The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-13

the Vanderbilt lines at New York is a
very important one. 1t is one of the most
better than any of the divisions and its
Importance will be greatly enhanced by
the projected changes in the station.
The October bulletin of the Wabash
shows that one engineer. a brakeman, a
and an operator were dismissed
from the service for being intoxicated;
eight engineers. four firemen, a kostler, five
conductors. five brakemen, four s~witchmen'
a target Waterman and four operators re-
ceived dement, marks for disobeying rules.
Eight gangs of Pennsylvania men at the
shops in Fort Wayne are building dairy
cars at the rate Of two per day. These
cars are more difficult of construction than
the ordinary box. and for this reason the
output is not so great. The foreman OF
the shops has been asked TO prepare plans
Tor twenty-four cabooses OF standard type.
The American Locomotive Company Is
making arrangements to push export DOsl-
ness more aggressively. Heretofore very
little attention was paid to foreign bust
ness, for the company has all 1t can attend
their policy of retrenchment they began TO
look abroad for orders. and the outlook is
said to be quite promising.
c. II. Burnham. the Chicago architect,
whose firm prepared plans for the Union
Station at Washington, is again In Phila-
delphia, and on Wednesday had a con-
ference with President Cassatt and Chief
Engineer Brown, of the Pennsylvania, in
reference to the plans submitted some days
ago. and which are still in the hands OF
Chief Engineer Brown unsigned.
Fries demand for arbitration on the
question of standard lines accepting differ
entail rates from the Pacific coast is 10 be
met. 1t is said the standard lines insist
that the whole differential question shall
be included. This will involve other roads
in an old issue, while the Erie, though a
differential line, has raised the point on a
specific proposition.
An informal report received at the State
Department from Charles Pepper, special
railroad commissioner Of the United States,
dated at Lima. Peru, Oct. IL. states that
the project for an intercontinental railway
is growing in Importance every day. lie
in that part of South America where some
of the most important connecting links are
to be built and is now working northward
toward the isthmus.
A Pittsburg paper states that special ap-
prentices at all shops on the Pennsylvania
will be subjected to some new rules after
Jan. 1. They will be required to work four
years before completing apprenticeship, in
stead of three, as is now customary. Spe-
cial apprentices in the locomotive depart
ment are required to work both in the ma
chine and erection shop, and to serve some
time on the road. Under the changed con-
ditions apprentices will serve in the boiler
department, smith shop and even car de-
partment.
An order has been issued for the Balti-
more & Ohio from its main office In Baltl-
ilOiO PlQCAiS t,cOS DlCh ~ IN Cof
and locomotive shop forces of the system
on a nine-hour basis of pay instead of ten
hours. The officials of the road believe the
method OF reduction Of hours which has
been decided upon is preferable to the Gus
tomary practice of reducing the number or
employees, as ii will retain the entire force
of men instead of throwing any OF them
out Of employment, and will give all the
employees an equitable portion of the
amount expended.
The Interstate-commerce Commissions
Independent inquiry at Chicago into the
reasonableness of freight rates fixed by ten
railroads running between st. Louis and
Texas common points came to a temporary
stop yesterday, owing to the suggestion of
Commissioner Prouty that a bill in equity
might be filed against the defendants If 1t
were shown by the evidence that they had
made an illegal agreement in bringing
about the advance. General Counsel M. l..
Clardy, of the Missouri Pacific Railroad
Company, objected to allowing one of the
witnesses. w. c. Stith. giving further testi-
mony, saying 1t was not proper that an in
quiry started under the interstate-com
merce law should be used 70 gain evidence
for prosecuting the company under the
Sherman antitrust act.