The Indianapolis journal., 1902-09-23

De IN the city to-day
j. j. Turner. third vice president Of the
Pennsylvania. who has been on months 3
vacation in northern Michigan. has re-
turned TO duty
b. r. White commercial agent of the
canadian Pacific, is in the city: He re
ports their business from and 10 this terri-
tory steadily increasing.
The Pennsylvania Company has placed
an order. In addition TO those before noteo,
Tor forty new heavy locomotives for Its
lines west of Pittsburg.
Division Agent Pendleton, of the VAN
dalia, states that had the company the cars
II would now be hauling two hundred car
loads of coal a day from the Clay county
mines.
Second Vice President Paul Morton, of the
Santa Fe, denies recent statements at
tributed to him, that the Pennsylvania In
terests have been buying the roads stock
for control
An official of the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific who was in the city yesterday
says the company will be running its trains
into Galveston over its own tracks within
twelve months.
George Hargrave. manager of the Amer
works are doing an enormous business. and
orders will keep them running at full ca
pacity into the next year.
F. ~ Marsh. who has been in the en-
Northwestern for thirty years, has accept
ed a position on the Union Pacific IN Chief
Engineer Berry's department.
Robert Pitcairn. resident assistant TO
President A. j. Cassatt, Of the Peinsyl-
vania, who has been abroad for some
months, returned to Pittsburg on Saturday.
and met with a warm reception on the part
of his associate.
w. j. Laffey, who for some years has
been special agent for the Illinois Central
at Louisville, has been promoted to travel
ing special agent for the same road. with
HEADQUARTERS at Memphis. and is succeed
ed at Louisville by w. p. Dinnan.
E. d. Conklin. claim agent of the South
ern Pacific at Portland, Ore, accompanied
by his wife, is visiting his parents in this
city. Mr.. Conklin was chief clerk of Wilbur
Lee when the latter was general passenger
agent Of the Lake Erie & Western road
G. A. Deane, who represents the Missouri
Pacific and Iron Mountain, has received an
account of fast run made Saturday
by special train, which for 169 miles aver
aged 81 miles an hour. Four miles of the
distance was covered at seventy-fve miles
an hour.
Frank Wilson, chief clerk of j. @. Van
Wrinkle, general superintendent of the Big
Four, has been appointed trainmaster of
the Peoria & Eastern, and E. r. Bonnell.
assistant car service superintendent OF
the Big Four. succeeds Mr.. Wilson in Mr..
Van Wrinkles office.
Since June / there have been f1fty-nine
days In which reduced rates have been
given to this city for some convention or
meeting. Had the roads carried people at
cents per mile they would have doubtless
realized as much money as under the con-
ditions which prevailed during that period.
President Jackman, of the Frisco line
the company that recently purchased the
G. & Z. l., and President Lyford, of the
c. & E. l.. and several other officials of
both lines are making an inspection tour
of the road. The officers at Brazil inti-
mated that some extensive improvements
would be made soon at the Brazil end of
the line.
1t is stated that the Pennsylvania. not
being able to lay more tracks between
Harrisburg and Pittsburg Is planning to
finish the partly built South Pennsylvania
from the Cumberland valley across the
southern tier of counties to Pittsburg
This is the road abandoned by the Wander
bilts twenty years ago after expending
s20, 100000.
Te Illinois Central has hit upon a novel
and effective plan to get around bad
situation. Owing to it's phenomenal traffic,
ment for freight, and orders have been is
sued TO assemble every discarded box car
and patch 1t up for the emergency business
now facing the traffic men. All discarded
fiat cars are being reconstructed.
The Pennsylvania has issued an attrac-
tive pamphlet, the itinerary of President
Roosevelt's trip, which was arranged and
conducted by the representatives of the
passenger department of that company.
This booklet contains a map of the United
States showing the route the. President
places to be visited and the hours of ar
rival and departure.
Railroad freight men are loud in their
praise of the per diem system. For the
first time in years the roads have found
that there can be a great saving of time
in the movement of cars. and the yard
men are equally profuse in their praise, as
when notified that certain cars will be in
the yards on certain days, they are usually
on hand. and can be transferred to
| the freight house or a connecting road
promptly.
The Lake Erie & Western is making an
interesting test of window ventilator.
On Saturday a car was fastened tight and
steam turned on. A few men who did not
care how warm they got went inside and
began to smoke, and when the car was
completely filled with smoke as to look
blue the ventilator was opened The train
was put In motion and in two minutes the
car was clear of smoke and the air SEEM
ingly pure.
| Illinois Central Railroad shows increases
| In gross earnings amounting 20 So. 800, 569.
increase In net earnings of s2.S22.S02. The
financial statement displays gross earnings
of nearly SAL 100000 on 4.2S3 miles of rail-
| road which is an earning capacity of 50.
546 per mile: The Yazoo & Mississippi Val
| ley, which belongs TO the Illinois Central,
! earned over s6,5OO.OOO. making the total
earnings of the system over s47,Ooo.oO0.
President Patrick, Secretary-treasurer
Parrish. and others. also a corps of survey
/
Huntington Railroad, arrived in Portland
yesterday and opened general offices. The
surveying corps Immediately prepared to
begin active work. All the employees will
| be hired from that point, and all of the
supplies needed are to be distributed from
| there, this meaning from $4,000 to $40, ,OOC
which is TO be expended in Portland.
d. G.. Edwards, passenger traffic man.
| ager of the Cincinnati Hamilton & Day.
| ton and its acquired line, is planning to
| improve the service with the opening of
| the Indiana, Decatur & Western, now the
| Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western, to
Springfield. ILL.,. on Sept. 30, as il will en-
| able the road to establish new connections
| However, the freight department will be
| more benefited by the road getting into
| Springfield than will the passenger service
| Engineers of the Atlantic type of locomo-
| tives are not so well pleased with them
| as a rule as with the ordinary eight-wheel
| passenger engines. which will haul six cars
seventy miles an hour over smooth road
| bed. They express the opinion that a real
| practical limit has been more than passed
| They say that a 7S-inch driving wheel on
ment of grace and beauty, and meets all
| the requirements of a frst-class passenger
engine.
| The allegation that the railroads of the
! anthracite coal region charge an unduly
| high rate for carrying the fuel is TO be
| investigated by the Interstate-commerce
| Commission. Martin b. Knapp, chairman
| of the committee. who was in Chicago
| yesterday. said: THE subject of the East
| ern coal roads and their coal tariffs has
been brought 10 the attention OF the COM
| mission, but not officially The commits
| sion expects to take official cognizance OF
| the subject at no distant date. Until then