The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-11

TO Purdue University, where he expects TO
complete a course In mechanical engineer
ing.
Officials of the Southern Pacific announce
that the 102 miles of railroad known as the
Lucin cutoff. which is being built across
Great Salt lake at cost OF SlS.OooOc0, Will
be ready for operation within the next six
months
The Illinois Central has brought about
friction in passenger rates with Cincinnati
and St Louis roads by making an SIS rate
from Cincinnati to Houston and other Tex
as points. and s14 TO New Orleans, available
Sept. Is and Oct 20
The three Atlantic type passenger en-
gines recently received by the Peoria q
Eastern have been limbered up in freight
service and were used in hauling the ex-
cursion trains on Monday. They will be
put into the regular service.
Work on the proposed line to divert the
through traffic of the Lake Shore road
around Cleveland will soon begin. A COM
pany was incorporated on Wednesday under
the name of the Cleveland Belt road. The
line will encircle Cleveland, although its
direct route is undecided.
William Garstang. superintendent of mo-
tive power of the Big Four. is out on the
lines completing his tour of the various
shops and looking into the question of pur-
chasing additional machinery. The shops
are all crowded with work. there being near
ly $500 men employed in this line of service.
The Big Four is making number of i'm
provements TO its property in Muncie. A
double track has been laid entirely through
the city for a distance OF about four miles.
This will be put into use in few days.
The Big Four freighthouse has been moved
back in the yards and extra sidings laid TO
accommodate the heavy freight traffic.
Albert B. Johnson, of the Baldwin loco
motive works, states that the railroads are
urging the specdiest possible delivery of To-
comotives. In the first six months of this
year there were built in this country 2,5OO
locomotives. and wnen the constant in
crease in size and power of locomotives
is taken into consideration 1t will be found
that this is considerable increase in the
motive power of the roads. He says the
locomotive built to-day is 60 per cent. more
powerful than that built ten years ago, and
80 per cent. greater than that built hve
years ago.
ceived the first consignment of new equip
ment ordered last month. The order COM
prises fifteen passenger locomotives. fifteen
freight locomotives, five pushers, nve
switching engines, fifteen passenger coaches
and six hundred box cars. The locomotives
will be built at the Brooks locomotive
works and will cost $4,000 each. The pas
senger coaches are of the most approved
type and will cost s12, 900 each; box cars,
$500 each. Officials of the company say that
when all this equipment is received they
will be in better shape to handle a larger
business than ever before in their history.
Announcement has been made that the
Chicago & Northwestern and the Pennsyl-
vania have decided to defer for year at
tracks along Kinzie street, Chicago. The
reason assigned is the increased price OF
labor and material and the impossibility
of having the latter delivered for the much
needed Improvement. 1t was expected work
would be well under way by this time, but
when the work of securing material was
cost, owing to labor troubles, would pre-
clude the feasibility of starting these gil
gantic tasks.
While railroads interested In transport
ing export grain to the Atlantic Seaboard
and the shippers concerned in the business
are struggling with the rate problem they
have found occasion to pause and reflect
upon the statement just made by John c.
Fears, superintendent of the Illinois Gen.
trail elevator in New Orleans. He expresses
the opinion that the movement from the
this year than ever. The increase in corn
he places at 80 per cent. and OF flour 80
per cent. He says: I'VE have constantly
proved gu. our superiority and the shippers II p
denced by growing receipts"
At a meeting in New York of traffic man
ayers of the trunk lines a reduction of
cent per bushel on grain from Buffalo to
Sept 16. This will bring the rate down to
cents for wheat. ga cents for corn, cents
for oats and Sia cents for barley. The
reduction is said to be the result of
protests by New York grain merchants
against the high rates current to that port.
which. it was claimed. forced the
ports and Montreal. The new rates, which
were largely in the shape of a compromise,
will expire on Oct. Is. They will apply to
Boston and Philadelphia as we'll as New
York. Baltimore has differential of A
mills.
Special trains are becoming so frequent
now that they attract little attention un-
less they make record runs for long dis
tances, or unless there is some trouble in
collecting payment for them. veteran
railroad man said to reporter Of the New
York Times: Ten years ago, when / was
division superintendent OF the big
trunk lines running out of New York, a
special train was an event that never failed
to get mention I'm the newspapers. Station
masters require ample notice to get one
in readiness, and there was a great deal of
fuss making arrangements all along the
line. At any of the big railroad terminals
in any city now man can get a special
engine and car to chase a flyer almost as
easy as he can check his trunk. Only a
few minutes notice is required and right
of way Is obtained for 100 or 200 miles along
the line without noticeably disturbing the
schedule run. A man who has to keep an
important business engagement or a wo-
man hurrying to a sick husband pays 500
or double that sum with as little concern
as paying supper check in a swell hotel.
We live in a rapid and extravagant age,
and are growing accustomed to such
things"