The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-15

in the first week in December increased
$50 Earnings Of the Evansville & In
dianapolis road for the same period in
creased S1,245.
The volunteer relief department of the
Pennsylvania has been extended over the
Cleveland, Akron & Columbus division,
there being 500 men eligible on that division
to become members.
Several engineers and firemen of the
Pittsburg. Fort Wayne & Chicago have
been transferred to the Cleveland & Pitts
burg, so great is the rush of traffic, with
constant scarcity Of engineers.
An organization has been perfected among
railroad men at Pittsburg to be known as
the Pittsburg Car Mems Association. The
object of the association is to educate its
members morally, socially and intellectu-
ally.
Commissioner Morris. of Ohio. on Satur-
day issued an order giving permission to
the Big Four, the Erie and the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton to operate inter-
locking plant at Dayton, where these lines
cross.
r. p. Algeo, district agent of the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton and the Monon,
who has been so i'll for several days as to
confine him in his home, has much i'm
proved that he hopes to be at his office to-
morrow.
A. b. Atwater, late assistant superintend-
ent of the Michigan Central. will on Jan. 1
go TO the Grand Trunk as assistant 10
President Hays. He will represent Mr..
Hays in all Grand Trunk lines west of
Detroit.
Vice President Harahan. of the Illinois
trip over Southern lines. He said the COM
pany is still short of cars, and he cannot
see any. hope of relief until there is de-
crease in business.
Assistant General Superintendent Storrs,
of the Lake Shore roao. when stepping
from his private car at Elkhart last week,
slipped on the step and injured himself so
badly as to need surgical attention He
CriDDled
Superintendent S. T. Blizzard, of the Big
Four's Michigan division, has notified the
train crews that there is a coal car famine
in the soft coal region on the Big Four, and
that complaint was made that coal cars are
held too long on the Michigan division.
A st. Louis railroad official who was in
the city on Saturday said the impression
prevails In upper railroad circles that, not not
withstanding denial, the Missouri Pacific
is perfecting plans to reach the Pacific
coast with its own line soon as possible.
The Wabash will erect more buildings at
Fort Wayne. Thirty thousand dollars has
shops, and j. b. Barnes, superintendent OF
motive power. says quite a large sum adj
ditional will be expended in the same di-
rection-
Freight engines of the Big Four lines are
now running an average of $50 miles day,
twenty-five more than at any former
period. The big consolidated engines are
meeting the highest expectations of the
motive power department, both as to pow
er and speed.
NJ. j. Grove, who has been employe of
the Pennsylvania at its shops in Fort
Wayne forty-three years, was so seriously
| injured last week that II is questionable
| If he will ever be able to resume work. An
| application Is to be made to put him on
| the pension list.
The Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsyl-
vania have made arrangements to push TO
| conclusion the joint line proposed from
| Niles o., to Ravenna, a distance of thirty
miles, by the old MISUNDERSTANDING route.
| The construction work will be wholly under
| the direction of the Baltimore & Ohio.
The board OF directors of the Northern
| Central Railway Company of the Pennsyl-
vania lines have declared a dividend OF
per cent. on the earnings of the past six
| months, payable Jan. 10. The board also
reorganized the legal department. of the
company TO conform with that of the Penn
! sylvania
The southern Pacific declines to become
! a party to the immigration scheme OF the
Southwestern roads because business will
| be sent by st. Louis and Ii prefers New
Orleans. Consequently Il. o. Mccormick,
| travelling passenger manager, is going into
| the business Independently and on an elab-
| crate scale.
| The announcement is made of the appoint
ment of George w. Martin, trainmaster OF
the Baltimore & Ohio as superintendent OF
| the Cumberland valley of the Pennsylvania
| lines. This is the reverse of the ordinary
appointment. Since l. +. Loree took charge
|
/ have been going from the Pennsylvania &c
| the b. * ..
The report comes from Virginia that the
| Wabash officials have bought the fran
| chises of the Buckhannon d Northern. in
| Guiding a seventy-two-mile survey, begin
ming at huntsville and passing through
/ valuable coal territory TO Paramount The
! survey has been made and franchises Sc
! cured by the Wabash through Green and
/ Monongahela counties and will be extended
! to connection with the Buckhannon &
1
will have trains running over this line into
/ western Maryland in less than one year
| and that the Wabash purposes To develop
$1,000 acres of coal land in West Virginia
| The freight congestion in the Northwest
is said to be as keenly felt as in any part
of the country. There are standing on side
| tracks of the Burlington 1900 carloads OF
! coal alone, consigned TO the Great North
| ern. which is unable TO accept the traffic
! From the Western coal fields there is COM
| plant that the roads carry live stock in
! preference to fuel and are letting the PEG.
| pie suffer. and corn is being burned in
! south Dakota and Nebraska, as il cannot
be shipped nor can coal be brought in
Very little grain has begun TO move
| though all the elevators are full, and farm.
! ers have been advised To hold back until the
| congestion is relieved.
| j. b. Hutchinson general manager OF tn,
/ Pennsylvania. who last week rendered hi:
/ resignation. in his letter TO President Cas-
/ satt of Nov. calls attention to the fac
| that he had served the company for fort,
| years. having entered the service roc
| man in an engineering corps. He said tina
| up 10 the present time he had been i'm con
tinued service. the last five years as il.
| general manager. The continuous strain
upon him for the past two years inciden
10 the large increase in business. territorial
! additions and responsibilities. which still
| exist. had. he said, told upon his health
To such degree that there was danger O.
| serious injury TO him unless relieved.
The Western Union will not be dependent
upon the decision of the United State.
court in the case now pending against tn,
| Pennsylvania for line between Pittsburs
! and New York. as the wires between Pitts
| burg and New York have been strung fol
| lowing the Buffalo, Rochester AZ Pittsburf
| and the Beech Creek road through Penn
| sylvania. work which has been in prog
ress for two months Ten wires are al
| ready up and seven more will be strung
| The opening or this new telegraph rout,
indicates that there is some ground for tn,
| report that the Goulds intend TO use tn,
Buffalo. Rochester & Pittsburg and tn,
Beech Creek as an Eastern connection Il
ha Wabash