The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-12

vania limited from meeting with an acct
dent that doubtless would have cost several
lives.
Plans are being drawn by the Pennsyl-
vania officials west for a branch line OF the
Panhandle TO parallel the Pittsburg, Car
negie & Western and furnish every posi-
bic facility 10 the Pittsburg Coal Company
TO get out the largest possible tonnage.
II. c. Storrs, general manage of the
Lake Shore and the Lake Erie * Western,
was in the city yesterday. and with Super
intendent Moon, of the Lake Erie & West
ern, listened to grievances of the train
men. The misunderstanding is not at all
radical and will be adjusted without a
strike.
Pittsburg capitalists are said to be inter-
ested in a new road. 800 miles in length,
TO cross Ohio from Lake Erie to the Ohio
river and to cost about A,Oo0,Oc0. When
completed it will be known as the Column
bus & Lake Erie road. 1t will tap rich
coal fields and give service TO several in
dependent companies
John r. Glenn, b-aggagemaster at Bir-
mingham on the Panhandle. yesterday COM
pleted twenty-five years OF service with
that company. Mr.. Glenn entered the Fan
handle service Sept. 10, 1878, in the oil room;
a year later he was made fireman, ana Oct.
Is, 1883. was promoted TO engineer, and at
the same time placed in charge OF Birnling-
ham station
sci for the Great Northern Railroad. In a
few days will tender his resignation to
President James J. Hill, severing a close
connection with the transcontinental sys-
tenn extending practically since 1887. when
he assisted in the organization OF the Seat
tie & Montana Railroad and worked for
the selection of Seattle as the Pacific termi-
nus of the Great Northern.
H. j. Rhein, general passenger agent of
the Lake Erie * Western is endeavoring
to arrange a special trip of the Vanderbilt
passenger officials over the Lake Erie 81
Western. Many of them nave not been over
the road since fha mnrnXQnnQn II were conn
pleted, and he is anxious that they should
be better Informed as to its condition phys
ically and the growth of traffic.
D.. F. Crawford, superintendent of motive
power on the Pennsylvania lines west. an
nounced on Thursday that the first oi an
order for ten shifting engines for the lines
west had been received and the others Will
be delivered at the rate of one every three
days until all have been received. Six of
those received have been assigned to The
Northwest system and four to the South
west.
Reports to the effect that the Wabash is
likely to be cut off from participation in
soft coal traffic west of Pittsburg and
southeast of the Ohio river by the Penn
s~ylvania and its allied lines are officially
denied. President Ramsey of the Wabash,
says that an interest in the Pittsburg Coal
Company and in the P%ittsburg Mining
Company was offered to the Wabash. but
declined; meantime the Wabash expects to
get a share of the Pittsburg coal tonnage.
An increase of wages has been granted to
the machinists, boilermakers and black
smiths of the Hooking Valley, Toledo &
Ohio Central and Kanawha & Michigan
Railroads. Nearly 1,+O men are affected.
The Hooking Valley men receive an increase
averaging ~ per cent, dating from Aug.
Ia, while the K & M. and T. & o. c. men
OF wages on the three roads is made 2S%
cents per hour for all mechanics.
A report from Cleveland says that eight
passenger conductors have been dismissed
on the Erie road, and Ii is reported that
a dozen others are to be relieved. Some of
the men dismissed were on the Chicago,
some on the Mahoning and others on the
eastern division. Whether the company has
charges against the men or whether Ii Is
part of the Erie plan to get new blood into
the department is not known. Freight
men are receiving promotions in filing the
vacancies.
on the Baltimore & Ohio was a record
breaker as to distance. Although the run
passed by a Pennsylvania train of the same
size, with the late Charles Eaton 1T the
throttle, who made the run from Crestline to
Fort Wayne in 147 minutes. including three
stops. But since the Baltimore & Ohio
passed into Pennsylvania hands and was
placed in charge of men formerly employed
by the Pennsylvania. it has been greatly
improved in roadbed, equipment and gen.
eral management.
A bill in equity was filed Friday in the
United States Circuit Court at Pitts
burg by the Union Trust Com
pany of New York against the
South Pennsylvania Railroad and the
South Pennsylvania Railroad Company to
foreclose a mortgage which the trust COM
pany holds against the railroad. The bill of
complaint states that on or about Jan.
/, 1885, the defendant company issued the
mortgage to the plaintiff to secure bonds
to the amount of s20.OGj,O00 which were to
be issued to provide the necessary funds to
build the South Pennsylvania Railroad
from Harrisburg to Port Perry, Allegheny
county,. a distance of 209 miles, and another
branch road.