The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-01-22

line will be inaugurated Feb. l. Track lay
ing on the branch has been completed, and
week
Yesterday the Cincinnati. Hamilton &
Dayton began using for it's recently ac-
CURED Ftndlay, Fort Wayne & western
division the Wabash terminals at Fort
Wayne, instead of those Of the PennsyI-
vania.
For some days the Vandalia has had con-
gestiOn OF business at Indianapolis, and on
were sent here TO clear matters up. More
than 1000 loaded cars were moved west and
north and delivered to the Panhandle.
The Wabash lines now have two pay
masters. S. NJ. Reed is paymaster OF the
western division and A. NJ Harrison or
the lines east OF St. Louis. AS conse-
quence. the employees will be paid five days
earlier in the month than heretofore.
II. VI. Bronson, assistant general pass
enger agent of the Big Four, with the
approval Of general passenger agent w:
j. Lynch, announces the appointment or
h. K. Smith as city passenger agent at
indianapolis, succeeding 3. c. Kelsey.
A passenger official Of the Illinois Central
who is in the city says that road from Chi
cago to Council Bluffs is now as good in
every respect either of the Chicago and
Council Bluffs lines, and the trains can
safely reach as high speed as any OF It's
competitors.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul is
now earning IA per cent. upon its capital
stock and occupies one of tE ? strongest
financial positions of any railroad in the
country. 1t has an available surplus of
over $15,OOOOCO, which has been accumu-
lating, Notwithstanding the liberal manner
in which current earnings have been used
TO initiate the maintenance charges.
ID. @. Edwards, general passenger agent
of the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton,
states that the special Florida service is
last year. The Cincinnati, Hamilton q
Dayton has a special car Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays, and thus far every
stateroom and drawingroom has been
taken, and present patronage promises
to continue.
Options are being obtained for railroad
a mile long that will give the Pennsylvania
and the Baltimore & Ohio a more direct
route from Cleveland TO Pittsburg. The
Pennsylvania Niles. o., will be connected
/ with the Baltimore & Ohio at Deforest.
/ both roads will then use the Baltimore &
/ Ohio between Niles and Ravenna, and the
/ Cleveland q Pittsburg between Ravenna
/ and Cleveland
During the year ending Dec. 81, 1901.
/ the Grand Central Station. New York,
! hauling S0l,790 cars. an increase of TO- Al
] trains and 55,154 cars over 1900. The great
/ increase in business and lack of room is
! puzZling officials of the line There are
now nearly 100 tracks leading into and out
/ OF the Grand Cenral Station, and traffic
/ Will edCu year Is lUCItdSlHb.
John T. Creachan. freight agent for the
! Big Four at Lafayette, has been appointed
| freight and passenger agent for the system
! at kankakee- He will assume his new
/ duties Feb. l. He has been in the
Lafayette freight office for eighteen years,
starting messenger boy. Harry Crib
/ bling will be temporarily checked in as
his successor for the Big Four and Lake
! Erie * Western, the two interests being
consolidated, are the passenger depart
ments
d. Rogers of New York, states that a
| new railway line, to cost S40,0oO0OO. will
be built from port on the Gulf of Mexico
north of TampicO, crossing the country TO
the Pacific coast and then building up
through the States of Sonora and Sfnaloa,
opening up rich mining regions. This line
will have its terminus on the border at
Eagle Pass. Mr.. Rogers claims the larg-
est part of the line has been surveyed and
| that there will be no delay in beginning
work. as capital has been subscribed in
| London and New York.
The general managers OF the roads CEN
/ tering at Indianapolis held their regular
monthly meeting yesterday. General Super
| intendent Turner. of the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton, acted as chairman. Superin-
tendent Zion was instructed to purchase 100
tons of new steel rail weighing eighty-hve
pounds to the yard II. 3. Stoors. the new
! general superintendent of the Lake Erie &
| Western, was elected a member OF the asso-
citation. The United States Postal Depart,
ment notified the managers that II would
abandon the subpostoffice at the Union
/ Station on April 15
Joseph Ramsey, president of the Wheel
| ing q Lake Erie. says the company will lay
100 miles of eighty pound rails on that road
| between MasillOn and Toledo making i'm
| prOvements TO the Adena branch and In
stalling heavier coal unloading machinery
| at the dock at Port Huron. The amount to
be expended in this direction will total over
100000. He is quoted a saying that these
| Improvements do not include 81, 900 to be
| spent in equipment. Contracts for 2,50l
| including
have been awarded. The company has also
ordered twenty-five heavy locomotives.
All speed records have been broken by
| the Chicago & Alton Railroad. This does
not apply TO the running time of trains
but to the rapidity with which 1t recovered
| from the recent fire In the Union Station
at Chicago. While the fire was still raging
| in the Union ticket office it had sixteen
forms of tickets running through the
/ presses, and before the fire was we'll out
it had temporary booth arranged in the
| building fully stocked with new cases and
a complete line of coupon tickets, mileage
books, Communication and local tickets
| There was no delay whatever in ticketine
| passengers
of the Lake Erie & Western says the
| freight earnings this month will hardly be
equal to those of January, 1901, owing tC
| the impossibility of furnishing cars to move
the business offered. He says the short
age is again becoming fully as pronounced
as it was in December. The Lake Shore
!
to the Lake Erie & Western, and as a con.
sequence the latter is unable to furnish the
cars called for. He thinks the prospects are
excellent for good business the entire
year, so large a volume Of miscellaneous
freight is there to be moved.
a bill to license ticket scalpers has beer
| introduced in the New York LEGISLATURE by
! Assemblyman j. F. Smith. 1t provides thai
| all persons who desire to traffic In railroad
tickets, other than duly authorized railroad
/ agents and others. shall file bond with the
railroad commissioners. The bond is to be
in the sum of 1000 and if the railroad com.
missioner issues license fee, the same tt
be placed at $1,000. Other railroad ticket
| sellers, other than authorized railroad
agents and others. must stamp their name
and address on all tickets thus sold. This
is designed to give the purchaser a cause OF
action should such ticket not be as repre-
scented.