The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-17

ceeded Harry Dodd. who recently resigned
as travelling auditor of the Mcnon.
In October there arrived and departed at
the Union station total of 1859 trains, con-
sisting of 2S,6S9 cars.
F. Montgomery, travelling passenger agent
OF the Illinois Central, is i'll with consump-
ton at his home at Monterey. Miss.
John Freeman has just completed his
twenty-frst year as cook on the private car
superintendent, and since his death has
been with j. Q. Van Wrinkle, general super
intendent.
In deciding for the Wabash in a suit in
Kansas City the court held that If pas
senger falls asleep and is carried beyond
his destination it is his own fault: that the
railroad company is not obliged to see that
this does not occur.
An effort is being made to induce the
Vandalia TO again haul the Indianapolis
sleeping car for st. Louis on the fast mail,
Leaving at S:35 p m. The sleeping car for
ST. Louis does not leave Indianapolis now
until u o'clock midnight
Col. Samuel Moody. who has been assist
sylvania lines west, and who has been rest
ing at his old home in Beaver county, will,
this week, leave for a sojourn in the East
in the interest of the road.
The Wabash has given instructions to re-
duce shop expenses 10 per cent, the order
TO become effective at once by dropping
sixty-seven names in the pay rolls OF the
several departments so as to least AFFECT
the general work Of the shops.
The general manager of the International
and Great Northern authorizes the state
ment that contract has been entered into
between the Gould lines and the former
company, the contract applying to both
freight and passenger service.
President Jefferies, of the Denver & Rio
Grande, makes the statement that the new
issue of $1,000, 600 of preferred stock is for
the purpose of enabling the Rio Grande to
improve Its connection in general. 1t Is be-
lieved by railroad men that the Rio Grande
will soon have short line to Salt Lake.
Purchasing agents of Western railroads
report that the Pullman Company, for the
first time in years, is accepting bids for
small lots of box cars. Contracts for as
few as fifty cars have been applied for,
whereas short time ago the company
paid little attention to less than 1000 cars.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton man
will give them a good st. Louis line the
coming year. Possibly 1t will be made In
connection with the Toledo, st. Louis &
Kansas City, which will give them short
line from indianapolis to st. Louis. if not
with the Wabash from Decatur.
An official of the Lake Shore Company
makes the statement that the company
will. on Jan. !, issue an order to the effect
that after that time the use of intoxicants
in any form, either while employees are on
or off duty, will be considered sufficient
cause IOT expulsion from the service. Inc
order Is said to affect all departments.
George j. Gould has bought the Crystal
River Railroad, which is thirty-one miles in
length and one of the most remarkable in
the world 1t is one of the highest roads in
point or elevation and has more curves to
the mile than any other road in the coun-
try. In one stretch it rises $3.50 feet, and
has 142 curves. and there are only twelve
places on the road where train of eleven
freight cars can straighten themselves out.
The fast mail No. on the Wabash made
record breaking run on Sunday from ST.
Louis to Kansas City. The regular time for
on that occasion 1t was made in five hours
and fifty minutes, beating all previous rec
ords by five minutes. The train carried a
full equipment I,n of mail lear. cars combination
several points along the line reached a
speed of seventy miles an hour.
The last rail has been laid on the long
cutoff OF the Southern Pacific Railroad
across the northern arm of Great Salt
lake from Ogden to Lucin, New. President
Hartman and other officials of the Har-
riman system will make trip of inspec-
ton next Friday. 1t is expected that regu-
lar traffic will be inaugurated within sixty
days over the cutoff, which is expected to
save at least two hours in running time.
The long stretch Of track across the great
inland salt sea is expected to prove one of
the most picturesque features of trans
continental travel.
The rise of w. B. Leeds. VINO was last
week elected a director of the Evansville
& Terre Haute, has been remarkable, show
ing that in few years, said w. w. Richard
son, district passenger agent of the Penn
sylvania. will do a great many things. Mr..
Leeds Is one among about forty Of the
wealthiest men in the country and part
owner and director of the Evansville &
Terre Haute road. Fourteen years ago he
was coal inspector on the /. & V. at
Bushrod. an /. e. ". station. and had no
reason to believe that he would reach his
present position.
The Importance of the worlds fair at ST.
Louis is probably felt by no railroad man
eral passenger agent of the Pennsylva MIA
lines west and of the Vandalia, which
makes him an energetic advertiser of the
fair in every possible way. When the
worlds fair management was beginning to
issue handsomely illustrated circulars Mr..
Ford watched every feature of these cir
culars closely and acting on what he
thought was due to the public, went before
the management and urged the issuing of
booklets giving information about hotels,
boarding houses, rates, ETC., and now he is
giving his attention to equipping the Penn
sylvania lines with the finest of trains.
The resignation of F. A. Hustled, superin-
tendent of the Cumberland division of the
Baltimore & Ohio, which was announced in
local railroad circles His resignation has
not been formally accepted, but he has been
late this month, and it is rumored that
A. w. Thompson. division engineer Of the
Pittsburg division of the Baltimore & Ohio,
will be his successor Mr.. Hustled went to
Hamilton & Dayton in 1896. He began rail-
road work in Muncie, Ind, twenty -four
years ago as a telegraph operator, with
what Is now part OF the Big Four system.
from there he went to the Evansville &.
Terre Haute as train dispatcher, and then
to the Louisville & Nashville as train mas
ter. He left the latter road eighteen years
ago to become superintendent of a division
Of the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton. In
1899 he accepted the superintendency of
what was then the third division of the
polf e.