The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-12

latter s1.5oOOOo capital stock. The latter is
pool and the former makes connection
near Leetonia and runs to Salem. Both are
TO be electric lines.
Lewis NJ. Webb, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton. is said to be one Of the young
est men holding such a position in this
country, but he has a thorough knowledge
Of the duties and responsibilities OF the
position and is highly esteemed by ID. @.
Edwards. passenger traffic manager.
AS result Of the conference of the Pitts
burg q Lake Erie officials last week 81
100000 will be expended for rolling stock
this year. The contract will be for new
pressed steel cars, locomotives and passen-
ger equipment The remaining Sl5OO,000 of
the increase in stock of s2,500,Ooo Will be
put into new track and enlargement to
increase the capacity of the road.
II. T. Newcomb, for the last two years
editor of the Railway World OF Philadel-
phia, has resigned and will resume the prac-
tice OF law as member of the firm of Rails
ton & Siddons, one of the most prominent
legal firms OF Washington, d. c. Mr.. New
comb was one of the attorneys represent
ing the Philadelphia Reading before the
recent Anthracite Coal Strike Commission.
The Linton-Eureka extension of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railroad was
opened for traffic Monday. The new line is
fifty miles in length. extending from Eu-
reka, in Mcpherson county, South Dakota,
to Linton, in Emmons county. North Da-
kota. 1t passes through a part of the IA
nous wheat belt of South Dakota and is
expected to be valuable feeder TO the main
line.
The Chicago. St Paul. Minneapolis &
Omaha Railroad has created quite a stir
by announcing a reduction of fifty-five
minutes In the running time of its limited
train from the twin cities to Chicago and
declaring its intention to establish a new
train between Elroy, Wis, and st. Paul,
to take care of the local traffic. 1t is prob
able that other lines between those points
Will take similar action.
With the approach of the summer season
and the expected rush of travel the rail-
road companies are complaining of the
scarcity of stenographers. II is said posi-
lions are vacant in many of the offices and
the need of expert typewriters will be felt.
Each spring the railroad officials find them
selves in search of stenographers and fire.
quently scarcity has been found, but
this year the demand is greater than ever.
Citizens living at Bloomington, Orleans,
Bedford and other points in that section
are much pleased over the Monon and In
dianapolis & Vincennes running through
gives them seven hours for business in this
city. The train arrives at 9:45 and leaves
the city at 4:45 p. m. At Gosport it con-
South, and passengers can take supper
on the buffet car hauled on that train.
The special train from Chicago carrying
delegates to the national convention of the
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Pittsburg to-day, arrived in indianapolis
over the Big Four. The train consisted Of
baggage car and five Pullman sleepers,
carrying ninety delegates. who took break
fast at Indianapolis and remained in the
city until 1880 a. m. On the invitation of
the street-car company they made a trip
over the company's more important lines.
The Erie Railroad Company, commenc-
changeable 1,OoO-mile refund ticket limited
TO one year from date of issue. which will
be good for transportation of the owner,
with free allowance of $50 pounds of bag
gage. The ticket will also be good over
the following lines: The Pennsylvania. the
Lackawanna, the Lehigh Valley, the Balti-
more & Ohio lines east of the Ohio river,
the Chesapeake & Ohio, east of and in
Guiding Huntington.
The extensive improvements In the freight
terminal at Cleveland, O., to be made by
the Pennsylvania were begun yesterday.
The contract has been awarded for con-
struction of a new building to handle the
inbound freight, which will allow the pres
ent freight depot to be used entirely for
outbound business. Seventeen houses have
been torn down In the business section or
Cleveland to make room for the proposed
freight house, which will be los feet wide
and 600 feet long and cost 100000.
The st. Louis firm which has been award
ed the contract to cut down the Guilford
hill on the Cincinnati division of the Big
Four has commenced the work, and ii will
be pushed to completion. The company ex-
pects when the hill is cut down, to be able
to run a train from Indianapolis to Gin
cinnati with the greatest safety at a speed
of seventy-five miles an hour. When this
Improvement is completed the double track
ing OF the road westward from where it
now ends. eighteen miles out Of Cincin-
natl, will be undertaken.
A railway official familiar with Chicago,
Rock Island Pacific and ST. Louis &
San Francisco matters said yesterday that
1T was probable that w. B. Leeds, of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, will re-
tire as president of the road and be sue
ceeded by President Yoakum, Of the St.
Louis & San Francisco. who would thus
head the consolidated system. Mr.. Leeds.
he added. has not been in robust health
for several months and has been COM
PEELED to take frequent vacations from the
onerous duties of directing the extensive
Rock Island system.
The incorporation into the full manage
ment of the Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
road Company at the Fremont, Elkhorn
& Missouri Valley Railroad marks a no.
table event for that coming health and in
dustrial resort of the middle West, the
Black hills. A representative of the line
states that Ii is not true that $4,000 Ameri-
during the past year. but from investigation
some 1900 have crossed the line to enter
on these lands. and 1900 or 5000 more have
visited them and made purchases which
they may occupy later.
Managers of the more important trunk
lines are somewhat discouraged over the
movement of the Grand Pacific line, which
will be distinctive Canadian road. with
summer and winter terminals at Canadian
ports. Instead of going TO North bay from
Quebec the road will run direct, passing
south of Lake Abittibi. 300 miles north of
North bay. Alternative routes to the Pa
cific coast are proposed to run through the
Yellow Head and Pine or Peace river
passes, with terminals at Butte inlet and
Fort Simpson. General Manager Hays. of
the Grand Trunk. says work will be begun
as soon as the surveys are completed.
AT a meeting of the stockholders in Pitts
burg the organization of the Grand Central
Railroad Company of Nicaragua. was per-
fected by the election OF Robert Pitcairn,
of Pittsburg, president. The other officers
are: Alexander r. Peacock, vice president
William nj. Rees, secretary and treasurer;
James Deitrick. managing director: ex-Sen-
ator John NJ. Thurston, John McCune, NJ.
X. Salisbury. d. NJ. Clemson, I. S. Craig,
William Wilson and r. S. Smith. All the
directors are of Pittsburg with the excep-
ton of John NJ. Thurston. The road is to
be run from Managua to Tegucigalpa and
Salvador, distance of 800 miles. The COM
pany is capitalized at $l0,000O00.
An official of the Lake Shore says that
company does not expect anything serious in
diversion of traffic by the Wabash into
Pittsburg, as the latter enters Pittsburg
by an aerial route and drops down into a
pocket in the heart of the city, and can by
no possibility reach the many plants along
the river, which use hundreds of cars per
day. The Wabash, he says, Will be handi-
capped by the general lack of terminal ia
cilties possessed by other roads in that city
The same will be largely true of the traffic
in surrounding coal. coke and iron terri
tory The Lake Shore man stated that the
amount of traffic the Wabash may succeed
| in diverting will not amount to anything
like the natural increase in business from