The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-28

syndicate engaged in building the trolley
line between Baltimore, Annapolis and
Washington has been closed and the maj
payment for the property has been made
This deal is the sale of the sS5S000 OF the
capital stock of the company.
John j. Skinner. who tomorrow will
sever his connection as ticket agent OF
the Wabash at Peru, has served in that
position seven years. and a singular feature
in connection with il is that the six agents
at Peru who preceded him each held the
position seven years-R. III. Wade, John
H. Jack, L. n. Andrews, Caleb Lucas,
Charles Pollock and Thomas Folan in the
order named.
OF. the fifty engines recently contracted
for by the Big Four fifteen will be of the
Atlantic type, to be delivered in July.
Thirty will be of the heavy consolidated
type OF freight engine. These are not TO
be delivered until September. and fve
switch engines Will be delivered in October.
With these new Atlantic type engines the
Big Four will be in good shape TO handle
the st. Louis worlds fair business.
Apparently steel cars have passed the ex-
perimental stage. The Standard Steel Car
Company has received orders in the last
ten days for cars valued at over $2,Vu,po
The Union Pacific Railroad has ordered
500 steel stock cars of an entirely new
type. and 200 all-steel gondola cars The
Oregon Short-line has ordered 800 steel stock
cars and 800 gondola cars and the Great
Northern has ordered 500 double-hopper bot
tom steel coal cars.
Officers of the granite cutters, iron
workers, electric workers and hosting en-
gineers union at Philadelphia have de-
clared war against the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, which has contracted with the Amer
lean Bridge Company for material for its
improvements at New York. The unions
threaten that unless these contracts are
rescinded they will ask organized labor TO
boycott the Pennsylvania Railroad and to
assist in strikes against the bridge COM
pany.
1t was reported In Wall street on Friday
lOnR-QYnaCtQd nj change
control of the Hooking Valley road will
be announced next Tuesday. The plan
agreed to by the Thomas F: Ryan interest st
the blind pool syndicate, is said to be
guarantee of stock to take over the common
stock of the road. and to retire the Pre- pre-
! ferred. This guarantee issue, Ii was said,
will be OK new company, and Is to be
taken by the Pennsylvania and Lake Shore
| roads jointly.
| A joint call has been issued by the chair
| men of the Transcontinental, the Western
and the Southwestern Passenger associa-
tons for mass meeting of all the Western
roads to be held in Chicago March for
passenger trafic as the resui tt of the pas
sage of the Elkins bill, and the steps neces-
sary to secure a rigorous observance or
the act. Owing to this meeting the meet
| ing of the Western Passenger Association
| called for Hot Springs, Ark, on that date
will not be held.
j. A. Barnard, general manager Of the
Peoria & Eastern, says considerable money
| will be expended the lines this year.
Among other things 5000 tons Of new steel
rail, weighing eighty pounds to the yard,
| will be purchased. Three large passenger
freight engines of the battleship type will
| be purchased and $4,000 will be invested
| in new machinery for the shops at West
side and at Urbana. A ten-stall round
house will be erected at Lynn on the east
ern division, and the yards at that point
will be enlarged.