The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-16
Personal, Local and General News.

line l,IVl cars.
Personal, Local and General News.
The Panhandle will substitute electricity
in its large shops at Columbus, o., and has
placed an order for forty-five motors.
The Western Passenger Association will
hold meeting in Chicago tomorrow to
consider the Elkins bill and other matters
of Importance.
The Northern Pacific announces a home
seekers rate of one fare plus 81 for March
IL and for every first and third Tuesdays i'm
April. May and June.
Alexander @. Troup, assistant freight
traffic manager of the Chesapeake & Ohio,
has been elected mayor of Ridgefeld, an
unsought compliment.
z. A. Gould, general superintendent of
the Missouri Pacific, with his ten assistants
in the clerical department, will open his
office to-day for business at Kansas City.
A. B. Rothwell contracting freight agent
of Detroit for the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St Paul, has resigned to engage in COM
mercial pursuits W. c. Hartnett, his chief
clerk, succeeded Mr.. Rothwell.
The Illinois Central has placed an order
locomotives. thirty-five of the consolidation
type. ten switching engines and five pas
senger engines of the largest type.
The Pittsburg. Fort Wayne & Chicago re-
making ten received on an order for sixty
placed three months ago.. These engines
are of the heaviest type in active service.
= Edward ]. Kelly in addition to his office
of general freight agent of the Lake Mich
igan and Lake Superior Transportation
Company has been appointed general pas
senger agent vice c. F. A. Spencer, re-
signed.
F. l.. Robbins, president of the Pittsburg
Coal Company in his annual report dis
closes the fact that a. new railroad will
be built from the Pittsburg coal region to
the companys docks near Cleveland to cost
S20, 100000.
The Central Passenger Association. at its
meeting last week, took no definite action
on the matter of abolishing second-class
fares. There seems TO be disposition on
the part of some of the roads to continue
secOnd-class fares.
agent of the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Day
ton at Toledo, has been. appointed district
freight and passenger agent of the White
Conrad. general agent, resigned.
Work on the Kansas City, Mexico &
orient Railway from Kansas City TO Fort
Stilweli. Pacific seaport of Mexico, is be-
ing pushed The road will be 1,5oo miles
long and Will copStitute very direct route
1T is being built by two construction COM
panies, each of which is engaged in active
work.
w. Rowher, chief engineer of the Mis-
souri, Pacific, has asked bids for the build
ing of line from Gilbert to Lake Provi-
dence, La. The building of this road will
give the Missouri Pacific two lines between
Concordia and Lake Providence, thus as
suring an open line regardless of high-water
conditions.
The railroads in the Trunk-line Associa-
ton are ready to issue their interchange
able mileage book, but will probably delay
the matter until May g. The book will be
good for one thousand miles and cost $40.
The New York Central and a few other
lines which make a 2-cent a mile rate will
not handle the book.
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ness better in hand than at any time in
many months. The falling off in coal traffic
enabled the company TO take hold of other
lines of freight, and in two or three days
more all delayed freights on the system go
ing to connecting lines will have been de-
livered and the transportation department
greatly relieved.
Thomas j. Newkirk. of Richmond, Ind,
right-of-way man for the c., r. & NJ rail-
road. is now at work along the route of the
proposed extension into Louisville, Ky. He
says several surveys are being made. and
that forty miles of the right of way is I'M
der option. The people at Vevay, Rising
Sun and Madison are very enthusiastic over
the coming OF the road.
The annual construction supplement of
the Railroad Gazette published last week
shows that there are 2,05S definite pieces of
railroad construction proposed in the
United States, Canada and Mexico, repre-
senting different stages in advancement.
by 1,6Si companies, and 1000 bridges to
be built on the North American continent,
for which contracts have not yet been let.
General Manager Doyle, OF the Chesa-
peake * Ohio, states that work has begun
on three extensions, and plans are under
consideration for others. One extension is
seventy-six miles long, from White House
to Elkhorn City, in Kentucky: another is
from Midkin TO Logan, in Kentucky, a dis
lance OF thlrty-seven miles, and third is
from Acme TO Lawson, in West Virginia,
eighteen miles.
The first shipment of soft coal from the
sol.t 1safns lalrA
was made on Thursday by the Pennsyl-
vania lines west to Cleveland. the move
ment marking the official opening of rail
and lake traffic. The railroads are only
too anxious to begin the lake traffic as
early as possible, although they will not
be able 10 make much showing until the
car situation becomes better. In the be-
ginning of the season the Pennsylvania
system will have $1,000 steel gondolas, 5000
more than last year, but many OF these
cars are now on foreign roads, while others
remain in the coke and hard coal region.
As soon as lake navigation is fairly opened
the preference will be given for cars 10 sup
ply this trade.
The Northern Pacific has already started
its improvement work for this year. Plans
for twelve-mile cutoff have been received
at the general office in New York, and for
the new line east of Seattle, from the juno
ton south TO that city, where IL connects
with the Tacoma line. The line between
st. Paul and the coast will be shortened
| forty miles by reducing grades and cut
Off and as soon as the snow disappears
other improvements contemplated will be
started.
The horizontal reduction of % per cent.
ordered last week in freight rates by the
| Illinois Railroad Commission is radical, APP
plies TO every commodity in the classical
tioh, and the loss TO the railroads will be
many hundred thousands of dollars. This
reduction was made in response 10 the de-
mand of retail merchants of Illinois. who
claimed that they were being Disseminated
against on account of the rates which pre-
| vailed in that State. They presented a
mass OF evidence that the rates in Illinois
| were much higher than in the adjoining
| States showing that cities in adjoining
| States could ship into Illinois and underbid
| the Illinois roads. III Is feared the reduc-
| ton will work against Indianapolis. which
has large trade In central and southern
Illinois.