The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-20

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new company mas been incorporated and
promises to have the line in operation by
January of 1904.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Terre Haute car works will. on Dec.
l. begin the construction of several hun
dred freight cars for the st. Louis San
Francisco.
Samuel b. Sweet, general freight agent
of the Lake Erie q Western, said yesterday
that the company had more business than
Its equipment could handle.
Warren G. Elliott has been chosen pres
ident of the Atlantic Coast-line system.
succeeding Henry Walters, who retired to
rid himself of the laborlous details of the
office.
Assistant General Passenger Agent Ches-
brough, of the Vandalia, is this month with
the paymaster on his monthly rounds, IT
giving him an excellent opportunity to
talk with agents.
Chesapeake & Ohio during the last three
months aggregated only 272.343 short tons,
as compared with 1876 tons in the cor
responding period last year.
The Toledo. St. Louis & Western is again
charged with cutting westbound freight
rates and efforts are being made to COM
pei the Trunk Line Association to take
some. action in the matter.
Sunday was record breaking day on the
Chicago division of the Pennsylvania
ninety-six trains, twelve hauled by two
locomotives, passing over the division,
hauling total of 3,1S1 cars.
1. b. Davis. travelling freight agent for
the Chicago * Eastern Illinois, died very
suddenly at Toledo yesterday of acute
pneumonia He was for years connected
with the Toledo, st. Louis & Western.
The Vandalia has a large force of men
laying new sidetracks at different points
between Indianapolis and Terre Haute. AT
Reelsville the track will be in the nature
of cutoff for Reeisville for through bust
ness.
The Lake Erie G. Western has received
this week two battleship type of locomo-
tves transferred from the Lake Shore and
will soon receive several more, the track
now being in condition to use heavier 10
comotives.
John G.. Williams, general counsel for the
Vandalia, and l.. j. Golden, of Greenville
ILL.,. assistant counsel, have been in Green
vile, ILL.,, in the interests of the road in
a suit before Judge Burrows, of the Cir
cult Court
The Atlantic Coast Line in it's statement
to the Kentucky Railroad Commission, rela-
tive to the purchase OF the 3O6,OcO shares
of stock, says it was bought at $l63 per
share; $50 per share was the price hereto
fore reported.
When the Vandalia ordered its new At
lantic type of engine 1T gave instructions
that the water tank have capacity of
1000 gallons and the engine haus an ex-
press train from ST. Louis to Terre Haute
without taking water.
w. b. Poland. who was last week ap-
pointed superintendent of the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern. arrived in Cincinnati
yesterday. His territory extends from a
point few miles east of Cincinnati west
to Louisville, KY, and Washington, Ind.
]. T. Blair. president of the Little Kama
wha Railroad. states that the contracts for
its extension will not be awarded for some
days, as il is necessary for him to confer
with President Ramsey, Of the Wabash,
who is expected in Pittsburg next week.
vania, has been appointed general super!n-
tendent of the Gulf. Arizona q Salt Lake
City Railroad. Mr.. Lewis has had large
railroad experience on the Baltimore Il
Ohio. He will commence his active labor
on Jan. 1.
! Robert II. Moore of the Big Four en-
cheering corps at Cincinnati, has been
/ placed in charge of the extensive improve
ments in progress on the Cincinnati division
between Greensburg and Lawrenceburg,
/ vice Hadley Baldwin. promoted to supern-
tendent of the st. Louis division.
| 1t is stated that General Superintendent
/ Bevington superintendent of the Rutland
\ road lost his position because he allowed
/ a construction train to lay out a special
4 carrying the president of the road. He has
/ already accepted another position with the
Pittsburg, Shawmut * Northern.
/ w F. Wilson. general manager of the
Vanderbilt fast freight lines; w. z. Pollock,
/ seaboard foreign freight agent of the New
/ York Central w. III. Porter, general agent
I
/ +. l.. Sommers. general agent of the West
/ Shore, were in the city yesterday.
/ thorough inspection of the entire Balti-
more * Ohio system is now in progress.
/ Each division is separately inspected. and
detailed reports are TO be prepared show
Ing the condition of every mile of track,
every bridge, every tunnel and every station
/ owned or controlled by the company.
Train No II of the Big Four. consisting
/ of eight cars, was yesterday hauled from
4 Greensburg To Shelbyville, twenty-one
4 miles, in seventeen minutes by one of the
companys new Atlantic type of locomo-
! tives Frank Divers. who ran the engine,
1 SAYS he could even do better than that.
II. G.. II. Hetzeig, superintendent of ter
mnals for the Chicago. Burlington &
Quincy. says the road is handling $500. O00
pounds a day through local freight offices
/ at Chicago in broken carload shipments
and the road is averaging a local switch
ing business for Chicago industries of 1000
cars per day
F. II. Hartman has written John Me-
! Neian. president of the international
| brotherhood of Boiler Makers i'm charge
| of the striking boiler makers of the Unior
| Pacific system. assuring him that no more
Southern Pacific locomotives will be sem
the Union Pacific as long the strike OF
that road lasts.
William Garstang. superintendent of mo
| tive power of the Big Four stated yester
day that the power OF the system was never
I'm better order than at present. but III,
trouble is that the company has not enough
| engines for the business IL Is offered anC
could use thirty or forty more locomotive:
TO good advantage.
Henry G. Boyle, who was appointed re
ceiver for the Vandalia by an Illinois
court. asked the right TO issue receiver
certificates to the amount of $4,000 and tn,
court granted the petition. Mr.. Boyle seems
determined 10 bring suit in the Fedora
Court TO recover the profits that il 4
claimed should have accrued on the capita
stock.
Edward f. Cost. late general traffic man
aver of the Big Four. has decided not Il