The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-09


search OF health.
Thomas Campbell. travelling passenger
agent for Indiana and Illinois of the Wis
consin Central, is at Attica taking treat
ment in mud baths FOR rheumatism.
President Ramsey of the Wabash, an
nounces the appointment OF l.. Greenhares
as auditor of the Ann Arbor road. vice w.
o. Brigham. assigned to other duties.
George w. Hogan, the oldest engineer In
the service of the New York Central. was
stricken with paralysis on Wednesday in
the cab of his engine and is in critical
condition.
Buffalo is to have new union passenger
depot The site of the new station is the
New York Central and Lebigh Valley prop
erty at the southeast corner OF Seneca ana
Washington streets.
w. T. Pratt. of New York. general passen-
ger agent of the Wisconsin Central, is in the
East arranging to place representatives
there. and while in Buffalo will arrange TO
open an office in that city.
Charles Gabriel, foreman Of engines of the
Hooking Valley road, who retired from that
position after twenty-three years of serv-
| ice, was presented by his associates with
beautiful diamond stud and an elegant silk
umbrella.
Charles Story, general manager of the
! Lake Shore-Lehigh Valley fast dispatch,
who has been going over this territory In
| company with Thomas Smiley, his repre-
| sentative in this section, has returned TO
| his headquarters at Buffalo.
The westbound Continental Limited. on
| the Wabash. on Tuesday made the run from
! Montpelier TO Logansport. III miles, IN llO
! minutes. Between New Waverley and Lo-
| gansport one mile was covered in thirty
| nine seconds and another in thirty EIGHT
/ seconds.
The last of ten new freight engines for
1 the Hooking Valley road on an order Tor
! twenty-five, have arrived. and the manage
| ment expects to soon relieve the freight
| congestion which has given much trouble
since the demand for coal has been so
| urgent.
| The Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul will.
with the taking effect of the spring time
| service from Chicago to Denver by way
| OF Kansas City, as one of the results or
its close traffic alliance recently formed
with the Union Pacific.
practical test of Ignite briquettes for
railroad purposes will be made by the 500
road. After long and laborious work with
machinery, enough OF the fuel has been pre-
| pared for a trial run, and the officials of
| the road will watch the test with interest.
! The fuel costs 81. ton.
In the Brazil coal district more switching
! engines are now in service than in any for
out much more coal than ever before. The
Vandalia and the Chicago & Eastern Illi-
nois have eighteen switching engines In
service there, most of them day and night.
At a meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Western Passenger Association
on Thursday the agreement regarding the
issuance of half-rate tickets was reaf
|
| effort to correct some of the abuses which
have crept into the use of the half-rate
privilege.
The Haskell & Barker car works. at
the Chicago & Northwestern for 500 coal
| cars. forty tons capacity. When COM
no ed ear FAR are sent to the t t
the Chicago q Alton is furnishing North
western lines with coal.
After service of nearly thirty years with
the Lake Shore o. F. Thompson. chief rate
clerk, has rendered his resignation. His
| long service with the Lake Shore in that po-
sition and his connection with the different
rate chiefs made him valuable man to
the road George Stell, who has been his
| assistant rate clerk for number Of years.
| is his successor.
The dispute between the Pennsylvania
| Railroad and the Pittsburg. Carnegie &
| Western, the Wabash extension, over the
height of the elevated structure of the Wa
| bash at Pittsburg, has been settled by a
agreement were not made public, but the
plans will be prepared and submitted to
| councils.
Directors of the Chicago & Eastern ILL.,
nois Railway, recently acquired by the St
terday and elected b. +. Yokum to the
presidency in place of +. M. j. Carpenter,
ident of the st. Louis & San Francisco
| r. r. Hammond was elected general man.
ager and j. S. Ford secretary.
The fight between the Pennsylvania Rail-
road system and the Western Union Tele-
graph Company was carried into the Fed
eral Court at Chicago Wednesday, the tel
egraph company filing bill for an injunc-
ton TO restrain the Pittsburg. Cincinnati,
Chicago 4 st. Louis Railroad from carry
ing out an expressed intention to prevent
the operation of the compliments tele-
graph business on the railroad lines after
June next.
A. N. Watt. superintendent of motive
power and rolling stock of the New York
Central, announces that, through some er-
ror, the report has gained circulation that
he was to retire and be succeeded by j. +.
Deem. Mr.. Deem was appointed general
! superintendent of motive power. rolling
Central the Lake Shore. the Lake Erie
& Western and the Indiana, Illinois &
Iowa. newly created position, which is
under the executive control of President
Newman and Vice President Brown.
Engineers are surveying for two rail-
roads which are to traverse undeveloped
regions of the southern Illinois coal fields.
The Toledo, ST. Louis & New Orleans Rail-
road is to start at Effingham where it
will connect with the Wabash and will
reach to Thebes. 1t will give the Goulds
all points south by way of the Cotton Belt
or Iron Mountain road The Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy Railroad has corps of
surveyors at work on a line which IL is
purposed will run over the old Jacksonville
route from Centralia southwest into Frank
lin and Williamson counties and thence
TO Thebes.
The American Locomotive Company has
orders for $500 engines on its books. nearly
the full capacity of its plant and has sew
eral hundred orders for delivery in 1904 A
representative of the company says: I'VE
are filled with orders for the entire year.
but that does not necessarily mean that we
will turn out more locomotives than have
already been ordered for we propose to
enlarge our facilities by the erection of
new buildings and purchase of additional
machinery. reliable estimate of the out
put of locomotives in this country in 1902
is AGO. $50 locomotives were turned out
by the Cooke shops and the Rogers works
The Rogers works has been much en-
iarged and it's output the present year
will far exceed that of 1902. The Science
tady locomotive works is crowded with
orders and constantly charging its faci-
tiles. The output Of the present year, il is
expected. will reach at least 1850 locomo-
tives."