The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-18
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mentary terms OF w. H. McDoel. president
OF the Monon. His ability as railroad
manager was well known, but since elected
president of the Monon he has shown re-
markable ability as a financier.
The Santa Fe has made arrangements TO
sell TO the Northern Pacific its three enor-
nous decapod locomotives-the largest IN
the world. The locomotives did not prove
satisfactory for mountain service. Other
locomotives have been ordered to take
their places
H. j. Underhill. road foreman of engines
on the Peoria & Eastern. was yesterday
appointed trainmaster, succeeding Frank
Wilson, resigned, who goes West to accept
a position on the Santa Fe under A. e.
Wells. general manager OF Santa Re west
ern lines.
A Patriarche. general traffic manager
of the Pere Marquette, has been appointed
also general traffic manager of the Lake
Erie e. Detroit River Railroad Company.
Connections with the Vanderbilt system
at St. Thomas may be put into operation
at once.
Members of the Central Freight Associa-
ton met in Chicago yesterday with view
TO obtaining an agreement TO advance
many commodity rates. Opinion was al
most unanimous that a great many rates
are too low and that changes should be
made.
c. c. Reynolds. formerly train dispatcher
on the Indianapolis & st. Louis, and Tor
some years superintendent of the Chicago
division Of the Erie, but recently resigned.
Yesterday assumed the SUPPLEMENTARY OF
the Illinois Valley Traction and Citizens
Light Company.
The barriers to the organization of the
proposed protective bureau to prevent ticket
frauds against railroads have been re-
moved by the action of the Western Pas
senger Association it having agreed to join
with the Central Passenger Association In
common cause making 1t big and ef-
fective organization.
The Wabash has purchased over 100000
kersburg, w. Va, and is said to be securing
a right of way into Parkersburg with lit
tie difficulty. The citizens of Parkersburg
are making an effort to induce the Wabash
to locate shops at that point.
The Lehigh Valley road, of which E. B.
Thomas was recently elected president,
ment consists of 7iO locomotives. 469 pas
senger cars, &.642 freight cars. and IT
gives employment to 1880 men. Its pas
senger revenue the last year was s4,lsS.-
034; freight revenue, $1S.956,245.
The Northern Securities Company owns
the Northern Pacific and the Great North
ern directly, and the Chicago Burlington
& Quincy indirectly. These systems ag-
ending June 80 earned gross sl3l PA, $50. net
$54 064, Sal, and their combined surplus was
SIS. 200. S64 The total capital stock or the
Northern Securities Company is $4O2oOO,OOO.
Express officials say indications are that
the companies will do a much larger busi-
ness during the coming holidays than
ever before and are suggesting to the pub
! lie that their Christmas packages be for
warded i'm time to reach destination about
one week before Christmas and that they
bear a label, which the company supplies,
reading, do not open until Christmas
The stockholders of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad, at their postponed an
thirteen directors. August Belmont is
| among those retained. The Atlantic Coast
| line is we'll represented on the board. The
! directors will meet in New York next Fri
| day to organize. Six of the old directors,
| including Milton M. Smith, president or
| the Louisville Nashville, were re-
| tanned
An official of the Santa Fe road. in con-
versation regarding advertising of railroad
matters, says: II am becoming more and
more converted to the value of dailies for
| quick results such advertising excur-
| sons or special rates. The advertising
agents of railroads with headquarters in
| Chicago have formed an advertising organ
ization called the Folder. The club at
present has thirteen members, and Frank
j. Bramhall is its president"
1t announced yesterday that l.:
Ohlinger, superintendent of the Richmond
| division of the Panhandle, would succeed
| w. c. Loree superintendent of the In
dianapolis division, and that Otto Schroll,
who has been superintendent of the Wheel
| ing Terminal Railway, will succeed Mr..
maintenance of way on the Pittsburg di-
vision of the Panhandle. succeeds Mr..
Schroll on the Wheeling Terminal.
| Official notice is given of the Inaugural
| ton, Jan. 3, of the Chicago. Milwaukee &
| st. Paul overland immigrant train serv-
| ice, to leave Chicago at o'clock p. m
In addition to its present equipment this
for Oakland. Train 8, which leaves Chi
| cago at 1890 p. m, in addition to its pres
ent equipment. will haul one first-class
to the same point, one frst-class sleep
ing car to Denver. chair car for the same
point and chair car for Ogden. The
east-bound service is expected to com
| mence Jan. T.
New York, Virginia and New Mexico
| capitalists yesterday Incorporated in New
Mexico the California Short-line Railway
| capitalized at H,250.O0O. line 126 miles
to Deming, crossing the Rio Grande a,
Las Cruces. 1t will connect the Rock
Island system at Alamo Gordo with the
Southern Pacific at Deming and with the
| Santa Fe at Las Cruces and Deming. II
still further reduces the Rock Island mile.
age from Chicago and Kansas City to Los
| Angeles and San Francisco seventy-five
miles, making ii the shortest transconti
mental line in connection with the Southern
| Pacific.
| A. NJ. Cieland, assistant general passen
ser and ticket agent of the Northern Pacifi,
Railway at ST Paul, Mimi, was in the cit!
yesterday. He is going over this territor,
i'm company with District Passenger Agen
Turner. Mr.. Cleland says the passen2e
traffic OF that road this year has been yer,
satisfactory, and there is a large amount o
immigration. He says new towns are spring
ing up on the line with all modern improve
ments. such as electric light plants
churches and schoolhouses, and these place.
are rapidly increasing in population. h,
thinks there is no part of the countr,
which is more promising to immigration
than can be found on the Northern Pacifi
road.
The question of increasing wages of tn
employees of the Baltimore & Ohio is still
unsettled. George J. Potter, general man
ager, says he is unable to state what de
partments will be given increased wages 0
the amount. Several times during the yea
different departments have received a,
increase Mr.. Potter does not favor tn
system of the Pennsylvania increasing tn
salary of all employees 10 per cent. Their
are some men, he says. who are not wortl
the salary they are now receiving, Will
there are others who should receive twlc
the sum of some of the employees. Durin,
the past eighteen months the increase o
salaries has enlarged the company's pa,
roll $4,000.
The American Express Company ha
purchased the property at So. % and G
Broadway. New York, from the p. Har
mony estate. paying s2.350000. The plo
was an historic one. fronts eighty feet o.
Broadway and runs through the next stree
to Trinity place. and is considered one o
the most desirable office building sites o.
the western side of lower Broadway. Their
Is at present upon the premises doubl
fve-story brownstone building, which tn
express company has occupied for upwar
or forty years. Next spring this buildn
will be RACED and handsome moder
twenty-iive-story structure erected in IL
place. AS the Adams Express Compan
owns a plot near by, this purchase for tn
American Express Company reyiyes ri