The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-19

money will be spent in double tracking
and cutoffs. The construction companies
will establish employment bureaus at Chey
enne, Denver, Ogden and Omaha to secure
men as fast as possible.
r. M. Case, assistant general passenger
agent of the Lake Erie & Western, has ten
dered his resignation and contemplates
going to Mexico to look after some mining
interests. Mr.. Case during his official serv-
ice on the L. E. w. made many per-
sonal warm friends who will regret to hear
that he is to leave the road.
The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern is
having considerable trouble from high water
In southern Indiana. Heretofore the trouble
has been farther west, and large sum of
for a considerable distance above high
water mark. and on that portion of the line
the company has had no trouble.
The Railway Club. of Pittsburg. has been
organized but one year aso and ALREADY ;e ,a has
meetings addresses are given by prominent
mechanics. This week z. w. Summers
read paper on steel cars without center
SILL a phase of steel car construction which
is a radical departure from the methods
now in use-
Pennsylvania Train II, the fast mail from
Pittsburg. made a fast run between Rich
The time from Richmond to Indianapolis,
a distance of sixty-eight miles, was sixty
eight minutes: the distance from the v
tower to the Belt, sixty-four miles, was
made in fifty-eight minutes. Engineer
Stultz made one stop and three slowdowns.
The passenger department of the Santa
Fe has issued charming views of the Grand
approaches at Bright Angel, where stop
over tickets are granted. This titanic
chasm lies in northern Arizona and is
and more than mile deep. The portion
most frequented by tourists is known as
the granite gorge.
E. o. Mccormick passenger traffic man.
ager of the Southern PACIFIC, calls atten-
ton to the fact that their San Francisco
ticket office, which is purely a Southern
Pacific and not a Joint office of any char
acter, sold over the counter during twelve
consecutive months tickets OF the value of
$3, ,s21 52.06, and he questions IL there is
any single ticket Office In the world which
can equal these figures
The Bessemer & Lake Erie has piece of
track resting on steel ties put In fourteen
years ago. and It is apparently as solid as
when put in. The rail is fastened to the
ties by bolts and clips the former being
aas Is sas and it is
lieved the experiment forecasts the general
use of steel ties eventually. In fact the
Pennsylvania has ten miles now laid with
much the same style OF tie.
Henry E. Stone, long a resident of Elk
hart but temporary resident Of Ypsilanti,
Mich, has just resigned as Lake Shore
seventy-five, and will be given a less ardu-
Gus task at Elkhart as soon as the position
is determined upon. Mr.. Stone was born
in Seneca county, Ohio, on Sept 2S. 1925.
and after running locomotives on pioneer
Ohio roads took service with the Lake
Shore in 1851. Going West in 1855, he re-
turned to the Lake Shore service in 1860,
left again in 1865. and returned in 1867 to
remain with the company until the present.
An unexpected step taken by the
Southern Pacific Railway Tuesday at Nash
vile when the attorneys for the corpora
ton moved United States Circuit Judge
Lurton for an amendment TO the restrain
ing order granted on March 13, so as 10
change Article 1 of the bylaws of the cor
poration by striking out lin the city of
New York." where they first occur and in
serting the words "at the Office of the COM
pany in Beechmont Jefferson county The
motion, If allowed, will have the effect OF
putting the litigation. as affecting the
Southern Pacific road, wholly within the
the Western district Of Kentucky. The mo-
ton will be heard by Judge Lurton in cham
bers at Nashville. Tenn. next Saturday
The leading British railroad men who are
now in this country inspecting railways
were in Pittsburg yesterday and visited
the steel works and many other estab-
lishments which manufacture railway sup
plies and equipment After leaving Pitts
burg the party VIII continue its journey
west. visiting number of notable manu-
featuring Institutions and observing the
roadways and terminals of various com
panes. The trip of these officials Is said
TO have been suggested by report recently
made by one of the highest officials OF the
British government. who spent several
! months in the United States examining
American methods OF operating railways.
equipment and pertinent subjects He COM
mends the fiexibility OF the American loco
motive as compared with the rigid locomo-
l-tives used in England, and states that IL
relief Is TO be given 10 British manufac-
service the roads must adopt the heavier
load weights OF American cars.