The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-24

derstood that Freight Conductor Sullivan
will be appointed his successor.
General Superintendent Marshall of the
Lake Shore. has begun the work of equip
ping the line with block signals for every
mile. An illustration of the system Mr.
Marshall proposes was seen recently be-
tween Cleveland and Ashtabuia, where the
Lake Shore hauls forty-nine trains over nifty
miles of track in one hour.
d. c. Moon, superintendent of the Lake
Erie x Western has already made himself
popular with the employees of the road In
all departments. He has kind and gen.
tlemanly way OF announcing his ideas OF
railroading, intinnating where improvements
can be made the part of employees,
which invariably secures the good will OF
the employees.
The Chicago Rock Island & Pacific has
announced that il will haul cotton tal-raiD
TO the New England seaboard and that il
viii waive the 2-cent differential insurance
The rate through Galveston Is cents lower
than the all-rail route. The Mallory steam
ship line has taken UP the Rock Islands
announcement, and cotton-rate war is
likely TO result.
The resignation of ]. A Blake. assistant
general freight agent of the Minneapolis
& St Louis. resulted in several changes
which will become effective on Monday.
c. p. Eastman, recently appointed CONNER
cial agent at st. Paul, will succeed to Mr..
Blake's position, and Raymond Kelly flour
freight contracting agent, will take Mr..
Eastman's position as commercial agent.
1t is officially stated that the report that
the Baltimore &c Ohio Railroad will eventu-
ally be a four-track system between Chi
cago and New York is correct Plans have
been prepared for this undertaking for the
whole system, and the completion awaits
only the appropriation of funds. One of the
first lines TO be four-tracked will be that
between Pittsburg and Connellsville, and ii
is stated the improvement includes Cleve-
land, that being the only one of the three
largest cities of Ohio for which the Balti-
more & Ohio has no direct main line, now
hadling the traffic via Akron.
w. c. Van Horne has rapidly come to the
was on the Wabash. He was then taken
up by the owners of the Canadian Pacific
and made general superintendent. then gen.
eral manager. then president, and is now
chairman of the board of directors and is
also president of the Cuban Railway, a road
300 miles in length, extending from Santa
Clara TO San Lorenzo. This road is owned
by the men who own the Canadian Pacific
Thomas Shaughnessey, now president of
the Canadian Pacific. was also at one time
connected with the Wabash and ranks high
as a railroad official.
The Wabash Railroad Company has begun
improvements on its property at Peru
which, when completed, Will cost $125,OOO.
A new roundhouse containing twelve stalls
will be erected, which will accommodate
the large new engines, and an eighty-foot
turntable will also be installed. The work
OF demolishing the roundhouse at Andrews
will be taken up at once. and the bricks
will be shipped to Peru to be used in the
new building. The new turntable will be
propelled by gasoline engine, and the
company's shops well yards at that
point viii be enlarged. An electric power
plant will be built and installed throughout
the buildings and yards.
Lake Shore officials, in commenting on the
death of I. S. Lindsey, who had been con-
nected with the Lake Shore for fifty years,
said that Mr.. Lindsey was one of the oldest
and best known railroad men in the coun-
try. and was vigorous for a short period
prior to his death One of the strangest
things in his career was his intimate aSSo-
citation with Mr.. Bartlett, paymaster, who
retired from active service when eighty
years old. The two, having worked to-
gether, decided TO retire from active service
about the same time. Paymaster Bartlett
died last month, and on Monday Mr.. Lind
sey passed away.
The Nickel-plate, which has been classed
as differential line for ten years, will now
be obliged to sell tickets to Chicago for the
same price as its competitors. Ever since
the opening of the worlds fair the Nickel
plate had been permitted by the Central
Passenger Association to sell tickets at
lower rate than competing lines, because it
did not run as many trains and was not
strong competitor Another change which
will be made is doing away with second
class fares. AT present there is a first and
privilege a passenger enjoys while the
former is not largely different from that
enjoyed by a second-class passenger, con-
second-class fares in Central Traffic Asso-
oio