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

route for the Indiana Shiloh meeting, and
all arrangements have been made for
pleasant trip.
Traffic officials of the Alton notified com
peting lines yesterday that the Alton would
have to meet the rates on packing house
products and dressed meats put in effect by
the Great Western.
Pennsylvania electricians are installing
incandescent lamps in the machine shops
at Fort Wayne. This is done TO better en-
able the operation Of the shops at night
when repairs are pressing.
The Missouri Pacific now runs solid trains
I through from St Louis 10 st. Joseph, an
extension which is quite important. This
train will also mark the extension of the
dining car service on that system.
The first train OF the Ozark & Cherokee
! Central Railroad Company was run yester-
day TO Tahequah, l. T.. and the citizens of
/ the place will to-day celebrate the event.
1 it being the first road to enter the Cherokee
! capital.
| r. r. Henderson, car service superintend-
/ ent of the Detroit Southern, was retired
with the change of management of the
route TO Chicago, where he expects to find
/ a position.
The St. Louis Railway Club has estab-
/ lished a fund TO be known as the Purdue
/ University scholarship fund. the purpose
/ of which is to maintain a student at Purdue
! University, the amount TO be paid being
/ $3.50 per annum.
Seneca, on the Wabash road. will here
J dllcE De hIlONil dS EIlllS. L lie CHdiSc was
made on the supposition that the similarity
! of sound between Seneca and Sand Creek
may have been the cause Of errors in read
! ing telegraph orders.
! The Monon sold 127 tickets TO the knights
/ of Pythias and their friends, who go to the
encampment in San Francisco. Train 81
| left yesterday afternoon with eleven cars,
/ including five tourist cars. two coming
| through from Cincinanti.
A large picture Of the Twentieth Century
| Limited has been taken when the train was
| moving ninety miles hour. 1t will be
handsomely framed and placed in the office
| of President Newman, of the New York
Central, in New York City.
| Yesterday the New York Central began
| the erection OF new passenger station at
! Rochester to cost $4,000 The building will
| be three stories. and large rooms Will be
provided for waiting and baggage rooms
and the American Express Company.
The Lake Erie & Western has resumed
reballasting its Fort Wayne division. pur-
! through service in connection with the
| Big Four is in the nature of a surprise.
so heavy is the travel. and it is steadily
| improving.
The Pullman Company has introduced a
new form of ticket having a coupon for
the porter to collect in order to keep record
on the conductor With the report of pas
sengerS on the Pulmans by the conductor
of the train 1t would seem that but little
crooked work could be done.
A number of employees of the Wabash
who have been in the hospital at Peru,
were on Sunday taken on a trip TO San
Francisco with the Knights of Pythias
train. The company pays all expenses OF
the trip, and threee trained nurses from
the hospital accompany them.
The annual reports now being complied
will show that the roads centering at St.
Paul. in the fiscal year ended June 80,
earned nearly $O,N0,000 more on the bust
ness than in the preceding year and they
begin the present year well. reporting
earnings 80 10 SO per cent. ahead of those
of July 1901.
w. c. Shoemaker superintendent of the
indianapolis division of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton q Dayton, was in the city yes
terday. He states that on this division
farmers are loading from thirty TO fifty
carloads of wheat a day. The road would
do more if it allowed its cars to go off it's
own lines any great distance.
Excursion business on the Lake Erie &
Western was the largest on Sunday of any
day in the history of the road. The com
pany had two special trains TO Sandusky
and the same number TO Michigan City and
to other points the usual number of excur-
sions. With the company's large passenger
| equipment and what il could borrow, fully
800 people could not be accommodated
J. p Morgan g. Co. have sent a letter tC
the purchasing syndicate of securities OF
the Monon informing them that the option
| to take cash in lieu of the par amount OF
the bonds to be received by depostors OF
Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway
stocks expired Saturday. Morgan & Co
|
dictate and have thus provided the cash re-
Quired for payments 70 depostOrs, so thai
| il will not be necessary TO make any cal
upon the syndicate subscribers. AS soor
as the accounts are made up the profit:
realized will be distributed.
r. p. C. Sanderson, superintendent OF
motive power, acting with the approval OF
| J. NJ Barr, vice president of the Seab
Airline Railway. has presented to Purdue
| University a full-siZed model. accurate in
all of it's details, of early locomotive
The model represents the locomotive Tor.
nado, which was the second owned by the
| parent roads now forming the Seaboarc
Airline system. The locomotive was pur.
chased in England and placed in service in
March, 1910. 1t has a single pair of drivers
a four-wheel truck and a cylindrical fire.
box. A tender carried on four wheels is at.
tached.
The New York Evening Post last night
said: Very positive statements were mad,
to-day that negotiations are pending fol
the acquisition of the Georgia Central sys
tenn by the St. Louis & San Francisco
which last week secured the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois, and which during the las
year has made notable progress in expan
sion. These reports were practically con
firmed, so far regards the statement:
that negotiations with this purpose have
been under way. They are not however
completed. From the same authority de
nial was obtained of the reports of a grand
l merger or all Southern railroads"
, FOR KILLING SWEETHEAPT