The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-28

w eSlern TOduS 10 wages.
William Lamb, chief clerk of ]. Q. Van
Wrinkle, general superintendent of the Big
Four, who went to Colorado some weeks
ago on account of i'll health Is reported
recovering from his indisposition.
II. F. Houghton. assistant general super
naugh, superintendent of car service. are
in Richmond, Va. attending the meeting
of American Railway Association.
W. II. Calver, late trainmaster of the
Chicago. Peoria q St. Louis road. has been
appointed superintendent of the Louisiana
d Northwestern, with headquarters at
Gibsland, La.
The Wabash will have fifteen tracks run
ming from its main line TO its new station
at the entrance of the St. Louis expo
sition, and is making arrangements TO
handle $1,000 people per day if necessary.
The new classification which it is pro-
posed to put into effect Jan. has been pub
llshed in pamphlet form and is being sent
TO railroad freight officials for examina-
ton and any suggestions they may make
regarding Improvement of the work.
]. A. Barnard, general manager. Mr..
Willard, superintendent of maintenance of
way, and the supervisors of the Peoria
& Eastern will this morning start on a
three days inspection of the line, examining
bridges, condition of track and roadbed gen.
orally.
1t has been definitely settled that the
Southern Indiana, in it's extension to Chi
cago, will cross the Wabash lines a few
miles north of Terre Haute, and, Skirting
it's west bank for twenty miles, cross into
Vermilion county, ILL.,, thence north to Chi
cago Heights.
The Transcontinental Passenger Associa-
ton has decided that it cannot ignore the
claim of John Alexander Dowie for clergy
mans rates for his deacons who are en-
gagged In missionary work, and the matter
has been left in charge of the chairman
OF the association.
committee of bondholders of the Den
yer & Southern Railroad has issued plan
looking to the reorganization of the COM
panyS funded debt, in order to arrange for
the prompt payment of the semi-annual
interest on its general mortgage 5 per cent.
interest bonds, which fall due Dec. l.
Indications are that the annual meeting
of the Lehigh Valley in January will de-
velop lively struggle for control of the
management. 1t is understood, although
that E. G. Smith, member of a prominent
brokerage firm, has for the past few years
been securing stock of the company pre-
paratory to presenting demands.
David Staples, an employee of the Maine
Central shops In Waterville, has invented
rather novel air brake valve. The points
in the valve are that it will gradually set
the brake on the front section of train
after it breaks apart, and then suddenly
on the rear section, thus giving notice to
the engineer of trouble and preventing the
two parts coming together with violence.
The New York Central is planning to
establish electric roads as SUBURBAN
branches In the central and western parts
of New York in order to save local traffic,
which has been cut into heavily by indie
pendent troly lines. The policy the Cen
trail adopted two years ago for meeting
troly competition by reducing fares and
increasing the number Of trains have proved
ineffective.
General orders to get more revenue have
been given to the passenger officials of
many of the Western roads. The first step
in this direction was taken a few days ago,
when 1T was proposed not to make any
round-trip rate to California less than the
regular one-way fare of $3.50, and the
same rule, il is said. will be applied by
Western roads TO other points where re-
duced rates are given.
A Philadelphia paper says that as the
members of the subcommittee of employees
came out of the Office of General Manager
Atterbury, of the Pennsylvania, after a
conference with that official which con-
sumed an hour, their appearance and gen.
eral manner Indicated disappointment, and
the natural inference is that he refused
to recede from the position taken In a for
mer conference, and that further confer
ences are not contemplated.
A Toronto paper states that all that re-
mains to be done preliminary to the organ
ization of the Grand Trunk Pacific is the
grant of royal assent through a national
transcontinental railway bill Vice Presi-
dent Hayes, of the Grand Trunk, says the
preliminary survey is proceeding vigor-
ously. The company has twenty parties in
pleted their work. Great care has been
taken in the selection of a route.
The Pennsylvania will this month finish
its work now planned between Pittsburg
and Harrisburg 1t was the intention of
President Cassatt to have pushed the i'm
provements to such an extent the next
year as to give the roads a double track
from Pittsburg to Chicago, and a large
portion of the distance between Columbus
and st. Louis. but the labor troubles have
given another color to these undertakings,
some of which will probably be abandoned
until the situation improves.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has affirmed
the decision of the Sangamon Circuit
Court in the case of the people of the State
Of Illinois eX rel. Carter b. Harrison,
mayor of Chicago. against the State Board
of Equalization. The court refused to grant
a writ of mandamus directed against the
State Board to compel them to assess all
railroad property other than main tracks
as local property. The Supreme Court says
that il finds no authority in the statute for
the equalizers to divide the real estate of a
railroad into two parts, one to be known
as railroad tracks and the other to be
known as railroad tracks other than main
tracks"
The Toledo, st. Louis & Western better
known as the Glover Leaf, is becoming
much more aggressive and important as a
through line of transportation in the Cen
trail States. At the time the road was
built it was not properly constructed, be-
cause there seemed so little local demand
or necessity for its existence. The prop
erty was hampered by light rails, light
equipment and poor alignment But with
these handicaps it is a credit to the man
agement, both present and preceding, that
with minimum expenditures and careful
operating the road has finally come to an
unquestioned self-sustaining basis, and will
ultimately prove of considerable value.
A mortgage for s15O,OoOOOO. given by the
Lehigh Valley Railroad to the Girard Trust
Company of Philadelphia was placed on
file at Trenton n. j., on Tuesday. 1t is a
general consolidated mortgage and covers
everything owned by the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company. Copies will also be
placed on file in every county through
which the line runs The mortgage is given
to secure an issue of bonds not exceeding
the amount stated. Interest on the bonds
| is to be more than 5 per cent. According
to the terms of the transaction the bonds
| will be issued in $1,000. 5000 and $4,000