Canadian divi-
sion and resided at st. Thomas, Ontario.
One of Mr.. Atwater's friends said yesterday
that he understood the resignation was
purely voluntary.
During the recent strike on the Santa
Fe the company brought men from other
parts of the country TO do shop work. Not
one of the BARRIERS of the town would
shave the men. on the ground that their
faces had rivet chips in them and de-
stroyed their raZors. 1t was several days
before a barber could be secured 10 go
there at even high wages offered, and his
identity had TO be kept from the strikers
for fear of personal violence.
H. NJ. Bronson, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Big Four, is expecting
TO arrange for running a combination car
between Cincinnati and Galesburg. con-
Meeting with the fast train for Denver
over the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy.
Under the arrangemen there would be but
one change of cars. and passengers could
leave Indianapolis at 1850 noon and be IN
Denver the next evening at 6 o'clock, the
quickest time ever made between the two
points.
The Lake Shores twenty-hour train from
Chicago to New York on Sunday, being
delayed by a freight wreck in the Chicago
yard, covered the eighty-nine and three
tenth mile from the scene of the wreck
to Elkhart in ninety-one minutes the
sixty-three miles from Elkhart to Butler
in sixty minutes and went into Toledo hve
minutes ahead of time. after starting from
Chicago thirty-four minutes late. The train
was hauled by engines of the Glass l type,
designed by General Manager Marshall,
formerly superintendent of motive power.
Railroads., East and West. report, collec-
lively, the largest passenger traffic in June
of any month on record. The volume of
travel shows that the public appreciates
the expense incurred by the roads in the
last two years in increasing their rolling
stock and increasing the number of trains.
The Improvement has extended from the
Atlantic TO the Pacific coast. Through
trains are now hauling additional equip
ment. and sleeping-car space is spoken for
in advance, to be sure of being accommo-
dated. All lines are showing, as a result,
increased passenger earnings for the last
month.