The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-20

accept the offer of the Armour Packing
Company, and will on Dec. take the posi-
ton of traffic manager OF the Seaboard Air
line, succeeding w. II. Pleasant. Mt
Costs desire to continue in railroad work
induced him to make the change in his
plans.
Superintendent s. II. Hutchinson. of the
Plttsourg division of the Baltimore * Ohio
railroad, yesterday rendered his resigna-
ton, to be effective Dec. /. Mr.. Hutchinson
has accepted the position Of assistant gen
eral superintendent Of the Michigan Central
Railroad, with headquarters al Detroit. He
Will begin his new duties on Dec s.
Members of the Central Freight Asso-
citation are considering the proposed re-
vision OF the rate sheets necessary TO put
products. in Conformity with the recent
change made by the Western lines. An in
crease OF Pa cents on export grain from
MISSISSIPPI points to the Atlantic and a
general advance in other rates is considered
probable.
James McCrea. first vice president of
the Pennsylvania lines, w. c. Brown, vice
president and general manager of the Lake
Shore, and c. z. Schad, general manager
of the Big Four, held a conference on
Tuesday in Cleveland relative to the new
union station at that city Mr. Brown
stated after the meeting that the project
was well under way and plans would be
ready in thirty days.
A director of the American Car and Foun-
dry Company states that orders of not
less than $50. 900 worth of new cars and
locomotives are now on the books of tie
manufacturing concerns. Within the past
rev days these orders have been multiply
ing rapidly and the demand for new equip
Hent is widely distributed throughout tie
country. In most cases the demand is ur-
gent, especially for new motive power.
In commenting on the report that the
wages OF employees of the Philadelphia x
Reading were to be increased fiat DO per
cent, Vice President Vorhies said no an
1 of Iva hgh hDn
authorized, and would not say when II
would be made, if at all. He claims that
the wage standard on the Philadelphia q
headlng is now much the same as that Il
the pennsylvania lines in many depart
ments, and would prevent anything like
| a specihed percentage of advance for all
| the employees.
The Western Maryland Railroad Company
| (the Wabash SYSTEM yesterday began con.
demnation proceedings 1S6. $50 feet OF
| land in West Baltimore. This strip of land
which is eighty feet vide is needed by the
| Western Maryland to reach its projected
Underwater terminus in South Baltimore
! The company has purchased twenty-sS
acres of land, with a large water front
| gin construction work on the new line
| which leaves the Western Maryland tracks
near Howardville.
Beginning next Sunday new mail train
west from Cleveland will be put in service
| on the Lake Shore. 1t will leave Cleveland
| at 4:40 p. m, arriving in Chicago at 1:5O a
| m. The train will make the same time
| between Cleveland and Toledo as is made
| by the Twentieth Century Limited. 1t will
| carry passengers as far Elkhart. Con
nection will be made at Toledo with the
Michigan Central for Detroit, the latter
| city being reached at S:25 p. m. Mail con
| nections from Chicago to Denver and other
far Western cities will be made
The bitter fight which has been on in the
| Toledo courts for the last couple of months
between the Toledo Railway and Termina
| Company and the Gould lines has beer
| amicably adjusted and they will be taker
| out OF court at once. A most bitter fgh
was made by President Ramsey in the
case, In which the Toledo Railway and
| Terminal desired to cross the tracks of tn,
Ann Arbor Railroad This case was wor
| by the terminal company. A similar case
| has been on in the courts for the pas
two weeks in which the Wheeling & LAX,
| Erie, another Gould road, was the defend
ant. Some concessions were made on botf
| sides in the case