The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-25


contemplation. Several features OF the
present organization are contrary to the
spirit OF the interstate commerce act.
The March number Of the Black Diamond
Express Magazine Valley road contains
variety of miscellaneous matter and has
a history Of the career of President cas-
satt, OF the Pennsylvania, with an excellent
portrait.
]. H. Kerr has been appointed superin-
tendenI OF the American Refrigerator
transit Company, vice j. L. Deaderlck, re-
signed, and G. A. Carver succeeds Mr.. Kerr
as general agent of the company at Mill
waukee.
The new shops that the Canadian Pacific
will erect at Montreal will be the largest
and most complete in America. There will
be fourteen buildings, arranged much the
same as the new shops of the Lake Shore
near Cleveland.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific has
created quite a stir among the transcon-
unental lines by announcing that It's one
way California colonist tickets will be good
to stop off at any California point within
the limit of the ticket.
Seth Harlow, one of the oldest conduc-
tors on the Erie. running into Huntington,
Ind, was buried yesterday, he dying from
the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain.
His burial took place under the auspices of
the Order of Railway Conductors.
Ralph Peters. general superintendent of
the Pennsylvania Southwestern system,
was in the city yesterday inspecting ter
making the contemplated improvements 10
the uptown ticket office, which will be quite
extensive.
The reelection of George w. Kittredge,
as president of the American Railway En-
cheering and Maintenance of Way Asso-
citation, is looked upon very compliment
tary TO that gentleman. who has made an
enviable record as chief engineer of the
Big Four lines.
Division superintendent of the Pennsyl-
vania lines west will meet in Pittsburg
tomorrow for conference. Nj. w. Mans
field, superintendent of the Indianapolis
q Nincennes, and Il. w. Taylor, superin-
tendent of the Louisville division, will leave
for Pittsburg this afternoon.
The heads of the mechanical departments
of the Vanderbilt lines will meet in Buffalo
intendents and division superintendent are
invited to attend. William Garstang, su-
perintendent of motive power of the Big
-Four, will leave for Buffalo tonight.
Nothing further will be done on the wage
question by Big Four employees, it is stat
ed. until the return of President ingalls,,
which will be in a few days. The engineers
ask the same pay as is given to the same
line of service on the Lake Shore road. No
trouble is looked for over the question at
issue.
On Saturday the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne
q Chicago put i'm use six miles of second
track between Kirby and Forest. and to-
morrow will add three miles more. The
work of double tracking the line between
Pittsburg and Chicago is now far advanced
and will be completed doubtless the present
year.
The Wabash will expend considerable
money the present season at Fort Wayne,
among other things putting in "A locomotive
turntable of 20 tons capacity and seventy
feet long. Yesterday the company put two
construction trains at work distributing
ballast on the New Haven-Butler connect
ing link
1t is stated that as soon as the Indiana,
l epc frrr e OF cot
tension completed il will run solid train
between Cincinnati and Springfield, con-
meeting closely with the new short link the
Chicago X Alton Is building from Spring
field TO Roodhouse, greatly shortening the
line between Chicago and Kansas City
1t was officially announced to-day that
| NJ. Gilleas, assistant general superin-
tendent of the Illinois Central Railroad
south of the Ohio river, has been appointed
third vice president and general superin-
tendent of the YaZoo and Mississippi Valley
Railroad with headquarters AT Memphis.
Major Gileas will assume his new duties on
April l.
on the report that the Evansville & Terre
Haute was to declare "A dividend on its
common stock this month. considerable
stock changed hands, but il failed to mate
rialize. The executive committee recommend
ed it, and that it be per cent. but the di-
rectors did not concur. The stock advanced
To 743s, and has now dropped over ten
points.
j. T. Hollenbeck, district passenger agent
OF the Louisville & Nashville who has been
visiting i'm the city for a few days, left for
Atlanta last evening. He says the new
dning-car service is doing much to increase
travel and is admitted TO be all that could
be desired. The company will order six
more cars of the same class for service on
its trains.
The Kansas City Watkins G. Gulf Rail-
road was sold yesterday for S1.OO0OO0 to
Edward III. Blanc, of the Farmers Loan
and Trust Company. of New York The
oa ma II he
road will be reOrganiZed under the name
of the st. Louis. Watkins q Gulf. j. b.
Watkins will be president II. b. Kane
vice president and general manager, and j.
s. Thomson secretary and treasurer.
Robert Geiger will. on April !, complete
his forty-tifth year in railroad service, he
beginning as a clerk of the Bee line i'm 1857;
in 1866 he came to Indianapolis as freight
agent. holding that position until 1915. when
he accepted the position of general freight
agent of the Jeffersonville, Madison q
Indianapolis. holding the place until 1898.
when he was appointed Southern agent of
the Pennsylvania, with an office at Atlanta,
Ga.
w. A. Garratt, recently appointed general
superintendent Of the Philadelphia & Read
ing road. has appointed Charles A. Beach
superintendent of the New York division.
and j. b. Warrington superintendent of the
Philadelphia division. Mr.. CARAT entered
railroad service as ticket agent on the Ohio
d Mississippi in 1876; Mr.. Beach in 1872
was a waterboy on the train on the Troy
Boston ROAD, and Mr.. warrington was a
car cleaner at Port Clinton twenty-five years
ago.
The Grand Rapids & Indiana road has
begun operations i'm its gravel pit, just
northwest of Richmond, Ind, for the sea-
son. Ii is the intention to gravel the main
road in place for a distance of fifteen
miles between Richmond and Fort Wayne.
A new steam shovel is in use, and the
gravel is TO be unlOaded by means of a
wire cable attached to a large double
shared pillow and pulled the length Of the
train by a locomotive while the cars are
standing.
For the first time since Feb. 2S, when two
bridges on the main line between Wilkes
barre and Mauch Chunk were washed away
by the floods which occurred at that time,
the Lehigh Valley Railroad yesterday re-
sumed its regular passenger and freight
schedule. The company has been operating
over the Central line OF New Jersey from
Mauch Chunk and Wilkesbarre, and this
necessitated the abandonment of two trains
the Black Diamond express and the train
known as the Buffalo and New York night
express. Beginning yesterday, these two
trains were restored 70 the schedule, and
the company is operating its own line TO
Philadelphia and New York.
Pensions for Veterans.