The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-02
decrease of s1,5s3 The Evansville &
Terre Haute earned s26.964. an increase of

decrease OF sI,5ss The Evansville &
Terre Haute earned s26.964. an increase OF
800
The postal department has given instruc-
tions TO begin the annual Weighing OF
mail matter at the Union Station, lndi-
annapolis, beginning at midnight Tuesday
Samuel Stevens. for years general pas
senger agent of the Cincinnati. Hamilton
x Dayton, is lying at a hospital at Gin
cinnati, seriously i'll.
Charles A. Blinn travelling auditor of
the Cincinnati. Hamilton Dayton, who
has retired from the service of that COM
Pennsylvania at Pittsburg, was presented
by the employees in the auditors department
of the c., III. & ID. with a handsome and
expensive travelling bag.
The improvements that have been made
to the Lake Shore road between Ashtabula
and Youngstown, o., are shown in the
fact that five years ago the heaviest train
load was represented in twenty-fve cars
whereas last week trains of one hundred
cars of ore were hauled by single loco
motive.
The appointment of Claude V. Henry to
the position of joint ticket agent for the
Lake Shore and the Erie at Dunkrk, y.
y, is of more than ordinary interest
from the fact that Mr.. Henry is the third
e1a Id has mn ed the a to s
and was succeeded by John Bowen, who re-
tired yesterday.
The following changes in master me-
chanics on the Panhandle became effective
yesterday: NJ. Dunn has been appointed
master mechanic at Columbus. o.. vice L;
+. Butler, transferred to Indianapolis, and
s. w. Miller. who has been master me-
chanic at Indianapolis. is transferred to
Logansport, succeeding p F. Smith, trans
ferred TO Dennison.
The engineers of the different divisions
of the New York Central have been granted
8 per cent. increase in wages, the new
Ia hnfr .fr off for oh
men, conductors and trainmen were
granted an advance some weeks ago. A.
Fl. Smith, general superintendent, says
some 2.CO0 men will be affected by the ad-
vance in engineers wages.
A. B. Starr. general superintendent of
general freight transportation on the PENN
sylvania lines west, states that the COM
pany is now receiving an average or n1ty
steel gcndolas and fifty steel hoppers daily
from the Pressed Steel Car Company, and
the deliveries, according to contracts, VIII
continue for some weeks to come. he says
the greatest trouble, however, still con-
tinues in the matter of motive power.
Pennsylvania railroad officials deny three
separate stories of proposed IMPROVEMENTS
and extensions sent out by teIegf f fo uT.
track bridge across the Susquehanna at
Perryvile the building of a proposed belt
line in Baltimore and the extension OF It's
line further into the anthracite coal
region with the acquisition of additional
anthracite coal lines. Each of these stories
is absolutely denied.
A Vanderbilt special, consisting of two
private cars, two sleepers, an observation
and a combination baggage and parlor
car, passed over the Big Four last week,
en- route to Santa Barbara. CAL where the
party for whose benefit the special train
was run will spend several months. The
party consisted of DIR. William Seward
Webb, formerly vice president of the New
York Central. and wife, and several men,
bers of the Vanderbilt family.
1t has leaked out that the Wabash is
to have three yards at Pittsburg, all very
commodious. The first will be wide enough
for fifteen tracks, in which 1000 cars can
be stored The sites for the second and
third are a few miles farther west, and
each is about the same in extent The
yards at Greentree tunnel Will be used Tor
passenger business. In addition to thess
three yards, the Wabash will have also
| large city terminals. and its system OF
| steam-car ferrys will enable 1t to tap many
! industrial plants.
But few roads in the country, according
to mileage, are handling as much traffic
as is the Lake Shore. The increase In
! February over the same month last year
! in the number of loaded cars moved was
| fully $4,000 the road this year handling
over 100000 loaded cars. On one day 1851
| loaded cars were moved, anu, INCLUDING
| empties, engines of the Lake Shore hauled
| 1900 cars that day. The Lake Shore, like
| all the other railroads, Is unequal to the
| business which comes to IL, the lack oil
motive power being the greatest draw
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