The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-15

banquet and presents and turned the sum
over to Wabash employe whose family
Is in need because OF much sickness
r. b. Turner. general superintendent of
the Cincinnati. Hamilton * Dayton, and
the division superintendent have the past
week been inspecting track conditions and
improvements OF the last few months.
The office of superintendent of passenger
transportation has been created by the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway.
with s. 7. Gage at its head. Mr.. Gage has
been chief clerk TO the general superintend-
ent OF the Lake Shore for many years.
L. L. Tallyn, civil engineer, who has
charge of the Cincinnati, Michigan &
Muncie line west of Muncie, and j. w.
Herwig. superintendent of signals, have
selected Marion, Ind, as their headquar-
tiers.
Fifteen fremen on the Lake Shore road
were examined by the trainmaster at
Elkhart, on Thursday, for promotion TO
engineers. and in addition eight brake
men underwent examination for promo
ton to firemen.
The Lake Erie & Western has sixty miles
OF new steel. weighing seventy pounds TO
the yard, in the track. and proposes to lay
fifteen miles more this fall. The material
is on the ground. Most of this mileage
has also been laid with new cross ties.
II was officially announced yesterday that
the demands of the engineers and firemen
of the Grand Trunk Railway for increased
wages have been met TO the extent of an
increase from Is TO % per cent. according
to the division in which the men belong.
The first of the through tourist cars from
st. Louis TO Portland, Ore, over the Wa
bash, the Rock Island the Union Pacific,
the Oregon Short-line and the oregon
Railroad, via Kansas City, Denver and
Granger. will leave st. Louis on Thursday.
Nov. 20.
The Terre Haute car works has COM
pleted the last of an order for 1000 coal
cars for the Pennsylvania, and has COM
menced building 100 furniture cars for the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and lot
of box cars for the New Orleans & North
eastern.
Claude Hill, who represents the passen-
ger department of the Wisconsin Central,
was in the city yesterday. he states that
ms Iine, with the other Morrnwes. Tern
son in both passenger and freight traffic
1t ever enjoyed.
The Baltimore & Ohio Royal Blue book
for November is one of the most valuable
numbers the road has ever issued. 1t
gives the game laws of the States through
which the road passes and Is illustrated
with the different kinds of game to be
found on the line and its connections.
The Burlington Railroad posted a notice
yesterday making the new wage scale
agreed upon between the general managers
OF the railroads and the swltchmen at
Chicago. effective here tomorrow. Eight
hundred men in Kansas City will get an
advance, the switchmen an increase OF
cents and foremen an increase of cents
an hour.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company Is
now independent of the Western Union
Since last spring it has put up poles for
400 miles and 1900 miles Of wire. This
equips all its lines and branches east or
fInts On Dec. J. when the Western I'm
lines removed from it's railroad property,
the Pennsylvania will be in position to
cut down the Western Union poles and
wires, If they have not been removed.
L.
erected at Curtis Bay, Baltimore, by the
b. & o. Railroad Company was awarded
yesterday to A. r. Morrison, of Whining
ton, Del. 1t will cost $4,000. The con-
tractor will take ten months to build the
pier, which will be one OF the largest at
any. seaboard city. 1t will be double
decked pier. over 500 feet long. with of
fcers', storage and baggage rooms, immi-
grant quarters, etc, and is built for the
use Of the North German Lloyd Steamship
Company.
The st. Louis & Gulf Railway. a line
west of the Mississippi river, and the St
Louis, Memphis & Southeastern Railroad.
which has about $50 miles of road now in
operation and about $50 miles between st.
Louis and Cape Girardeau under construc-
ton. have been purchased by the st. Louis
q San Francisco. These lines give to the
Frisco low-grade line between both ST.
Louis and Chicago and Memphis. and they
traverse probably the richest sections of
Missouri and northeastern Arkansas.
The Railway Signal Club, which has been
in session the past week, elected officers for
the coming year: II. G. Hope, superintend-
ent of telegraph of the Chicago,
Minneapolis. st. Paul & ohama., presi-
dent; ]: c. McCook, signal en-
gineer of the Michigan Central, vice
president; r. b. Adams, associate editor
of the Railroad Gazette, New York, secre-
tary and treasurer. Detroit was selected
for the meeting next November. The club
received this year an increase of eighty
in its membership, making its present men,
bership over 300.