The Indianapolis journal., 1903-02-13

Mrs. N. n. Duke. vice president, and Mr..
Walter Bickell. secretary: Their husbands
are engineers on the Wabash the Lake
Erie & Western and the Cincinnati. Rich
mond & Muncie roads.
According to Capt. John p. Green. first
vice president OF the Pennsylvania. sl5O,ov0,-
coo will be the capital stock increase the
management Will request OF the STOCK
holders meeting in March. 1t was said that
the requested increase would be from SSoU,-
100000 to s4oo.oooeoo. There are about $500
stockholders, and proxies for the coming
meeting are being collected.
An impression prevails among managers
of the coal roads of Ohio and Indiana that
the introduction of the Goals OF these
thracite will be of large benefit to the coal
operators of the States named. as it will
bring it into more general use: The Indiana
coal roads are now hauling all the csbal they
have cars and locomotives to handle. and
present conditions promise to continue for
months to come.
The Erie Is planning extensive improve
ments at Jersey City and its immediate
vicinity. AS the tunnel has two tracks, the
Erie, with its new overlines over the hills,
will then have four tracks from North
the Erie practically a four-track line as far
as Ridgely. Ii is the expectation OF the
management to have by fail four-tracked
lined from Jersey City to Fort Port Jervis.
The Erie is at present a double-track road
as far as Hornellsville.
1t is probable that with the taking effect
of the spring time table the Twentieth
Century Limited over the New York Gen.
traI and Lake Shore will be run on an
eighteen-hour basis. The present time,
twenty hours, admits of delays That are
really unnecessary. The reduction of time
will mean a g increase of fare. but. the
class OF people who patronize the train VIII
willingly pay an extra dollar for every hour
of reduction In running time
In the United States Circuit Court at
Boston Judge Colt decided that the entire
fund in dispute between the federal gov
ernment and the Emergency Loan ana
Trust Company, trustee, should &c 10 @ rhe
United States, the plaintiff in the case Tne
amount is 100000. now I'm the hands OF the
American Loan and Trust Company, OF
Boston. The decision is believed to settle
the long controversy between the united
States and the Union Pacific Railway, Tor
which the first named company acted as
trustee.
r. ]. Gross, second vice president OF the
American Locomotive Company VIII san
from San Francisco in few days for trip
around the world. He will be absent about
| year, purposing to visit every country IN
| Europe before his return and make care
| full investigation of opportunities for busi-
ness expansion in the Orient and in Euro
pean countries and to establish systemauc
and permanent business relations. Charles
| Munich, until recently mechanical engineer
| of the Denver Il Rio Grande. will accom-
| pany Mr.. Gross and act as his secretary.
| A territorial charter was granted at Guth-
rie O. T. on Thursday to the Oklahoma
| City & Northwestern Railroad Company,
with Oklahoma City as the principal place
| of business and with sl5Ooo,OoO capital stock.
| long from Oklahoma City to Denver, at a
| total cost of S15.000,00O. The road passes
| through the counties of Oklahoma, Canadi-
| an, Kingfisher. Blaine, Dewey, WOODS and
| Woodward, in that Territory. 1t is sup
| posed to be a Frisco project, as c. G. Jones,
| president of the Frisco lines in oklahoma,
| is at the head of the new corporation.
| The eleventh international railroad con-
| ference will be held at Topeka April 30
| Nav 3. The attendance of railroad men
| from all classes of the service at these
conferences has proved SO great that the
| The Santa Fe and other lines have already
| agreed to grant free transportation to rail-
road employees from any part OF the coun.
| try and the Pullman Company Will grant
| a specia, rate of one fare for the round
| trip The Indiana officers have already be-
| gun to work up delegations, not only from
| the regular associations ana departments,
| but from unorganized railroad fields.
The Northern Pacific committee of the
| Order of Railway Telegraphers, which has
| been in session since Jan. 3, dispanded on
| Thursday, having secured from the North-
| ern Pacific through Superintendent or Tele-
| graph o. c. Greene, notifications OF the ex-
| listing schedule which amount TO a special
| increase of one-sixth In wages TO large
| humber of the men. Hereafter all Sunday
| work is to be paid for as overtime. max
| ing an increase of one-sixth to all operators
| who work on Sundays Station operators
who are called out of their regular hours
for special work will receive the hourly
| wage scale but no call. however short, will
| he naid less than so cents. The extra time
| schedule of the large offices Is raised from
| % to 40 cents an hour.
The Santa Fe has made possible Young
| Mems Christian Association buildings,
| largely for their employees. at Argentine.
| Kan. costing $4,000; at Cleburne, Tex,
$500, and at Temple. Tex, costing $1,000.
| When the quarters of the railroad branch
| at Topeka burned, some months ago. Pres
| ident Ripley agreed that IL the association
| would raise $4,000 for new building the
! company would contribute twice that
amount The money is now all raised and
| the building will be erected this season.
The company contributes also toward the
| railroad departments In the Kansas City
| Union Depot and Chicago Dearborn station.
Some idea of the extent to which the men
take advantage of these privileges is shown
| by a recent monthly report from these six
| branches, showing a total daily attend
| ance of over 1900, nearly $50 baths per day,
heds used 10 times daily, over 500 books
drawn each month, ard attendance at en-
tertainments of over 200 and at religious
meetings of over $500. There are S,55l
members.