The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

Pittsburg & Lake Erie, and from there went
to the Lehigh Valley as superintendent
The Cincinnati excursions are the best
patronized of any run out of or into Indian
apolis- The Big Four on Sunday carried
$50 passengers from indianapolis TO Gin
cinnati and picked up a good many al Shell
; byvilie and Greensburg. The c., II. d ID.
had nearly as many from Cincinnati TO In
djanapolis. The Big Four carried 80 TO
Terre Haute. In fact, all of the lines en-
joyed the best Sunday excursion business
in their history.
The suit of the Board of Dock Commits
sioners of New Orleans contesting the grant
of privileges 10 the st. Louis & San Fran
CISCO which owns the Chicago * Eastern
Illinois, was decided in favor Of the railroad
by Judge Ellis in the lower court on sat
urday last. This gives an entirely different
complexion to the railroad situation at New
Orleans as it means that the st. Louis &
San Francisco will have an Independent
line into that city.
Samuel G.. Hatch. of Chicago. and Miss
Matte Mitchell st. Clair. of Racine, WIS,
were married yesterday at Racine. MI.
Hatch is one or the most popular offlclals
of the passenger department of the limos
Central. and the passenger department rep
resentatives raised handsome fund to pur-
chase beautiful chest or silver and pres
ent for the bridegroom. The silver was sent
to Racine and was on display yesterday
with the other presents received by Mr..
Hatch and mis- bride
The report is still current that there is
interest III control of the Chicago, Rock
Island * Pacific are to be closely affiliated In
/ the near future. 1T Is alleged that there mas
been large buying recently Of Erie stock by
! the Rockefeller interests and also that the
holdings of Marshall Field and Norman q
| Ream in that property have been increased,
and on this conclusion is based the report
| that there is 10 be combination OF SOME
1 character between the two roads
The Pennsylvania, which proposes maxi
| ing an extensive display at the ST. Louis
! exposition next year. will introduce some
J interesting features. The most important
| OF these will be a complete and extensive
| locomotive testing plant Three locomo-
| tives, a passenger, freight and shittlng
/ engine will be used to demonstrate the
work done. These will be tested as to speed
| power. traction, valve motion and otner
/ important features. The only complete To-
connective testing plant at this time Is the
one at Purdue University. Lafayette, IND
/ and the plant to be exhibited at ST. Louis
/ will be fully 80 per cent. larger than that
! at Purdue.
The funeral of the late chief P. NJ.
! Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
| Engineers, took place Monday afternoon
/ from the family residence, No. 1429 Euclid
avenue, Cleveland. Rev. Or: Paul r Ruth
ern, pastor OF the Second Presbyterian
! Church. officia ted, assisted by Rev. Ver-
non Harrington. The floral offerings were
4 in great profusion, the casket being almost
| hidden by immense banks of flowers Hun
| dreds of railway men, representing all sec
| lions of the country, were present TO pay
their respects to the memory OF the dead
chief. The services throughout were
marked by extreme simplicity, i'll accord
ance with the life and habits of the de-
ceased.
p. NJ Arthur, grand chief OF the Locomo-
| tive Brotherhood, at the time of his death
is said TO have been worth 100000 Unkind
| remarks have been mace by leaders or rival
organizations. but they were ignored by all
! who knew the deceased. AS youth ne
saved his money and when he came to
| mans estate he invested in real estate In
| Cleveland and this was the beginning OF
real estate speculation which brought good
| results. His home a beautiful resi-
dence on Euclid avenue the cost OF which
| is said to have been $4,000. When Arthur
bership of about 5000; now 1t has $1,000 out
of total of 10000 engineers in the country
| and it is regarded as one OF the strongest
and best organized Of all unions.
d. O. Mills, director of the Hartman
railroad system and controlling owner OF
| the Bellingham Bay British Columbia
Railroad. has formally ordered an extension
on the Bellingham road across the Cascade
mountains TO Spokane. 1t Will there con-
meet with the Oregon Railroad and Naviga-
ton line. now running from the main line
at Huntington to Spokane. The Hartman
| system will thus be given direct entrance
| TO Puget sound at a point directly opposite
the straits Of Fuca. The distance from
Spokane to tidewater will be 295 miles.
| nineteen miles shorter than the Great
| Northern and fifty miles shorter than the
| Northern Pacific. The terminals on Bel
! lingham bay will be 100 miles nearer the
| Pacific ocean than the Northern Pacific
and Great Northern terminals at Tacoma
| and Seattle.
The big passenger engines OF the Chicago
Alton are making great speed records.
| These were intended to be the best.
strongest and fastest engines in the world.
| The total weight Of the engine is 2l9.5OC
| pounds and with the tank $4,000 pounds;
the total weight on the driving wheels is
141, 700 pounds the boiler is of the straight
type seventy inches in diameter. with 32s
heating surface in the firebox, 3,S4S square
feet in the tubes and twenty-eight square
feet in the fire brick, making total of 4,O1s
| square feet of heating surface, 500 square
feet more than the New York Central ex-
press engines, which hitherto had been con-
sidered the best locomotives constructed
| of water and nine tons of coal, the largest
yet built by the Baldwin Company