The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-18
tiers at Chattanooga, vice ]. A. Dodson,
appointed assistant to the general man

tiers at Chattanooga. vice j. A. Dodson.
appointed assistant to the general man
ager.
With regard to the control Of the Ken
lucky and Indiana bridge, President Nc
Doel says Ii is not vested in the Southern.
The ownership Is held by the Monon, the
Southern and the Baltimore & Ohio South
western, each having one-third.
The report is revived that the Southern
Railway will purchase the Queen & Cres-
cent system. including the New Orleans
* Northeastern. This would make 1t
master. In connection with the Louisville
q Nashville. of the entire traffic situation
In New Orleans.
Under the reorganization of the Rock
Island system the new position of division
accountant has been created. The fol-
lowing accountants have been appointed:
E f. Wallace. Colorado division; II. 9.
Galbrant, Nebraska division; Il. II. Demol-
ing, Oklahoma division.
President McDoel, of the Monon. states
that next spring the company will build
eighty-five miles of new road from Indian
ap prlc to Linton, which will, will open open g goGa
object Is to get coal. and the company will
develop the fuel thoroughly.
Grand Master Morrissey, of the Brother
hood Of Railway Trainmen, does not en-
courage strikes 10 effect increase In salary,
except as a last resort, and says the diff
ferent stories as to a movement on the part
of trainmen in the West for a raise in
"aeCos Il III lnC LdAi IAN MS
eading.
Delegates to the national convention of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
have returned from the Chattanooga con-
vention, and speak in highest terms OF
the treatment the delegates and their
friends received by the roads over which
they Travelled, and especially the Queen
& Crescent.
Chesapeake & Ohio. is expecting a large
travel to Washington during G.. A. r.
encampment week. Several OF the Indian
apolis posts have selected this as the route
for the occasion, and a large travel from
Peoria, st. Louis and other divisions of the
Big -Four is planned for.
The annual report of the Missouri. Kan
sas & Texas shows that during the last
year the company purchased twenty-seven
new locomotives, ten chair cars. eight
coaches, eleven combination coach and bag
gage cars, seven baggage cars, 533 box
cars, LOCO coal cars, and has contracts for
thirty-three locomotives and fifty coaches,
1908 delivery.
Supervisors of the Pennsylvania are get
ting ready for the inspection trip over the
system which President Cassatt and other
officials will make next month. Much has
been done the past season in ballast:ng
and bringing the track up to standard re-
quirements. and miles of track have been
Strengthened and grades changed since the
last inspection.
1t Is reported that the Pennsylvania has
sumbitted to the inevitable, and will here
after work in harmony with the Wabash
people. This, If true, will remove the ap-
preheEsion of a bitter fight. Even If the
Wabash won 1t would cut badly into earn
1ngs. Those In position to know say there
Is traffic enough for both systems, and that
there is no occasion for friction between
the companies.
The Choctaw & Chickasaw Railroad Com
pany. with 81, 100000 capital, was incorpor-
ated yesterday at Guthrie to build 200 miles
of Rock Island extensions. Three lines are
provided for, the first from Asher, south
through the Chickasaw Nation to a point
between Coalgate and Tishomingo; the
second from Milburn, L. T., through the
Chickasaw Nation to Sherman, Denison or
Dallas, Tex; the third from Wilburton, 1.
T., to Howe, /. T., near Fort Smith, Ark.
The Chicago e. Northwestern Railway
announced yesterday that arrangements
have been made by the transcontinental
lines for the meeting of the Presbyterian
General Assembly at Los Angeles from May
Il to June ?. 1903, the rates being on a basis
of $50 for the round trip from Chicago. Ow-
ing to the large attendance at the meeting
of the Federation Of Women Clubs the
railroads anticipate a large attendance at
the meeting of the Presbyterian Assembly.
The remark that the Canadian Pacific
was second to none except the Pennsyl-
vania among railway corporations was
ciic has much reserved wealth in the land
1T owns, having 1850. 101 acres in the
great Manitoba wheat belt, 1922, 922 acres
in British Columbia, and on the compile
ton of the Columbian & Western Railway
will receive $780, 900 acres additional. Dur
ing Its last fiscal year the company dis
posed of 1,0S9.06S acres at an average Of
1923 per acre.
George ]. Gould, president of the Mis-
souri, Pacific, with other prominent off,
Gals of that system, when in Memphis
a day or two ago., said that If there was
no union passenger station built at that
point the Gould lines themselves would
erect a 500, 900 station within a short time,
but he would prefer to have others join
fAA~ A~I ILL u.
regarding the line now under construction
from Memphis 20 New Orleans, that the
work was being pushed rapidly and would
be completed within a year.
The Pennsylvania is experimenting with
the direct steam heating system for pas
senger coaches. The return system is the
one generally employed on the Penn
sylvania and the Pennsylvania lines west.
1t has beer unsatisfactory when II be-
comes necessary to heat a train of twelve
or fourteen cars, and orders have been
issued for the installing of direct steam
heat on Trains 20 and q. And all new
equipments now building on the Pennsyl-
vania lines west, at the Pullman shops,
will be equipped for direct steam heat.
There is doubtless some ground for the
statement of closer relations between the
Pennsylvania and the Vanderbilt lines. II
is pointed out that for years the two great
systems have controlled the ~east-and-west
traffic with hardly a disagreement: they
moves. 1t will be remembered that a few
months ago the Vanderbilts thought well
of securing the Toledo, st. Louis & West
ern and developing it. The Pennsylvania
did not think such a deal advisable. and
the idea was dropped. The equanimity
with which the Vanderbilts have seen the
Pennsylvania prosecute it's plan to cross
Manhattan island has been remarkable. and
now there is even talk of connection be-
tween the New York Central's proposed
underground station at Forty-second street
and the Pennsylvania's underground station
at Thirty-third street, which would make
them practically one.
w will take over the st. Louis VALLEY
Railway and make 1t a part of the Mis-
souri, Pacifc-Iron Mountain system as soor
as the details of construction and the few
other matters have been settled" stated
George j. Gould, president of the absorbins
lines, who passed through st. Louis or
Tuesday, en- route East. The st. Loui.
Valley Railway is being constructed 3
distance of 125 miles almost due south OF
East st. Louis in the valley of the Mis-
sippi river. 1t has been completed and /.
under operation between East St. Loui.
and Chester, ILL.,, a distance of sixty-nin,
miles. This new line of railroad will af
ford the Gould system a new outlet from
ST. Louis to the South. Officials of tn,
Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain dwell
upon it's Importance from the standpoint
of economy in that il shortens the hau
and does away with heavy grade climbin,
through the Ozark mountains.