The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-07

j. E. Gavin, commercial agent of the
Vandalia at Kansas City for some years,
and who had been in the service of that
company twenty years. died yesterday at
Kansas City.
The Big Four yesterday received from
Barney, Smith & Co., Dayton, o., a new
equipped with every modern device for lux
ury and comfort.
The Haskell & Parker car works. Mich
igan City. have commenced delivering thir-
~ new cars rer day to the LAX Erie q
Western, and up 10 yesterday had deliv-
cred 200 cars on an order for 1000.
The Lake Erie & Western has completed
the laying of its new heavy steel for this
season, and now has the track between
Sandusky and Oxford and Indianapolis and
Kokomo all laid with steel weighing sew
enty-five pounds to the yard.
Andrew Young. formerly assistant gen.
eral freight agent of the Lake Erie &
Western, now general manager of the
American Tin Plate Company and sheet
iron works, was In the city yesterday
visiting Samuel B. Sweet and other friends.
Tho projectors of the Chicago. Button
& Cincinnati Railroad Company have
Strengthened out their financial affairs, are
said to have secured funds TO go ahead
with the work, and the construction of the
line will now be pushed without further
delay.
conductors on the Chicago & Eastern Illi-
nois, will spend Sunday in the city. Mrs:
Frank Hurst. who has been the guest OF
Mr.. and Mrs. James NJ. Berryhill for the
past week, will return witt him on
Monday.
Effective Nov. 10. the departments of
maintenance of way and bridge construc-
ton on the Peoria & Eastern division of
the Big Four will be removed from CraW-
fordsville, Ind, and Pekin, ILL.,, and con-
solidated at Urbana, H., where the shops
of the company are situated.
The Detroit & Toledo Short-line, to pre-
ma 70 for itS ron fIlx, aurinn fro fn has
asked bids for a number of locomotives.
1t is said to be the intention to place the
road In condition second to none in the
country. The line between Trenton and
Toledo is already stone ballasted.
Fred Hicks, city passenger agent of the
Lake Erie q Western, has been appointed
by the local fraternity as delegate to the
ger Agents, which will convene at New
Orleans in annual convention next week.
Mr.. Hicks will leave tonight for New Or
leans.
John Cullinan, master mechanic of the
pennsylvania at Toledo, has rendered his
resignation, effective as soon as his sue
cessor is appointed. Mr.. Cullinan is sixty
five years old and has decided to move to
Newark. 1t is understood Frank Aitken
will be appointed to the position, a promo
ton from foreman.
Charles NJ. Schwab gave an exhibition of
his generosity at Altoona a few nights
ago. AS he arrived in that city on his pri-
waite car on the fast mail, the car was
taken off that train and later put on the
Philadelphia express. and Mr.. Schwab
crew with a IS bill, at the same time con-
graduating them upon the manner in
which they handled his car.
j. r. Cavanagh, car service superin-
tendent of the Big Four, says much inter-
est is being manifested in the Midgley plan
for an organization to control all private
car lines, and in that connection the estab-
fishing of a railway clearing house for the
prompt and economical settlement of bal
ances resulting from the interchange of
freight cars. Many of the officials of the
strong lines are coming around to the
views of Mr.. Midgley.
President Stickney, of the Chicago Great
Western, placed in effect his cut rates from
Omaha to the Mississippi river and from
Omaha to Chicago and Minneapolis, in
spite of the efforts made to induce the
head of the Great Western to reconsider
his determination. A representative of the
Chicago Great Western who was in the
city yesterday said that the first day the
rates were in effect 15O, 600 bushels of grain
stored at Omaha was loaded into their cars.
One Of the interesting features of the
Chicageo. Rock Island & Pacific annual re-
port, just issued. is the item of advance
In construction and equipment, which the
balance sheet shows in it's last fiscal year
reached the remarkable sun of $24, 81 900.
That the parent company should have been
able to advance subsidiaries such a sum
to meet temporary needs is a telling indi-
cation of it's resources and Its comparative
independence of changes in monetary con-
ditions under the guidance of the Reid
Leeds combination.
The Detroit Southern has purchased five
new engines, 500 new S0,0O0-pound freight
cars at a cash cost OF Si53,560, and its equip
ment is now in excellent shape for handling
it's increasing business. This equipment
was paid for out of funds raised to purchase
the Iron Railway, 1t being above the cost
of the new road. At the meeting held July
100000 was authorized, but no action has
been taken as yet by the directors under
this authority.
An official of the Pennsylvania states
that the company has been working for
several weeks on equipment orders for 1904.
The orders for locomotives and other equip
ment. he said, will be- greatly cut down
when the 1904 schedule is issued. Conditions
have changed since a year ago, when the
company placed the heaviest orders for
locomotives and cars ever given by any
railroad company In the world, the cost
| pany is receiving that equipment every day.
consequently there is no reason why large
orders for 1904 should be placed.
1t is reported that H. S. Storrs. who a
few months ago was taken from the Lake
Erie & Western as assistant general SUPER
intendent to be made general superintend-
ent Of the Lake Shore. has succeeded so
we'll in STRENGTHENING out the affairs of that
mpa in relation to it's transportation
that the Vanderbilt people may promote
him and make him general manager of the
Michigan Central. 1t is stated that b. G.
Moon, recently assistant general superin-
tendent of the a Erie & Western, is
| acQuafnting himself with the Lake Shore
preparatory to taking Dir. Storr's position
on his going to the Michigan Central.
| The new pay car of the Panhandle ar
rived In Pittsburg on Thursday, prepara-
tory to starting out on it's monthly trip
over the lines west. This pay car was
built especially for the Panhandle paymas-
ter, and Is the finest on any railroad in the
country. 1t Is not only unusually hand
some on the outside, but the interior COM
| pares we'll with some of the rooms of the
best banking institutions. The car is fifty
rior is finished in polished oak. There are
the section for the operating clerks, and
the entrances.
No union organization stands higher than
does the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers. They are well paid and highly in
telligent. most of them own their homes
and have families. Their hours are fairly
| good, and they have time for reading and
| talking things over together, and undoubt-
edly IT is one of the strongest unions in the
| country. 1t is c~ommendable that other
labor unions are beginning to take the
ground that this brotherhood does. that
strike cost more than they are worth,
| except as the last recourse. The brother
hood of engineers has found that whatever
hurts the employer hurts the employee. and
when both sides Of the labor world. says a
railroad superintendent, fully understand
| this. strikes and lockouts will become al
most unknown.