The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-05

department of the ST. Joseph & Grand
Island Railroad. with headquarters at st.
Joseph.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and
the Chicago Great Western have closed
a deal for $50 acres of land in Sioux City.
1t is said the two roads are to be extended
to that point, and the land purchased.
which cost Sl2s,ooo will be utilized for ter
minals
The shops of the Pennsylvania have their
work so we'll in hand that. beginning with
yesterday and continuing indefinitely. they
Will be run on ten-hour schedule. Since
last November the men in nearly all OF the
departments have worked thirteen hours
per day.
Ii is one year since the sleeping car line
was established between Muncie and Chi
cago over the Chicago, Indiana & Eastern
road. via Converse, and its business has
steadily increased until il has become
profitable line to the c., /. & T. and Penn-
sylvania.
w. j. Allen, general manager of the Gin
cinnati, Richmond & Muncie Railroad,
cago to Cincinnati within three months
The road will soon receive ten Of the large
consolidated engines built by the Baltimore
engine works.
The Vandalia owners are planning extern
sive improvements the present year prepar-
atory to handling the worlds fair tramc
Ii is proposed to shorten the time OF It's
fast trains forty to sixty minutes between
provements are completed.
Eastern financial papers are still talking
about the future of the st. Louis San
Francisco, and the Evansville Terre
Haute people seem willing 10 encourage
the belief that the road is to be taken over
by the st. Louis & San Francisco, as was
the Chicago Eastern Illinois.
w. p. Elliott. who has been in the en-
ploy of the Pullman Company for thirty
years, the last twenty as ticket agent
at the Union Station, will retire from that
position on March l. His place will be
filled by one of the ticket agents at the
Union Station who is in line of promotion.
John G. Stewart, formerly general super
intendent of the Baltimore & Ohio who re-
signed his position to accept service with
the Erie. has been appointed successor or
II. +. Gilpin. promoted to general superin-
tendent of the Ohio and c. & 4. divisions
of the Erie, Mr.. Gilpin going TO the Eastern
division.
The Big Four is preparing plans for an
additional freight station at Indianapolis
and further enlarging of its yards, the
growth of business compelling such i'm
provements. Present accommodat ions are
as inadequate as were those before the ex-
tensive improvements were completed few
years ago.
1t is stated that President Ramsey. of
the Wabash. will sign the brotherhood
scale except it relates to an increase
of wages on Feb. g. The brotherhood
claims that 1t Is something of victory
for them, as he recognizes the union. which
they have been trying TO get the company
to do for eight years.
At a recent congress of Austrian locomo-
tive enginemen ii was voted to ask for a
scale of wages beginning at s24O per year
and rising In the course of twenty years
to $500. What would engineers on roads
in this country who are paid from $500 to
81, 800 per annum think of such pay as Aus
trian engineers are satisfied with?
The ordinance granting the Wabash Rail-
road the right to enter Pittsburg was
signed on Wednesday by Recorder Brown
and is now a law The wabash ofnclals
at once called up all the contractors order
ing them to resume work Immediately and
to rush ii with all possible speed, so as to
make it possible to start the running OF
freight trains by Sept. /.
All of the roads, with the exception OF
the Missouri Pacific, that have Withdrawn
from the Southwestern Passenger Bureau
have notified Chairman Pratt that they will
continue their membership in the bureau
thirty days longer. 1t is expected that
meeting of the roads interested will be held
the last week of this month and endeavor
to reconstruct the bureau.
Information from semi-official sources
at New York shows that an alliance OF
agreement of some sort has been entered
into between the Union Pacific and South
ern Pacific interests on the one hand anC
the Rock Island Railroad on the other. Most
of the important points have been agreed or
and all official announcement of the scheme
is looked for in a few days.
Arrangements have been made by the
Pennsylvania lines west by which the fast
train over the Vandalia known as No
2, on arriving at Pittsburg will be rur
through direct in case the Chicago limited
is late 1t is understood that No. will be
rum with the taking effect of the spring
time schedule, as a limited train between
st. Louis and New York. probably charging
extra fare. as is the case on the Chicago
limited