The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-28

II Is argued that there Is no reason why
railroad should not pay as much as a snip
per for the transportation Of its freights.
To-day the Chicago & Northwestern will
resume its parlOr car service between Chl-
Cago and Lake Geneva via the Wisconsin
division and Crystal lake.
J. II. Johnson. assistant general freight
agent Of the Gulf. Colorado q Santa Fe,
has resigned to become identified with the
Chamber of Commerce of Galveston, Tex.
The Hooking Valley road last week placed
order with the Brooks locomotive works
for ten additional consolidated engines, but
cannot get them delivered before December.
The Pennsylvania is inviting bids for the
erection on its Philadelphia, Wilmington
< Baltimore division of new passenger
stations of expensive and durable construc-
ton.
The American Locomotive Company an
nounces that il has orders sufficient TO keep
its eight plants running full time, employ
ing 1900 men, for the next eighteen
months.
As now planned the Cincinnati. Richmond
* Muncie will be running through trains
between Cincinnati and Chicago within
three months, utilizing an existing road to
get into Chicago
The Long Island road with the taking
effect of its summer time table will put
on a fast train from Long island and Brook
lyn to MOntauk point TO cover the forty
six miles in forty-nine minutes.
3. B. Metheany, who has been connected
many years with the Grand Rapids * In
diana. has resigned to accept on May the
position of general manager of the Man
tisque, Marquette az Northern road.
1t is stated that the Chicago. Milwaukee
& St. Paul which has congressional rights
to cross the Missouri river at Chamberlain.
will extend its Platte line TO Chamberlain,
s. D., and possibly to the Black hills.
Harry f. Obey, for several years agent
] of the Pittsburg & Lake Erie at Believer
non, has been appointed agent OF the road
! at McKee's Rock, a much more important
position, he succeeding William Hamilton.
The Santa Fe will on June / establish a
I passenger train service between the Mis-
souri, river and the Rocky mountains. The
service will be daily, and the run from Kan
sas City to Denver will be MADE In ten
hours.
Stock of the New York. New Haven &
Hartford Saturday reached 23l. the highest
figure IN its history. 1t is believed the BUY
ing by the Pennsylvania is stepping stone
to close traffic alliance If not consollda-
ton of interests.
/ In speaking of the extraordinary expenses
/ that have been ordered on the Panhanole
/ lines, President Cassatt is quoted as say
! ing that net earnings the last year or over
/ 100000 will justify such outlay as has
| been authorized.
/ W. D. Holiday. formerly assistant gen
/ eral freight agent of the Big -Four, now
holding a like position on the Wabash was
called TO Bellwood. Pa. TO attend the flu
neral of his father, a highly respected cltl-
zen of that place.
With the retirement Of c. r. Fitch as gen
/ eral manager of the Erie the position will
be abolished and it's duties assumed by
Daniel Willard, the new third vice presi-
1 dent, I'm charge Of traffic. Ill health forced
\ Mr. Fitch To resign.
/ The Southern Pacific is letting numerous
contracts for reconstruction and better
ments, the total cost of which is estimated
/ at $5.1S0,000, and by June l will have 1000
men at work grading, laying new steel and
making other improvements.
] l. No
Haven & Hartford will make its summer
resorts in Maine more popular by putting
on night trains equipped with sleeping cars
/ for Bar Harbor. Mount Desert. MooSehead
/ lake and to the White mountains.
Joseph Ramsey, president of the Wabash,
/ has returned from Pittsburg. He says that
while the company expects to get control OF
! the Western Maryland, should II fall II Will
not seriously block the plans to reach tide
water, as it can be reached elsewhere
In one respect the meat trust controls
| the railroads. Four-fifths of the cars used,
it is stated, in hauling dressed meats are
owned by the packers, and equipment is
| now so scarce that it is quite impossible
for roads to act independently in the mat
| ter Of rates
The Philadelphia & Readings acquisition
Central Railroad of New Jersey brings I'M
der one management 2,l31 miles of railroad.
/ with gross annual receipts of S46,OO,0OO and
| the ownership of 63 per cent of the UNI
| mined coal in the anthracite region OF
I Pennsylvania, sales of which in 1901
/ amounted TO Al,OCO,OCO.
The passenger department of the Phila-
delphia & Reading is becoming more ag-
/ gressive and has under consideration put
! ting on an additional train for the West
/ and a fast train between Harrisburg and
New York to cover the $50 miles in four
and one-half hours. the trains TO be run
/ via Allentown, which is twenty-five miles
shorter than the Reading road proper.
No Importance is attached to the revival
| of the report that the Illinois Central is
/ to absorb the Wisconsin Central. 1t origi-
| mated from the fact that orders have been
issued to Wisconsin trainmen TO familiarize
themselves with the new operating rules
Central. There is nothing strange in the
order, as the Wisconsin Central runs into
Chicago Over the Illinois Central tracks.
The past winter the Southern roads did
/ the largest business in their history, owing
/ to the prosperous conditions. President
| Egan, of the Central of Georgia, states that
! in 1898. when the depression was greatest
with Southern roads, the revenue from
| this department was but 5000 per mile, IN
1899 81 O46 per mile, in 1900 $l,0I2 per mile, In
1901 81 Isl per mile. and the returns this
/ year far surpass either of the years named
At the meeting of the American Railway
| Association held in New York last weep
| considerable opposition was manifested tC
| adopting the per diem system of payment
for cars when on foreign lines, but the op-
position did not avail much, the vote show
ing that Ill members, owning and con-
trolling LOSE. s24 freight cars and 12S,557 miles
of road. were in favor of II, fifteen mem
bers controlling S,464 cars and 1898 miles
of road. opposed. and nine members, owning
So S43 cars and operating IL, l41 miles of road
expressed no opinion.