The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-14

the city yesterday he reports the shops
very busy and the men working overtime.
The directors OF the Philadelphia & Erie.
a pennsylvania line. at their annual meet
Ing on Wednesday decided 10 double track
the road from Heating to Emporium, thirty
miles. the present year.
James Zelby will be seventy years old
on Feb % and will on that date be retired
under the pension plan of the Pennsyl
Vania. He has been in the employ OF the
company since twenty years of age.
V. T. Malott, receiver. +. r. DarIow. as
sistant 10 the receiver, and Harry Miller,
general manager of the Nandalia who have
been out on the lines a couple of days, will
return from St. Louis this morning.
Oscar Murray, vice president of the Bal
timore * Ohio. who has been at a sana-
torium at Hot Springs, Ark. for some
weeks, has practically recovered his health
and will leave tomorrow for Baltimore.
c. F. DAILY, general passenger agent, and
Samuel Il. Sweet, general freight agent
in Chicago for three days attending meet
ings, are expected at headquarters this
morning.
The Fort Wayne lodge of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen held a special
meeting yesterday, which T. r. Dodge
grand vice master of the brotherhood at
tended, and a number of new candidates
were initiated.
Arthur Hale. assistant general manager
of the Baltimore x Ohio, has been chosen
TO succeed j. Il. Hutchinson, general man
ager Of the Pennsylvania, as chairman of
the car service committee of the American
Railway Association.
The balance sheet of the New York, New
Havens& Hartford for the year ended Dec
81 shows a profit and loss surplus of s13. 123.-
529, nearly one million dollars in excess of
the preceding year. The transportation
earnings in 1901 were so 226.7 1856.
G.. w. McCaskey, district passenger agent
OF the Great Northern at Toronto. has
been transferred to st. Paul and his terri
tory divided between District Passenger
Agents Hardisty at Montreal, Mason az
Buffalo and Whitaker at Detroit.
The following changes are announced on
the Big Four lines: H S. Dickey, for
eighteen years agent Of the Big Four at
ceeded by r. =. Jackson, of Carbon A. l..
West succeeds Mr.. Jackson az Carbon.
The Pittsburg & Lake Erie on Wednesday
put into operation a block signal system
between Pittsburg and College. The length
nails Is 1887 miles, an increase of 90 per
cent over one year ago, and before the
close of the year 1900 miles will be provided
with block signal service.
The railroad branch of the Young Mems
Christian Association at Fort Wayne is
one OF the most prosperous in the State
and has under contemplation the erection
of new and larger building on a site 1t
owns in the best part of that city. The
organization Is eighteen years old and at
Its monthly meeting this week received
nineteen new members
y dispatch from San Francisco to the
effect that a merger of the leading ex-
press companies, including the Adams,
American, United States and Wells-FargO
companies, might be arranged was shown
to President Weir of the Adams Express
Company. Mr.. Weir said the report was
not correct. Such thing had not been
contemplated, he said, so far >as he knew.
The Pennsylvania, New Jersey & New
York Railroad Company, with capital Of
w RAT cd lo1a Low
OF New Jersey yesterday. Its object is the
construction of a tunnel under the Hudson
river between Jersey City and New York.
All the lncorpOrators are prominent officials
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
which is the real promoter Of the project.
President Baer, of the Philadelphia &
Reading, makes a statement which definite
~ DENIES the status or the relations be-
tween his road and the Pennsylvania and
the Baltimore q Ohio, and with equal de-
cisiveness disposeS of the rumor of a lease
of the Reading by either of the roads
named. He has no hesitancy in saying that
the relations between the Reading and the
Pennsylvania are entirely friendly.
The Eastern trunk lines are considering
the question of advancing passenger rates
between Chicago and New York on most of
the differential lines and abolishing second
class tickets. The proposition as it now
stands is to make a straight rate between
the points named over the Pennsylvania
and New York Central of $50, over the Bal
timore x Ohio, the West Shore, Lacka-
wanna and the Lehigh Valley SIS. and over
the Erie and the Ontario q Western ST..
Paul Morton vice president OF the Santa
Fe, states that the company will eXpend
$l2,01O,O00 for power and equipment, which
is made necessary by the rapid increase
in passenger and freight traffic on all parts
of the system. The company now has con-
tracts for 1900 freight cars, and will large
ly increase its passenger equipment 1t is
also putting down heavier steel rails, in
PRODUCING the block signal system and will
build a fine hotel at Grand Canyon, purpos-
ing to make it a popular resort for tourists.
The Union Station accommodations are
fully as inadequate to-day they were
fourteen years ago to handle the business
of the lines. Especially are the train sheds
too limited, both in length and width.
When the present sheds were built they
were arranged to hold sixteen trains, there
being eight tracks through the entire
length of the sheds. AT present an ordinary
through train occupies an entire track un-
der the shed, the trains being made up OF
ten to twelve cars, each seventy-tive feet
in length.
The Chicago, Zeigler & Gulf Railroad,
with a capital of 100000 was incorporated
at Springfield, H., yesterday. The princi-
pal offices will be in Chicago. 1t is to be
constructed from Chicago, ILL.,, in a south
and southwest direction through Zeigler.
Franklin county, Illinois, to Cairo, Ill, with
branches TO East st. Louis. ILL.,, and to the
northery shore of the Ohio river in Mas
sac county, Illinois. The incorporators and
first board of directors are: William j.
ney Stein and Henry r. Platt, all of Chi
cago.
General Manager Allen, of the Cincin-
natl, Richmond & Muncie road, says he
expects their trains will be running be-
tween Cincinnati and Chicago by July |,
possibly earlier. When it is considered
that it is now but eighteen months since
work was begun on the fifty-eight miles
between Cottage Grove and Muncie, it is
evident that there is a good deal of push
behind the enterprise. The Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton track is now used be-
tween Cottage Grove and Cincinnati, but
the management, when it gets into Chi
cago, will build into Cincinnati. In a few
weeks the company will have the road
completed to North Judson. From Ham
mond to Chicago the company proposes to
use the track of the Chicago Terminal
Company. 1t is understood that when COM
pleted the company will be reorganized as