The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-02


Dan E. Payne. manager OF the Anchor
line, are on an extended Western trip pure
~ personal In its nature. The former while
absent will visit his son at Colorado
Springs.
II. II. Lane. superintendent Of the Mobile.
Jackson & Kansas City Railroad. has been
appointed general manager and assistant TO
President Fgs5t5 1T Merrill Mr I NJ N Lane Lane will Who be comes s1e-
from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa re
Railroad.
The Austrian Railroad Club. one of the
most successful railway organizations in
the world, has just celebrated its twenty
fifth anniversary. The club has a weekly
newspaper and large numbers OF social
functions. The railroad minister OF Aus
tria attended the celebration.
Col. 3. w. Wren, passenger traffic man
ager Of the Plant system. says the Flor
ida tourist traffic the past winter has
broken all records, an average OF fifty
FIVE sleeping cars having been hauled daily
ove- that system. Not less than 10000 tour
lists visited Florida during the season.
General Manager Waldo. of the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton, has prevailed
upon b. w. Fenton. superintendent of
the Findlay division of the c., H. * D.,
who was 10 have retired yesterday, 10 re-
main another month. and there Is a posi-
bility that he may remain with the COM
pany.
the average Qenclt or the ENdnSNllie q
indianapolis for six years past has been
$1,000 per annum, and payment of such a
deflclt by the Evansville & Terre Haute
Is a serious burden. The amount of dencit
Tor Its last fiscal year was sos, the road
earning less than a. per cent. of its fixed
charges. which are S153, COO.
Reports that a number of firemen on the
Nlckel-plate have resigned on account OF
the introduction of the large locomotives
recently put in service is denied by Off
Gals of the road. The story arises from the
fact that two or three firemen have left
the Nlckei-plate and taken service on the
f1ttsourg, Fort Wayne * Chicago.
The earnings of the Wabash continue
highly satisfactory. Last years earnings
were $17,554. 465. and this year they will
reach $lS,55O,O00 without doubt. against SILL
6,7Sl in 1897. Sl3, 2O7. S63 in 1898. S14.39S,91
in 1899, SIG. 440. $40 in 1900. and 81, 554. 463 last
year. The earnings the present year have
thus far exceeded expectations of the own
ers of the property.
The Richmond branch of the American
locomotive works has delivered TO the Colo
RADIO Southern five of the fifteen heavy To-
comotives recently ordered. The engines
are so heavy that they are transported on
fifteen miles an hour. The engine weighs
102 tons, and in it's transportation is not
coupled with the tank.
1t was announced at Cumberland. Md.
yesterday that Senator w. A. Clark, of
Montana, and George j. Gould have each
subscribed $1,000, 600 toward a plan for con-
solidating the Wabash and West Virginia
Central railroads and building a trunk line
to the Atlantic seaboard. Richard e. Ker-
ems has been raising subscriptions, and
some days ago had secured 100000.
On the overland flyer of the Chicago &
Northwestern, the Union Pacific and the
Southern Pacific only first-class tickets will
be honored, and no private cars hauled
under any circumstances. The one-way
fare, Chicago to San Francisco, is $12.J0;
price of single berth. $l4: a section, $2S,
! and a nFlVatp commandment so The high
est class accommodations, drawing room,
will cost $50.
A number of Big Four and Lake Erie &
Western passenger men went TO Muncie
last evening to be present at the opening
of the new joint passenger station at that
point. w. Z. Deppe, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Big -Four, made the
principal address. III. M. Bronson, assist
ant general passenger agent, and H. j.
Rhein. general passenger agent of the Lake
Erie * Western. were present.
Official notice of withdrawal from the
Western Passenger Association was given
yesterday by the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific Railroad. No reason was assigned,
but IL is supposed the recent Investigations
by the Interstate-commerce Commission OF
pooling among the Western roads is the
cause. Notice was given that the road
would still retain its membership in the
clergy and mileage-ticket bureaus.
The Trunk-line Passenger Association has
concurred in the action of the Contra
passenger ASSOCIATION as 10 u. y. *. rates
to Washington, and rate clerks will meet
in Chicago to-day to compile fares on the
basis of one cent a mile. The minimum fare
for the round trip between Central Pas
senger Association points and Washington
will be 80. In this connection a specia'
rate to New York is given. This is fixed al
SO plus the q. A. r. rates to Washington.
When the report that W.. X. Vanderbilt
was to be made president of all the Van
derbilt lines of railway was shown to Sena-
tor Depew he remarked that il was a
novelty 10 him and that if such a radical
change were to be made he would probably
have heard something Of it. Neither Is II
true. says Senator Depew, that Martin
Hughitt ~contemplates retiring from the
presidency of the Chicago q Northwestern
and that Mr.. Vanderbilt will succeed him.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has affirmed
the judgment OF the lower courts sustain
ing the provision made by vote of the
electors Of Cincinnati for the extension for
sixty-five years of the lease of the Cincin-
natl Southern Railway and for the issue of
bonds for additional terminal facilities.
This establishes beyond recall the future OF
the city's road extending from Cincinnati
to Chattanooga and provides material bet
terments for its operation at Cincinnati.
The Baltimore & Ohio has withdrawn It's
through service between Cleveland and
Washington, and two Baltimore & Ohio
trains leaving Cleveland daily are aban-
doned. In their place a new form of ticket
is being printed. which will he sold on the
Erie and the Baltimore & Ohio offices, by
which the Erie will handle the business
out of Cleveland for the Baltimore & Ohio
as far as Pittsburg, where connection viii
be made with Baltimore & Ohio through
trains.
A new epoch in the manufacture of steei
rails is promised through inventions OF
w. e. Coyan. OF the Carnegie Steel Com
paDy. A process providing for harder raj
heads and other advantages which he has
perfected is announced by the inventor, il
being used at the Edgar Thomson works
with pronounced success. An order fol
100. 900 tons has been placed with the stipu.
lation that they be made under the new
process. 1t is claimed that a rail will wear
a third TO one-half longer with these hard
er ends.
RIGHTS OF STOCKHOLDERS.