The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-24


will cost over 10000.
The Big Four and the Pennsylvania will
on Sunday resume excursions between
Cleveland and Columbus, alternating each
week
F. A. Meek, clerk i'm the Office of the
trainmaster OF the Panhandle, has been APP
pointed agent OF the company at GREEN
field. Ind.
William Evans. for fifteen years foreman
OF the Dehigh Valley shops at Buffalo, mas
accepted much better position with the
New York Central.
On May i the Seaboard Airline and the
Macon, Dublin & Savannah will establish
through passenger service between Ma
con and Savannah.
The Baldwin locomotive works is build
ing for the Illinois Central some large At
lantic type of passenger locomotives, with
eighty-inch driving wheels.
The strike of Adams Express agents on
the Chesapeake K Ohio resulted IN the
closing OF forty-three offices in Virginia,
West Virginia and Kentucky.
Trains 20 and q. on the Pennsylvania and
Nandalia. are said TO be the best paving
trains that cross the Central States. ms
statement includes both passenger and
mail.
With the completion of it's interlocking
plant at the crossing of the Belt road, the
Vandalia can shorten its time between
indianapolis and Terre Haute another hVe
minutes.
II. VI. Metz mas Deen dppOlnleu COlHiutl-
cial agent of the Illinois Central at Mil
waukee vice G. II. Stearn, resigned, and
w. l.. Beattle succeeds Mr.. Metz at Coun-
ell Bluffs.
The Morgan and Hill people are said to
be working to increase the business or the
Erie, in which both promoters are largely
interested. A close combination OF interests
Is limited.
The foundation for, the new building be-
ing erected at Pitcairn, Pa, for the rail-
road branch of the Y. NJ c. A. will be com
menced this week. Work on the building
will be pushed.
The railroad branch of the Young Mems
! Christian Association at Logansport
realized from its series of lectures the past
winter g. 1880. with a net profit of $500.
Last year it Melted but $97 from lectures.
The Chicago Great Western Will spend
/ the present year 50 100000 for reducing
| grades new rails. doubling track, renewing
! bridges and purchasing new engines all or
which will enable the introduction or great
| er economies.
! A. Galloway. whose term as superintc nd
| emf of the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton s
| Cincinnati and Indianapolis division expires
| May /, has arranged to take trip 10
| California, accompanied by his wife, TO be
| absent one month.
| The Wabash is gathering material for its
| Pittsburg extension in the way or hundreds
of thousands of ties. has purchased It's
rails. and. as soon as tunnels ana elevated q
| tracks are completed work Will De pushed
| with the greatest haste.
The Monon earned in the second week of
| April S9O,57S, against $S5.SS9 in the CORE
! spending week of 1901, and against N6,lll
in 1900 Since July the INCREASE Sc this his year
beginning July l, 1901, is $34l,S49
Last Saturday there were transferred
| from "A steamer at Buffalo into cars OF
the New York Central 10000 bushels oil
grain, and il was hauled from Buffalo To
! New York and placed on board an ocean
steamer ready for sailing on Monday night
Superintendent Stoors. of the Lake Erie
! & Western, has begun pushing improve
| ments steam shovel is at work at Bee
| son pit north of Connersville, and is load
| ing $50 cars per day of gravel ballast, which
| is being distributed by five trains OF TWEEN
| ty-fve cars each.
1t is reported that Charles Watts. gen
eral superintendent of the Pennsylvania
| TRANSFORMATION department west. is to be
| promoted to assistant general manager, and
will be succeeded in his present position
| by the general superintendent of the But
falo and Allegheny division
| Negotiations are pending between the
| Pennsylvania and the Chicago, burlington
! & Quincy for establishing through service
| from New York to the Pacific coast. Thai
the Pennsylvania intends TO invade Wabash
| territory and that of the Vanderbilt lines is
| daily becoming more apparent
The volume of traffic into the Northwest
| is unprecedentedly heavy, and the Great
Northern and the Northern Pacific are
troubled to furnish equipment TO take care
| of the business The movement seems tc
be general and continuous and Is adding
materially to the passenger revenue.
The Hartman syndicate has called q
halt on the proposed extension of the Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacifcs new line tC
Fort Worth and Galveston, and If the RocH
Island goes ahead trouble is looked for. as
IL will be in large measure a parallel line
of the Houston e. Texas, which the Gouid'
are now paralleling.
G. H. Waldo superintendent of car serv
10 q
was i'm the city yesterday. He states tina
the company has contracted for 20 Goa
cars, which, when in service, Will give
IL 1866 coal cars and a total freight equip
ment of over 1900 cars, the largest equip
ment per mile of any road in this sec
ton.
Thomas Schumacher, traffic manager o:
the Oregon Short-lire has been, selected
for appointment as traffic manager of the
Short line and the Oregon Railway q NaVl
cation Company, with headquarters elthel
at Salt Lake or Portland. The position o
traffic manager OF the oregon Railway q
Navigation Company has been vacant since
the appointment of Benjamin Campbell Il
be assistant to Traffic Director j. g Stuops
of the Hartman system, at chicago.
There was a meeting yesterday in this
| CITY of messenger men of the Big Four anC
the Vandalia to arrange Tor sunday eX
| cursions between Indianapolis and Terri
Haute for the season commencing May
the roads alternating in the service. Iher'
were present at the meeting w. +. Deppe
c. L. Hilleary and II. NJ Bronson, assist
ant general passenger agents of the Bis
Four; George Harrington, general agent o
the Vandalia, and John Chesborough as
sistant general passenger agent.
F. a Gould, superintendent of the east
ern division of the Wabash, announces
merit and demerit marks for March, a!
| follows: Engineers Mellvill, King and Cain
ten merit marks for good service, and de
merit marks as follows: Five conductor;
| and five brakemen for carelessness ant
| violation of rules; four switchmen for de
LAYING trains; one baggagemaster and TIVE
| agents for carelessness; two telegraph op
| orators for improper handling of messages
three clerks for inattention TO duty; on
hostler and one porter for carelessness
seven engineers and three firemen for in
attention to engine: one operator was dlS
missed for unsatisfactory service.
The Chicago Record-Herald says th
| morning: 1T has been decided by the man
agement OF the Lake Shore TO remove TN
general offices of the company from Cleve
land to Chicago The change VIII TAX
place as soon as the new Lake Snore-R oci
| island depot is completed. With a view e
| accommoda ting the Lake Shore ofhcial
and corps of employees the plans or the new
depot have been materially changed an'
the building will consist of twelve instea'
! of eight stories. AS now planned the depo
will cost nearly 100000 and will be on
! of the largest and handsomest structures O
the kind in the United States. IL Is esu
mated that the new depot will be ready 70
occupation Jan. /, 1903"