The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-03


curtail their improvements. AS conse-
quence net earnings for the month OF May
make very favorable exhibits.
Samuel Spencer president of the South
ern railway Company, when in Washlng-
ton Monday. stated that the road will be
double-track between Washington and At
lanta, and that s25. .0co0 will be spent on
betterments. including double-tracking. The
Washington division will be the first por-
ton OF the road to be double-tracked.
So popular Is the library service on the
Grand Trunk that IL has been decided TO
equip all its parlor cars with the service
supplied by Philadelphia house. Each
car will contain twenty-five TO fifty of the
latest books by we'll known authors. aces
sloie to all passengers in those cars. The
conductors or parlor cars Will be custodldns
Of the books and will act as librarians.
The earnings of the Erie for April make
a very respectable showing. The gross IN
crease was $1,000 OF which 500 was
ieaVnT n o eain of St wSaS The large
increase in working expenses Is explained
Dy improvements and betterments which
were charged to account. Moreover, April
compared with a very favorable month In
1902.
Josiah Calef Bartlett, superintendent of
the relief department of the c. 3. Q.
Railroad. is dead of hemorrhage OF the
well known in railroad circles, was grad
uate of Harvard class of 1869 and was
born in South Berwick. Me-, 1916 He was
a grandson OF Josiah Bartlett, who was
one OF the signers of the Declaration OF
Independence.
The time table of the Pennsylvania lines
which went into effect on Sunday Is prov
ming on schedule. This is particularly true
OF the new fast trains between New York
and st. Louis and Chicago, all of which ar
rived at all points exactly on time Ofh-
Aa1 <haf hA n a
ments will work for the betterment of traf-
flc conditions well more accurate
freight movement.
The volume of business the Terre Haute
& Logansport is doing is surprise to the
Pennsylvania Company, which owns the
property. The Pennsylvania is turning
over to the road at Plymouth a large tom
mage Of freight for the southwest, and the
Baltimore & Ohio, which crosses the line
at Lapaz is also d big feeder to the road.
Since operated by the present management
there has been a large increase In local
business on the line.
The fast run over the Lake Shore and the
Lake Erie & Western Monday, bringing the
Weber-Fields opera troupe, numbering
las people, from Chicago to Indianapolis,
and the proposition to establish through
service between these points as soon as
improvements in progress on the Lake Erie
& Western are completed have created
quite a stir In local passenger circles, and
some opposition to allowing this road to
establish such service is manifesting itself.
1t is not generally known that the cost
of a Pullman car of the ordinary type is
now considerably greater than the highest
price for locomotive. The range OF prices
on locomotives is from $4,000 to 81. 000
while the ordinary Pullman sleeper rarely
costs less than $4,000, and In many in
stances much more; Especially is this true
of private cars, which all the roads now
own in considerable numbers for the use
of their officials. These cars cost from $780,
600 to $4,000, and there are travelling palaces
vhi at 70 in, n
The men In the car department shops Of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton at Day.
ton and Cincinnati have asked an advance
in pay from 17IR cents to 20 cents per hour
or 81 and 81. 35 per day of ten hours, and an
eight-hour Saturday with full pay c. H.
Cory, superintendent of motive power, Of
fered an advance of l cent an hour, but
this was refused and the car men have ap-
pointed a committee to carry the matter to
the higher officials. The officials OF the road
have just completed a five weeks siege In
adjusting wage scales with employees In
other lines of work.
The Lackawanna road has had minia-
ture locomotive on exhibition in the window
of the company's office in New York. The
locomotive, with its tender is one Of the
smallest of it's kind in the world which
will actually draw human being, and was
constructed In the Lackawanna shops at
Kingsland. 1t is standard eight-wheel
American type with for coupled drivers. In
length it measures five feet and four inches
and in width eighteen inches. The cylinders
are two inches in diameter, with a stroke
of four inches. The boiler is strongly
constructed of steel and has been subjected
to test of 400 pounds pressure to the
square inch. The engine complete weighs
only 600 pounds.
AT the meeting of general baggage agents
at Lake Rousseau, June IL and is, some i'm
portant questions will come up for discus
sion. 1t is understood that the baggage
agents will make an effort to adopt uni
form checks for handling this material
They will also try to get practical design
for way bills. Another question that will
come up is charge for transferring corpses
other baggage. This question has created
diversity of opinion. and will doubtless
result in some interesting discussion. Those
agents interested in the st. Louis worlds
fair business will hold a special conference
to devise the most satisfactory method Of
handling baggage during the exposition
next year. An entirely new system will be
introduced.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
filed at Baltimore it's answer, accompanied
by the affidavit of President Alexander j.
Cassatt to the suit of the Western Union
Telegraph Company for injunction to
restrain the railroad company from re-
moving the Western Union poles and wires
from the line of the Baltimore: Washing
ton & Philadelphia Railway. The answer
sets forth that the right Of the Western
Union to maintain its poles and wires on
the property of the railroad company ex-
pired June /, 1902; that the telegraph COM
pany was given six months notice to re-
move them. 1t denied that the Western
Union had any rights in the matter be-
yond those conferred by the terms of the
case will be heard by Judge Morris on
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