The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-19

with the shops already in operation, will
have the largest in the West.
j. a. Cavanagh. car service superintend-
ent OF the Big -Four, returned yesterday
from the East. He states that at East
ern points the congestion of business is
Tully as noticeable in the West.
The Big Four will run a special train
at 1870 d. m to-day from this city to
Greensburg to accommodate the Odd Eel
lows Grand Lodge. now in session here,
who wish to visit the Odd Fellows Home
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton has
received two new ten-wheel passenger en-
gines and has them now in freight service.
Next week they will be placed on the In
dianapolis division, TO run between this
city and Cincinnati.
Traffic Passenger Manager Sebastian. of
been in New York several days giving
his personal attention 20 the work OF
fitting up the sumptuous offices the COM
pany will open on Fifth avenue.
Thomas Mcclure. representing the Pere
Marquette. with headquarters at Grand
Rapids. was in the city yesterday. He
says the road is still owned by Boston cap
italists. who have been putting money into
IL literally. and the line and its equipment
is in first-class condition.
The officials of the Pennsylvania expect
to open the new station at West Phila-
delphia by March l. The Improvement
when completed will cost nearly 5000 900.
With its completion many of the through
trains from the South for New York will
not enter Broad-street station.
A passenger who got on the wrong train
after getting supper at the Panhandle sta
ton in Columbus. o.. and found that he
was being carried towards Buffalo instead
of Pittsburg, has sued the road for $4,000
damages The trouble was caused by NOV
ing the train while he was in the eating
room.
A gentleman who travels a good deal on
the Big Four between Indianapolis and
Cleveland expresses surprise that the COM
NV rnfraor m .
train leaving Cleveland at p. m and
arriving at Indianapolis at IL p. m, and
on the train leaving indianapolis at a. m.
for Cleveland.
tween the Cloverleaf and the Wabash,
which, If not averted. will demoralize rates
from all Eastern points TO st. Louis; Inc
Cloverleaf is preparing a tariff which will
cut the Toledo-St. Louis rate almost In
two. The Wabash ii is said, will meet
this reduction and carry the cut East
1t is stated that the Vanderbilts have
largely increased their holdings in the Chi
cago x Northwestern. and that the Wander
Dit domination in the property mas peen
made secure. Ii is stated that at no time
have the Vanderbilts. Marshall Field and
other interests represented by President
Hughitt, controlled less than one-half the
total stock of the road.
William Sullivan, twenty-five years old,
is the youngest engineer on the Chicago
* Northwestern, and perhaps the youngest
In the country. He passed the examination
three years ago and is now running
freight engine. He entered the employ of
and was made one of the firemen on the
fast mail run btween Chicago and Cleve-
land.
j. w. Midgeley has prepared lengthy re-
port on Private Cars and Railway Reve-
10000 cars in service belonging TO others
than railroad corporations, involving an an
nual expenditure for mileage of fully &c.,
OVO,OO He says these lines have grown
to such an extent as to be serious drain
on the railway revenues, but admits at
the same time no road can refuse to haul
them.
Lafollette & Jellico railroad, announces
that his road will build the proposed Oliver
Springs Coal Creek branch, from Dos
of IS en the a in
line Of the Knoxville, Lafollette & Jellico
and the Southern railway. The branch or
the new road will parallel the Southern for
considerable distance into the Coal Creek
territory.
Officials of the Union Railway Company
held their regular monthly meeting yester-
day. The business transacted was chiefly
of a 1utine character. The only question
which excited discussion was the advance
of the pay of the employees of the Union
Railway Company and Belt road. A gen
tleman who was present says the feeling
seemed to be In favor of such an advance,
but no action was taken. The official says
possibly a special meeting will be called
in the near future to consider the matter
and take some action.
An official of the Big Four said yester-
day that In 1902 the company had added
thirty-five new engines to its power, and
that 1T was a mistake that it did not
duplicate the order for 1903, as the loco
motive builders report all vacant space
taken for the coming year. The Big Four
at present is turning both its freight and
passenger engines around on arriving at
terminals and sending them out in half an
hour or so after they arrive, and this when
the weather is excellent for moving heavy
trains and the conditions generally favor
able for handling heavy traffic.
On Sunday the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
Chicago made a cleaning up day at Fort
Wayne, where business had become bad
ly cOngeSted. The Pennsylvania borrowed
twenty-one engines from different roads
and pressed all of its local passenger en-
gines into service, and in the twenty-four
hours ending at IL o'clock Sunday night
sent east and west from Fort Wayne
| fifty-seven trains. exceeding all records 1t
| is stated that as soon as this freight was
moved the space was filled with freight
| from the yard at Crestline and sidings near
! by. and notices were received from that
terminal to the effect that 1900 loaded
| cars had been started west.
The ST Louis & San Francisco has COM
| pleted plans for it's new twelve-story
| building for Offices in st. Louis, the build
| ing to cost 100000. When the new build
ing is completed offices of the Chicago &
Gently acquired will be located in it. With
| in a short time the st. Louis & San Fran
| cisco Will have an entrance to Chicago
| and will run trains. This will be done by
an arrangement between that road and the
| Big Four to use a new double track from
| Hillsboro to Mitchell. a distance of sixty
| miles. In case the arrangement with the
| Big Four should not be perfected, the st.
Louis & San Francisco will build it's own
| line to connect with the Chicago & Eastern
| Illinois,
| A superintendent of motive power says
| that but few people have any idea of the
| increase in equipment especially freight
| cars in the past ten years. He said that
the country and on June 30, 1901, there were
| 1,409.412 an increase of nearly 100000, and
| in 1902 the largest number of cars were
| added in any year reported. In 1894 the
| average capacity of cars was 10000 pounds
| and the maximum was 10000 pounds; now
| cars with a capacity of 10000 pounds are
| not rare, and cars of $4,000 and $4,000
| pounds capacity the rule. In locomo-
| tives additions have kept pace fully with
the freight equipment not only in proper
tionate numbers. but in their hauling ca
| pacity.
Lackawanna officials are watching with
| interest the result of an experiment in man.
| agement now being tried on that road
| dency of the Lackawanna he inaugurated
an industrial department, which, by the
| way, was the first to be established in the
| East. Out West such a department is a
| familiar feature of all the prominent West
| ern roads, but the Lackawanna has pushed
its scope TO a point where ii may almost
be termed financial department Records