The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-29
Personal. Local and General Notes.

The Lake Shore invested in new equip
ment in its last fiscal year S5Ss,OOO.
The Lake Erie & Western on Saturday
received the first of a number of new en-
Gines.
The Southern Indiana has contracted with
the Baldwin locomotive works for two
large freight engines.
The passenger earnings of the Lake Shore
its last hscal year were S6Soo,zoS, an IN
crease over the preceding year of $1,422,-
421
c. E. Schaff, general manager of the Big
Four, and j. A. Barnard, general manger
of the Peoria & Eastern. went to Chicago
yesterday.
The strength of the Monon stock is again
causing reports of change of control. As
the floating supply of stock is rather linn
tied il may be doubted.
Notice was received yesterday that the
election of the voluntary relief department
of the Pennsylvania lines west will be held
on Wednesday, May II.
]. F. Thomson. commercial agent of the
Santa Fe at Cincinnati, and j. Vallery,
general agent of the Chicago, Burlington
e. Quincy, are in the city.
Superintendent of Telegraph c. E. Nc
Kim and NJ. c. Grafton, of the Pennsyl-
vania, are going over the lines inspecting
interlocking switches and signals.
On the New York Central, last week,
a train of eight cars including five sleep
ing cars, was hauled 149 miles in 162 min
utes. From Rochester to Syracuse the 81
A ]. Kays, formerly yardmaster of the
Wabash at Peru. Ind, left yesterday for
the South to take charge as general yard
master at a point on the Southern Railway
at handsome increase in salary.
Superintendent Bushrod Taylor, of the
Louisville division of the Pennsylvania,
yesterday closed a contract for a double
arch stone bridge across Pleasant run, TO
cost $4,000. 1t will be sixty feet in length.
The Washburn, BAYFIELD, & Iron River
n Northern
cific for a consideration said to have been
Sl45,OCO, the deal being closed at St Paul.
The road has been in litigation for some
time.
The Big Four had two special trains of
Pullman tourists cars through Indianapolis
yesterday carrying United States troops en-
route from the Philippines TO Fort Thomas.
There were thirty-one cars in the two
trains.
Charles Mordaugh, of Cincinnati, who
represents the passenger department of the
ritory, is in the city. He still uses crutches
to get about, as result or rail- some
months ago.
The private car of Mrs. Hetty Green, the
richest woman in the world, arrived in
Philadelphia Saturday over the Penn
sylvania, and had on board the president
OF Mrs. Green's road and a party Of friends
from Pasadena.
T. Pennington, general manager of the
500 line, says trains will be running into
Bismarck over the Soo's new extension
by July l. He says there is no truth in
the report that the 500 line will build to
Aberdeen, S. D., or TO Hankinson, n. d.
The project of building a railroad bridge
at Detroit across the Detroit river is again
being agitated and it is stated that could
the Michigan Central and Crank Trunk
agree on a location the bridge would soon
be built. Each advocates a particular site.
Railroad men located at Atlanta have
adopted appropriate resolutions on the
death of w. H. Trezevant, who died at
/ L. r. ar
with the Southeastern Freight Association
several years as its joint cotton agent at
Atlanta.
The International Sunday-school Conven-
ton will hold its tenth anniversary In
from Indiana, Ohio. West Virginia, MIGHT
gan, New York and Pennsylvania have Sc
lected as their official route the chicago,
Burlington & Quincy.
President Woodford. of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton. has contracted for ten
locomotives for fast-freight service and
two passenger engines, the heaviest ever
purchased by that company, all TO be deliv-
| cred in September. The company has also
contracted for 100 additional coal cars
making the last order 900.
The recent test of the high-speed airbrake
of the Westinghouse Company has proved
! so satisfactOry-a special train running
eighty miles an hour being stopped IN 90. 500
Pennsylvania has authorized an approprla-
/ ton for equipping all of it's passenger trains
! with the improved brake.
! Andrew Carnegie takes much pride in the
! fact that he was the first to recommend
a steel rail weighing 100 pounds to the
| yard, and it was introduced against rul-
| ings of most traffic managers. This was
| when he working for a salary on the
| Pennsylvania. Now the Pennsylvania, the
| New York Central, the Lake Shore ana
! several other important lines where traffic
| is heavy are laying rails weighing lV0
pounds to the yard.
/ Pol inf Of
! the Pennsylvania Southwestern system,
| and Il. w. Demarest, superintendent of mo-
! tive power, were i'm the city yesterday 10
| confer with Superintendent Mansfield, OF
| the Indianapolis & Nincennes and Indian
apolis terminals, and Bushrod Taylor, SUI
! perintendent of the Louisville division. Mr..
! Peters says the cOmpany's new engines are
arriving. and they will soon be in shape to
handle all business offered.
The committee appointed to adjust sum
| mer tourist rates between Chicago and
| Minneapolis have fixed upon $l6 for the
| round trip. and from Kansas City to Min
neapols, the first fifteen days of June, July.
| August and ten days of September, will
| be $12.25. which is $l35 less than the regu-
| lar fare one way The Chicago Great
| Western had named a rate OF $3.50 round
| trip from Chicago to Minneapolis, but 1t
! is thought will fall in line on the SIS rate.
! member of the railroad committee of
the Legislature of Massachusetts, is draft
ing bill TO be presented to the next House
/ giving the New York, New Haven q Hart
! 1Ord authority 10 lease us lines 10 the
! Pennsylvania Railroad Company An i'm
/ preston prevails that if there is anything
| accomplished in this direction the property
| will be controlled in much the same man
| ner that the Pennsylvania controls the
| Chesapeake 81 Ohio and the Norfolk q
| Western.
The freight congestion of the Pennsyl-
| vania at Pittsburg is still troublesome.
| An official of the road says II is simply
| due to the overwhelming growth OF bust
ness, and the company is doing all in its
/ power TO relieve the situation Several
| hundred locomotives have been ordered.
which are arriving every week. Freight
! cars have been purchased, which viii cost
millions of dollars, and yards are being
enlarged at great expense to facilitate the
| car movement.
Henry V. Lucas. ticket agent of the
| Great Northern at Minneapolis, has Just
gone through the Bankruptcy Court In Chi
| cago. I'm his petition he admits liabilities
/ of $4,000, with no assets. The petition
/ also relates that twenty years ago he fell
heir to s., 100000, all of which he lost in
! speculation. The money was left TO him by
/ his father. Judge Lucas, of st. Louis The
/ young man. after losing his money, secured
| employment as a Pullman conductor and
| for time ran between St Louis and New
York over the Nandalia and pennsylvania.