The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-29

T. II.
first visit in this territory: He says the
traffic from Indianapolis and vicinity is be-
coming SO important that all the Eastern
lines are seeking 10 secure their share.
The announcement is made of the estab-
fishing of a saving fund for all employees
on the Pennsylvania and its affiliated lines
west of Pittsburg. On Feb. l employees can
give money to any agent of the company
and IL begins TO draw 31z per cent. per an
mum interest.
The monthly report of the employees re-
lief fund for the Pennsylvania lines east of
Pttsburg shows the payments of benefits
TO members or the estates of deceased men,
bers for December reached the large
of Sl09 800, of which 81, 1872 10 was on account
of death and $64,l54a on account of dis
ablement from sickness and accident
d. w. Moon, assistant general superin-
tendent of the Lake Erie & Western. is
spending the week the line acquainting
himself with its needs and with the en-
ployes of the company. Harry Rhein. gen.
been visiting agents under his control on
the line for the last two or three days.
Orders for additional rolling stock. in
volving total outlay of $4,000, have been
placed for the Boston & Albany system of
the New York Central Railroad. This is
for the present fiscal year and ii is pur-
posed to make similar appropriation for
each succeeding year for some time to
come.
Miss Mary s. Barber, of Detroit, Mich,
has a novel suit against the New York
Central Railroad for damages for injuries
received when alighting from her berth in
a sleeping car. She was riding on the Lake
Shore road when injured, but holds the
New York Central responsible for her safe
transportation from Syracuse to her desti-
nation. She asks for $4,000.
c. c. Cleveland, chief engineer of the
Lake Erie & Western. stated yesterday that
the company had recently contracted for
rails weighing seventy-five pounds to the
yard to take the place of the present rail-
haf lie nd
the remaining portion OF the main line De-
tween Templeton and Sandusky, which will
make the main line all heavy steel.
The Southern Railway is preparing plans
for large shop buildings at Louisville, hy.,
including roundhouse. machine shop, en-
CINE and boiler room, and storehouse. Pro-
vision is also to be made for a new coach
yard with storage capacity of fifty cars
and repair yards where 200 freight cars can
be cared for at one time. The contracts
will be let for the buildings within the next
thirty days.
Two locomotives for the Santa Fe built
by the Baldwin locomotive works passed
west yesterday over the Belt road. The en-
gines attracted considerable attention, as
they are petroleum burners. The tank is
large an ordinary box car and holds
the supplies to haul train three hundred
miles. Evidently the engines are for pas
senger service, as the drivers are six feet
four inches high
The fastest report is that the Wabash
the Ann Arbor and the Wheeling q Lake
Erie, all of which are controlled by the
Goulds, are to be forced into one large
system and operated as one road, and TO
be known as the Pittsburg & Chicago
The deal, If carried out will be one of the
largest that has been made for some Time
and the new systems mileage Will aggre-
gate 5.127 miles
Presiding at a meeting of the sharehold-
ers of the Great Eastern Railroad at Lon
don, Wednesday, Lord Hamilton, the chair
man, declared that, after careful study;
the directors of the board had concluded
that while some features of American rail-
road management were deserving of fur
Their consideration. American methods gen.
orally were inapplicable to England. The
| Great Eastern Railroad had tried an Amer
lean locomotive for a year and half, but
it had been found to be complete failure.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and
| the Monon have under consideration the
ordering of two complete solid, modern
vestibule trains to run between Chicago
| and Cincinnati. The two now running have
been in service fifteen years and were the
| first full vestibuled trains from baggage
! car TO parlor car in this territory. They
are now well up with the average train in
service. AT the time these trains were pur-
chased ii was spoken of as being an ex-
| travagant move, but time has demonstrated
that ii was a wise act on the part of these
aggressive roads.
There is an interesting discussion over
rates which will apply West-bound
business one way. Rate men say the first
class rates have not been disturbed, but
over the second-class rate there is no
great humanity of opinion. 1t has gone so
far, says the Cleveland Leader. that the
| Big Four and the Baltimore & Ohio make
the same rates from Cleveland to the West
with the Lake Shore, dsregarding the dis
pute that these two roads are having and
| adhere to its own rate. 1t is just possible
| that the Erie and the Nickel-plate, which
are outside of the rate sheet, may make
their own rates West. and there will be
| another overturning before the matter is
adjusted.
At a meeting of the board of directors
| of the Western lines of the Pennsylvania
system on Wednesday the following pro.
motions of officials of the lines were an
nounced:
w. B. Blake, appointed assistant real estate
George G.. Urquhart, promoted.
II. r. Newcomer, appointed engineer Of
maintenance of way of the Cincinnati di
vision, vice w. f. Worthington. made en-
gineer for the Fort Wayne division.
A. b. Jones. engineer of the Indianapoli:
& VincenneS Railroad, vice II. f. New
conner, promoted.
The directors also authorized improve
ments as follows: A second track through
Miami City, o., at a cost of $50, 900; pur
chase of land and construction of tracks
thereon at Lynnwood o., for freight yarC
purposes, $109.0OO the erection of Goa
dumping machine at Ashtabula, o., [,
cost SO, coo; the erection of power ant
electric plants at Cleveland and Erie t,
cost $4,000 and 81, 900, respectively.
The Fur-Clad Castellanes.