The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-17

money is furnished by the Gould people.
President Burt. Of the Union Pacific, says
the company will erect a building at Chey-
enc for its employees, to cost in the neigh
bOrhood Of 100000. The building Will be
three stories high. and will be fitted up
with a clubroom. reading room and gym
nasiurn-
The Pullman Company will at once build
new cars to run on the Big Four between
St. Louis and Boston on trains No. 10 and
10. The cars will have twelve sections,
drawing room, smoking room, electric light
and everything modern for the best Pull
man service.
Robert Blickensderfer who manages the
affairs of the Wabash at ST. Louis, ana
the Erie road at Cleveland last week, is
the father of DR.. j. +. Blickensderfer, med
ical examiner of the Pennsylvania lines
at Cadillac, Mich.
o. 2. McCarty. general passenger agent
of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern,
was at st. Louis on Saturday and inspect
ed the company's new and elegant pas
senger offices i'm that city. Mr.: McCarty
is proud Of these offices. they being among
the finest in st. Louis.
II. H. Kingston. general traffic manager
or the Lehigh Valley; I. y. Jarvis, former
~ With the Traders Despatch at Indian
apolis, now Eastern freight agent OF the
road. and r. j. Henry, Western freight
agent, were i'm the city yesterday. and met
Thomas Smiley. who represents the line IN
this territory.
me SOuIlefQ racine VIII DTedk It's =
latiOns with the Armour fruit car line as
well as the Santa Fe. which will be quite
a blow TO the ArmOurs. who have at least
S15. 100000 tied up i'm refrigerator cars. The
Santa Fe and Southern Pacific are both
building several thousand refrigerator cars
for this trade.
President Cassatt. of the Pennsylvania.
his son Robert Cassatt. who is now In
Europe, Robert Pitcairn, of Pittsburg, as
sistant TO President Cassatt, and a num-
Der or other men prominent in railroad
and coal circles, are leaders in the Key
stone Coal and Coke Company, organized
last week at Greensburg, Pa.
1t is stated that Colonel Morse, general
Eastern passenger agent of the Southern
Pacific, will remove his headquarters to
New York. With Z. o. Mccormick, passen-
ger traffic manager, onthe Pacific coast, and
Mr.. Morse on the Atlantic coast, will make
a strong combination. II is limited there
may be a similar division of the freight
department.
Kenefck & Hunt. who built fifty miles Of
the Cincinnati. Richmond & Muncie road.
from Santa Fe. Ind, TO Judson, have
taken the contract to build a double track
from Plttsburg TO a point fifteen miles
west, where connection is made with the
Wheeling & Lake Erie, owned by the Wa
bash. The link is an expensive one TO
build, requiring two tunnels.
John SebastiOn, general passenger agent
of the Chicago, Rock Island * Pacific,
gives notice of the opening of the line to
FL Pasc on March l. when a daily tourist
"a x W a ldAANlS(O " OAAANaeC
will be iraugurated. He claims that 1t
is 2O2 miles the shortest line between Chi
cago and San Francisco. and its schedule
is five hours quicker TO southern California
points.
The numerous friends of Z. o. McCor-
mick. passenger traffic manager of the
southern Pacific, will be pleased to know
that the changes in ownership of that prop
erty do not affect him. but rather strength
en- his position. On the retirement of Ed
win Hawley, on March l. as assistant gem
eral traffic manager, Mr.. Mccormick will
have jurisdiction In the East as well as in
the West.
Officials of the Lehigh Valley road claim
that the line is the best protected against
accident by the block signal system of any
road in the world. Every foot of the main
line from New York to Buffalo is provided
with automatic signal protection. On 467
miles OF track IL has in operation. all told,
LOO signals. This number OF
signals is divided into 745 blocks. the av-
erage length of each block being 1.16 miles.
The signal used by the Lehigh Valley is an
American invention and is gaining favor
with foreign roads.
The Black Diamond Express on the Le-
high Valley makes the run from New
York TO Buffalo daily, except Sunday, at
an average speed of 49.S miles per hour,
excluding stops. The following details are
taken from the official train sheets: The
run from Jersey City 70 Newark. "a miles,
il made at the rate of 16 miles per hour;
Newark to South Plainfeld, us miles. at
~ miles per hour; South Plaintield TO
Easton, sos miles. at 81 miles per hour
Easton TO South Bethlehem, lis miles, az
"a miles per hour; South Bethlehem TO
Allentown, ~ miles. at 80 miles per hour;
Allentown to Mauch Chunk, 2S.9 miles. at
AZ miles per hour; Mauch Chunk 10 Hikes
barre, 53.S miles, at 80 miles per hour;
Wilkesbarre to Tunkhannock, 81 miles, at
40 miles per hour; T~unkhannock to Sayre,
81 miles, at 80 miles per hour; Sayre to
Geneva, 1875 miles, at 81 miles per hour;
Geneva TO Rochester Junction, 50 miles,
at 81 miles per hour; Rochester Junction TO
Buffalo, 6S.1 miles, at 81 miles per hour.
The New York Evening Post, in comment
TO be general superintendent of the Lake
Shore and the Lake Erie & Western,
says: Mr.. Marshall, because of his serv-
ice on a number of roads, but also by his
force of character, his wide knowledge OF
railroad work, and the ability he has shown
in the administration of various offices
is widely known among railroad men, and
his new appointment will generally be
regarded as a most excellent one. His
promotions of late years have been fire.
quent and on proved merit. Mr.. Marshall
is not yet forty years of age, and hereto
fore has been connected altogether with
the mechanical department. After serv-
ing in Western roads he became editor OF
a railway journal here, and then in May
1897, became assistant superintendent OF
motive power on the Chicago & Northwest
ern Railway. In the summer of 1899 he
became superintendent of motive power OF
the Lake Shore, and put in force the new
ideas IN that department which have re-
suited in giving that road new efficiency
in its motive power, and contributed. in
an essential manner. to its present excel
i'm higher trainloads. reduced traffic costs
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