The Indianapolis journal., 1902-08-16

the announcement. but has already Sc
fight for the business regardless of other
lines.
Alexander Hurford. of Canton. o.. is dead.
aged eighty-five years. In early life he was
Fort'Wayne & Chicago road and for years
an officer of the company.
The Wabash has given notice to the West
ern Passenger Association that II Will
make one-Way passenger rate between
St Louis and Kansas City, s. for the round
trip. due 10 the Chicago & Atoms late low
rate excursion.
President Hill. of the Great Northern,
and President Mellen, of the Northern Pa
ciflc, have assured the citizens or the Ia
coma and Seattle districts that 100000
will be expended in terminal and track i'm
provements at these points
Both the Wabash and the Illinois Cen
trial run within a few miles of Joliet H.
and both are making surveys for entrance
70 the city. The Wabash will enter from
the south and the Illinois Central from the
west, leaving its main line at Matteson.
Train employees of the Philadelphia &
Reading are petitioning for ten-hour-
shift instead OF twelve hours. On some
divisions this petition has already been
presented 70 the division superintendent,
who in turn refers ii to President Baer.
c. z. Carson has been appointed super
intendent Of terminals at ST. Louis or he
Missouri Pacific and the Iron Mountain
roads, vice James F. Jones resigned His
brother, w. s. Carson, succeeds the former
ci City. Sup9r'n'e"0e"' 0' terminals A N4'-'aS
Oficials Of the Pennsylvania confirm the
report of the purchase of the Cambria
Steel Company of the Republic ore mines
in Michigan, from which the ore will be
shipped direct to Johnstown and used in
the manufacture of steel rails for the
Pennsylvania.
Between now and Nov. l the Chicago,
passenger trains of five cars each, when the
company expects to open its new service
from Chicago to the Pacific via the South
ern Pacific from FL Paso. The cost OF the
trains is $3.50 600.
The forthcoming report of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford for the year ended
June 30 will show the years earnings 10
have been the largest in the roads history,
passenger receipts increasing over 100000,
and the income from freight was s2,0O0.0OO
In excess of the year ended June 30, 1901.
Officials Of the Pennsylvania deny the re-
ports or merging of the Chesapeake X
Ohio and the Norfolk & Western. and also
state that the recent reports OF large pur-
chases by the Goulds of bituminous coal
properties are wholly baseless, as are many
of the rumors of the Pennsylvania antag-
onizing the Goulds
Members of the executive committee of the
American Railway Association are holding
a session at Atlantic City, hearing the first
report of the operation of the per diem
pldn. Inc meeting is an important one dS
II marks the first step toward determining
the effectiveness of the new system. Dur
ing this session they will consider applica-
tions of individual car owners and indie
pendent lines.
The activity in the stock of the Toledo.
st. Louis & Western is attracting attention,
but the cause has not been announced.
The significant feature about the advance
is the fact that ii is the natural link for
connecting the St Louis & San Francisco
and the Chicago & Eastern Illinois. and
combined would practically duplicate the
most important part of the Wabash sys-
tenn.
General manager Barnard, of the Peoria
& Eastern, is confident that before year
passes no portion or the Big Four lines will
have a better track than has the p. & E.
| Engineers who run on the road before the
Big Four took control of the property, say
ii does not seem like the same track, so
much smoother is it. The improvements
now ma king are largely in new bridges, re-
ducing grades and eliminating curves.
Should the report that the Big Four has
secured control of the Chicago & South
eastern road prove correct 1t will do much
toward relieving the indianapolis ter
minals of the Big Four and shorten the
distance from number of points to the
east and west. There are stations on the
Chicago division of the Big Four where
twenty to thirty cars are loaded daily for
! Cleveland and the East, and these cars will
be brought to Lebanon, thence sent east
west as the case may be- The change
will create new business on the St Louis
! division, and will open TO the Big Four a
number OF coal mines, some of the best in
/ Indiana.
The home demand for locomotives is
! said to be greater than ever before and
] the enlargement of the locomotive works
| at Pittsburg and Schenectady is under con-
/ sderation. At present the American loco
| motive works is paying little attention
| TO foreign orders and is desrous of look
/ ing after such business more closely South
western roads are buying large numbers
| of new locomotives. The Missouri Pacific
/ has already this year received eighty-five
/ new locomotives and fifty additional are
| 10 be delivered before Jan. l. The Iron
/ Mountain has just received thirteen freight
/ locomotives, weighing 163 tons each, which
pull trains carrying 1900 to $500 tons of
| freight per train. and will receive twelve
more of the same type.