The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13

day. He is now owner Of a large tract
of timber land in the South and has be
come quite wealthy. He has over one
hundred men cutting timber and shipping
1t East and North.
1t is stated that certain large systems
OF roads. chief among them the Pennsyl-
vania, have under consideration retiring
the fast-rGn engineers 10 slower runs aIter
a continuous duty Of two or three years
as instances have been cited where engt-
neers Of fast trains run by danger sig
nals. thinking they had a clear track
engineers laugh at the lued'
out II is causing considerable dlscussloh-
President Fisk. of the Illinois Central,
two sons and a friend. Grafton Gushing,
are spending a few weeks IN COLORADO ana
are attracting considerable attention. MI.
Fish is six feet three inches tall, one son
IS SIX feet three inches, the Other SIX LeeI'
and Mr.. Cushing is six feet -FOUR lhcnes-
All are spare of body, but have a develop
ment OF muscle that makes their helshI
marked.
The recent freight handlers strike in
Chicago may lead to a revolution In the
landing of freights through a device
which, If installed in freight houses. VIII
90 away with truckmen almost enureiy.
The device consists of an endless series
OF platforms so placed as 10 move at d
convenient distance from the doors on
either side Of the freight house. The rate
of travel is about sixty feet per minute,
though the speed may be regulated 10 meet
conditions.
Forest Kendall has resigned as COM
mercial agent at Terre Haute for the Nah-
dalia. II. r. GriswOld. who has been AT
Peoria for the company, is transferred TO
Terre Haute as acting freight agent, the
position of commercial agent being abol-
ished. 1t was created for Mr.. Kendall, who
mad done much TO build up the Nandalla
business in Terre Haute until the company
practically monopolized the traffic. Mr..
GriswOld will be succeeded at Peoria by
j. f. Fenelon.
The Western Maryland Railroad Com
pany has purchased 125 acres of land in
South Baltimore for terminal purposes and
ii is said work will be begun Immediately
on improving the property for railroad
purposes. The site is located west of Fort
McHenry on the middle branch of the
PatapscO. Congress has appropriated sew
eral hundred thousands of dollars to dredge
this branch of the Patapsco. and with the
completion of this work Baltimore will be
given a deep-water harbor.
1t is announced at Wabash that negotia-
tions are in progress whereby the Fort
Wayne & Southwestern Traction Company
will issue joint tickets with the Big Four
from points on its line to points on the
Big Four south of Wabash, and the Big
-Four Will issue coupon tickets good east
of Wabash on the Fort Wayne & South
eastern. If the deal goes through a Fort
Wayne passenger may purchase at that
place a through ticket from Fort Wayne
to Indianapolis via the and
the Big Four.
E. F. Cost, freight traffic manager of
the Big -Four, was in the city yesterday.
He takes a cheerful view of the outlook
for business, saying that the Big Four
Is a garden OF prosperity from one end TO
the other; everywhere crops are good, and
the only trouble will be in handling the
business in the near future. He says
the officials of the road are surprised that
the Big Four's earnings have footed up so
well when 1T had so light crops OF grain
last year to help out, coupled with the
strikes Of the coal miners.
Sir William Van Horn, who is building
the railroad system in Cuba, has had a re-
markable career. His first work was as a
telegrapher on the Illinois Central. ne
being the youngest operator in the COM
pany's service. During his leisure hours
he picked up a great deal Of information
as TO the mechanical operation of a rail-
road and soon got an appointment In the
operating department. His advancement
through the grades of service was rapid,
and at the age of thirty-six he was APP
pointed general superintendent of the
Chicago, Milwaukee q st. Paul. After a
few years he went to the Canadian Pacific:
His ability and determined manner of
doing things made him just the man to
build the system of roads in Cuba, a task
in which he is meeting with marked sue
cess.
With but one exception, the New York
Central, the roads continue to be har-
raised by hoboes, travelling bands OF
tramps and robbers or railroad brigands
early years. The New York Central,
says the Boston Transcript, set system
atically about the work of Kidding THEN
lines of such persons. They hired hundreds
of private detectives to watch tramps and
keep them off trains. Some of the detec-
tives travelled as tramps and betrayed the
gangs of thieves after getting into theiI
confidence. Others made it so warm fol
the tranps about the switchyards that ne
gangs of hoboes were broken up and the
result was that the New York Central be
came as it is to-day. a hard ROAD 10 oea'
and one that, in spite of its thousands OF
miles Of tracks and the many millions OF
tons OF freight it moves in a year, pays GU
practically nothing for goods stolen OF
damaged by railway brigands. This sys
tenn of railroad patrol is being extended Il
the Boston & Albany, the new acquisi
ton of the New York Central, with the
same beneficial results"